insertmeathere | CANON INFORMATION NIGHT!

The game's pretty big isn't it? With so many characters it's sometimes hard to keep up with everyone's canon and character backgrounds. Not to mention that the apps aren't always placed in the character's journal, and it leaves you wondering how they are, or even where they come from.

WELL WONDER NO MORE! It's time for a canon and character night!

The idea behind this post is primarily an information exchange. Just fill in this form, and think about factoids and things in a list form. Remember, you're trying to sell your character & canon to others, so talk about what makes them unique and fun. With any luck, you'll learn some new things about other people's characters that you can base relationships or friendships on, or even find a new fandom which catches your interest!

Note: Please mark the top of your thread with the canon. This way, other people in your canon can add whatever they want to it, such as their character stuff, and other cool factoids about the canon that they might remember.

You are perfectly fine and more than allowed to ask questions about the fandoms to the other players if you wish as well!

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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.

Anything else?:

The Stargate movie in a nutshell:

And more incoming miscellaneous spam below.

Videos aren't that easy to find, so this is limited.

Stargate Intro Sequence, Season 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx7Rr_G0nro

Compiled clips from a later season:

A few humor clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OdQ9xv5TU

And a random image dump;

Dignity. It's Daniel's middle name.

So is maturity.

The team.

SG-1

Edited 2011-08-20 08:16 (UTC)

The movie!Horus guards look so pimp. Also the clips you showed me of the later ship stuff in SG-1 looked pretty cool, like they got more of a budget.

I love those things. And yes! They seem to have more money in the later seasons.

Have some Vala too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chdTf0we4Xc

Edited 2011-08-20 11:38 (UTC)

OMG James Spader looks like John Denver.

TWENTY LANGUAGES? Jesus, Daniel, overachiever much?

KIND OF.

Okay it might be over 23, but yes. Maybe. 8P

...How many of those are dead languages? Inquiring minds want to know.

Lucky for me, someone else took the time and listed whatever the show or movie mentioned for Daniel.

"Daniel's languages - spoken
Ancient Egyptian, also spoken on Abydos (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods, There But For The Grace Of God, Serpent's Song, Forever In A Day). Fluent.
Unas (The First Ones, Beast of Burden, Enemy Mine). Learned from scratch by talking to Unas. Has a basic knowledge of the language and a limited vocabulary.
Arabic (Childen of the Gods). Spoke one word.
German (1969). Fluent.
various Goa'uld dialects (Brief Candle, Within The Serpent's Grasp, Fair Game, Serpent's Venom, The Curse, The Light, Summit). Fluent enough to trick Goa'uld system lords.
Russian (1969, The Tomb, Lockdown, Full Alert). Fluent. Also knows proverbs and swear words.
Spanish (Evolution I). Fluent.

Daniel's languages - read or recognized
Middle English (Demons)
Mayan (Crystal Skull). Recognizes spoken words.
Latin (The Fifth Race)
Greek (Holiday)
the Ancients' Language (The Fifth Race, Window of Opportunity, Full Circle, Fallen, It's Good to be King). Learned it from scratch. Fluent.
The Ataniks' Language (Upgrades). Learned it within a few minutes while under the influence of Atanik technology.
Linear A (Brief Candle), which is related to Goa'uld. Is now the only man on Earth who can translate it.
Runic script (Thor's Chariot), which is also the Asgards' script, even though the Asgard language has nothing in common with Norse or Germanic (The Fifth Race). He knows enough about runes to be able to tell their numeric value.
the language of the people of Orlin's planet (Ascension). Learned it from scratch without known references within a few days.
Babylonian Cuneiform (The Tomb). Reads and translates fluently.
Phoenician Ugaritic Cuneiform (Serpent's Venom, The Tomb). Reads and translates fluently.
Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform (Fire And Water). Reads and translates fluently, without reference material, which makes him one of about half a dozen people on Earth who can do that.
Berber (Stargate the movie)
Chadic (Stargate the movie)
Omotic (Stargate the movie)
Ancient Welsh (2001). Has basic knowledge, doesn't know all the words."

Edited 2011-08-20 19:36 (UTC)

Oh, well. As long as he's not fluent in Ancient Welsh.

BTW he and Eva totally need to converse in Spanish at some point.

You can almost hear the footnote "Yet" at the end of the sentence.

They should. My Spanish, on the other hand, is incredibly rusty.

My Spanish is a teetering amalgamation of dirty words and Neruda quotes, so probably we should just write out subtitles. XD

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