Character: Daniel Jackson Canon: Stargate/Stargate SG-1
Interesting things about the character: -Daniel Jackson was played by two actors. He was played by James Spader in the Stargate movie, and Michael Shanks in SG-1. Both had equally floppy hair. -Daniel starts out the movie and show as being solely an academic and less adept at combat than the other three SG-1 members. He progressively gets more adept at firearms and combat situations as the show goes on. -He is a multiple PHD and speaks over 20 languages. -He shot his career in the foot with his lecture on the pyramids involving a theory of his, was evicted, lost his grants all in the same day because of his need to prove himself right. -His best friend is Colonel Jack O'Neill. They're an unlikely pair, but when you throw yourself in front of an energy blast meant for another, it tends to put things in a different light. -Some might even say they fight like a married couple. -Used to get captured a lot or generally need rescuing. He got better. -Daniel can be arrogant and driven by a desire for knowledge. He claims he can get the first team back through the Stargate easily. Turns out he was full of shit.
Interesting things about the canon/fandom: -The Stargate movie was the work of those who would later do Independence Day. -The show itself has generally become it's own thing and go off in a completely different direction, especially in how the System Lords are handled. -Until recently, this show was the longest running American Sci-fi show. It ran for ten years. It also has spin offs in Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate: Universe. It also has several movies. SG-1 has Ark of Truth and Continuum. -The show has a little bit of everything. Aliens, alien parasites, mind probes, forests that look suspiciously like Vancouver, flying pyramids, time travel, body swaps, time loops and alternate realities. And a mirror universe. That you get to via a.....a quantum mirror. -Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who were previously both on Farscape together, join Stargate in the later seasons. -The show has Norse Gods in it. They look like this. -The US Air Force worked closely with the Stargate SG-1 producers. -While Egyptian "Gods" and Egyptian-inspired imagery drive the majority of the seasons, there is also a later focus on the Ancients and the Ori, and figures such as Merlin. -Horus guards. Enough said.
Stargate and Stargate SG-1
Canon: Stargate/Stargate SG-1
Interesting things about the character:
-Daniel Jackson was played by two actors. He was played by James Spader in the Stargate movie, and Michael Shanks in SG-1. Both had equally floppy hair.
-Daniel starts out the movie and show as being solely an academic and less adept at combat than the other three SG-1 members. He progressively gets more adept at firearms and combat situations as the show goes on.
-He is a multiple PHD and speaks over 20 languages.
-He shot his career in the foot with his lecture on the pyramids involving a theory of his, was evicted, lost his grants all in the same day because of his need to prove himself right.
-His best friend is Colonel Jack O'Neill. They're an unlikely pair, but when you throw yourself in front of an energy blast meant for another, it tends to put things in a different light.
-Some might even say they fight like a married couple.
-Used to get captured a lot or generally need rescuing. He got better.
-Daniel can be arrogant and driven by a desire for knowledge. He claims he can get the first team back through the Stargate easily. Turns out he was full of shit.
Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
-The Stargate movie was the work of those who would later do Independence Day.
-The show itself has generally become it's own thing and go off in a completely different direction, especially in how the System Lords are handled.
-Until recently, this show was the longest running American Sci-fi show. It ran for ten years. It also has spin offs in Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate: Universe. It also has several movies. SG-1 has Ark of Truth and Continuum.
-The show has a little bit of everything. Aliens, alien parasites, mind probes, forests that look suspiciously like Vancouver, flying pyramids, time travel, body swaps, time loops and alternate realities. And a mirror universe. That you get to via a.....a quantum mirror.
-Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who were previously both on Farscape together, join Stargate in the later seasons.
-The show has Norse Gods in it. They look like this.
-The US Air Force worked closely with the Stargate SG-1 producers.
-While Egyptian "Gods" and Egyptian-inspired imagery drive the majority of the seasons, there is also a later focus on the Ancients and the Ori, and figures such as Merlin.
-Horus guards. Enough said.
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