Talk:Samantha Carter
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The article says Carter "... flew fighter jets in the Gulf War logging over 100 hours of air time." This seems to be based on a couple of lines from the first episode:
- Kawalsky: "..., have you ever pulled out of a simulated bombing run in an F-16 at 8+ gees?"
- Carter: Yes."
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- Carter: "I logged over a 100 hours in enemy airspace during the Gulf War."
However she doesn't have pilot's wings on her dress uniform -- she has some other badge I can't make out. The script doesn't actually say she was a fighter pilot; she could have taken a joy ride in the back seat of an F-16, and worked in the back of an AWACS or transport in the Gulf War. Is there any other evidence one way or the other?
--wwoods 04:06, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
We've seen her pilot an F-302 in season 8 (and maybe before) but there haven't been any references to her piloting real-world aircraft that I can think of. IIRC there still weren't a lot of female fighter pilots in USAF in 1991. Robertbrockway 08:33, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah, she and O'Neill were portrayed as the experts on flying the 302 since its introduction in season 6. Which strained my suspension of disbelief, because even though she is the expert on its engines, she doesn't have the time to spare to be proficient as its pilot. There ought to have been test-pilots assigned to the plane to do the flying. But I understand why the TV show didn't want to add new characters to do the flying in the big scenes, leaving all Our Heros to watch from the control room.
- —wwoods 22:24, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Links to episodes
For crying out loud (no joke intended), PLEASE, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, MAKE SURE THAT THE LINKS GO TO THE EPISODE! 19 September 2005
[edit] Discussion Regarding Her Sex Prowess
There is a fan comment about a "running joke" with daniel jackson and his many lives. How does the fan know this? There is also a running joke about how samantha carter, while not a sex goddess like most sci fi shows, is incredibly easy to get into the sack. How do I know this? I just do. So, how can my fact be left out, while the other one, without a citation as well, is included? Lets have some consistency, shall we?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.124.53.54 (talk • contribs).
- Agreed. No uncited rumors or speculation. They both go. CovenantD 02:53, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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- The joke about Carter that I'm aware of is that she's the 'Black Widow of Stargate' -- fall for her and die. If you're lucky your whole planet won't die with you. Seriously, aside from her several alternate-timeline marriages, I don't recall her having much of a sex life. Certainly she's no Captain Kirk.
- —wwoods 06:17, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipedia policy requires citable sources. Without a citation from a reliable source, such as the producers of the programme that they consider these themes to be jokes, 'repeating theme' is a better description. RayGates 00:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Come to think of it, I vaguely recall some mention of this on the DVDs. In an episode with Tapping doing the commentary? Or maybe one of those video diaries? And in "Wormhole X-Treme!", the 'Carter' character has a line like "How come I never get to kiss anyone?"
- —wwoods 07:42, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Not the one I was thinking of, but in the commentary for "Covenant",
- Amanda Tapping: It's not "sort of a relationship"—we worked together. And everyone just assumes that whenever Carter works with someone, you know, they have a relationship.
- Martin Wood: And that's not true. Because if you did have a relationship with them ... they'd be dead.
- Amanda Tapping: This is true. This is true. It's my thang.
- —wwoods 06:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Not the one I was thinking of, but in the commentary for "Covenant",
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- I remember Tapping joking on a DVD featurette for the episode "The Other Guys" that she's the "Black Widow of Stargate." 67.171.163.212 23:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Carter even mentions this in one episode soon after Pete was introduced. In a scene in a diner Carter warns Pete that her love interests have a tendency to die. If anyone said this to me I'd run for the hills but Pete appears to have taken it rather well. Robert Brockway 01:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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She doesn't actually say her love interests have a tendency to die, just that the majority of her recent relationships happen to have died (Though the implication is rather obvious). JBK405 03:38, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Addendum to Love Life
I feel that the Addendum to Love Life should be removed as I think that the comments made within it about a romantic relationship between Sam and Daniel is based on nothing except speculation. It is something that has never even been hinted or acknowledged in the series as strongly as the love and attraction between Sam and Jack has been. Alan-WK 20:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
"As far as the alternate reality argument goes- that Sam has been involved with, or at least apparently had feelings for, Jack O'Neill in every alternate reality encountered by the SGC- it should be noted that, in these realities, Daniel was either dead when Carter fell for O'Neill ("Moebius", although the kiss shared by the alternate versions may just have been a simple need for contact brought on by fear of death and Alt-Carter's uncertainty about the presence of the 'original' Daniel following the death of the one she knew) or had never been part of SGC in the first place ("There But For the Grace of God", "Point of View")"
I removed that section from the "Addendum to Love Life" because, even though I personally feel that the rest of the section is also grasping at straws, this paragraph is just to far out to keep in. All it does it say that she never knew Daniel in the alternate realities, so she never fell in love with him, but that is such an opinionated leap. As I like to point out, she also never met Teal'c, or Narim, or a dozen other men that she's shown interacting with in our reality. For all I know she might truly be destined to be with Daniel, and she might have only ended up with Jack in alternate realities because she never met Daniel, but we have no evience, only conjecture. JBK405 20:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
"===Addendum to Love Life===
It is interesting to note that, despite the constant hints at a Carter/O'Neill relationship, some fans also favor Sam becoming romantically involved with Daniel Jackson, due to them being more intellectually equal than Carter and O'Neill, as well as them having more in common with each other. The two are regarded as the 'Science Twins' in many ways, each one possessing a love of the knowledge and discoveries that the Stargate enables them to make, and often end up working together on missions.
Although not as common as hints to a Carter/O'Neill relationship, there have been suggestions of a Carter/Daniel one. Two particularly prominent examples of hints at a romantic link between the two occur in "Meridian", when Carter told a dying Jackson "I don't know why we wait to tell people how we really feel. I guess I hoped that you always knew", suggesting that she does feel something for him beyond friendship, and after his return from ascension in "Fallen", when an amnesic Daniel quickly asked Carter if there had ever been something between them."
On second thought, I'm removing the rest of the section, too. It's to much conjecture and not enough support, relying to much on interpretation and assumption. If somebody is really compelled they can add it back in (I've copied the entire section here so that my decision isn't irrversible), but at least put more support. JBK405 20:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
perhaps Sam/Daniel could be included if, say, Sam/Teal'c, Jonas (Quinn), etc were as well. if anyone's up to the task...seems like a rather slippery slope to me. or maybe make a section specifically "actual" stuff (Jack, Pete, Joe, Jonas, maybe Narim and Martouf) and then another section for fan speculation showing all sides (Daniel, Teal'c, Jonas Quinn...Hammond, Ba'al, Thor...).
Also, doesn't Mark have two kids? The "Known Relatives" block only lists one unnamed niece.70.20.206.19 16:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)PR
[edit] Carter on SGA
Amanda Tapping is contracted for 14 episodes of SGA Season 4. That's all I know, but if anyone has more information, this article should probably be updated to include that. nmw 02:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
