Ignorance was bliss

[sid]

So I'm writing a story that takes place at Jack's house, and I make the mistake of doing some research, and I realize that probably every single fic I've ever set there was off base in one way or another. From the early stories when I'd send Jack and Daniel upstairs to bed in a one story house, to not realizing the shape of the house and where the bedroom actually is, to misplacing the deck...wow. You name it.

Now I'm shocked to discover that there are two entrances to Jack's kitchen (from the dining room and from the hallway), and that the entrance from the dining room has a pocket door! Possibly the entrance from the hall to the dining room has a pocket door, too. I thought I glimpsed a handle in one screencap. (Which is neither here nor there, but startled me because I did all that research on Sam's house, and she had pocket doors, and I'm left to wonder if that's a Canadian thing? LOL) ETA: There is most definitely a pocket door between the hall and the dining room! When Jack comes home from the store in Full Alert and finds Kinsey in his living room, that door is closed. It's a louvered door. Whaddya know.

Anyway, my little story is pretty well fucked. Er, so just forget that you read this, okay? Because I don't think I can honestly fix it, so I'm just going to go with it. ;-P

La-la-la-la-la

Comments

[annejack]

There's someone (I forgot who it was because it's been there years and years ago) who did screencaps and floorplans on Jack's house and put them online. I loved to go there whenever writing fic that took place in Jack's house and look at them. I love Jack's house, it's just lovely, so I tried to stay in the canon with that as much as I could. But I did add a room once and gave his kitchen a backdoor to the outside even tough I knew it did not have one :)

You can have Jack's house anyway you like, I think, as long as it fits Jack's personality. :)

Once I'm home again I will go look for that link if anyone's interested and see if the website is still there, but I don't have it with me on the laptop.

[princessofgeeks]

Wow; that would be awesome. I saw a plan once somewhere but I don't think I saved it.

[paian]

Here's the floorplan: http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/locations/johouseplan.shtml

[sid]

*nods* That's one of the things I found last night. Even that doesn't show the hall entrance to the kitchen, though! In 'Fragile Balance' Daniel, Sam and clone!Jack walk into the dining room, while Teal'c heads down the hall. A shot or two later, he can be seen in the kitchen behind the other actors. It really is a "blink and you'll miss it" piece of evidence.

[archersangel]

it that really evidence of him coming in from the hall or just a production goof?

[sid]

I don't think it's a goof. There's a door that they just hadn't ever shown us up until that point, and Teal'c was headed in that direction. The refrigerator blocks any view of it from the camera in the dining room's angle, and we don't actually see Teal'c enter because Sam is blocking our view at that moment, but it's all perfectly logical once you know the door exists.

[paian]

I never noticed that that floorplan is missing that entrance! I remember it from 'Fragile Balance,' but I never really scrutinized the floorplan. I'm glad you mentioned it -- it's been on my to-do list to make a 3d model of Jack's house, and the more that's accurate going in, the less to correct after putting walls up.

So, do you think it's a doorway with a door, or just an entranceway?

[sid]

Ooh, no idea. I was in too much shock at its very existence to notice details! It might make sense for both entrances to have pocket doors, I suppose. Guess I'll have to get out the 'Full Alert' DVD again. :-)

[paian]

Re-watching: such a terrible hardship! ::grins:: I'll just have to grit my teeth and suffer through it with you.

I love that opening to 'Full Alert.' It's an all-in-one serving of domestic!Jack and dangerous!Jack.

[sid]

Dangerous!Jack takes his gun with him when he runs to the store for beer. *fans self*

But then in 'Citizen Joe' he keeps it in a kitchen drawer, so he's domestic, dangerous and inconsistent!Jack, lol.

[paian]

lol, yes!

And in 'Sight Unseen' he keeps it under the driver's seat of his truck ...

[sid]

Prescient!Jack. *g*

[paian]

Yes! He always knows just where to stash a weapon so that he won't have to go out of frame to fetch it when the threatening crazyass thing happens.

[sid]

the threatening crazyass thing-of-the-week. *G*

[paian]

I believe I shall adopt the TCTotW as an Initialism of Great Usefulness. ::nods::

[sid]

A most excellent plan! *nods*