Thank you! -- And thank you so much for the detailed feedback! I hope you don't mind that I'm in a chatty mood about this one .... :>
Hee -- I wasn't looking for begging, no. I really thought this was all the story I had to tell here. I don't post WIPs; I'm too much of a perfectionist. It wasn't until this was "published" that I started seriously thinking about what comes next. My notes have reached 21k words (!), so if I do manage to do something with that, it will in fact be epic, I think. It's going a direction I didn't expect; I do wonder what other folk would do with it.
To remind someone, even in the most minor fashion, of "Freedom"? ::gobsmacked:: Seriously, wow.
I was super nervous about the SG1 folk, so I'm really glad they worked for you. Characters who mean well and listen and apply logic and yet are still "wrong" fascinate me, because I usually don't see how that can happen; they are a definite challenge.
The phrase -- oh, I'm glad you think it suits him. I figure ... he says he has no time for video games because, hello, busy saving the galaxy here, and why would he spend his precious few minutes a week on the big gruesome games when he gets that in his real life just by following Sheppard through the gate? But, okay, he pays attention to the internet trends when he gets the chance to sample Earthside culture, so he's awaare of what the phrase is about, and it's possible that he might have played "Portal" at some point ... what? The portals are a not-entirely-disastrous analogue to the stargates, and he can respect a battle of wit and skill against an unpredictable computer -- sure, that's his every day, too, but he's good at that part! As for Doctor Who, I think he publicly decries the way it can't even get the easy sciences even a little right, but it's possible that the show is an oh-so-secret guilty pleasure for him because, well, Martha and Donna and Sarah Jane are hot, and the genius is the hero, and it's just so cheerily, cheesily geeky. Heh.
I like seeing the various theories of what happened. I decided while writing -- I figure the author should always know what happened, because it can change what happens in the story -- but the explanation didn't fit. I may have worked out a way to explain it in-story, in the maybe-sequel.
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Hee -- I wasn't looking for begging, no. I really thought this was all the story I had to tell here. I don't post WIPs; I'm too much of a perfectionist. It wasn't until this was "published" that I started seriously thinking about what comes next. My notes have reached 21k words (!), so if I do manage to do something with that, it will in fact be epic, I think. It's going a direction I didn't expect; I do wonder what other folk would do with it.
To remind someone, even in the most minor fashion, of "Freedom"? ::gobsmacked:: Seriously, wow.
I was super nervous about the SG1 folk, so I'm really glad they worked for you. Characters who mean well and listen and apply logic and yet are still "wrong" fascinate me, because I usually don't see how that can happen; they are a definite challenge.
The phrase -- oh, I'm glad you think it suits him. I figure ... he says he has no time for video games because, hello, busy saving the galaxy here, and why would he spend his precious few minutes a week on the big gruesome games when he gets that in his real life just by following Sheppard through the gate? But, okay, he pays attention to the internet trends when he gets the chance to sample Earthside culture, so he's awaare of what the phrase is about, and it's possible that he might have played "Portal" at some point ... what? The portals are a not-entirely-disastrous analogue to the stargates, and he can respect a battle of wit and skill against an unpredictable computer -- sure, that's his every day, too, but he's good at that part! As for Doctor Who, I think he publicly decries the way it can't even get the easy sciences even a little right, but it's possible that the show is an oh-so-secret guilty pleasure for him because, well, Martha and Donna and Sarah Jane are hot, and the genius is the hero, and it's just so cheerily, cheesily geeky. Heh.
I like seeing the various theories of what happened. I decided while writing -- I figure the author should always know what happened, because it can change what happens in the story -- but the explanation didn't fit. I may have worked out a way to explain it in-story, in the maybe-sequel.