Title: Stop the Presses (the Freedom of the Press remix)
Author:
redbyrd_sgficFandom: SGA/SG-1 Crossover
Pairing: None
Rating: PG-13
Original story:
Stop the Presses by
cofax7Summary: When LA reporter Colin Jameson decided to check out a tip from a whistle-blower who claimed to have traveled to another planet, he got in a little over his head. SG-1/Atlantis
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I had forgotten I even wrote this story, but this is excellent, the way you tied in all the other stupid cover stories, and the wacky business with Baal's Earth holdings, and all that stuff.
The only thing I'm having trouble with is identifying the red-headed SGC guy--who is that?
So fun! Thank you!
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Now I have to go read your original fic. Cool!
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So she talks to Dixon. It's not like she could possibly visit Colorado without seeing the SG-13 guys anyway- she has a gift for little Janet Wells, who's getting so big, and Mary Dixon would invite her to dinner every night if Cassie let her- the (now six) Dixon kids (there was an unexpected set of twins after Heroes), all think she's kind of an honorary big sister, and Balinsky and Bosworth will want to hear about her current boyfriend- because, dammit, they know *exactly* what young men think about...
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(But was I supposed to recognise the red-headed SGC guy? I'm not as good with minor characters as I used to be...)
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Very nicely done and a great read!
Thanks!
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It turned out super excellent! Very clever. Now I'll have to go read cofax7's original. :-)
Meeting up with Cassie was my favorite part. I really enjoyed Colin as a sympathetic character, even though he was the enemy to our heroes.
I've almost convinced myself red headed guy was Balinsky, but I'm not sure how well he could pull off undercover bible salesman. It would however be a cool symmatry that the veterans of old SG-13 are watching out for Janet's reputation and very much something you would do. :-)
Look forward to rereading it when I'm conscious. :-)
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Well, think about it from their POV- the SGC *has* covered up lots of deaths, the government lied about losing an aircraft carrier, Colson really has disappeared. That's pretty damned creepy, actually. And even though we naturally see it from the SGC side- any argument you can make in favor of what the SGC and the IOC are doing smacks strongly of 'the end justifies the means'. I'd think that a lot of people would have trouble with that. Remember, Colson wasn't convinced even after he found out about the Goa'uld that they were justified in keeping it a secret.
My favorite kind of dilemma, there's no clearly right or wrong answers- the characters just have to muddle through, trying to do the right thing. *g*
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