Do You Even Watch the Show? (PG)

[skidmo_fic]

Title: Do You Even Watch the Show?
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Spoilers: Progeny (plus spoilers for SG-1 episodes: Lifeboat and Unnatural Selection)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me...sadly
Feedback: yes, please.
Summary: Chuck wishes Sheppard would read SG-1's mission reports.
Author’s Notes: written for the gatecreation episodes challenge. Title comes from a line in Galaxy Quest.




Chuck read the mission reports from the mission to the Replicator city and shook his head. He was familiar with Sheppard’s team and their incomprehensible disregard for lessons taught by previous missions, but he had really expected more of Dr. Weir, though to be fair it wasn’t really her fault.

Chuck had spent his last few days at the SGC before initially shipping out to Atlantis reading whatever mission reports he could get his hands on. He gravitated towards SG-1's reports as those generally proved to be the most interesting. He’d figured if he was going to go through that wormhole to another galaxy, he ought to have some idea of the sort of things he’d be likely to encounter on the other side. Granted, life-sucking aliens with a penchant for over the top gothic fashion statements weren’t in any of the reports he’d read, but there was a lot to be learned from the mistakes of others.

For instance, if Colonel (then Major) Sheppard had read about SG-1's experience on The Stromos, he would never have sent Gaul and Abrams to explore an abandoned Wraith Hive ship on their own. Or if they had read about any of Jack O’Neill’s encounters with alien women, both the colonel and McKay would have known better than to have trusted any of the myriad beautiful women they’d met on other planets.

But now especially, he wondered if he needed to talk to Dr. Weir about making SG-1's mission reports required reading for all off-world teams. Because Sheppard’s jettisoning Niam into deep space reminded him a little too much of SG-1 abandoning Fifth on Halla.

He just knew it was going to come back and bite them in the ass, and he really hoped he wouldn’t be there to pick up the pieces afterwards.

fin

Comments

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

Err, nice, but I feel I must point out that Chuck went with the original expedition way back in season one. You can see him from time to time in the background of the control room in those episodes. Sorry? *wibbles*

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Umm...I'm confused as to why you think that is contradicted in my fic. Chuck makes his first official appearances in season one, I wasn't disputing that.

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

I guess because it sounded (to me at least) from the fic that he was reading SG-1 reports and comparing them to Atlantis reports he'd heard about before he was due to go there. Apologies, my misunderstanding.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Hey no problem. Looking back at it now, I can see how you might think that. :)

[inkscribe.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I haven't watched that show, but on this one, I've frequently had the same question about the 'official' writers. ;-)

Thanks for the chuckle. And Chuck, of course. *g*

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

As far as Galaxy Quest goes, it's a movie I wholeheartedly recommend (and not just because Alan Rickman is in it) to anyone who's a fan of any scifi show ever. ;)

[inkscribe.livejournal.com]

Huh. I missed the link to Galaxy Quest entirely -- sorry! I have seen that movie, and I also recommend it. :-)

I was thinking more along the lines of being an SGA fan who has never seen SG1. I don't recognise recycled plotlines the way people who have watches both series do. "Oh, that's the same as the one where Jack and ..."

;-)

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Ha! I thought people like you were just a myth. :) The plot crossovers are not terribly obvious most of the time, but occasionally (like with the replicators), you just have to wonder.

[inkscribe.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. I've always wondered what it would be like to be mythic. ;-)

I tried to watch the SG1 series when it first came out, but by ep 3 or 4 I just couldn't take anymore. It came across as far too bubblegum for my tastes. I've been told that subsequent eps and seasons are quite good, but I haven't really caught more than a couple here and there in the last two years.

A good friend twisted my arm for several months to give SGA a try, knowing in excruitating detail what I like and don't like, and why that applied to the beginning of the SG1 series. When I happened to see a set of the SGA-S1 DVDs for sale in a secondhand shop, I decided that for the price, I'd give it a go. I was hooked inside a week. *g*

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

I can definitely understand being turned off by season 1. I was lucky enough to start my sg-1 watching with Stargate Mondays on the SciFi channel. It becaome kind of a ritual after a while. Going back to watch the first episodes was almost physically painful. :)

[ch1pper.livejournal.com]

So true! Oh Chuck, you will save everyone!

That line is the BEST.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[oparu.livejournal.com]

Oh you're evil and this is awesome! Take that for recycling plots...TPTB

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I like to use my evil for awesome.