In Search of Possibilities, part 3 of 3

[sg_fignewton]

In Search of Possibilities, part 3. (Continued from part 1 and part 2.)

Comments

[izhilzha]

LOVE. Oh, so much love for this fic! :-) I haven't found many stories set after the demise of the robot team, and this filled that gap, and the wonderings in my mind, very well.

Wonderful Sam and Daniel interaction (and I mean that all four ways, *g*).

[sg_fignewton]

So glad you enjoyed it! And yes, all four ways. It was fun to work out how each Sam interacted with each Daniel, and vice versa. :)

[niamaea]

GLEE!

I made myself wait to read this until I had finished polishing and formatting my fic submission, and then I ran to check it out, and aaah! Awesome!

I'm not gonna lie: I was kind of hoping whoever got me would take the AU prompt, so I'm so excited about that, but you did robots! And mythology! And Harry Potter and Star Wars references! And banter!

I love it (and the angst was totally appropriate, by the by). Of course I loved the way both Sams and Daniels interacted (in pairs and with 'themselves'), but I also loved our two being so smart in their respective fields and getting to pool their specialties to figure something out, and how awesome Teal'c and Jack were when we got to see them, and, really...just the whole thing.

Yay! I'm so rereading this.

[sg_fignewton]

Hurray, you liked it! ::bounces::

If I'd taken your other prompt, the fic wouldn't have been so long. :)

Glad you liked the references to Harry Potter and Star Wars! It was amusing to look up exactly which cultural phenomena were prominent in late 1997/early 1998 that Sam and Daniel might know about. Poor Daniel, missing the next six books of HP!

I had so much fun with the first half, when as you say, they got to "pool their specialties to figure something out," that I was suddenly 8000 words into the fic before they went through the mirror. Oops. :)

And yay for teamy goodness, and I'm relieved the angst worked out for you!

Thanks for a great prompt. This is my first longer fanfic, in any fandom, with my own plot instead of being an ep rewrite. Thanks for giving me the inspiration to do this! :)

[green_grrl]

Alternate universe fic AND robot fic!!! *flails with glee* This is fabulous. What a terrible conundrum for robot!Sam, to have to consider herself as not real. (And I'm taking even Major Sam to be an AU to our canon universe, because of the way canon!Sam reacted to Reese. So many trails for thought this story opens up!)

[sg_fignewton]

Hee! So glad you liked it!

What a terrible conundrum for robot!Sam, to have to consider herself as not real.

Oh, yeah. And I'm so glad you were able to feel robot!Sam's anguish here, because I locked myself into the rigid POV and couldn't bring myself to drop it. It's a good thing Daniel knows her so well, right? :)

And I'm taking even Major Sam to be an AU to our canon universe, because of the way canon!Sam reacted to Reese.

Ooooh. Nice twist, that. Except... Well, I'm thinking of Sam's reluctance to betray Fifth. I think canon!Sam did learn someting from Double Jeopardy, even if it didn't translate into comprehension for Reece. Maybe she worked on Reece a little too intimately? As you say, robot!Sam had to accept her own sentience after she'd worked on improving her own mechanics, and that was really tough. Canon!Sam studied Reece and managed to re-activate her, so... Hm.

I love comments that make me think, and I'm really glad you enjoyed the fic. :)

[green_grrl]

Oh, yes -- Fifth. *thinky* But, yeah, good point about Reece -- it's tough to see a "person" when you've been elbows deep in robot guts. Robot!Sam's dilemma here reminds me of clone!Jack -- he was Jack when he thought he was de-aged, but it totally threw him when he found out that he was a copy.

[sg_fignewton]

Oh, yes, clone!Jack is an excellent analogy - except he, at least, was flesh and blood. But he also had that huge shock of thinking he was changed!Jack rather than clone!Jack at first, and then discovering the truth.

[aurora_novarum]

Oh wow. I was so clueless, it took me to the allergies to realize the alternates were robots. It's not like you hadn't telegraphed it enough with Daniel's angst--I was just distracted with--oh wait these are the AU Sam and Daniel...what are they Tok'ra or ascended or something? I was just really engrossed in following the story as it happened.

Very clever twist in the road. The fic is made of teh awesome, fig!

And as for Part 1...um...I'm just...um...speechless.

Great job!

[sg_fignewton]

Ascended? Heh. That would have been really neat! Frankly, I was more interested in making it clear that this was a different Sam and Daniel, and not our Sam and Daniel after their mirror trip, than in whapping the reader over the head with their being robots. I don't think I had any specific moment when I pointed to the story and said, "I want the reader to figure it out here." Although it was fun to sprinkle in the clues, especially the more subtle ones! :)

So glad you liked it. As for part one - heh. I didn't realize, until after I read the lovely fic that you wrote for me and the prompt I gave you, that I'd actually gone ahead and basically written my own prompt. Oops, that. :)

[aurora_novarum]

No oops! It was excellent (since you speak some of Sam's "language", you did "bet-ter" with your prompt (sorry, I couldn't resist, what with the robots and all). I actually did start out with your season 8 one, and then...switched back.)

I reveled in your story. Great job.

[sg_fignewton]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it, but "speak some of Sam's language"? No way. The internet can really be your friend, sometimes. :)

[holdouttrout]

Oh, that's just lovely. And the idea to use alternate robot Daniel and Sam was inspired.

Love it.

[sg_fignewton]

Oh, thank you! I'm so glad you liked the fic. And the robots definitely deserve more fic love than they get!