Mal

Common Ground is one of my favorite SGA episodes, thanks to the dynamics of two enemies working together and treating each other with honor despite mutual suspicion. I thought it was a rather beautiful story, and went a long way when it came to Sheppard’s character development.

When Todd came back into the story, I was a little startled at how the relationship between he and Sheppard was portrayed – particularly Sheppard’s behavior. Deep suspicion of Todd and his motives makes sense…but frankly I was shocked at the level of disrespect and outright verbal meanness Sheppard treated him with. I was also a little put off by the fact that it was obvious Sheppard and the rest of the SGA crew were holding him prisoner for an extended period of time without feeding him – to the point of him collapsing from weakness in Miller’s Crossing.

They made much in Common Ground of the fact that denying Todd the chance to feed constituted torture, and for Sheppard to be submitting the same honorable wraith to that same torture without hesitation or even a mention of it in the story bothered me. Call it inconsistent writing or call it fan denial on my part, but I think Sheppard is a better person than that. So here is my attempt at a missing scene set before Miller’s Crossing to fill out the story a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

Yep, I know, it’s a Firefly fanfic site.  But I’ve fallen for a little show called Stargate Atlantis, and it’s been nudging me to write fic.  This is a one-chapter story from John Sheppard’s point of view; when a disgraced pilot finally takes flight again, the clouds fall away.   Set before the beginning of the series.

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The world was a bright haze that John Sheppard didn’t look at too closely as he walked towards the helicopter. He knew he should be happy, but he felt nothing, seeing the whole scene as though watching a movie.

It’s a miracle, Shep. Never in a million years did I think they’d let you fly again. Read the rest of this entry »