!!!!! *squishes you* You wrote Sam and Daniel friendship for me and it's wonderful and beautiful and I'm the luckiest person ever!
I love how it starts - lulling us into the peacefulness of nature only to be blind-sided by the racket of Jack's snoring.
Once again, she wondered how her CO, who slept absolutely noiselessly and practically open-eyed in times of danger, could possibly know when it was safe to snore so loudly.
Okay, this was great. I really like (and totally the believe) that even while sleeping somewhere in his mind Jack decides whether it's safe for him to snore or not. It's cracking me up.
I like your description of Daniel's program and translation methods (can totally see them) and I love that Sam is familiar with how Daniel approaches a translation problem.
but now she whipped her head around to stare at him. "Did you say ask?" she demanded.Hee :) I love this - that Daniel could have the translation handed to him but wants to work on it and I love how he casually throws out that information and Sam takes a
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I can so see Jack as a chronic snorer, and it would be utterly like him to have a little switch in his mind that knows that it's safe to snore/complain loudly/sing Wizard of Oz songs and when it's not.
I'm so glad that you enjoyed this, and that the touches that mattered most to me - their camaraderie, Daniel's viewpoint, Sam's fondness for Tollana - were all things that you liked, too.
And now I really miss the Tollans - for their faults, they really weren't bad allies
Oh, I hated what they did to Travell in Between Two Fires. I liked the Tollans quite a lot, especially with their background - they weren't just being smug, they'd watched their planet tear itself apart because they'd made the mistake of supplying technology to someone who wasn't ready for it. And I loved that Omoc was rude. Just because someone has a clear moral compass doesn't mean he's a nice guy!
Most of all, though, I wanted the Tollans to acknowledge that they'd put Daniel in a very bad position in Shades of Grey, especially
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...So, you like it, right? :) Lessee.... Fic written by you especially for me? check Sam and Daniel front and center? check Sam and Daniel's friendship in all it's knowledge-loving glory? check Funny observations about Jack? check Daniel playing anthropologist, historian, and linguist? check Sam and Daniel working together on a puzzle? check etc, etc. Yep, safe to say I liked it.
Jack as a chronic snorer, and it would be utterly like him to have a little switch in his mind that knows that it's safe to snore/complain loudly/sing Wizard of Oz songs and when it's not.Hee :) Now I want a story where Jack sings in his sleep
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to suddenly have them disappear completely was just...too much
Another one of my to-be-written-someday meta essays will be my angry rant at how TPTB take every. single. victory. the SGC ever has and destroys it. The destruction of Tollana, senselessly, is just another one on the list.
I loved Travell in Pretense - her serenity and her cool head and her refusal to be intimidated, and her classiness when she thanked Teal'c. Her behavior in Between Two Fires was so OOC that it actually hurt.
With Shades of Grey - was it that much worse for Daniel than Sam or Teal'c (from the Tollan's actions, not from Jack's?).
I think it was, yes. Consider who Daniel is, for the Tollans: the man who stepped up for them when they were trapped on Earth, who risked his life by standing between them and Maybourne's soldiers when they walked through the Stargate. Even Omoc liked Daniel, and that's saying something! :)
Then necessity and orders force Jack into duping Daniel into creating a presentation that he knows he's going to torpedo within the first
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Oh, no kidding. It's like, every potential ally or helpful other culture just got wiped out all together. Maybe it's nostalgia for Star Trek when the universe was populated with allies instead of enemies, but sometimes it feels like the Stargate universe is all either "races way more advanced than Earth who form alliances anyway and Earth acts like the snippy child towards and somehow ends up better than," "enemies," "primitive societies who aren't terribly useful," or "societies at a similar level to our own we can't get along with."
I mean, really, is one other culture we successfully interact with that unbelievable? Of course, as the show progressed it got more Earth and "galaxy war" focused and less "let's see what's out there" so, yeah.
I hadn't thought about that with Daniel and "Shades of Grey" but it does make a lot of sense.
You wrote Sam and Daniel friendship for me and it's wonderful and beautiful and I'm the luckiest person ever!
I love how it starts - lulling us into the peacefulness of nature only to be blind-sided by the racket of Jack's snoring.
Once again, she wondered how her CO, who slept absolutely noiselessly and practically open-eyed in times of danger, could possibly know when it was safe to snore so loudly.
Okay, this was great. I really like (and totally the believe) that even while sleeping somewhere in his mind Jack decides whether it's safe for him to snore or not. It's cracking me up.
I like your description of Daniel's program and translation methods (can totally see them) and I love that Sam is familiar with how Daniel approaches a translation problem.
but now she whipped her head around to stare at him. "Did you say ask?" she demanded.Hee :) I love this - that Daniel could have the translation handed to him but wants to work on it and I love how he casually throws out that information and Sam takes a ( ... )
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I can so see Jack as a chronic snorer, and it would be utterly like him to have a little switch in his mind that knows that it's safe to snore/complain loudly/sing Wizard of Oz songs and when it's not.
I'm so glad that you enjoyed this, and that the touches that mattered most to me - their camaraderie, Daniel's viewpoint, Sam's fondness for Tollana - were all things that you liked, too.
And now I really miss the Tollans - for their faults, they really weren't bad allies
Oh, I hated what they did to Travell in Between Two Fires. I liked the Tollans quite a lot, especially with their background - they weren't just being smug, they'd watched their planet tear itself apart because they'd made the mistake of supplying technology to someone who wasn't ready for it. And I loved that Omoc was rude. Just because someone has a clear moral compass doesn't mean he's a nice guy!
Most of all, though, I wanted the Tollans to acknowledge that they'd put Daniel in a very bad position in Shades of Grey, especially ( ... )
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Lessee....
Fic written by you especially for me? check
Sam and Daniel front and center? check
Sam and Daniel's friendship in all it's knowledge-loving glory? check
Funny observations about Jack? check
Daniel playing anthropologist, historian, and linguist? check
Sam and Daniel working together on a puzzle? check
etc, etc.
Yep, safe to say I liked it.
Jack as a chronic snorer, and it would be utterly like him to have a little switch in his mind that knows that it's safe to snore/complain loudly/sing Wizard of Oz songs and when it's not.Hee :) Now I want a story where Jack sings in his sleep ( ... )
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Another one of my to-be-written-someday meta essays will be my angry rant at how TPTB take every. single. victory. the SGC ever has and destroys it. The destruction of Tollana, senselessly, is just another one on the list.
I loved Travell in Pretense - her serenity and her cool head and her refusal to be intimidated, and her classiness when she thanked Teal'c. Her behavior in Between Two Fires was so OOC that it actually hurt.
With Shades of Grey - was it that much worse for Daniel than Sam or Teal'c (from the Tollan's actions, not from Jack's?).
I think it was, yes. Consider who Daniel is, for the Tollans: the man who stepped up for them when they were trapped on Earth, who risked his life by standing between them and Maybourne's soldiers when they walked through the Stargate. Even Omoc liked Daniel, and that's saying something! :)
Then necessity and orders force Jack into duping Daniel into creating a presentation that he knows he's going to torpedo within the first ( ... )
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I mean, really, is one other culture we successfully interact with that unbelievable? Of course, as the show progressed it got more Earth and "galaxy war" focused and less "let's see what's out there" so, yeah.
I hadn't thought about that with Daniel and "Shades of Grey" but it does make a lot of sense.
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