What Is Jonas's Favorite Color Anyway

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Title:	What Is Jonas's Favorite Color Anyway
Creator:	A.V. Meren
Date(s):	October 1, 2002
Medium:	online
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Topic:	Fan Fiction, Stargate: SG-1
External Links:	What Is Jonas's Favorite Color Anyway, Archived version
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What Is Jonas's Favorite Color Anyway is an essay by A.V. Meren.

It is part of the Fanfic Symposium series.

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I've never written something like this before because I never really felt the need to.

Until now.

I've stayed out of the discussions that take place in so many fandoms about how best to write a character because, no matter how they are written, if they're written *well*...I'll most likely enjoy the new insight.

I'm aware that many people don't feel that way, but, frankly, I never really cared. Let each go to Hell in his own way...and hey, have fun while you're at it!

And I felt (and still feel) the same about "favorite" characters. Oh, Lord knows that I prefer to read stories featuring particular characters, and I also enjoy chatting about them and generally raving over them like every other fan I know, but! And here's the thing--I don't go so far as to actively obsess over them to the point where I won't even give a new character a chance.

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

Daniel Jackson is dead. (Or ascended, or whatever, but you know what I mean.) That's really sad, because you know what? He was my favorite character, and one of the reasons that I watched Stargate SG-1. And I was, like so many, unbelievably upset about his death. Characters are real to us, and their deaths hurt just as much as a living person's do. And Danny's death was a sad event.

But you know what was sadder?

The complete lack of respect that was shown by various fans of Stargate SG-1--and no, I'm not talking about those who gasp! actually like Jonas Quinn. I'm talking, rather, about those who chose not to even give him a chance.