For
lyssie: Five things about Daniel that everyone except Landry
misses.
1. He thinks that Daniel came back from the
dead that last time with a touch of arthritis in right hand. Landry
figures it was a matter of time before all that resurrection stuff
didn't go quite as planned, and really, he has no proof. But Daniel
always sits on his left at briefings, and he's noticed that on
rainy days, the archeologist takes substantially fewer notes.
2. He may have been bad with a gun once upon a time, but now, Landry is pretty sure that Daniel could out shoot half of the SGC Marines. Hank's not really sure how much of that is conscious and how much of it was bourn out of a sense of self-preservation, but considering that it's Daniel, he's betting on the latter. Because, better shot or not, Jackson still has a penchant for getting in too deep.
3. That being said, Landry knows that Jackson is quite glad to have Mitchell on the team. Because Mitchell, being new at this whole interplanetary travel thing, has made three times as many mistakes as Jackson in the last year. Landry suspects that it's something of a relief to Jackson to no longer be the guy catching all the dirty looks for getting them into the scrape of the week.
4. They were talking once about Landry's failed marriage and he couldn't be sure, but he got the definite feeling that Jackson still mourns his wife. Not actively and not with the same passion of those early years on SG-1, but he thinks it would surprise everyone how much Daniel actually misses being married – particularly to the right woman. There's a sense of resignation about his romantic entanglements now that doesn't suit the would-be idealist.
5. Still, Landry's pretty sure that really, Jackson's fairly crazy about Vala. Or, she just drives him crazy, though to be honest Landry's never been able to discern the difference (which explains his own abysmal love life quite well). But the fact remains that more often than not during military briefings, he'll find Jackson staring at the alien woman in a way that Hank's not entirely certain is advisable in a public forum.
Of course, he ignores the fact that he's seen Jackson studying Mitchell in much the same way more than once. Those days are the days when "don't ask, don't tell" becomes Hank's best friend.