Slashy interview

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From Eclipsemagazine.com, an interview with Michael Shanks.

While Daniel’s early taste in wardrobe simply intrigued Michael Shanks as the actor playing the character, the allergy sideline was the thing that annoyed him the most. Now with that no longer an issue with the character, EM wondered: What did Shanks find most annoying about Daniel Jackson now? The answer was a bit startling to say the least.

“It’s funny because we have two things that happen. There is the ongoing storyline that started in season nine with Vala, about her sort of being interested in him and Daniel not being interested in her. Then this year we have another sort of pseudo love interest in the part of her daughter, Adria, played by Morena Baccarin.”

At this point, Shanks lapses into moment of laughter over what he is about to say in regards to Daniel Jackson. Composing himself, he continues. “There is a bit of some sort of romantic entanglement that happens there and Daniel kind of pushes that aside as well. Then in the episode right after it, which is “Bounty”, where a beautiful girl pretty much propositions Daniel point blank and he lets that go by too.
The most annoying thing is I sort of go, ‘I’m not saying he’s light in the loafers, and I know people have been saying that for years, but I’m starting to wonder myself where they are going with this.’” Michael Shanks further explains that Joe Mallozzi, the writer who wrote that part of the episode, told him it confirms Daniel as the gay icon that he is or something like that.

“Does it make things look ambiguous about Daniel’s sexuality? Yes. But it’s certainly annoying to be playing the character and not know.” Shanks is waving his hands, palms up at the mystery of it all.


No wonder they have to have Thor lined up to shut him up at conventions. MS buys into the slash...

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Valid points!