summershake
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Hi!
It's been so quiet in here that I thought I'd start a new thread. All we seem to be doing is drool over the man, decide if he is a boxers or briefs kind of guy or debate the boonie or bandana issue.
Sooo...here's a thread about his character development in season seven.
Have you read the Michael Shanks interview with Mira Hawai on Solutions? If not, here's the link.
Interview 'Through The Gate And Home'
A snippet:
"...I think there has to be some sort of evolution or change to Daniel when he comes back. It certainly needs to be so in order to justify why he's left the Ascended..."
"...We've [Michael and Robert C. Cooper] both agreed that Daniel would be more intense, more restive and less satisfied. He would be less inclined to smooth things over and would stop putting his faith in the hope that things will turn out all right...."
So what do you think about the 'new' Daniel in Season Seven? How will this change him? In what form? Is it a change you are looking forward to seeing or would you rather have the same character you watched for five years? What attitudes drew you to the character and you wish would stay the same?
I'm not sure how exactly this will play out, but if a more restive and action oriented Daniel was the only way for the character to be included more into the single episodes, then I'm all for it.
And with 'action oriented' I mean a Daniel who wants to change things he's unsatisfied with rather than to sit back in the hope they will play out the way he hopes, not a gun blazing macho.
Daniel changed a lot throughout the series, from being the wide-eyed, innocent scholar to a darker Daniel in season three and four and a clearly desillusioned Daniel in season five which was sometimes hard to watch. I saw a guy who was burned out and needed some R&R and a lot of hugs. I felt for him and when Meridian aired I could understand that Daniel had enough of all the fighting, enough of having to deal with all the sh** that was thrown his way and enough of a life of which he believed was worthless.
And that's what he told Oma. That he's not worth ascending, that he never did any good and when he did 'it didn't seem to have changed anything.'
It was difficult to watch a Daniel so deep down he couldn't see the daylight anymore.
Hopefully (or rather I'm sure) that this will change. No reason to see that back in the character.
Okay, I'll stop rambling now, I'm sure I had a point when I started this thread.
Your turn, folks.
It's been so quiet in here that I thought I'd start a new thread. All we seem to be doing is drool over the man, decide if he is a boxers or briefs kind of guy or debate the boonie or bandana issue.
Sooo...here's a thread about his character development in season seven.
Have you read the Michael Shanks interview with Mira Hawai on Solutions? If not, here's the link.
Interview 'Through The Gate And Home'
A snippet:
"...I think there has to be some sort of evolution or change to Daniel when he comes back. It certainly needs to be so in order to justify why he's left the Ascended..."
"...We've [Michael and Robert C. Cooper] both agreed that Daniel would be more intense, more restive and less satisfied. He would be less inclined to smooth things over and would stop putting his faith in the hope that things will turn out all right...."
So what do you think about the 'new' Daniel in Season Seven? How will this change him? In what form? Is it a change you are looking forward to seeing or would you rather have the same character you watched for five years? What attitudes drew you to the character and you wish would stay the same?
I'm not sure how exactly this will play out, but if a more restive and action oriented Daniel was the only way for the character to be included more into the single episodes, then I'm all for it.
And with 'action oriented' I mean a Daniel who wants to change things he's unsatisfied with rather than to sit back in the hope they will play out the way he hopes, not a gun blazing macho.
Daniel changed a lot throughout the series, from being the wide-eyed, innocent scholar to a darker Daniel in season three and four and a clearly desillusioned Daniel in season five which was sometimes hard to watch. I saw a guy who was burned out and needed some R&R and a lot of hugs. I felt for him and when Meridian aired I could understand that Daniel had enough of all the fighting, enough of having to deal with all the sh** that was thrown his way and enough of a life of which he believed was worthless.
And that's what he told Oma. That he's not worth ascending, that he never did any good and when he did 'it didn't seem to have changed anything.'
It was difficult to watch a Daniel so deep down he couldn't see the daylight anymore.
Hopefully (or rather I'm sure) that this will change. No reason to see that back in the character.
Okay, I'll stop rambling now, I'm sure I had a point when I started this thread.
Your turn, folks.
