Wait, what? That's it?! Really? Do you want people to beg? Because I will, I'll beg.
Seriously, this did seem more like the beginning of a saga than a complete story to me, with Rodney getting ready to conquer the world. It reminded me a little of Synecdochic's 'Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Loose' http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedoms_just_another_word.html in that respect. I love the idea of Rodney building his own empire and reassembling the Atlantis crew himself (how about a private sponsored civilian expedition to Atlantis?).
Props for the Sam and Daniel characterisation too - they were themselves and you managed to capture their character flaws (a certain amount of arrogance on both their parts, with Sam being a little self-righteous and Daniel getting it while not getting it) without trying to make them into bad guys. This works especially well given Rodney's very reasonable criticism of their procedure for handling alien artifacts and his very telling criticism of the real reason Sam was so pissed off about the deadline.
Love your use of the line 'The Cake is a Lie' because to me that's [i]exactly[/i] the sort of geek trivia Rodney would be aware of. I don't really agree with fics that show him playing Quake/Halo/Half-Life and I wonder about him watching Doctor Who (I have to think that the 'science' they use on DW would drive him nuts), but 'Portal' is a game I can really see Rodney playing and enjoying - it's little details like that that help build a believable portrayal of a character.
My personal theory is that this world is real and the Rodney of this wrorld has been exposed to the memories of a him from an alternate reality, but I look forward to maybe finding out what your explanation is.
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Seriously, this did seem more like the beginning of a saga than a complete story to me, with Rodney getting ready to conquer the world. It reminded me a little of Synecdochic's 'Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Loose' http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedoms_just_another_word.html in that respect. I love the idea of Rodney building his own empire and reassembling the Atlantis crew himself (how about a private sponsored civilian expedition to Atlantis?).
Props for the Sam and Daniel characterisation too - they were themselves and you managed to capture their character flaws (a certain amount of arrogance on both their parts, with Sam being a little self-righteous and Daniel getting it while not getting it) without trying to make them into bad guys. This works especially well given Rodney's very reasonable criticism of their procedure for handling alien artifacts and his very telling criticism of the real reason Sam was so pissed off about the deadline.
Love your use of the line 'The Cake is a Lie' because to me that's [i]exactly[/i] the sort of geek trivia Rodney would be aware of. I don't really agree with fics that show him playing Quake/Halo/Half-Life and I wonder about him watching Doctor Who (I have to think that the 'science' they use on DW would drive him nuts), but 'Portal' is a game I can really see Rodney playing and enjoying - it's little details like that that help build a believable portrayal of a character.
My personal theory is that this world is real and the Rodney of this wrorld has been exposed to the memories of a him from an alternate reality, but I look forward to maybe finding out what your explanation is.