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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::nods at comment::

SGA has gone farther in pointing out how the Ancients were kinda racist, and short-sighted, and medically unethical in many ways. Fr'instance, the whole thing with leaving Stargates in orbit? That's nasty, people.

I'd always wondered at how the people of the various planets knew what to dial, and how they knew that what was on the other side of the gate was safe...also, is this only for SGA? There were no in-space gates in SG1?

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I'm feeling better and will reply to the big question soon, but this:

We've yet to see an in-space gate in the Milky Way, but that's likely representative of the fact that even if there were there's a force that would probably *move* them. For example, we see in-ship 'gates in SG-1, which we don't in SGA save for Atlantis itself. But SG-1 has the added fact that the Goa'uld will move or alter anything that seems halfway useful and since they gained space travel long before the humans of any planet we've seen, well, those who come first get the best pickings, etc.

- Andrea.

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argh, just found this comment because LJ didn't notify, sorry for the delay.

::hugs:: and I hope you feel better soon!

And yeah, that does make sense that someone would have 'scooped' up the Stargates already in the Milky Way!