Comments | sga_genficathon: Friendship, Week 2: Syzygy (2/2)

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Friendship, Week 2: Syzygy (2/2)

Apr 06, 2008 20:59

Title: Syzygy
Author: naye
Prompt: Weather or elements
Rating: PG
Word Count: 15,000
Warnings/Spoilers: Set in early season three, after Misbegotten
Summary: Rodney, Ronon, and a day that begins with a land tsunami, and goes downhill from there.

( Syzygy, part two )

ronon dex, prompt:weather, rodney mckay, genre:friendship

Comments 55

trystings April 7 2008, 19:21:04 UTC

Excellent! Wow. Great read. I love the description of the planet and the Haven, very ingenious.

naye April 23 2008, 11:42:22 UTC

Excellent? Oh, thank you so much! I'm so happy you liked Haven - I'd love to see the show explore more places like it, and it's cool to see that I'm not the only one fond of the idea.

leesa_perrie April 7 2008, 19:27:53 UTC

This was great - I love Rodney and Ronon fic - especially when there's whumpage involved! I loved the idea of Haven, and the trial that Rodney had to do. And then he solves the problem with the gate, nice!

Lovely ending too, with the team reunited.

naye April 23 2008, 11:44:40 UTC

Rodney and Ronon are just fun together. They're so different, but they really do complement each other in many ways. Thank you for your feedback - it makes me really happy to know you liked this!

rinsbane April 8 2008, 01:22:31 UTC

This is lovely. It's got Rodney in so many of his best modes, and the idea of Haven is wonderful.

naye April 23 2008, 11:45:30 UTC

Rodney's got so many good modes; it's difficult to pick which ones I prefer! But I had a lot of fun with this, and I'm really glad you liked it. ♥

jennytork April 8 2008, 01:25:22 UTC

I ADORED this!!!!

naye April 23 2008, 11:45:48 UTC

Yay! Thank you!

sholio April 8 2008, 03:31:15 UTC

AWWWWWW~!

That was just wonderful. You totally nailed Rodney's voice, his "oh god, going to die now, oooh look a shiny thing! woops, back to violent death and dismemberment" way of relating to the world. Too many good lines to quote, starting with Rodney's "oh, a land tsunami, how fascinating except for the DEATH" rant at the beginning. And oh, I loved Ronon's deadpan Ronon-ness, and his protectiveness of Rodney (and vice versa), and his faith in Rodney even though Rodney can't really figure out why. The blood brother thing, and Ronon catching him when he falls, and poor Sheppard and Teyla not knowing what happened to them -- more AWWWW! I also loved how the bad guys aren't really bad guys, just decent people trying to survive, and the idea of Havens is really neat, as is the thing with the extra-high tides because of the moons.

I can't help cracking up imagining the look on Elizabeth's face when Sheppard and Teyla got washed through the gate in a wave of seawater, though. XD

naye April 23 2008, 12:07:23 UTC

Heee~! I am so, so happy that you liked this! ♥

The people of the Haven not being bad guys - yeah, that came from a long conversation I had with xparrot about the moral problems of h/c. If you go with a human adversary, someone who inflicts the hurt - that gets complicated, and risks going really dark. Which wasn't my intention in this piece. So I'm very pleased that worked for you! And that you liked the Haven, which I had lots of fun imagining. (I want the show to deliver more interesting places, but as long as the writers are sticking to the pseudo-medieval villages, at least we can have a little fun with the universe in our fic!)

I can't help cracking up imagining the look on Elizabeth's face when Sheppard and Teyla got washed through the gate in a wave of seawater, though. XD

I'd have loved to have the POV switch over there just for that scene...! And then John refuses to move the jumper he's got ready to go just outside the gate, and once the connection opens back up everyone's running for cover, expecting another wave. *g*

sholio April 23 2008, 20:13:37 UTC

The people of the Haven not being bad guys - yeah, that came from a long conversation I had with xparrot about the moral problems of h/c. If you go with a human adversary, someone who inflicts the hurt - that gets complicated, and risks going really dark.

Somehow it shouldn't surprise me to discover some brain-sharing along those lines. *g*

This is something I've been thinking about for awhile, and especially in Stargate fandom, where it's awfully common for writers to introduce random superstitious spear-throwing natives as plot devices. (Which, uh. I actually did in "Candle in the Dark", literally. And felt really guilty about it!) Anyway, I haven't really been able to figure out how to frame such a discussion without singling out individual writers' work, which I don't want to do, but it is something I wish the fandom would be a little more aware of. Not that it's necessary for every story to be a nuanced picture of international relations -- I realize that sometimes you're just going to want baddies to beat the crap out of the ( ... )

naye April 23 2008, 20:35:30 UTC

It's a fascinating discussion! And not just for Stargate - actually, the Gateverse issues with "natives" might even be a slightly different discussion from the moral implications of h/c... Of course, they're really closely linked.

And I think you can discuss it without naming specific stories, because there are general trends in fandom - but I can see why you wouldn't want anyone to feel it was a discussion targeted at them. But since we're here, in my fic, I'm just going to ramble on. *g*

So, the two issues, as I see it - first, the moral. It doesn't matter if you're writing Gateverse or a generic cop show or what. As soon as you introduce a human bad guy who does the actual hurting, you have a situation that needs to be resolved. Obviously, the good guys need to be rescued, but the bad guy also needs to be punished. It's possible to have an escape, and then the bad guy(s) get away scot free, but - it's not really satisfying, is it? Dramatically, you can make a simple rescue work, but there's also an underlying need for justice/ ( ... )

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