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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Was Chaya treated differently (by the show) than from Oma and Orlin?? ie. were they ever treated with as much suspicion as Chaya?

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Hmm. I think Chaya was treated with suspicion because she didn't tell them she was an Ancient upfront, tried to hide her powers. So there was something to be suspicious of, if you see my point.

I think in a meta-sense, they were handled very similarly--yeah, they're glowy forces of goodness, but they still experience personal attraction and lust. Like Chaya, Orlin fixated on Sam, and Oma is always using any excuse to see Daniel in the buff. However, I do wonder if this may be related to them being Ancients who couldn't keep to the code, who were too tied to the affairs of the mortal plane--if ascended Ancients who *do* stick firmly to the Prime Directive don't have any of those sexual feelings.

Another note--I think it could be argued that Chaya's punishment was more lax than Orlin's or Oma's. Orlin was bound to the planet he helped and forced to watch as they used his technological aid to nuke each other senseless. Oma's planet when they first met her in "Maternal Instinct" was inhabited by pretty much one follower. Who had come from somewhere else. Chaya got to have her wish to be guardian over a whole planet, and to actually guard them.