SGA; recs and question

[permetaform]

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

[franzeska]

It's not just the Ancients. I'm not up to date on SG1, but they've been slowly working through all their allies. Those allies either turn evil or turn out to be using Earth humans or turn out to have flaws that must be shown in a heavy-handed manner explored. SGA may be using it more as an ongoing theme while on SG1 it's more of a sweeps attention-grabber, but I haven't seen SGA, so I'm not sure.

[permetaform]

SGA also have been having the allies-going-sour thing, but what's facinating to me is the way that the Ancients are simultaneously being revered and undermined throughout SGA. It's sort of an ongoing theme in the way that it pops up in various episodes or the way that the magical city they're in has the occasional danger and the way that the Wraiths are connected in various ways back to the Ancients. (I and a few others have a few theories in how the Wraiths were actually created by the Ancients themselves, in either an accidental or a purposeful way)

[franzeska]

Well considering the general Stargate theme of "Man was Not Meant To Know... but since some other dumbass already went there, I guess we'll try to fix it"...