Cameron Mitchell
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woodfaceSince S10 has started, I’ve been reading a lot of comments about people saying that they don’t have a sufficient insight into Cameron Mitchell. That apparently TPTB have been keeping us in the dark as to his characterisation and that’s it a hard character to understand mainly because of the lack of information we got about him.
It’s something that surprises me, because I do feel I got a grip on the character. This probably has to do with me having roleplayed him for nearly a year now. It’s only natural that we don’t have as much insight in the character as we do with the others because he has only been around so long. Still, I started RPing Cameron based on the episodes prior to Babylon. I was scared out of my mind to get jossed and find out that my insights in the character were all wrong. However, despite getting his background wrong sometimes, I feel that I never was that far off the mark in my characterisation. As we got to see more, it just seemed to confirm the way I had been writing him and this told me that perhaps we do get to see enough of his character. That TPTB managed to give us adequate information to get a grip on the character.
Cue to me wanting to talk a bit about my view on Cameron Mitchell and what makes him tick. I adore this character so much. Maybe it’s Ben Browder, maybe it’s just the way that he’s written but with every episode I see of him, I love him that much more.
So let’s for a second get the facts straight. What do we know about Cameron’s background? About where he’s been before he made it to the SGC?
The facts:
- He was born around 1970-1971 which make him pretty young to have achieved the rank of Colonel.
- He’s from a very religious family.
- He has one brother (possibly younger).
- His father was a test pilot for the military and lost his legs in an accident.
- He’s had ambitions to get into the space program when he was at the academy.
- He followed a fencing class and failed, but apparently he picked up more skills from broomstick fights with his brother.
- His rash behaviour on a mission caused one of his closest friends to be lethally injured.
- He was ordered to blow up a transport which later turned out to hold nothing but refugees. This mistake nearly made Cameron leave the Air Force.
- Cameron was accepted as F-302 pilot instead of said friend where he was appointed as squadron leader.
- He was injured during a battle over Antarctica. His plane crashed and it was believed that he would never fully recover.
- He was awarded the Medal of Honour. Besides this he seems to have been awarded with: the Purple Heart, the Air Force Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, Outstanding Unit Award, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Air Force Overseas Ribbon: Long tour, Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon, Longevity Service Award and the Air Force Training Ribbon. So yes, he’s been around.
- Landry said his service record is ‘impeccable’.
- There’s the implication of a serious relationship in Cameron’s past which was broken off due to his commitment to his job.
That’s actually a whole lot to go on. When we meet Cameron in Avalon, we get to see the Lieutenant Colonel with the impeccable record. Here’s someone who spent the last year fighting to get his life back. I imagine that knowing his father went through something similar probably helped him hold on as well. His father was able to walk again so Cameron knew he would too.
This is Cameron’s greatest strength and it makes me love him so much. He doesn’t give up. He sets his mind to something and he keeps going until he gets it. He fought for his dream to work with SG-1 and he got it. It took a lot of patience and haggling, but he finally got it. It’s what he says in Babylon, that as soon as you accept the situation, you’re dead and that you just can’t give up because there’s always a chance you’ll survive.
He has a huge sense of determination which got him exactly where he wanted to be. Cameron doesn’t strike me as the smartest guy ever, but he isn’t stupid. He seems to have an amazing memory and I think that he’s very aware of this strength and uses it to get what he wants. Look at how well he’s got every file of SG-1 memorised. I think whereas Sam has her IQ working for her and Jack seems to have a natural talent for strategy, Cameron has always had to work very hard for what he got. (Which isn’t saying that Sam and Jack didn’t work hard, it’s just that I think that Cameron’s greatest talent is flying and the rest is a result of him working his ass off.)
Landry pegged Cameron down as a ‘type A personality’. Which strikes true for some traits. He’s hard working, he’s driven, determined, slightly impatient, but he’s also not your stereotypical cocky flyboy. There is a sense of modesty to him, he is so grounded. We don’t ever see him brag or put himself above anyone else. In fact, he’s pretty much the opposite. While Jack always downplayed his own intelligence so people would underestimate him on purpose, Cameron seems to believe it. His comments to Sam always come across as sincere, he does really think that he’s all that special or great and he has a huge amount of respect for the people he serves with. He’s a downright SG-1 fanboy and he thinks Ferguson is a way better pilot than him.
This plays directly into what a lot of people have been saying about how he doesn’t take enough control of SG-1. I’m glad however that he made that remark to Landry in ‘Insiders’ wherein he shows that he is very much aware of his lack of control and in a strange way that does put him in control because he knows what he’s doing. Even if I am the first to admit that sometimes he listens too much to the others.
When we first meet Cameron, it’s very clear that he doesn’t want to be leading SG-1. He never expected to be put in lead of the team. These people are his heroes, they’re legendary and he knows he can’t just come in and take control of that. They’re an elite unit who got as far as they did because of who they are and he seems to very much not want to break that fragile balance.
In Ethon, I really wished that he wouldn’t fangirl SG-1 so much. That just for once he would have just grabbed control and said ‘No, we’re doing it my way’. So yes, I admit to looking forward to seeing Cameron meet a situation like in ‘Scorched Earth’ where one half of the team is saying something and he feels strongly against it, forcing him into a position where he will have to put his foot down. In the meantime, it feels only natural that he takes Carter’s word seriously and listens equally to the members.
Using this as a basis to say that Cameron is a bad leader however doesn’t work. Don’t forget that he used to lead a squadron of fighter pilots. A position that apparently earned him a lot of respect. We’ve slowly been seeing Cameron take more control over the team in S10 and I like what someone suggested that the way he deals with McKay shows how he would deal with a team of regular soldiers. It’s just that SG-1 isn’t regular. They’re the best and he has to earn their respect, not the other way around. I know this doesn’t make sense when you look strictly at the military chain of command, but no one on his team has had that training and the one member who does has the same rank as him.
Another thing that people seem to be missing about Cameron is what is actually driving him. Daniel wanted to save his wife and after that stayed on for the cool discoveries. Teal’c was fighting for the freedom of his people, Sam was looking for the alien technology and Jack was redeeming himself. So what makes Cameron tick? A lot of things, in my opinion. First of all, I think he’s just having fun. This is his dream job, stuff you only see on television and he gets to do it. It’s cool, it’s exciting.
It’s more than that, though. There is a sense of heroship to Cameron that has been lost on television for a while now. He’s lacking the cynicism that most of our herotypes seem to have gobbled down over the last decade. It’s almost naive the way he wants to do the right thing, the way he wants to do his job and know that in the end he did the right thing and kept people safe. He’s fighting for people. He’s fighting the good fight and he’s loving it.
Cameron’s enthusiasm makes him endearing and likable to me. Especially in a show like SG that has now been running for ten seasons and where it seems that the main characters have slowly been losing their own goal to keep fighting. He’s bringing a spark back to the team. One that admittedly seems to be lost on Daniel, but Teal’c seems to be getting caught in it again and I suspect Sam isn’t immune either.
Still, there’s an edge to Cameron. While we got to meet him as bouncy and enthusiastic, there’s something inside him when you dig deeper. He’s been through a lot and in good old fashioned SG tradition, he doesn’t exactly deal with his issues. He soaks them up, but – and this is new – he seems to also be willing to learn from it. Cameron has a huge sense of responsibility and loyalty. I suspect that there is nothing that he wouldn’t do for his team and his friends.
‘Ethon’ was the most revealing episode character wise for Cameron (yes, in a way even more so than ‘Collateral Damage’). He’s hard on himself. When he makes a mistake, he carries the guilt even if the person involved doesn’t want him to. Ferguson’s plight for Cameron to get over his survivor’s guilt pretty much fell on deaf ears because Cameron is so scared that he’ll end up repeating this incident. So much so that he even willingly lets his friend live through his own memories, something that makes him who he is and yet, he shares it out of friendship but mostly out of guilt. Let’s also not forget the amount of strings he had to pull to get Ferguson into that hospital, although I think he would have done this for anyone he cares about and not just out of guilt.
I remember when Ethon aired that someone didn’t understand why Cameron called himself a ‘hothead’, but I don’t think he was wrong with calling himself that. Cameron has a temper, something that he doesn’t always control and which leaves him doing stupid things (he’s also showing a huge sense of self knowledge when he admits to it). I believe that after the incident with Ferguson, Cameron very likely went through the same process we saw him go through with the refugees. The only way for him to keep going was probably by forcing himself to learn how to control that temper (not always as successfully). It’s a side he seems to hate about himself because of it and something he wants to learn how to control. I think that’s why he seems to stick so much to the rules and why he tends to play by the book.
That edge goes even deeper, though. Let’s take a look at ‘Ripple effect’. I know we’re led to believe that the ‘black SG-1’ was a ‘bad SG-1’. I beg to differ. I believe that if circumstances were different, Cameron would take his team and try to get a ZPM from somewhere else. I absolutely loved seeing this. We’ve already seen examples of Landry not exactly being Hammond and running a very different ship. The potential that Cameron has to take things further than Jack would intrigues me immensely. He follows orders very strictly. If he’s ever ordered to do something like this, I imagine that he would follow it up.
Let this also serve as a note that Cameron is in fact not Jack O’Neill or a weak copy of him. This accusation probably annoys me the most because the character is just so different and that's probably why I love him so much. He has a completely different style of leading SG-1. He’s definitely not as jaded as Jack, doesn’t have the black ops background, etc etc. Most of all? There’s no way in hell that Cameron would ever be suicidal (this is in no way to put down Jack, losing a son is bad, but Cameron’s character just doesn’t work that way).
I think I’ve pretty much discussed everything but relationships now. I don’t mean this in the strict sense of romantic, but let’s cover that first quickly while we’re at it. It’s pretty clear that Cameron seems to put his career over everything else, including the romance. His replied to Reya in ‘Collateral Damage’ seemed to suggest that he’s familiar with how much a job can get in the way of a relationship (to a point where it almost sounds like he might have been married, but that’s not something I’m going to speculate on). I do however think that Cameron has lost out on a pretty important romance because he couldn’t put the girl above the job. It seems that this has put Cameron open for more casual relationships, like the affair with Reya which was a ‘I like you, you like me, let’s have fun’ sort of thing without having to turn complicated. Heck, the thing with the flight attendant sounded very much like a one night stand. So I think that Cameron has pretty much settled for the bachelor lifestyle.
In a broader sense of the word, it feels like Cameron is someone who likes to be liked. This sounds egocentric, but I don’t think it is. He strikes me as easy going and well likable. Most people he’s worked with seem to call him ‘Cam’ or ‘Cameron’ instead of calling him by his rank. He easily goes to the first name basis and that suits him fine. He’s one of those people who knows everyone around him by their name. I don’t think he’s good at being alone either. He thrives being among people and having company. I must say, that I find it endearing how he keeps trying to be on good foot with everyone, especially Teal’c. And no, he’s pretty aware that sometimes it’s not going as well as he might like it to, but he’s not going to give up and he’ll continue being friendly until they do like him.
In summary, I think that Cameron Mitchell is just one of the good guys. I don’t know why it makes him so likable and endearing. We get a lot of ‘good guys’ on television, but they don’t all speak to me as much as Cameron does. Maybe because despite everything that life’s dealt him, he just keeps going and he doesn’t let it ruin the fun he’s having. He’s excited, he’s bouncy, he wants to be a hero. Actually, maybe not so much a hero as just a better version of himself. He wants to be like these heroes, walk beside them in the hopes that maybe they’ll rub off on him and he’ll get to do something to earn their respect.
All in all? Given that we’ve known Cameron for a little over one season, I think they’ve given us a very good insight into the character and how he works.
It’s something that surprises me, because I do feel I got a grip on the character. This probably has to do with me having roleplayed him for nearly a year now. It’s only natural that we don’t have as much insight in the character as we do with the others because he has only been around so long. Still, I started RPing Cameron based on the episodes prior to Babylon. I was scared out of my mind to get jossed and find out that my insights in the character were all wrong. However, despite getting his background wrong sometimes, I feel that I never was that far off the mark in my characterisation. As we got to see more, it just seemed to confirm the way I had been writing him and this told me that perhaps we do get to see enough of his character. That TPTB managed to give us adequate information to get a grip on the character.
Cue to me wanting to talk a bit about my view on Cameron Mitchell and what makes him tick. I adore this character so much. Maybe it’s Ben Browder, maybe it’s just the way that he’s written but with every episode I see of him, I love him that much more.
So let’s for a second get the facts straight. What do we know about Cameron’s background? About where he’s been before he made it to the SGC?
The facts:
- He was born around 1970-1971 which make him pretty young to have achieved the rank of Colonel.
- He’s from a very religious family.
- He has one brother (possibly younger).
- His father was a test pilot for the military and lost his legs in an accident.
- He’s had ambitions to get into the space program when he was at the academy.
- He followed a fencing class and failed, but apparently he picked up more skills from broomstick fights with his brother.
- His rash behaviour on a mission caused one of his closest friends to be lethally injured.
- He was ordered to blow up a transport which later turned out to hold nothing but refugees. This mistake nearly made Cameron leave the Air Force.
- Cameron was accepted as F-302 pilot instead of said friend where he was appointed as squadron leader.
- He was injured during a battle over Antarctica. His plane crashed and it was believed that he would never fully recover.
- He was awarded the Medal of Honour. Besides this he seems to have been awarded with: the Purple Heart, the Air Force Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, Outstanding Unit Award, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Air Force Overseas Ribbon: Long tour, Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon, Longevity Service Award and the Air Force Training Ribbon. So yes, he’s been around.
- Landry said his service record is ‘impeccable’.
- There’s the implication of a serious relationship in Cameron’s past which was broken off due to his commitment to his job.
That’s actually a whole lot to go on. When we meet Cameron in Avalon, we get to see the Lieutenant Colonel with the impeccable record. Here’s someone who spent the last year fighting to get his life back. I imagine that knowing his father went through something similar probably helped him hold on as well. His father was able to walk again so Cameron knew he would too.
This is Cameron’s greatest strength and it makes me love him so much. He doesn’t give up. He sets his mind to something and he keeps going until he gets it. He fought for his dream to work with SG-1 and he got it. It took a lot of patience and haggling, but he finally got it. It’s what he says in Babylon, that as soon as you accept the situation, you’re dead and that you just can’t give up because there’s always a chance you’ll survive.
He has a huge sense of determination which got him exactly where he wanted to be. Cameron doesn’t strike me as the smartest guy ever, but he isn’t stupid. He seems to have an amazing memory and I think that he’s very aware of this strength and uses it to get what he wants. Look at how well he’s got every file of SG-1 memorised. I think whereas Sam has her IQ working for her and Jack seems to have a natural talent for strategy, Cameron has always had to work very hard for what he got. (Which isn’t saying that Sam and Jack didn’t work hard, it’s just that I think that Cameron’s greatest talent is flying and the rest is a result of him working his ass off.)
Landry pegged Cameron down as a ‘type A personality’. Which strikes true for some traits. He’s hard working, he’s driven, determined, slightly impatient, but he’s also not your stereotypical cocky flyboy. There is a sense of modesty to him, he is so grounded. We don’t ever see him brag or put himself above anyone else. In fact, he’s pretty much the opposite. While Jack always downplayed his own intelligence so people would underestimate him on purpose, Cameron seems to believe it. His comments to Sam always come across as sincere, he does really think that he’s all that special or great and he has a huge amount of respect for the people he serves with. He’s a downright SG-1 fanboy and he thinks Ferguson is a way better pilot than him.
This plays directly into what a lot of people have been saying about how he doesn’t take enough control of SG-1. I’m glad however that he made that remark to Landry in ‘Insiders’ wherein he shows that he is very much aware of his lack of control and in a strange way that does put him in control because he knows what he’s doing. Even if I am the first to admit that sometimes he listens too much to the others.
When we first meet Cameron, it’s very clear that he doesn’t want to be leading SG-1. He never expected to be put in lead of the team. These people are his heroes, they’re legendary and he knows he can’t just come in and take control of that. They’re an elite unit who got as far as they did because of who they are and he seems to very much not want to break that fragile balance.
In Ethon, I really wished that he wouldn’t fangirl SG-1 so much. That just for once he would have just grabbed control and said ‘No, we’re doing it my way’. So yes, I admit to looking forward to seeing Cameron meet a situation like in ‘Scorched Earth’ where one half of the team is saying something and he feels strongly against it, forcing him into a position where he will have to put his foot down. In the meantime, it feels only natural that he takes Carter’s word seriously and listens equally to the members.
Using this as a basis to say that Cameron is a bad leader however doesn’t work. Don’t forget that he used to lead a squadron of fighter pilots. A position that apparently earned him a lot of respect. We’ve slowly been seeing Cameron take more control over the team in S10 and I like what someone suggested that the way he deals with McKay shows how he would deal with a team of regular soldiers. It’s just that SG-1 isn’t regular. They’re the best and he has to earn their respect, not the other way around. I know this doesn’t make sense when you look strictly at the military chain of command, but no one on his team has had that training and the one member who does has the same rank as him.
Another thing that people seem to be missing about Cameron is what is actually driving him. Daniel wanted to save his wife and after that stayed on for the cool discoveries. Teal’c was fighting for the freedom of his people, Sam was looking for the alien technology and Jack was redeeming himself. So what makes Cameron tick? A lot of things, in my opinion. First of all, I think he’s just having fun. This is his dream job, stuff you only see on television and he gets to do it. It’s cool, it’s exciting.
It’s more than that, though. There is a sense of heroship to Cameron that has been lost on television for a while now. He’s lacking the cynicism that most of our herotypes seem to have gobbled down over the last decade. It’s almost naive the way he wants to do the right thing, the way he wants to do his job and know that in the end he did the right thing and kept people safe. He’s fighting for people. He’s fighting the good fight and he’s loving it.
Cameron’s enthusiasm makes him endearing and likable to me. Especially in a show like SG that has now been running for ten seasons and where it seems that the main characters have slowly been losing their own goal to keep fighting. He’s bringing a spark back to the team. One that admittedly seems to be lost on Daniel, but Teal’c seems to be getting caught in it again and I suspect Sam isn’t immune either.
Still, there’s an edge to Cameron. While we got to meet him as bouncy and enthusiastic, there’s something inside him when you dig deeper. He’s been through a lot and in good old fashioned SG tradition, he doesn’t exactly deal with his issues. He soaks them up, but – and this is new – he seems to also be willing to learn from it. Cameron has a huge sense of responsibility and loyalty. I suspect that there is nothing that he wouldn’t do for his team and his friends.
‘Ethon’ was the most revealing episode character wise for Cameron (yes, in a way even more so than ‘Collateral Damage’). He’s hard on himself. When he makes a mistake, he carries the guilt even if the person involved doesn’t want him to. Ferguson’s plight for Cameron to get over his survivor’s guilt pretty much fell on deaf ears because Cameron is so scared that he’ll end up repeating this incident. So much so that he even willingly lets his friend live through his own memories, something that makes him who he is and yet, he shares it out of friendship but mostly out of guilt. Let’s also not forget the amount of strings he had to pull to get Ferguson into that hospital, although I think he would have done this for anyone he cares about and not just out of guilt.
I remember when Ethon aired that someone didn’t understand why Cameron called himself a ‘hothead’, but I don’t think he was wrong with calling himself that. Cameron has a temper, something that he doesn’t always control and which leaves him doing stupid things (he’s also showing a huge sense of self knowledge when he admits to it). I believe that after the incident with Ferguson, Cameron very likely went through the same process we saw him go through with the refugees. The only way for him to keep going was probably by forcing himself to learn how to control that temper (not always as successfully). It’s a side he seems to hate about himself because of it and something he wants to learn how to control. I think that’s why he seems to stick so much to the rules and why he tends to play by the book.
That edge goes even deeper, though. Let’s take a look at ‘Ripple effect’. I know we’re led to believe that the ‘black SG-1’ was a ‘bad SG-1’. I beg to differ. I believe that if circumstances were different, Cameron would take his team and try to get a ZPM from somewhere else. I absolutely loved seeing this. We’ve already seen examples of Landry not exactly being Hammond and running a very different ship. The potential that Cameron has to take things further than Jack would intrigues me immensely. He follows orders very strictly. If he’s ever ordered to do something like this, I imagine that he would follow it up.
Let this also serve as a note that Cameron is in fact not Jack O’Neill or a weak copy of him. This accusation probably annoys me the most because the character is just so different and that's probably why I love him so much. He has a completely different style of leading SG-1. He’s definitely not as jaded as Jack, doesn’t have the black ops background, etc etc. Most of all? There’s no way in hell that Cameron would ever be suicidal (this is in no way to put down Jack, losing a son is bad, but Cameron’s character just doesn’t work that way).
I think I’ve pretty much discussed everything but relationships now. I don’t mean this in the strict sense of romantic, but let’s cover that first quickly while we’re at it. It’s pretty clear that Cameron seems to put his career over everything else, including the romance. His replied to Reya in ‘Collateral Damage’ seemed to suggest that he’s familiar with how much a job can get in the way of a relationship (to a point where it almost sounds like he might have been married, but that’s not something I’m going to speculate on). I do however think that Cameron has lost out on a pretty important romance because he couldn’t put the girl above the job. It seems that this has put Cameron open for more casual relationships, like the affair with Reya which was a ‘I like you, you like me, let’s have fun’ sort of thing without having to turn complicated. Heck, the thing with the flight attendant sounded very much like a one night stand. So I think that Cameron has pretty much settled for the bachelor lifestyle.
In a broader sense of the word, it feels like Cameron is someone who likes to be liked. This sounds egocentric, but I don’t think it is. He strikes me as easy going and well likable. Most people he’s worked with seem to call him ‘Cam’ or ‘Cameron’ instead of calling him by his rank. He easily goes to the first name basis and that suits him fine. He’s one of those people who knows everyone around him by their name. I don’t think he’s good at being alone either. He thrives being among people and having company. I must say, that I find it endearing how he keeps trying to be on good foot with everyone, especially Teal’c. And no, he’s pretty aware that sometimes it’s not going as well as he might like it to, but he’s not going to give up and he’ll continue being friendly until they do like him.
In summary, I think that Cameron Mitchell is just one of the good guys. I don’t know why it makes him so likable and endearing. We get a lot of ‘good guys’ on television, but they don’t all speak to me as much as Cameron does. Maybe because despite everything that life’s dealt him, he just keeps going and he doesn’t let it ruin the fun he’s having. He’s excited, he’s bouncy, he wants to be a hero. Actually, maybe not so much a hero as just a better version of himself. He wants to be like these heroes, walk beside them in the hopes that maybe they’ll rub off on him and he’ll get to do something to earn their respect.
All in all? Given that we’ve known Cameron for a little over one season, I think they’ve given us a very good insight into the character and how he works.
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Date: 2006-08-05 11:43 pm (UTC)Great essay.
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Date: 2006-08-06 01:01 am (UTC)This is a wonderful analysis! And, I'm surprised to hear that anyone could say that Cam is a Jack clone - IMO, they're such polar opposites as to be light/dark archetypes.
Cam is solar, optimistic, unstained. Jack is darkness, grim experience. Jack has no problem doing bad things for good reasons; I don't think Cam *could,* let alone live with himself afterwards.
To me, Jack is always interesting, often good company, but dangerous as hell. Cam, I'd take as much pleasure in knowing as he takes in the people around him...
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Date: 2006-08-06 03:47 am (UTC)The next time I see one of those annoying "We know nothing about Cameron" comments, I'm sending them here....
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Date: 2006-08-06 06:37 am (UTC)Very good meta. Thanks for posting.
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Date: 2006-08-06 11:35 am (UTC)Cam is solar, optimistic, unstained. Jack is darkness, grim experience.
*nodnods* Yeah, I agree. They're just so very different it always boggles me when people say he's a copy.
Jack has no problem doing bad things for good reasons; I don't think Cam *could,* let alone live with himself afterwards.
See, I think he could. It's there in Ripple Effect and I can't possibly see him disobey a direct order. I also think however that he has faith in the USAF that what they make him do is the right thing. When it turns out that isn't the case, that's when he'll get trouble. Which is probably why he nearly quit after killing those refugees. He thought he was destroying a dangerous target and he had a hard time accepting that they made a mistake.
Cam, I'd take as much pleasure in knowing as he takes in the people around him...
*nodnods* He's just so damn lovable and charming. Very hard to resist, but them I'm also crushing like whoa.
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Date: 2006-08-06 11:36 am (UTC)*cuddles* Thanks, honey.
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Date: 2006-08-06 01:38 pm (UTC)I'll second that whole-heartedly.
She just got me to watch S9 before S10 started and I was like "oh! uh huh, that sounds like Cam" (because, of course, I was backwards comparing, using FH!Cam as my baseline!)
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Date: 2006-08-06 01:41 pm (UTC)*bounces* I keep getting nervous thinking people will watch the show and go "zomg, you're way off".
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Date: 2008-06-30 11:54 pm (UTC)So, thank you for putting into much better words than I ever could why Cam is so cool, and also a tiny question - what episode do we find out Cam's got a brother?