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.

That was a big problem for me with the story. As well as the fact that everyone on Atlantis except Weir was so enamored of John and his "mineMineMINE!" attitude toward the city that they were not only hunky dory with making a permanent break with earth but never had arguments or even voiced reservations about all the decisions John was making for them afterwards. Only outsiders from Earth were allowed to have dissenting opinions in any substantial way, and of course they were wrong and mean.

Also, once you've melted your colonel's bars down and cast them into a sculpture of an earthward-pointing middle finger, keeping your relationship with your boyfriend on the downlow seems kinda pointless to me.

Usually I really like Speranza's SGA fiction, and I've really liked more recent ones of hers. But I did not drink the Kool-aid for Victors.

I did enjoy seeing the outsiders' perspectives on the new Atlantis, and the idea of the legends of Atlantis becoming unreadable to an Earth reader's perspective was clever. I'm too much a plot whore, though, to be content with third-hand, legendary retellings, I like to be down in the trenches of "whath appens next?"

I don't think this approach has been done before, so that might explain some of the great reception the story has had. I'm surprised there haven't been copycats.

I don't think this approach has been done before,

Actually, I used a very similar structure on a story I posted last summer; of course, it was gen, for a remix challenge, and received nothing near that kind of rapturous reception. ::wry grin::

Oh, I really enjoyed Written By The Victors enormously. But that's true of a hell of a lot of fanfic, and I don't mind other people NOT loving it in the slightest, and I can certainly see the point about thinking "...hang on, what?" about the ending. (Actually, I'd assumed that was just me failing to understand the story, despite having read it once and heard it several times [it's a very good podfic]. Relieved to hear that it ISN'T just me being blonde after all. Good good.) You make excellent points about the flaws in the POV, though.

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I've discovered what I don't like about fanfic.

I get hooked on a story and then the silly author won't quit her job and ignore her family to keep the chapters coming at a pace quick enough for me.

Silly good authors.

My sympathies, Aims (and the reason I keep a strict policy of only reading finished stories)

I get hooked on a story and then the silly author won't quit her job and ignore her family to keep the chapters coming at a pace quick enough for me.

Darn the man. Donations are accepted at my profile addy. If my state had a lottery, I'd be playing that, just in case.

I am ruined. Ruined, I tell you.

I can not read anymore Harry/Ginny.

It's just wrong.

Harry belongs to Draco and it shall always be thus.

And from the canon side of HP fandom, may I just say, "ew"?

That's another thing to love about fic--whatever your poison, or pleasure, you're almost certain to find it.

Awww come on. My OTP is Harry/Squid.

Or not...but hey, it is probably someone's OTP.