I should say that I don't watch SG-1, so I can't speak to that characterization, but I did experience this story as very realistic (far more realistic than I usually like my fanfic/entertainment to be, actually), and from that perspective I can understand and believe a good program losing good people, being overtaken by bad people, and fundamentally changing--I've seen it happen in real life. :-/
Right -- if you don't know just how determined and damned stubborn the flagship team of the SGC is, it's easy to see how that kind of thing could happen. But they've fought against changes like that in episodes of SG-1, so I kept wondering how they could fail this time (SG-1 has a long history of pulling brilliant solutions out of their asses in times of crisis). Any normal operation, I could buy it happening. But not the SGC, not while so much as one member of SG-1 is still working for them (and we find out that Sam is not only still working there, but has been promoted all the way through Colonel and up to General, in only five years).
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Date: 2006-03-15 04:53 pm (UTC)Right -- if you don't know just how determined and damned stubborn the flagship team of the SGC is, it's easy to see how that kind of thing could happen. But they've fought against changes like that in episodes of SG-1, so I kept wondering how they could fail this time (SG-1 has a long history of pulling brilliant solutions out of their asses in times of crisis). Any normal operation, I could buy it happening. But not the SGC, not while so much as one member of SG-1 is still working for them (and we find out that Sam is not only still working there, but has been promoted all the way through Colonel and up to General, in only five years).