SGA; recs and question

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First the recs, 'cause these have been piling up and I need some form of sanity and not being afraid of my bookmarks. ::wry grin::

Assume that these are all SGA and all some form of Sheppard and McKay.


#435, The Atlantis Local Stitch'n'Bitch Chapter by rageprufrock - Wherein John is held close to the righteous female bosom of knitted products, Rodney is too curious for his own good, and plans fail in a spectacular way. (random thought: huh. I just realized this has a lot of what cereta mentions in her post on masculine and feminine spaces. huh.)

The Boys Of Summer by seperis - reads like the first breath of fresh air and feels like sun shining.

Advantage by resonant8 - Aliens make John into Rodney's slave and its both exactly what you expect and entirely surprising all at once.

Beauty by blinkiesays - Skip the notes on this one, the story reveals itself well enough on it's own and it reads like a melody.

The Lending Library by iphignia939 - The summary explains it all: "Naturally, when several hundred people moved to another galaxy, they brought porn." XD

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Stargate Question: Has anyone out there seen a plentiful amount of SG-1?

I'm very curious as to SG-1's interpretation of the Ancients; ie.
both the text and subtext of the Ancient's place/position in the SG-1 universe.

For instance, in SG-1 how were the Ancient's introduced? How are their technology viewed in SG-1, textually and subtextually? How did the SG-1 characters feel about the Ancients and Ancient technology?

Comments

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There is a lot of info about Ancients ala Stargate (history and such) over at the Stargate Wiki (http://wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/index.php/Ancients).

I believe the first time we ever heard of the Ancients was in SG-1 1.11 "Torment of Tantalus" (ironically featuring Paul "I'm Single" McGillion as Ernest).

For individual character's reactions, I can't think of specfic episodes or quotes off the top of my head. Generally, in the view of the Ascended Ancients, it seems to be pissed off at their lack of interference with the big baddies o' the galaxy (at least once Daniel meets Oma and they begin dealing with them face to face)

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thank you for the link!

Do you have any thoughts about the general impression of the show and the characters towards the Ancients? Is it uniformly positive or is there any sort of ambivalance towards them?

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ack, sorry, the anonymous comment was me, I forgot to sign in.

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Hah. I do that all the time.

Generally in response to the Ancients as a race, Dan's pretty much in awe and does the archaelogist squee over anything Ancienty. Sam squees as well, Teal'c gives us a background of how the Goa'uld used it/bastarded it, and Jack goes "eh, does it make things go boom?".

When you are talking about the Ascended Ancients, it's a bit different. Generally once Daniel ascended at the end of 5th season, everybody's been a little put out by the whole "You must help yourselves, I'm going to go eat waffles" attitude of the Ascended Ancients. This is especially evident when Daniel is ascended and keeps showing up on Jack who throws shoes at him.

So, Ancient tech, good, Ancient's themselves, glorified do-gooders.

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when Daniel is ascended and keeps showing up on Jack who throws shoes at him.

o.o that actually happened? ::giggles::

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Oh yes!

There are some fairly amusing caps right here (http://www.stargatecaps.com/sg1/s6/606/index2.shtml).

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::giggles:: oh dear!

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He ascended twice, actually. (Maybe more? I lost count.)