a meme for curing boredom

[frith_in_thorns]

As 'borrowed' from penknife , leesa_perrie  and friendshipper 

Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. 

Or more than one.  I'm not fussy.

Question can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

If it's a fandom-specific question, you can ask me about anything I'm familiar with ... SGA being my main current fandom, but also Sanctuary, NCIS, SG1, SGU, nBSG, any CSI, Firefly, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Discworld, and anything else you know I'm into that I've forgotten to put on this list.

Comments

[x-varda-x.livejournal.com]

I'd do this, but all the 'meme' things I post get ignored :(:( Might as well try though I suppose :P

Anyway,a question, and a part: What are you working on now ficwise? And because you know how much I love it... any Rodney!whump on the horizon?

[frith_in_thorns]

I'm mostly working on short fics at the moment, as longer ones tend to get orphaned. Some Rodney whump, yes, for the hc challenge post at the moment, which is nearly finished. I've also got a few on the go - there's a Rodney and Radek friendship one, one with Rodney and clone-Carson that I've been working on for a couple of months, and one which has Rodney and John... I think this one's funny, but humour's subjective ;) And there is a whole folder of half-complete ones. I get new ideas and drop something I'm working on, which is bad.

I'm also intermittently working on two chaper-fics... one's called 'Webs' and one's called 'Full Fathom Five', neither of which are particularly subtle titles, so you may be able to work out some of the stories from them.

And yes, plenty of Rodney whump! But also other characters, because I'm worried that I'll get into a corner of only being able to write Rodney while he's being whumped, so I'm trying to avoid that.

[sholio]

oooo ... how about a provocative one? *g* How do you feel about SGU?

[frith_in_thorns]

Well, I already know that you don't like it much ;)

Personally, though, I do. In general it's an interesting story, if I just ignore the bits with Young and his wife. The morals are presented as more ambiguous than in previous Stargates, and, well, it's Robert Carlyle! I mean, the writing still isn't that great, and, while they're certainly not doing the Atlantis scene of giving no backstory at all for their leads, the balance probably tips a bit far in the opposite direction.

But then, I'm actually liking it more than I did with SG1 at this point, and about level with how I felt about SGA. So I'm thinking that it'll probably pick up the pace in the second half of the season - it seems to have just before the midseason break.

And the visuals, especially the CGI, are stunning. I'd almost watch it just for that! Also for Carlyle, and although the writers are still stumbling a bit with general romance, it's much better than previously, particluarly with Camile and Sharon, which came as a surprise to me (I'm jaded). So, to use examples of other things I currently watch, I'd rate it below Sanctuary and NCIS, but above House and CSI Miami...

[sholio]

*g* Well, obviously I'm not gonna kick someone out of my journal just for liking a show I don't particularly! And it's interesting to me to know what it is about the show that appeals to people - any show I don't like, really. Because sometimes I'm overlooking things.

I do agree that the CGI is very pretty, and Camile/Sharon is kinda awesome; I wonder if anyone is writing it? And it's tough to go wrong with Robert Carlyle. :)

[frith_in_thorns]

I haven't seen anyone writing them, but then I haven't looked very hard.

Did you stop watching SGU in the end?

[sholio]

I went ahead and watched all 10 episodes so far. I'm not sure if I'm going to resume -- it was getting more and more to just not be my cup of tea. But my husband was watching it with me, so it'll probably depend on if he wants to pick it back up again or not.

[leesa_perrie]

So, Chuck, the Canadian gate tech who finally got a first name at the end of S3, what are your thoughts on him? Backstory? Activities he might be involved in (like the betting we see in Midway)? Has he ever gone offworld? Etc, etc.

[frith_in_thorns]

Ooh, I like this question! *g* I like Chuck, but I hadn't much considered his story etc previously, so don't hold me to anything I say now ;)

Basically, I see him as being one of those people who end up knowing *everything* - after all, he's there to see teams come home hurt, covered in mud, wearing strange native costumes... so he probably has a large stack of gossip up his sleeve. That said, he's probably good at *not* spreading it around, which would be why he was the 'banker' in Midway - every work environment ends up having official or unofficial bets/pools, and he probably arbitrates most of them.

He doesn't go on missions, but at some point Rodney, in a fit of business, will have insisted that everyone goes offworld at least once, so Chuck went to the Alpha site. He was a bit disappointed to find it wasn't as alien as he'd expected - in fact, it just reminded him of British Colombia.

[leesa_perrie]

LOL! I like your ideas, especially him not being impressed by the Alpha site's lack of alien-ness!! *bg* And I could just see Rodney insisting everyone goes offworld at least once!

[frith_in_thorns]

I think he'd be pretty keen on making sure all the scientists fully realised that they aren't just dealing with theoretical problems; things can be a matter of life or death.

And then he'd go on and on about that until someone found a piece of shiny new tech to distract him...

[leesa_perrie]

LOL!!!

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I'm terrible at coming up with good questions, so I'm going to start with this one to all the folks I know doing this prompt: For SGA, what one element of (canon) characterization for any one character do you think is woefully unexplored in fanfic? You can read that as meaning everyone except you, everyone including you, or just your own fics alone. Feel free to elaborate on what you think about it.

[frith_in_thorns]

Hmm... I've been thinking about this question for most of the day now! The problem is, I think, that most of the characters tend to get pidgeon-holed into just one of their characteristics, in fic in general, and in my fic too. Ronon especially tends to beat up people and not do much else, even though Sateda seemed to be quite an advanced society.

One of the things about fandom seems to be that there are a couple of traits for each character which get jumped on to the exclusion of anything else, although in some cases the writers only focus on that one trait! Ie every Amelia fic I've seen has her kickboxing, there are loads and loads of Lorne-the-artist etc.

So because I've basically given a non-answer so far: I'll say the fact that Elizabeth doesn't seem to accept the harsh realities of Pegasus for a very long time, long after all the other characters and the audience. I'd like to see her being forced to face that reality, or explaining why she doesn't want to admit it, or something.

Probably not a good answer, but the best I could come up with! Feel free to ask more questions! *g*