The Big Sleep (Battlestar Galactica/Babylon 5)

[selenak]

Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Selena
Fandoms: Battlestar Galactica/ Babylon 5.
Disclaimer: characters and situations owned by J.M. Straczynski, Ron Moore, David Eick and various production companies. Title stolen from Raymond Chandler.
Timeline: A few weeks after In the Shadow of Z’ha’dum, season 2, for Babylon 5; during and after s4 for Battlestar

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Oooh, that's a good story. You've made a rather out-there plot idea believable and in-character. Well done.

BTW, it would be easier to read if you had a line break between paragraphs so they didn't look like they ran into one another.

[selenak]

Thank you, and I've edited line breaks!

[ffutures]

Excellent - hadn't really thought about the parallels between B5 and Galactica before.

[selenak]

Rewatching s1 with JMS' Tolkienesque "it was the dawn of the third age of mankind" in combination of BSG finishing on a creation myth helped inspiring me.:) That, and the Ellen and Garibaldi combo was irresistable.

[amatara]

Wow. Really, I - wow. That was a great way to tie the two universes together plot-wise. It works brilliantly!
Your Ellen and Garibaldi voices are fantastic, by the way. I never would've expected that combination to have so much chemistry, but - well, did it ever! :)

Just a teeny-tiny word of critique: I found some of your longer sentences just a little too long, which (to me) broke the flow of the story in some places. But then again, I'm not a native speaker, so it could just be me.

[selenak]

I sometimes do have a tendency towards longer sentences, that's true.

And I'm really glad the mixing of mythologies worked. Re: Ellen and Garibaldi - the original prompt did not specify whom in the B5verse Ellen was supposed to interact with beyond having to deal with the Shadows' question. But it occured to me early on that that if Garibaldi as a character owes much to the hard boiled novel/film noir type of detectives (think Philip Marlowe), Ellen was the classic ambiguous and bantering Woman With A Past from said stories, and so it was just irresistable to let them confront each other...

Squee!

[hobsonphile]

THIS IS THE BEST BLEND OF TWO MYTH ARCS EVER.

Also:

“I don’t want a getaway,” Ellen explained patiently. “I want to go back.”

“To…?”

“The past, Mr. Garibaldi. I want to go back to my husband. That’s all I ever wanted.”

Yes. Yes, yes, YES!

Re: Squee!

[selenak]

I was so hoping you in particular would like it!

And well, you know I have a soft spot a mile long for Ellen/Saul: theirloveisflawedandmessedupbutreallyforever. A measly few millennia frozen by Vorlons with the occasional thawing for genetic manipulation mission wouldn't stop Ellen from trying to get back to him.

[londonkds]

I don't know enough about BSG to understand much of this, but the B5 parts were really good.

That "Poor buggers in Downbelow" sounded like a very English phrase to me thought, not a Garibaldi word to use.

BSG myth arc, condensed version I

[selenak]

The evil influence of too much British tv. Hm. What would be an American expression Garibaldi could use

Re: BSG myth arc, condensed version I

[londonkds]

I'd suggest "poor bastards": "buggers" as I understand it in the US is rare and used only in the original completely hostile and specifically homophobic way.

I did not read your post in depth, sorry you wasted the time: I'm planning to start on BSG shortly.

Re: BSG myth arc, condensed version I

[selenak]

Not a problem, and I look forward to reading your reactions.

*edits buggers into bastards*