Shippy guide to Stargate
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angelfinn so here it is.
As a shipper I like to believe there was something between Sam and Jack from the very beginning. Although the characters were still a bit wonky, I think it really was there. Season 1 shows a subtle and sometimes not so subtle ship.
The very first time that they meet each other, they are in the middle of a briefing where Jack has to set up his team that will go to Abydos. General Hammond assigns "Sam Carter" to the team and Jack objects as he likes to decide for himself who will be on his team. Hammond disregards it and says it is not under debate as Sam is the expert on the gate technology. There is a moment when Sam accuses Jack of not liking women but he assures her he loves them, he just has a problem with scientists. Yeah, they're arguing now but it's a nice tension. A bit later, just before they go through the gate, Sam assures Jack that he will learn to like her eventually. Jack lets her know that he adores her already. *smirks*
Season one has 3 shippy highlights in it. The first one happens early in the season when the whole base gets infected by a virus that makes you primitive. Jack is just getting dressed after a shower when Carter enters the locker room and suddenly pounces him. She kisses him, manages to deck him while Jack's protests are along the lines of "Not like this". He manages to control her though (After kissing her neck according to some people. He at least sniffed her, that's for sure!) and then beats up Daniel when the poor boy is concerned about Sam.
The next shippy episode is when Sam and Jack somehow end up on an ice planet. Jack is badly wounded (broken leg and ribs and a punctured longe) and Sam can't seem to get the stargate working. There is some nice body heat sharing and some side arm jokes. Besides that, this episode does make a small shift in their relationship. After Jack's trauma in Iraq he has the policy to never leave people behind. When Jack orders Sam to try go to the surface and try to get help, she at first refuses to leave him. He finally gets her to go but when she finds out the planet is covered with ice, she returns to him. She actually lays down to die with him (and then pretends to be his ex-wife to soothe him).
The last important shippy episode is actually set in a mirror universe (which is an alternative universe but they call it mirror because they discovered this mirror that allows you to go ot different universes) where Daniel accidently ends up in. Sam in that reality is not in the Air Force and so it is not against regulations for her to have a relationship with (General) O'Neill. Actually, they're engaged. Sadly enough, the mirror universe gets blown up (well earth anyway).
Beside all that season one also offers us a slip of Jack who sleeps with a girl and gets std that make him really old. As a shipper, I think the std's were in the pie.
We move on to season 2. Actually, there is nothing really big to report here. Most ship is subtle and shown in the way they are concerned for each other. For example, when Sam gets taken as host by the Tok'ra Jolinar we see Jack really upset and angsting over her. Teal'c seems to walk in on him crying which is a big thing for Jack. Jack gets injured and is pinned to a wall in another episode and we can see sam angsting. So lots of angst in lots of episodes. Then there is the episode where they meet the Tok'ra and Sam is introduced to Martouf (the lover of Jolinar and whose memories sam carries within her). Behold jealous!Jack. Actually, I think after seeing Sam taken as a host, Jack never really trusted the tok'ra.
The season finale and the beginning of S3 shows us some more shippy moments. SG-1 gets split up and when Jack finds Sam naked on a table (with a sheet on her) he does his best to oggle a bit. Later on, Jack is still inside a building and Sam disregards Makepeace's orders and goes look for him. She finds him and we have some nice clinging to each other as Jack is cold (which happens when they put you in a freezer thingie).
Season 3 is where the ship gets serious. One day an alternative universe Sam turns up in the SGC. It appears that in her reality Sam was married to Jack. (She carries one of their wedding pictures with her.) Jack gets to deal with a Sam who is grieving as she just saw her husband get killed. He tries to comfort her but the other Sam starts to realise that he doesn't even see her that way. This probably did open Jack's eyes and probably makes him look at Sam in a new light. He ends up kissing AU Sam at the end of the episode but her presence has made an impact. Although Jack usually calls Sam by her rank or last name, it is with this episode that Jack stops calling her Sam ever again and she becomes Carter. A way of distancing himself from Sam and perhaps from the possibilities that AU Sam showed him.
A bit later in the season Martouf returns and Jack glares some more. Then Jack gets stuck off world and has no way of returning. Sam comes up with a solution but the invention she has to come up with is far so advanced that it takes her 3 months to complete it. She works herself into the ground to try and save him. Janet (the doctor and Sam's friend) points out to Sam that she misses Jack and asks Sam if this will be a problem (with regulations?). Sam assures her it won't be. Jack in the meanwhile gets an admirer off world who is trying to get his babies (oy). The day before they rescue him from the planet he gives in and sleeps with the woman, then completely ignores Sam. Look at the jealousy!
The season ends again with some nice ship as Jack invites Sam up to his cabin to go fishing. Sam declines at first, changes her mind and runs after him to agree when our Asgard friend Thor beams Jack up and she never can reply. Shippers squee, fishing gets a second meaning and cabin fics appear out of nowhere.
Season 4 begins like S3 ends; Jack invites Sam to the cabin again. She declines yet again, gets a phone call that they need him and runs after him (again) to call him back.
S4 is the most interesting season for ship. Thing really get a stir when earth and the tok'ra are trying to get to know each other better. The goa'uld have come up with a technique to program people so that when a certai nevent occurs, they will act out a certain mission (in this case, try to kill one of the tok'ra). The person itself doesn'tk now anything as they get a false memory implanted. It is suspected that someone in the SGC has been programmed like that and Martouf (oy) and another tok'ra will try and find out who it is by using an advanced lie detector. When Sam and Jack are interrogated, it is shown that they are lying. On a previous mission, Sam and Jack both were alone in a goa'uld ship and it is believed that they were programmed then. The tok'ra think they might have a way to cure them but it is not without risk as they never before did this. Jack offers himself as lab rat as he hopes that even if it doesn't work, they will learn how to save Carter. Sam of course isn't happy with this but there's little she can do. Just at last minute Sam realises that they actually aren't programmed because they were holding back a memory. On that ship, Sam and Jack got seperated by a force field. Sam is stuck and the Jaffa are closing in on her. While Jack could leave, he refuses to and stays with her until last minute the forcefield fails due to an explosion. Sam and Jack never told anyone about this because it showed how they feel about each other. Jack testifies that he would rather die than live without Carter because he cares for her more than he is supposed to. The decide to leave their feelings in that room. Neither Sam or Jack were programmed to kill a Tok'ra. In fact, Martouf was and he gets killed at the end of the episode. Poor Sam.
The next episode is a lot lighter. Jack and Teal'c get caught in a time loop. Jack goes slightly insane and then realises that he can do whatever the hell he wants. He decides to resign and when Sam asks him why, he responds "So I can do this" and he kisses her. *shippy sigh*
In beneath the surface, SG-1 gets imprisoned on a world and are brainstamped with another personality and forced to do slave labour. Sam and Jack still somehow find each other and still have feelings for each other. When the memories are slowly returning, Jack tells Sam that he remembers feeling feelings for her. When they do realise who they really are, they have to ignore it all again though. (The initial script had Sam and Jack be lovers but they changed their mind on that)
There are two more nice and angsty episodes. One where Jack and Teal'c get trapped in a deathglider (spaceship) and are flying to their doom. Very nice Sam!angst. Later we get some very nice Jack!angst when an alien entity takes control of Sam's body. (But they'll be playing this soon on Sci-Fi so you should just watch it) There also is 2010 but you have seen that the other day.
S5 is a less shippy season. There is ascension when a superior alien falls in love with Sam and follows her around. Sam does protect him and starts to care for him. I can't really comment on Jack's behaviour here though as this episode struck me as out of character. Later in the season, Sam is abducted by someone who is hoping that her body will help him gain enough information to cure himself as he's terminally ill. Jack is furious and goes out to find her.
While S5 seems to have less ship, S6 seems to open a new relationship between Sam and Jack. They're somehow getting easier along again and as the scare of S4 has passed. The ship is more subtle again though but very present. When Jack gets ill, it is only Sam's plea that make him go against his better judgment and accept the symbiote. In the introduction of yesterday, I already explained how this lead to him being tortured by Ba'al. Some great angst there. And even more when Jack gets *lost* and Sam can't seem to figure out how to find him. She really loses it when she thinks she won't see him again. *knuffels her*
Some other nice moments follow in the next episode when a goa'uld captures SG1 and does experiments on Sam that will end in her death. Jack and Sam are locked up together and Jack is going stir crazy that he can't help Sam.
Season 7 (nearly there, wow this is way too long) brings a lot of change. For the first time we see Sam and Jack really be friends. When Sam ends up all alone in a space ship, she starts hallucinating due to her head injury. At one moment Jack (the hallucination anyway) comes to talk to her. Sam has been thinking about her life and wanting to find love so she talks to Jack about this. She asks if it would change anything if she would resign from the Air Force. Jack tells her that he has been an safe bet for her. As long as he is unreachable, she can not get hurt. He tells her that no matter what, he will always be there for her.
This is part of the reason why Sam starts dating a cop called Pete. Now there is a whole lot of argument about this but I'll spare you from that. Pete is divorced and still cautious about getting hurt. When sam can't tell him about her work (top secret after all), he gets angry and does a background check on her and follows her around. This leads to him getting hurt and seeing to much so Sam has to tell him the truth. They keep dating (which shows to me that Sam doesn't know about the background check anyway, TPTB were sloppy here and fandom is going miaw boom).
Despite Sam ahving a boyfriend though, Sam and Jack have gotten closer. It seems that somehow they knowing she has someone else, it has allowed them more breathing room and it has given them a chance to become friends. At the end of the season Jack does something to save earth but it will effectively wipe away his personality and will make him die unless the Asgard can come help in time. Sam gets scared about losing him and tries to talk to him about her feelings. He brushes her somewhat off, tells her her brain is a natural treasure and then Daniel and Teal'c interupt. Later on the ship we get a nice Star Wars scene where Sam tries to tell him she loves him and Jack stops her and says "I know". In the end, Jack gets frozen (Han Solo style).
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Season 8 begins with the episode I explained yesterday and where my fic "Broken" fits into. Jack gets unfrozen, Sam gets tortured, they find each other again and Jack gropes Sam's thigh. Yaay!
Later in S8 though, Pete asks Sam to marry him. She has to think for 2 weeks to make up her mind. She even discusses it with Jack but you can read most of it here as I am really tired right now.
Okay, I can't say more. I'm beat. *stares at explanation*
angelfinn so here it is.As a shipper I like to believe there was something between Sam and Jack from the very beginning. Although the characters were still a bit wonky, I think it really was there. Season 1 shows a subtle and sometimes not so subtle ship.
The very first time that they meet each other, they are in the middle of a briefing where Jack has to set up his team that will go to Abydos. General Hammond assigns "Sam Carter" to the team and Jack objects as he likes to decide for himself who will be on his team. Hammond disregards it and says it is not under debate as Sam is the expert on the gate technology. There is a moment when Sam accuses Jack of not liking women but he assures her he loves them, he just has a problem with scientists. Yeah, they're arguing now but it's a nice tension. A bit later, just before they go through the gate, Sam assures Jack that he will learn to like her eventually. Jack lets her know that he adores her already. *smirks*
Season one has 3 shippy highlights in it. The first one happens early in the season when the whole base gets infected by a virus that makes you primitive. Jack is just getting dressed after a shower when Carter enters the locker room and suddenly pounces him. She kisses him, manages to deck him while Jack's protests are along the lines of "Not like this". He manages to control her though (After kissing her neck according to some people. He at least sniffed her, that's for sure!) and then beats up Daniel when the poor boy is concerned about Sam.
The next shippy episode is when Sam and Jack somehow end up on an ice planet. Jack is badly wounded (broken leg and ribs and a punctured longe) and Sam can't seem to get the stargate working. There is some nice body heat sharing and some side arm jokes. Besides that, this episode does make a small shift in their relationship. After Jack's trauma in Iraq he has the policy to never leave people behind. When Jack orders Sam to try go to the surface and try to get help, she at first refuses to leave him. He finally gets her to go but when she finds out the planet is covered with ice, she returns to him. She actually lays down to die with him (and then pretends to be his ex-wife to soothe him).
The last important shippy episode is actually set in a mirror universe (which is an alternative universe but they call it mirror because they discovered this mirror that allows you to go ot different universes) where Daniel accidently ends up in. Sam in that reality is not in the Air Force and so it is not against regulations for her to have a relationship with (General) O'Neill. Actually, they're engaged. Sadly enough, the mirror universe gets blown up (well earth anyway).
Beside all that season one also offers us a slip of Jack who sleeps with a girl and gets std that make him really old. As a shipper, I think the std's were in the pie.
We move on to season 2. Actually, there is nothing really big to report here. Most ship is subtle and shown in the way they are concerned for each other. For example, when Sam gets taken as host by the Tok'ra Jolinar we see Jack really upset and angsting over her. Teal'c seems to walk in on him crying which is a big thing for Jack. Jack gets injured and is pinned to a wall in another episode and we can see sam angsting. So lots of angst in lots of episodes. Then there is the episode where they meet the Tok'ra and Sam is introduced to Martouf (the lover of Jolinar and whose memories sam carries within her). Behold jealous!Jack. Actually, I think after seeing Sam taken as a host, Jack never really trusted the tok'ra.
The season finale and the beginning of S3 shows us some more shippy moments. SG-1 gets split up and when Jack finds Sam naked on a table (with a sheet on her) he does his best to oggle a bit. Later on, Jack is still inside a building and Sam disregards Makepeace's orders and goes look for him. She finds him and we have some nice clinging to each other as Jack is cold (which happens when they put you in a freezer thingie).
Season 3 is where the ship gets serious. One day an alternative universe Sam turns up in the SGC. It appears that in her reality Sam was married to Jack. (She carries one of their wedding pictures with her.) Jack gets to deal with a Sam who is grieving as she just saw her husband get killed. He tries to comfort her but the other Sam starts to realise that he doesn't even see her that way. This probably did open Jack's eyes and probably makes him look at Sam in a new light. He ends up kissing AU Sam at the end of the episode but her presence has made an impact. Although Jack usually calls Sam by her rank or last name, it is with this episode that Jack stops calling her Sam ever again and she becomes Carter. A way of distancing himself from Sam and perhaps from the possibilities that AU Sam showed him.
A bit later in the season Martouf returns and Jack glares some more. Then Jack gets stuck off world and has no way of returning. Sam comes up with a solution but the invention she has to come up with is far so advanced that it takes her 3 months to complete it. She works herself into the ground to try and save him. Janet (the doctor and Sam's friend) points out to Sam that she misses Jack and asks Sam if this will be a problem (with regulations?). Sam assures her it won't be. Jack in the meanwhile gets an admirer off world who is trying to get his babies (oy). The day before they rescue him from the planet he gives in and sleeps with the woman, then completely ignores Sam. Look at the jealousy!
The season ends again with some nice ship as Jack invites Sam up to his cabin to go fishing. Sam declines at first, changes her mind and runs after him to agree when our Asgard friend Thor beams Jack up and she never can reply. Shippers squee, fishing gets a second meaning and cabin fics appear out of nowhere.
Season 4 begins like S3 ends; Jack invites Sam to the cabin again. She declines yet again, gets a phone call that they need him and runs after him (again) to call him back.
S4 is the most interesting season for ship. Thing really get a stir when earth and the tok'ra are trying to get to know each other better. The goa'uld have come up with a technique to program people so that when a certai nevent occurs, they will act out a certain mission (in this case, try to kill one of the tok'ra). The person itself doesn'tk now anything as they get a false memory implanted. It is suspected that someone in the SGC has been programmed like that and Martouf (oy) and another tok'ra will try and find out who it is by using an advanced lie detector. When Sam and Jack are interrogated, it is shown that they are lying. On a previous mission, Sam and Jack both were alone in a goa'uld ship and it is believed that they were programmed then. The tok'ra think they might have a way to cure them but it is not without risk as they never before did this. Jack offers himself as lab rat as he hopes that even if it doesn't work, they will learn how to save Carter. Sam of course isn't happy with this but there's little she can do. Just at last minute Sam realises that they actually aren't programmed because they were holding back a memory. On that ship, Sam and Jack got seperated by a force field. Sam is stuck and the Jaffa are closing in on her. While Jack could leave, he refuses to and stays with her until last minute the forcefield fails due to an explosion. Sam and Jack never told anyone about this because it showed how they feel about each other. Jack testifies that he would rather die than live without Carter because he cares for her more than he is supposed to. The decide to leave their feelings in that room. Neither Sam or Jack were programmed to kill a Tok'ra. In fact, Martouf was and he gets killed at the end of the episode. Poor Sam.
The next episode is a lot lighter. Jack and Teal'c get caught in a time loop. Jack goes slightly insane and then realises that he can do whatever the hell he wants. He decides to resign and when Sam asks him why, he responds "So I can do this" and he kisses her. *shippy sigh*
In beneath the surface, SG-1 gets imprisoned on a world and are brainstamped with another personality and forced to do slave labour. Sam and Jack still somehow find each other and still have feelings for each other. When the memories are slowly returning, Jack tells Sam that he remembers feeling feelings for her. When they do realise who they really are, they have to ignore it all again though. (The initial script had Sam and Jack be lovers but they changed their mind on that)
There are two more nice and angsty episodes. One where Jack and Teal'c get trapped in a deathglider (spaceship) and are flying to their doom. Very nice Sam!angst. Later we get some very nice Jack!angst when an alien entity takes control of Sam's body. (But they'll be playing this soon on Sci-Fi so you should just watch it) There also is 2010 but you have seen that the other day.
S5 is a less shippy season. There is ascension when a superior alien falls in love with Sam and follows her around. Sam does protect him and starts to care for him. I can't really comment on Jack's behaviour here though as this episode struck me as out of character. Later in the season, Sam is abducted by someone who is hoping that her body will help him gain enough information to cure himself as he's terminally ill. Jack is furious and goes out to find her.
While S5 seems to have less ship, S6 seems to open a new relationship between Sam and Jack. They're somehow getting easier along again and as the scare of S4 has passed. The ship is more subtle again though but very present. When Jack gets ill, it is only Sam's plea that make him go against his better judgment and accept the symbiote. In the introduction of yesterday, I already explained how this lead to him being tortured by Ba'al. Some great angst there. And even more when Jack gets *lost* and Sam can't seem to figure out how to find him. She really loses it when she thinks she won't see him again. *knuffels her*
Some other nice moments follow in the next episode when a goa'uld captures SG1 and does experiments on Sam that will end in her death. Jack and Sam are locked up together and Jack is going stir crazy that he can't help Sam.
Season 7 (nearly there, wow this is way too long) brings a lot of change. For the first time we see Sam and Jack really be friends. When Sam ends up all alone in a space ship, she starts hallucinating due to her head injury. At one moment Jack (the hallucination anyway) comes to talk to her. Sam has been thinking about her life and wanting to find love so she talks to Jack about this. She asks if it would change anything if she would resign from the Air Force. Jack tells her that he has been an safe bet for her. As long as he is unreachable, she can not get hurt. He tells her that no matter what, he will always be there for her.
This is part of the reason why Sam starts dating a cop called Pete. Now there is a whole lot of argument about this but I'll spare you from that. Pete is divorced and still cautious about getting hurt. When sam can't tell him about her work (top secret after all), he gets angry and does a background check on her and follows her around. This leads to him getting hurt and seeing to much so Sam has to tell him the truth. They keep dating (which shows to me that Sam doesn't know about the background check anyway, TPTB were sloppy here and fandom is going miaw boom).
Despite Sam ahving a boyfriend though, Sam and Jack have gotten closer. It seems that somehow they knowing she has someone else, it has allowed them more breathing room and it has given them a chance to become friends. At the end of the season Jack does something to save earth but it will effectively wipe away his personality and will make him die unless the Asgard can come help in time. Sam gets scared about losing him and tries to talk to him about her feelings. He brushes her somewhat off, tells her her brain is a natural treasure and then Daniel and Teal'c interupt. Later on the ship we get a nice Star Wars scene where Sam tries to tell him she loves him and Jack stops her and says "I know". In the end, Jack gets frozen (Han Solo style).
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8
Season 8 begins with the episode I explained yesterday and where my fic "Broken" fits into. Jack gets unfrozen, Sam gets tortured, they find each other again and Jack gropes Sam's thigh. Yaay!
Later in S8 though, Pete asks Sam to marry him. She has to think for 2 weeks to make up her mind. She even discusses it with Jack but you can read most of it here as I am really tired right now.
Okay, I can't say more. I'm beat. *stares at explanation*
