The Captain Jack Harkness episode has some of Toshiko's family history - as in the family had been in the UK since before WWII. Does that help?
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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sumi - Feb 06, 2008 5:24:57 am PST #5164 of 10441
Art Crawl!!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 06, 2008 12:08:21 pm PST #5165 of 10441
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Resonant has a new SGA genderswitch story that I think is hilarious (a bit graphic for the prudish, though): Girlfriend
Consuela - Feb 06, 2008 5:35:16 pm PST #5166 of 10441
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I did one of those Unpopular Opinion memes and said I didn't love Written by the Victors. I'm fully expecting to be run out of fandom on a rail.
chrismg - Feb 06, 2008 5:46:29 pm PST #5167 of 10441
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Sumi, not much. On the one hand, it probably means she's enough generations down that her parents didn't have the urge to send her for schooling in the Old Country. On the other, she and her mother were speaking fluent, accentless Japanese in "End of Days," so they almost had to have spent some time immersed in it.
I don't know....I supposed I'm just intimidated by the idea of writing dialogue for Jack and Akio at the same time, to each other.
Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2008 6:19:59 pm PST #5168 of 10441
brillig
I'm fully expecting to be run out of fandom on a rail.
I thought it was quite good myself, but I think the story is too enamored of its style and lets us down plotwise. But I've been accused of having a too-plebian attachment to straightforward storytelling before now. But it is a good story.
askye - Feb 06, 2008 6:27:15 pm PST #5169 of 10441
Thrive to spite them
I liked the story quite a bit but I never understood why it got such an intense reaction.
Consuela - Feb 06, 2008 7:03:53 pm PST #5170 of 10441
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
John got to be King of Atlantis! He got to make babies and have as much sex with Rodney as he liked. From a fannish perspective, there's no wrong there.
Me, I felt the romance interfered with the political storyline, which itself was a bit too simplified. The SGA characters were valorized, their enemies demonized, and all the legitimate logistical complications of isolation from Earth were handwaved into nonexistence. Also, from a colonialism standpoint, it's Dances With Wolves with John in the Kevin Costner role. Pegasus is saved by King John, who never once considers that the cost of his rebellion may well be the lives of 6 billion people on Earth at the hands of the Ori.
I'm not saying they should have taken Atlantis to Earth, but the story doesn't even grant the question a legitimate hearing.
Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2008 7:58:34 pm PST #5171 of 10441
brillig
The Atlantis as kingdom part didn't bother me, it was the part with an Earth fleet on one side and a Wraith fleet on the other side, but instead of resolving the problem, they jumped to the "and this is how the stories talked about what happened" portion. It felt like "we don't know how to resolve this so we won't bother."
Nutty - Feb 06, 2008 7:58:56 pm PST #5172 of 10441
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
What she said. Only moreso.
Consuela - Feb 06, 2008 8:34:48 pm PST #5173 of 10441
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It felt like "we don't know how to resolve this so we won't bother."
Yeah, I can see how it felt that way. It didn't bother me as much, but it was inconsistent with the structure, which had already established a reliable 3rd person narrator in John's pov. If there was no Atlantis-based pov, that ending would have been more consistent.