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Unified Field Theory by Melannen

Apr 06, 2005 20:12

Title: Unified Field Theory
Author: melannen
Gen, ~900 words.
Summary: John Sheppard leads a team.
Notes: Um, Hi! Written in 38 min + a quick spellcheck,
so you'll forgive me for the scientific errors, right?
I'm sure Dr. McKay will. Eventually.

( Stargazing? )

challenge: 38 minutes, author: melannen

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davechicken April 7 2005, 01:19:35 UTC

I always loved that about science. We teach you this. And now we teach you we lied! Hah!

That said, the arts do the same. Hrrrm.

Cute little smart!Shep. And yey, Ford!

Really nice piece :)

melannen April 7 2005, 01:32:37 UTC

thank you!

We need more Ford. Particularly with McKay. Because he's such a little geek in his own way, which involves having at least a bachelor's degree, but not having any patience with prime numbers, but still being standout smart enough to qualify for the SGC, and volunteering to go on a no-return mission babysitting a bunch of crazy eggheads.

But when I tried to put them together for too long, it got very scary. They need a Smart!Shep in the middle. (Take that as you will.)

davechicken April 7 2005, 01:34:27 UTC

Ford is woefully underdeveloped by canon, which irritates me, because they could do much more with him than they do.

So it's nice if he actually, you know, gets a PERSONALITY sometimes. *eyeroll*

Heh. Which is why I like yours. *pets him*

melannen April 7 2005, 01:46:07 UTC

Yes. Him and Teyla both. They're great characters, and they have chemistry with the others, if only they got to do something *interesting* once in a while.

While writing that reply I got a sudden urge to write up Ford's kobayashi maru-- er, I mean, final Stargate training exercise, that is, a la "Proving Ground". Come to think of it, from what we know of Athosian culture, Teyla probably had to go through a similar rite of passage... hmm.

davechicken April 7 2005, 08:29:36 UTC

Oooh, you could write both together as companion pieces.

Not that, you know, I'd love you for it and pok you with sticks til you wrote it, of course.

*shifty look*

*grin*

adelynne April 7 2005, 03:06:36 UTC

Odd, I like the way Ford's developed in canon. I wish he had more screentime, but overall, they're very subtle with him, and it makes me absolutely love the character.

I went back recently (prior to my motherboard crashing and thus locking me out of the hardrive that has all my episodes on it, grr...) and watched a great deal of the earlier part of the season, and they do excellent stuff with Ford that I didn't notice the first time around.

Plus there's always that lovely moment in Brotherhood where Kolya's men try to take him down.

melannen April 7 2005, 04:54:22 UTC

Well, you know, I do agree with you? Because I love a character that doesn't need the angsty backstory. And I like the way they've drawn him as is, and, yes, the subtlety of it. But he's supposed to be a main character, so when he doesn't get any stories that focus on him it makes me twitch and be afraid for him.

And I'm really not qualified for this anyway, because I'm trying to do Atlantis the old-fashioned way and only watch it off the air, so I haven't seen most of the early episodes since the mid-season break, so.

davechicken April 7 2005, 08:31:05 UTC

I like what he has but he doesn't have near enough. Teyla gets her episode. Even Beckett gets his episode. Ford? Nope.

burntcopper April 7 2005, 12:40:02 UTC

If you read the 'possible things to happen in Season 2' on Gateworld, it looks very much like we get lotsa Ford next season. :g: And they are interesting things.

davechicken April 7 2005, 12:44:03 UTC

*nods* I've heard some of it, but I've also heard he

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...is being downgraded from a main character....

And am not wanting to get too heavily spoiled either :D

adelynne April 7 2005, 12:47:13 UTC

It all really depends on how you define "lotsa." Definitely with the interesting, though.

I see Ford as the character who needs a bunch of small things to develop him before we see him grow. It's all fine and good that he's great and noble and a stand-up guy. It's wonderful to get peeks at his glee for explosives and just know that he really is like a little kid who likes to blow shit up. But I would like to see them take the character somewhere where he grows from that point.

From what I've read, I might get that... but I'm not sure the cost. I'm very antsy about the spoilers I've read for Atlantis. They've done such a wonderful job this year, I'm worried that it'll go to hell with new characters.

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