I started writing a comment in response to this. It got too long for a comment box (http://puritybrown.livejournal.com/319509.html).
I've only recently become enamoured of the show, and I'm aware enough of the positive and negative buzz around it that my expectations aren't that high -- plus, I've always found SG1 deathly dull in a "dear God make it stop it is draining my will to live" sort of way, so the bar wasn't set too high to start with. I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed it. To sum up my post, I would say: the show's full of ideas and character moments and interactions that are inherently attractive and wonderful, which the writers don't do half as much with as they could, and it sticks hooks in my brain because of its incompleteness, because of its flaws; because they don't seem to know what they're doing, and they're accidentally throwing up wonderful things without realising it.
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I've only recently become enamoured of the show, and I'm aware enough of the positive and negative buzz around it that my expectations aren't that high -- plus, I've always found SG1 deathly dull in a "dear God make it stop it is draining my will to live" sort of way, so the bar wasn't set too high to start with. I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed it. To sum up my post, I would say: the show's full of ideas and character moments and interactions that are inherently attractive and wonderful, which the writers don't do half as much with as they could, and it sticks hooks in my brain because of its incompleteness, because of its flaws; because they don't seem to know what they're doing, and they're accidentally throwing up wonderful things without realising it.