*Nods* I think SG-1 was one of my first real fandoms after The X-Files. (I pretty much grew up with SW and with TOS and then with TNG of ST, so those are less fandoms than, well, permanent fixtures in the back of my head, I think.) Something about Jack and Daniel reminded me of Kirk and Spock, which I think is part of what drew me to the show to begin with. (Well, that and I'd actually enjoyed the movie and was awfully curious about how they'd make it into a tv show.) I actually have a couple of fandoms I read in occasionally where I've pretty much completely separated out the enormous potential represented by the characters and the way they interact in the storylines (be it in books or tv episodes) from most of the actual plots of the storylines themselves, but it's difficult to be that attached to the characters while being anywhere from completely against to indifferent to the actual canon when it comes to the plot of the shows or books. I want the canon to be strong enough and intelligent enough to support the characters properly, not to have to fight to get any kind of deeper, more complex meaning for the characters out of the canon, you know? (This is why I've been trying to avoid most of the SW EU lately - it's like pulling teeth without an anesthetic or trying to squeeze water out of a stone, trying to get anything even semi-meaningful out of it, anymore.)

*Nods* It's always nice to be able to run something by somebody else. Especially when you're trying to work more closely within the framework of an established storyline. I think that's probably what makes the SW more challenging. With SG-1, unless you're filling in missing lines scenes with an episode, there's more room to write around what's established without having to worry about accidentally contridicting specific details of an episode.