Daniel's funny. I never meant him to show up at all, yet he just wandered in and made a huge space for himself. I'm glad he worked for you.
I wish I could claim quite that much credit for intent with the catchphrase. My original intent was to leave the reader thinking it could all be purely fantasy, but once I had decided what really happened, I knew I had to include certain future content that was incontrovertible, which muddled things. The post-2002 SG1 references can't really be fudged. The catchphrase is Rodney's assertion that he doesn't truly buy the story they're selling, but it only has meaning if he's acquired that meaning by some kind of future-knowledge from the device, so ... does that count for three-quarters credit, maybe? :>
Sorry for all the meta! (But thanks for the excuse.) Poor guy; I hadn't planned to continue this myself, but 15k in notes about what would come next has me reconsidering. Anyway, thank you so much for the feedback!
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Daniel's funny. I never meant him to show up at all, yet he just wandered in and made a huge space for himself. I'm glad he worked for you.
I wish I could claim quite that much credit for intent with the catchphrase. My original intent was to leave the reader thinking it could all be purely fantasy, but once I had decided what really happened, I knew I had to include certain future content that was incontrovertible, which muddled things. The post-2002 SG1 references can't really be fudged. The catchphrase is Rodney's assertion that he doesn't truly buy the story they're selling, but it only has meaning if he's acquired that meaning by some kind of future-knowledge from the device, so ... does that count for three-quarters credit, maybe? :>
Sorry for all the meta! (But thanks for the excuse.) Poor guy; I hadn't planned to continue this myself, but 15k in notes about what would come next has me reconsidering. Anyway, thank you so much for the feedback!