Oh, there's plot here, all right! I'm totally loving Skip and Spence -- they'll be fabulous eyes on the inside. Reynolds! And JD might even convince Sam to move back to the SGC.
I'm hoping to see a little hanging out with Uncle Al. And a houseful of kids over the summer. Heh!
Family swaps kids around for the summers, once school's out; the running joke is that everyone's looking for a set they like better than the one they have, while the reality is that everybody in the family knows that it's better if children have ties spread wide, in case anything (God forbid) should happen.
Skipper and Spence are fabulous. (I stole them from ivorygates.) And can't you just imagine Reynolds staring at young Captain Mitchell (takes anyone who's not Family a few weeks to work out which one's which; Skipper and Spence are very hurt by this, because they both insist that the other one's the ugly one) and thinking: where the hell did this kid run into Jack O'Neill? And why didn't Jack just call me?
No houseful of kids this summer, for reasons that will become apparent in the next installment, but five, ten years down the line, well, the problem children -- the ones that woulda been arrested if the cop answering the call hadn't eaten at the Mitchell table often enough to know that turning the kid back over to Momma with a description of what they were up to will be punishment enough -- get sent down to Uncle Cam and Uncle JD for the summer. And the problem Gets Fixed. Fast.
(And yeah. So many of the realities behind life-as-a-Mitchell hurt.)
And thank you, babe. I am glad you're enjoying this. :)
Oh, man, thank you. I try to tread so carefully, because I know that it isn't my culture, and that it is a culture all of itself, and the last thing I want is to give offense. I'm glad that it rings true, even if it aches sometimes. I love the Mitchells to bits and pieces and beyond, and man, I'd move in with them in a heartbeat.
I'm hoping to see a little hanging out with Uncle Al. And a houseful of kids over the summer. Heh!
Family swaps kids around for the summers, once school's out; the running joke is that everyone's looking for a set they like better than the one they have, while the reality is that everybody in the family knows that it's better if children have ties spread wide, in case anything (God forbid) should happen.
Oh, man. That one hit totally home.
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No houseful of kids this summer, for reasons that will become apparent in the next installment, but five, ten years down the line, well, the problem children -- the ones that woulda been arrested if the cop answering the call hadn't eaten at the Mitchell table often enough to know that turning the kid back over to Momma with a description of what they were up to will be punishment enough -- get sent down to Uncle Cam and Uncle JD for the summer. And the problem Gets Fixed. Fast.
(And yeah. So many of the realities behind life-as-a-Mitchell hurt.)
And thank you, babe. I am glad you're enjoying this. :)
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*weeps*
*waits impatiently for justification*
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(mwah ha ha ha haaaa)
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