redbyrd_sgfic ([info]redbyrd_sgfic) wrote,
@ 2009-06-30 12:54:00
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Entry tags:fic, meta, red sky, redial the gate, stargate sg-1

OMG, They Killed Science!
Just reposting a little commentfic that I wrote for the fabulous [info]abyssinia_4077 and [info]ultranos_fic, in the comments to their Meta for Red Sky: Ragnorak- Where Science Goes To Die. In keeping with my obsession for fixing canon, I concluded after reading their hilarious scientific critique of the episode that the things Sam says in the episode are so outrageous that Sam couldn't possibly have believed them. But if so, why would she say them? (*inserts tongue in cheek*)

Clearly, the real answer was very, very complicated:
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Bill Lee stared at the white board, then back at Samantha Carter. "Nuh-huh. I'm not going to try to explain this to the General." He glanced around and leaned forward conspiratorially. "Think we can get Felger to do it?"

Carter winced, "The problem is, Bill, the general is going to want *me* to explain it." She sighed. "I really don't like it, but there is a way to get across what we need."

Lee looked confused. "There is? How? Why?"

"I'll tell them something else. Plutonium poisoned the sun."

"That makes no sense."

"There are only about three people in the whole Stargate program who could possibly understand this. That's you, me and Bhutia, and I'm not sure he's coming back."

"He's still at the rehab center, isn't he?" Lee said. "I didn't think his injuries were that bad."

"They're saying nervous breakdown," Carter told him, looking rather sober. "I guess he had kind of a thing about bugs anyway, and after the whole replicator thing..."

Bill shuddered. "I still have nightmares."

"Yeah, well Bhutia still has them when he's awake," she shook her head. "But that doesn't help us with the K'Tau problem."

"Plutonium?" Bill Lee said dubiously. "You don't have to know much about science to know that makes no sense whatsoever."

"You'd be astonished at what people will believe if you tell it with a straight face," Carter assured him cynically. Then her expression turned thoughtful. "You know, if we play this right, I bet we can get them to give us a rocket."


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[info]maimat
2009-06-30 05:09 pm UTC (link)
Thats awesome. Totally makes sense.

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[info]aurora_novarum
2009-06-30 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I said it before and I'll say it again.

LOVE

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[info]sg_fignewton
2009-06-30 05:34 pm UTC (link)
Yay! :D

Sadly, no Bill Lee icon! But thanks for reposting. :)

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[info]redbyrd_sgfic
2009-06-30 06:41 pm UTC (link)
It is sad, isn't it? I really should go make some more icons one of these days. Half the time, I feel like I lack the right icon for the post. (The other half I have the right icon but forget to change it.)

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[info]a_phoenixdragon
2009-06-30 07:13 pm UTC (link)
*Laughs*

This was awesome honey!

*hugs you*

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[info]aelfgyfu_mead
2009-06-30 09:56 pm UTC (link)
I'm so glad you reposted this, because I missed it in the comments somehow! That makes sense of an episode that is otherwise nonsense, scientifically!

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[info]sg_betty
2009-06-30 11:24 pm UTC (link)
*Snort!* Yeah, that's got to be it... It explains so much. ;)

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[info]sg_fignewton
2009-12-16 01:25 pm UTC (link)
I'm doing Bill Lee recs this month, and naturally this one is on my list! :)

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[info]redbyrd_sgfic
2009-12-16 02:40 pm UTC (link)
Aw, thanks!

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[info]lokei
2009-12-16 03:47 pm UTC (link)
*giggle* I enjoyed that immensely.

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[info]gunhilda
2009-12-16 04:04 pm UTC (link)
This is perfect!

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[info]wendelah1
2009-12-16 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Reading this made me very happy, as did having an excuse to use my Scully doing science icon.

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[info]tournevis
2009-12-16 05:04 pm UTC (link)
Nailed it. Thank you!

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[info]_bounce_
2009-12-17 08:47 am UTC (link)
Oh, wow.

This just makes everything Sam and Bill do ever make so much more sense. I love it.

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[info]redbyrd_sgfic
2009-12-17 02:24 pm UTC (link)
*g* I love Bill...and it's really kind of annoying that we don't get to see him being competent more often. I can't imagine that he'd have been with the program all this time if he weren't damned smart. And while I have spent a great deal of time trying to fix canon in fic, there are some episodes where you simply cannot make the plot resemble anything sensible without serious surgery!

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[info]_bounce_
2009-12-17 07:47 pm UTC (link)
Bill is awesome. And yet, he keeps getting ridiculed for making the same mistakes as Carter.

*sigh*

Poor Bill.

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[info]m_dk
2009-12-19 09:10 pm UTC (link)
"You know, if we play this right, I bet we can get them to give us a rocket."

That made me laugh!
great little fic.

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[info]cesy
2009-12-24 03:09 pm UTC (link)
That's brilliant.

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