Comments | sga_flashfic: Fic: Ten Tiny Tales Redux by <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/teenygozer">teenygozer</a></strong> (Gods and Monsters, Amnesty 2010)

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Fic: Ten Tiny Tales Redux by teenygozer (Gods and Monsters, Amnesty 2010)

Dec 22, 2010 13:09

Title: Ten Tiny Tales Redux
Author: teenygozer
Challenge: Amnesty 2010, Gods and Monsters
Characters: All of them.
Rating: Depends on how you feel about the discussion of religion. No sex, no violence. Couple of swear words.
Genre: Gen... "thinky" gen.
Tags: amnesty 2010, author: teenygozer, challenge: gods and monsters

Notes: A follow up to Ten Tiny ( Read more... )

challenge: gods and monsters, amnesty 2010

Comments 20

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Re: sga_newsletter: December 23, 2010 teenygozer December 24 2010, 00:10:23 UTC

Wow, you sga_newsletter guys are damned efficient! I didn't even have to drop you a line!

xylohypha December 24 2010, 02:46:50 UTC

I liked this. A couple of particulars:

a small-but-clever child bred to think out-of-the-box

There are dangers there, even if we tend to think of the advantages of being able to think creatively. (I always want to dream up AUs where this particular danger was scotched.)

Without thinking, he blurted out, “But sir, I can fly anything!”

Lovely, concise sketch of Sheppard.

teenygozer December 30 2010, 04:40:10 UTC

I've been snow-bound, or I'd have answered your comment sooner!

(I always want to dream up AUs where this particular danger was scotched.)

Did you see the SG-1 movie "Continuum"? In the alternate time line created by Ba'al, Daniel tries to convince Colonel (didn't make General) O'Neill that they are friends in another version of time by referring to his dead son, Charlie, and O'Neill gets really angry and says that Charlie is alive! It's only in a universe where they hadn't uncovered the Stargate that Charlie survives. There's no pressing need for him, so Ganos Lal doesn't show a heightened and specific interest in him, which means no passing bad-guy Ascended beings are alerted to his special attributes. He's still one of her gene-carriers, but she's not grooming him for something specific that's on the horizon. So he lives! And it's canon!

Thanks for you comment (and I love my version of Sheppard! He's a sweet guy!)

michelel72 December 25 2010, 19:43:01 UTC

These are brilliant. Poor Charlie! I love that Atlantis would come up with a PowerPoint presentation. And the implications of #5 are tantalizing. There really isn't enough fic about Caldwell's time as an unwilling host. And John's useless stationery! Ha!

teenygozer December 30 2010, 04:54:49 UTC

Thanks! (I'd have answered sooner but I was away for Xmas, and snowbound in Brooklyn.)

There's POWER in that PowerPoint presentation! Naturally Rodney came up with it. They all mocked him, but then started adding things.

#5 can get you into trouble if you try to put that into your television show! You have to be subtler than that -- like Star Trek's "A Piece of the Action" episode, where Kirk is astounded that the planet's population based their lives on A BOOK! JUST ONE BOOK!? Took me years to realize they were commenting negatively on the Bible!

I think most fans have completely forgotten that it was for more than that one episode (where they save him) that Caldwell was a host. And how awful for Caldwell to know that nobody could tell that it wasn't him, even though the Goa'uld was argumentative and nasty.

I love John's useless stationery... I had that stationery when I was 12! Except it was a unicorn instead of a Pegasus!

ozsaur December 31 2010, 03:40:38 UTC

Love how each piece brought out a different emotion: sadness, amusement, curiosity etc. Really liked how it ended.

teenygozer January 2 2011, 01:30:05 UTC

Thank you so much for commenting! I usually write humor but was pleased to see that, this time, I could go to the sad place when I had to.

sholio January 5 2011, 10:33:21 UTC

I really liked these -- like the last batch, they're insightful, thoughtful, and occasionally quite funny! I am particularly amused by the Goa'uld in Caldwell being bored and frustrated out of its mind by having to ferry around Sheppard's team. :D

teenygozer January 5 2011, 16:50:18 UTC

Thank you! I've seen a "mean Caldwell, out to get Sheppard & Atlantis" character in a lot of fics and always wanted to remind the authors that Caldwell was Goa'ulded, that's why he was so awful. Caldwell seemed like a nice guy when he wasn't under the influence!