SG-1/SGA Fanfic Commentary: The Pegasus Connection [Part 3/3]

[nomadicwriter]

The Giant Fanfic Commentary of Doom, concluded. Follows on from part 1 and part 2.

Comments

[danel4d]

This entire commentary is really, really awesome. I mean, it's made me want to read this fic again for, like, the fourth time. Are you working on any stories at the moment, by the way? I'm certainly looking forward to your next fic, whatever the fandom.

Oh, and regarding what you said about Teal'C and Star Wars - I agree completely that it deserves to more than a little gag or joke about the silly alien not understanding fiction, as some fics make it... your comments made me think of BK the Irregular's "The Scarab", where the Star Wars thing provides a nice character moment for Teal'c.

Anyways... I really enjoyed this, and I'm not usually a fan of commentaries.

[nomadicwriter]

Thanks! I do try to relate my commentaries back to canon as much as possible, because I tend to assume that's more interesting for other people than getting all navel-gazy about my own writing. (And it's useful for me, too, because it gets me thinking about all my character choices and how much canon support there is for them.) Plus I have a load of Stargate meta in my head from having basically caught up on the first eight years in one long marathon, so: any excuse to ramble, really

[ffutures]

"How much do you really remember?"

"More than I want to, but beer will solve that."

This is not a Homer Simpson quote, but it could be.

It's not? Dohhhh....

[katie_m]

Somebody should totally write the darkfic where the Tok'ra are just as evil as the Goa'uld, only more sneaky about it, and it's not really Jacob SG-1 have ever interacted with at all, only Selmac pretending to be him.

I've thought about this, but I find it so depressing that I can't imagine writing it. (I do think there's a black comedy buried in the concept somewhere, though, along the lines of entire radical groups being made up of FBI informants.)

[nomadicwriter]

Yeah, I fail at writing the unrelentingly angsty dark stuff because I just have to include a little light and optimism somewhere. I get the odd idea for post-apocalyptic stuff, but I know I'd be useless at it because I'd have everybody survive just so I could write all the reunion scenes. I'm just no good at being that brutal to the characters I love.

[katie_m]

I'd have everybody survive just so I could write all the reunion scenes

I personally would be okay with this, but then I'm a sucker for reunions.

[cofax7]

Awesome commentary, and of course someone above has already pointed out the bit I loved in it, your exigesis of Teal'c's Star Wars fixation. It's something I hadn't quite explicated so clearly, but I did at one point write a scene where Daniel is telling a bunch of Jaffa stories (Earth's been conquered and Daniel's enslaved, it's a whole thing), and one of the stories is the Star Wars story. Unfortunately the story itself went another direction and I ended up cutting the scene, but I loved the concept of subversion-via-pop-culture.

[nomadicwriter]

Well, the thing is that we think of the morality of Star Wars as very trite and obvious, but that's because it's built out of fairytales and clichés we've seen and heard over and over again since early childhood. And they still have power even for us, so what must it be like to encounter them all for the very first time? Imagine if you'd never read or heard a story where the plucky underdogs win, or the evil king gets overthrown instead of just ruling forever, or the protagonists have any choice at all in what they do instead of being pushed around by their gods.

...Wow, Jaffa storytelling must kind of suck. ("And then he slew some enemies for the glory of his god. And then he slew some more. Then he was rewarded with a wife and had a kid, who also slew enemies for the glory of his god. Then he died an honourable death in the service of his god. Who was still glorious.")

[_minxy_]

Oh, this was a great commentary! I might have to rec the *commentary* and not just the fic!