What are her insecurities? What holds her back? More importantly, what drives her? This will be some random sentences: I tend to write her as a bit socially inept. Not really stunted, but she has a hard time identifying with other women outside of the SGC (and men for that matter). She can't tell them what she does. She's most likely smarter than they are. She isn't into the soccer mom and mini-vans thing. She's always thinking about science in some way. She's not the best at conveying her feelings when it's someone who really matters. A little afraid of losing perhaps? She does have some ego to contend with. She knows she's smart, accepts it, gets on with it. Do the other scientists think of her as Super Sam? Rodney McKay irritates her when he says she's wrong. She's beautiful, so surely she's had male attention before, but she tends to pick fairly strong personalities, just like her father. No surprise there. She seems mostly unwilling to disobey orders, even when she doesn't believe they're right. She will question authority, but ehhh... not really so much.
I think the writing in general for the show tends to cloak all the shippiness in order to make all the fans as happy as possible, and then it's hard to really see some important points about Sam and her non-soldierey self.
I've read meta about Sam from someone else who writes her as much less of a dork than I do. They approach her entire life and center and motivation from a scientific POV. That Sam looks at everything logically. It works for them. I come from more of a POV where Sam felt alone most of her life because her gifts set her apart. She found a family at the SGC. When she's outside of that family, she feels like a bit of a misfit.
And, maybe I should stop for now... I hope this gives you *something* to think about. ;)
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Re: Part 2
Date: 2006-07-21 12:45 pm (UTC)From:This will be some random sentences: I tend to write her as a bit socially inept. Not really stunted, but she has a hard time identifying with other women outside of the SGC (and men for that matter). She can't tell them what she does. She's most likely smarter than they are. She isn't into the soccer mom and mini-vans thing. She's always thinking about science in some way. She's not the best at conveying her feelings when it's someone who really matters. A little afraid of losing perhaps? She does have some ego to contend with. She knows she's smart, accepts it, gets on with it. Do the other scientists think of her as Super Sam? Rodney McKay irritates her when he says she's wrong. She's beautiful, so surely she's had male attention before, but she tends to pick fairly strong personalities, just like her father. No surprise there. She seems mostly unwilling to disobey orders, even when she doesn't believe they're right. She will question authority, but ehhh... not really so much.
I think the writing in general for the show tends to cloak all the shippiness in order to make all the fans as happy as possible, and then it's hard to really see some important points about Sam and her non-soldierey self.
I've read meta about Sam from someone else who writes her as much less of a dork than I do. They approach her entire life and center and motivation from a scientific POV. That Sam looks at everything logically. It works for them. I come from more of a POV where Sam felt alone most of her life because her gifts set her apart. She found a family at the SGC. When she's outside of that family, she feels like a bit of a misfit.
And, maybe I should stop for now... I hope this gives you *something* to think about. ;)