Comments | redbyrd_sgfic: Last Man Standing (SGA, S4, Gen, G)

redbyrd_sgfic

Last Man Standing (SGA, S4, Gen, G)

Aug 01, 2012 23:28

One of the things that I most disliked about The Last Man is that so much of the episode focused on Sheppard, who was only following directions. All the drama, the pain, and the hard choices were made by the others, 48,000 years before.

( Lorne wasn't sure he was doing the right thing. But he helped McKay get back to Atlantis anyway. )

fic, lorne

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aelfgyfu_mead August 2 2012, 12:26:01 UTC

I'll rely on you to make the technical details so confusing no one else can follow it.
Not a problem! (If they had Sam, it could be a problem.)

I really like this! It's good to see Lorne later in life and that he has a good life. I hope it's as good in the new timeline.

(That episode drove me crazy in so many ways.)

Great to see you writing fic again!

redbyrd_sgfic August 3 2012, 01:43:07 UTC

My husband has been away a lot in the last few weeks, so I've been having a Stargate marathon. I have so many things I really want to finish!

aurora_novarum August 2 2012, 23:26:19 UTC

Awww, lovely. I don't recall SGA eps so quickly based on titles, but as soon as I started reading, I realized exactly where we were in canon and as always it's the little details that count. The paintings, the past commanders, the cover story.

Absolutely lovely.

redbyrd_sgfic August 3 2012, 01:40:52 UTC

Thank you! That was the image that really caught me in the episode...Lorne having to make the hardest choice of his career, much as Hammond did in 1969, and then wait for the universe to change around him in the knowledge that if it works, he will never know it happened.

beatrice_otter August 4 2012, 19:13:34 UTC

Very nice gap-filler. I like it!

redbyrd_sgfic August 9 2012, 21:20:33 UTC

Thank you!

loriel_eris August 9 2012, 20:43:57 UTC

Oh Lorne! *hugs you so hard* You're doing the right thing!

Time travel always makes me crazy. I still have many feelings about Moebius. And Continuum. And also ST Reboot. However, I don't often think about the 'minor' players, the ones we don't see. My heart always breaks for the wiped timeline though, especially once I've seen it real, like this. In the episode, I was less heartbroken, because there we only saw all the things that had gone wrong, that would be fixed by McKay. But when I get hit with things like Lorne's daughter? Oh my wee heart!

And I love that this is still all about the team. Yes, Rodney, Teyla, Ronon and John, but also about the Atlantis 'team' and how even 25 years later, Lorne still trusts Rodney, because he's team.

redbyrd_sgfic August 9 2012, 21:18:56 UTC

Yes, you get it exactly! No timeline can be all bad or all good. And there's no way to know what will or will not change. And totally, Lorne trusts Rodney. Because when someone comes to you and says, 'hey, let's wipe out the last two and half decades and have a do-over....' how could he even consider it if he didn't trust Rodney, and if the sense of responsibility to all the lost Atlantean team members wasn't still ungodly strong, even after all this time? That's for me why Lorne's scene is actually the pivotal one in this episode for me. Rodney spends 25 years obsessed, of course he wants to do it. The one who has to really make a hard choice...that's Lorne.

immertreu August 23 2014, 23:14:43 UTC

Thank you for this! I always love to look at the minor characters or the seemingly small things that have a huge impact on the story. Poor Lorne, he had to make the really hard choice. His daughter...

I always have troubles with timetravel stories. I'm still not sure what to think of Moebius, for example. And Continuum just killed me because the new timeline was so awful. But it also hurts to realize the alternate timelines will probably cease to exist.

Now I want to have a Stargate marathon.