Okay, so I read an ep summary for "Subversion", and I am taking a moment to ask, "showrunners, why the torture episode again? That made a lot of people reconsider whether they really needed their SGA fix. Do you people not learn from your mistakes?"
Which gets back to my fundamental SGU stumbling-block, it's coming with lots of SG-verse baggage. If one filed off the serial numbers, I might enjoy it rather more.
...so Amazon's streaming service has the entire series for $8 ($4/season). Talk about temptation!
I feel like when a fic is marked slash (or het, for that matter), the expectation is that it will be ALL romance/sex, ALL the time, and that the characters will have no interests other than the romance bit.
Yes, there's genre expectations when there's a slash label on the box. FOD fit some but not all of those expectations: m/m relationship, check; significant to story, check; deep emotional bond, hi mental link; erotica no check. I want to say the relationship dynamics are almost old-school zine slash? Filtered through second-hand accounts and in FOD's case wedged into a heck of a lot more plot.
Tangentially, at one point people were suggesting "bob" as a tag for "(slash or het or other) relationship present but not the focus of this story". I don't know if it caught on outside cofax et al's circle, but I think it fills a niche.
I kind of adore the AI. What can I say, I am a sucker for the romance of technology, or something? But yes, Young's attitude towards it was rather, um, speciesist? organicist?
I'll go with speciesist. (I sort of want to see what happens if Young ever meets the Tok'ra, other than reflexive angry o_O face.) But the AI! It's trying so hard, and it is so very screwed from the minute Young decided it was a threat. So between Young treating it like the red-haired stepchild, and Rush's probably erratic guidance, it's a miracle it's not even more messed up. You probably have more background to assess the comp sci behind the scenes, but what I saw was plausible enough to suspend my disbelief. And make me want to give the AI hugs and chocolate. (Or whatever AIs get. Awesome math proofs?)
Young's attitude is actually in keeping with the SG-verse relationship with non-organic intelligence - wait, CWR managed to write 350k+ with an intelligent spaceship without invoking the replicator arc(s)? Okay, short version, spider-shaped Lego nanotech with a grudge from that time SG-1 lied and locked it/them in a time-dilation bubble - as well as his own tendency to let his emotions do the first evaluation. One of the good things about the fic is how organi- uh, intrinsic the Young-AI conflict feels, even when I want Young to ask more questions instead of flouncing out of the room/interface/interaction.
. I certainly did get the impression he was... optimistic... from that episode.
If you want SG1/SGA spoilers, I can cite multiple episodes where McKay failed to demonstrate the level of disaster sensitivity he has in "Sabotage". Seriously.
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Re: Force Over Distance
Date: 2012-08-07 03:02 am (UTC)Which gets back to my fundamental SGU stumbling-block, it's coming with lots of SG-verse baggage. If one filed off the serial numbers, I might enjoy it rather more.
...so Amazon's streaming service has the entire series for $8 ($4/season). Talk about temptation!
I feel like when a fic is marked slash (or het, for that matter), the expectation is that it will be ALL romance/sex, ALL the time, and that the characters will have no interests other than the romance bit.
Yes, there's genre expectations when there's a slash label on the box. FOD fit some but not all of those expectations: m/m relationship, check; significant to story, check; deep emotional bond, hi mental link; erotica no check. I want to say the relationship dynamics are almost old-school zine slash? Filtered through second-hand accounts and in FOD's case wedged into a heck of a lot more plot.
Tangentially, at one point people were suggesting "bob" as a tag for "(slash or het or other) relationship present but not the focus of this story". I don't know if it caught on outside cofax et al's circle, but I think it fills a niche.
I kind of adore the AI. What can I say, I am a sucker for the romance of technology, or something? But yes, Young's attitude towards it was rather, um, speciesist? organicist?
I'll go with speciesist. (I sort of want to see what happens if Young ever meets the Tok'ra, other than reflexive angry o_O face.) But the AI! It's trying so hard, and it is so very screwed from the minute Young decided it was a threat. So between Young treating it like the red-haired stepchild, and Rush's probably erratic guidance, it's a miracle it's not even more messed up. You probably have more background to assess the comp sci behind the scenes, but what I saw was plausible enough to suspend my disbelief. And make me want to give the AI hugs and chocolate. (Or whatever AIs get. Awesome math proofs?)
Young's attitude is actually in keeping with the SG-verse relationship with non-organic intelligence - wait, CWR managed to write 350k+ with an intelligent spaceship without invoking the replicator arc(s)? Okay, short version, spider-shaped Lego nanotech with a grudge from that time SG-1 lied and locked it/them in a time-dilation bubble - as well as his own tendency to let his emotions do the first evaluation. One of the good things about the fic is how organi- uh, intrinsic the Young-AI conflict feels, even when I want Young to ask more questions instead of flouncing out of the room/interface/interaction.
. I certainly did get the impression he was... optimistic... from that episode.
If you want SG1/SGA spoilers, I can cite multiple episodes where McKay failed to demonstrate the level of disaster sensitivity he has in "Sabotage". Seriously.