Okay, I have to ask, what is it that SG1 did that put you off, because I read their visits as, just that. Them attempting to get back a supremely qualified guy and the fact that they didn't try any harder said something. The Rodney that was painted there probably wouldn't have taken an offer of "Can we help, no strings attached, we feel bad" even if I thought the SGC in the fic really understood the depth of the wounds Rodney carried around.
The Bad Thing that happened wasn't anything they could or couldn't have prevented but a theoretical natural course of events on Atlantis. At least, that's how I read it. Though I am with you on the lack of background itself. The place that Rodney ends up needed more grounding. I can see him getting there, and while I'm a huge proponant of subtle, this fic needed a few more seedlings to plany in my brain about the intervening years between our end knowledge of canon and where this fic starts.
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Date: 2006-03-14 02:48 pm (UTC)The Bad Thing that happened wasn't anything they could or couldn't have prevented but a theoretical natural course of events on Atlantis. At least, that's how I read it. Though I am with you on the lack of background itself. The place that Rodney ends up needed more grounding. I can see him getting there, and while I'm a huge proponant of subtle, this fic needed a few more seedlings to plany in my brain about the intervening years between our end knowledge of canon and where this fic starts.