The Grass is Always Greener (the Known Temptation Remix) [Stargate: SG-1; Daniel Jackson, team]

[kool_momo_dee]

Title: The Grass is Always Greener (the Known Temptation Remix)
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Comments

[melayneseahawk]

Oh my. This is a fantastic spin on the original story. Thank you!

[beatrice_otter]

I'm glad you like it! My reaction, whenever I find out who I'm remixing (this is my third remix), is to go through their stories and freak because there's absolutely no way I can remix any of their stories for one reason or another--and then I'll get a really cool idea and it'll come out great despite my initial panic. (If you're wondering, in your case it was that all your stories are either slash or pre-slash, and I don't write slash. At all. But I found an angle that really intrigued me.)

[beatrice_otter]

By the way: one of the reasons it was so important to me to do a good job for you was that you were the remixer assigned to me last year, and I so enjoyed your remix. (I didn't know if you remembered that.)

[melayneseahawk]

Yes, I'd just realised that! Funny coincidence, yeah?

(Re: the remix I wrote for you last year, I was in a similar situation: I don't do much het, so panicked about that for a bit. And then when I picked the story I liked, I was worried the slash bent my brain added wouldn't be your style.)

[liz_marcs]

Oooo, nice one. It's a nice twist on the idea that the "our world" is better than someone else's. Sure, they've all got their little disappointments and frustrations, but at the end of the day, they're all better off.

Fantastic twist.

[beatrice_otter]

The grass is always greener on the other side of the road. No matter how good you've got it, you always think somebody else has it better.

And they don't all have it better. Sam is kind of ambiguous, to me--I'm not sure if she's marrying Pete and stepping down from an SG team because it's what she truly wants or if it's what she thinks she wants. Jonas, Cam, and Vala are all dead. The NID has more power/influence in this universe, which is dangerous to all of them. Teal'c's people are freer than in our universe, and his wife is still alive ... but at the cost of his son not really thinking/acting like a Jaffa anymore. There are always trade-offs. Over all the universe is a better place ... but that doesn't mean that it's better for everyone, or that it's not without its costs.

[poohmusings]

Ooh, nice. Very poignant to read all the different ways this particular AU has been "nicer" (for lack of a better word) to the various characters and yet not. At all. Great job.

[beatrice_otter]

In our universe, the main conflicts are huge ones with a cast of thousands, battles and ships and (relatively) clear lines drawn between good guys and bad guys. This AU, the battles are quieter and internal and not clearly drawn at all. In some ways, those ambiguities are harder to deal with and fight.

[paranoidangel42]

I do like how this starts of seeming like a perfect reality where everyone's happy and then you see that it's not all roses and for some of SG-1 it's much worse.

[beatrice_otter]

Thank you. I get suspicious of places that are described as perfect, because you know what "Utopia" literally means? Nowhere. It does not exist in the current world. There are always costs.