No Traveller Returns (the Look Homeward, Angel remix)

[dossier]

Title: No Traveller Returns (the Look Homeward, Angel remix)
Author: dossier
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Category/Rating: Gen, PG for language. ~6000 words
Original Story: No Traveller Returns by greyias
Summary: The further adventures of the Repliteam.
Note: I'm pretty sure I failed at the concept of remix; I only hope that Greyias doesn't hate it too much.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I like the idea of repliteam out there adventuring!

[dossier]

It's a fun idea, isn't it? thanks!

[butterflykiki]

Awwww. Haven't read the original yet, but this is poignant in a way that what happened to Elizabeth can't be, I think. *hugs Rodney* Love how hard they try to keep him connected even whne they have to cut off most meaningful contact.

[dossier]

thank you! Poor Rodney, definitely needs hugs.

[auburnnothenna]

I'm still so happy you added the back end back in, it makes the story for me and ...are the unedited mission reports Sheppard gives Ingram new? I don't remember those and it's such a lovely detail.

[dossier]

Yes, I think it was because Sheppard had said that he'd be willing to work with the team (but I don't think Elizabeth passed that on to the repliteam), and so a few remembrances (snicker) to prove it.

and thank you again, I do appreciate the help!

[greyias]

I only hope that Greyias doesn't hate it too much

I don't think there's any need to fear that ;) And yay! Repliteam! This was one of the stories that I was really hoping someone might take a stab at, and I absolutely love how you did it. I love the explanation of how Rodney's shutting down his nanites, Ronon and Teyla's new names for themselves (Ronon's in particular made me sad, but rang so true), and John refusing to rename himself, because he's still a John Sheppard.

And it surprised me, but in a good way, how very creepy Elizabeth came off in this. She's a lot more like the Elizabeth that we saw at the end of "Be All My Sins" than our Elizabeth, which worries me slightly about RepliTeam's continued safety, but John seems to be keeping an eye on her.

It was a cold day in hell, and the chill was his own, personal, mortification for sins that he hadn't committed; that he even existed was his guilt.

Best. Line. EVER.

[dossier]

mea culpa on Evil Elizabeth, because the other ending to this was a dovetail right back to the end of BAMSR. I felt that her reinventing herself at the end of your story pointed towards an Elizabeth that was perhaps not quite so ethical, and maybe a little more driven. But I'm glad that came through, I didn't want to dilute the story with too many POV's, one switch I could get away with.

Best. Line. EVER.

I'm so glad you think so! I kind of like it it too. best of all, I'm really pleased that you like the story!

[bluflamingo]

This was really great. I love them renaming themselves, and John not because he isn't someone else, and how that's kind of reflected in human-John handing over important things from the lives they remember, that he doesn't see them as other people either, if that makes sense.

[dossier]

heh. I'm so glad that the renaming worked for you. It makes sense to me: They are intertwined together in so many ways and yet they are not, they are themselves and yet not. I like to think that John/Sheppard thinks of himself as iconic, regardless of his state or nature!