Pleased to please, that's me. I think that they would flounder for a while, but both of them are so much more than their looks, they would come about and find a balance, a way of living with the changes, and if they got through the first few days without going for each other's throats, the friendship would be forged into unbreakable steel. Bit of romantic under all the angst, that's me.
That was creepy beyond all sense! Good job with the story-telling...I didn't get ahead of the reveal at all (what the aliens did to them and why.) And look! A happy ending! (Happy-Auburn-Style at any rate.)
Yup. They aren't dead, they still have their jobs, so happy ending Auburn-style. Since I was aiming for uncomfortable and creepy I'm pleased, plus I wanted that slow horror movie suspense reveal of what's the awful thing that happened.
And lookit, I can still write gen if I try hard. (Sex in this one would have added a level of ick I couldn't have handled, frankly.)
ouch. This is painful. You created a rather creepy society on the space station. I liked the interspersion of reports and emails about that society, John & Rodney & the quarantine situation. Love that Ronon doesn't let John get away with moping and that, in the end, they seem to come out stronger for it. It's not a perfect ending, which I adore.
Rodney kicked ass on the space station and did what he needed to, to get them out. The permanent reminder can't be easy, but I like that John goes to him at the end and reassures him that he did the right thing. So, not a perfect ending, but a realistic one.
I think ten thousand years in a tin can with no way off and no hope of resupply would twist up a society something fierce. Rats crowded in a cage are probably nice compared with humans under pressure.
It's not a perfect ending, which I adore.
It's got room for the reader to decide how dark the outcome is. Since Keller doesn't understand the way the Ixtian tech worked, it could be that in time things will get better.
I know canon generally shows Rodney as the butt of a lot of humor, but I hate that. If after five years he isn't competent to kick ass, he shouldn't be out there, and if after five years of him pulling their asses out of the fire the team is still mocking him, they aren't his friends - and I'm invested in them as friends, all of them. So, at least when I write, Rodney is going to be more than geek caricature. (And I know there are people who then see that as OOC. So what, I say.)
Re: portrayals of Rodney: in all fairness, the show doesn't do him any favors. I just caught up on season 5, and while he does a lot saving the team's ass, if it's not tech related, he usually falls to the wayside. I mean, even by season 5, Daniel was more of a soldier than Rodney is now. Or at least, that is how I see it.
But yes, I do believe that Rodney is not just a geek by this point in time. To be honest, I prefer SGA au's b/c by and large, they feel more real and or interesting than what the writers put on the screen.
The show writers have reset him over and over. After the first season he should have been a changed man - they showed it. But S2 saw buffoon Rodney all over again. Then Tao of Rodney, with his epiphanies, which then are immediately forgotten in the next episode. They've done it over and over. Grace Under Pressure.
TV writers are not good at showing change in characters, though it isn't all their fault. They aren't encouraged to show consequences.
Whoa. That's the creepiest society yet. I'm so happy that they managed to get over the trauma somewhat at the end, because the idea of a John and Rodney who no longer are friends is too distressing to bear.
You think? Maybe it's more disturbing because its an all human thing, no slithering tentacles or alien forces.
I started to say I'd never write a story where the John and Rodney friendship died, but then I remembered a plot I've got on the backburner. Don't know if I'll write it, but if I do, it will have a warning attached: the one that breaks even my heart.
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::pokes you affectionately:: Naaaaaaw. You? Go on.
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I quite enjoyed this - thank you for sharing it.
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And lookit, I can still write gen if I try hard. (Sex in this one would have added a level of ick I couldn't have handled, frankly.)
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Rodney kicked ass on the space station and did what he needed to, to get them out. The permanent reminder can't be easy, but I like that John goes to him at the end and reassures him that he did the right thing. So, not a perfect ending, but a realistic one.
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It's not a perfect ending, which I adore.
It's got room for the reader to decide how dark the outcome is. Since Keller doesn't understand the way the Ixtian tech worked, it could be that in time things will get better.
I know canon generally shows Rodney as the butt of a lot of humor, but I hate that. If after five years he isn't competent to kick ass, he shouldn't be out there, and if after five years of him pulling their asses out of the fire the team is still mocking him, they aren't his friends - and I'm invested in them as friends, all of them. So, at least when I write, Rodney is going to be more than geek caricature. (And I know there are people who then see that as OOC. So what, I say.)
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But yes, I do believe that Rodney is not just a geek by this point in time. To be honest, I prefer SGA au's b/c by and large, they feel more real and or interesting than what the writers put on the screen.
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TV writers are not good at showing change in characters, though it isn't all their fault. They aren't encouraged to show consequences.
But that's what we've got fanfic for.
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It's true. That's the way I roll.
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You think? Maybe it's more disturbing because its an all human thing, no slithering tentacles or alien forces.
I started to say I'd never write a story where the John and Rodney friendship died, but then I remembered a plot I've got on the backburner. Don't know if I'll write it, but if I do, it will have a warning attached: the one that breaks even my heart.
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