Playing with people's dark sides can be so much more fascinating than playing with their light sides. Especially when you have to go digging a bit to find them. And it's always just interesting to see the ways in which they camouflage their own darknesses, and the reasons they have for doing so.
Especially because with a lot of people – Jack, I think, especially, at least in my conception of him – those dark sides can be a strength as well as a danger.
Hee. I really liked Jonas, because him and his puppyish curiosity and his picking apart of everything and his freakish eidetic memory meant SG-1 could do funky mystery plots which they'd never been able to do before. I wish he'd been able to stick around through S7 and really get to a point where he wasn't being treated as a stand-in for Daniel 'cause they needed a new character while Shanks was away, and rather got to shine with his own strengths and idiosyncrasies and the like.
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Date: 2011-09-02 05:17 am (UTC)Especially because with a lot of people – Jack, I think, especially, at least in my conception of him – those dark sides can be a strength as well as a danger.
Hee. I really liked Jonas, because him and his puppyish curiosity and his picking apart of everything and his freakish eidetic memory meant SG-1 could do funky mystery plots which they'd never been able to do before. I wish he'd been able to stick around through S7 and really get to a point where he wasn't being treated as a stand-in for Daniel 'cause they needed a new character while Shanks was away, and rather got to shine with his own strengths and idiosyncrasies and the like.