Dreams and Swords

I have read two Stargate tie-in novels so far: "Blood Ties" by Sonny Whitelaw & Elizabeth Christensen from Atlantis and "Four Dragons" by Diana Dru Botsford from SG-1.

"Blood Ties" has a rocky beginning. The prologue uses the annoying tactic of "let me tell you that this is creepy and you should find it so without telling you what is creepy or actually showing you anything to be creeped out by". This likely colored my reading of the first two chapters as I didn't find the book to be any good until chapter three.

However, after that, the book was very good. For one thing, it had telepathic alien dinosaurs.

"Four Dragons" is much more problematic. Everything it did with Lord Yu was fascinating, and I want to make Kat read it (after she's through season seven). I am pleased to see that my belief that goa'uld don't have to be assholes was validated and that other people agree the way the show handled Yu in later seasons sucked. Also that it was entirely possible for the goa'uld to have been mytho-historical personages, even though they're definitely not gods.

Also, his Royal Guards. <3

However, the characterization of Jack and Bra'tac drove me up the wall. I do not remember either of them behaving as badly in the show as they did in this book.

I quite like the depiction of Teal'c, though, which is something of a rarity for me in any written form of Stargate SG-1.

Also, if the military types kept getting annoyed and calling Hopkins arrogant for being upset over Daniel getting kidnapped and upset over being kept out of the loop because he didn't have high enough clearance, I was going to beat them with a stick. Also, I was ready to beat the military-types with a stick every time they interrupted one of their scientists trying to give them information. Or dismissed the anthropological and archaeological information as irrelevant to defeating the goa'uld. Dude, people? You need to understand your enemy if you want to defeat them.

So. "Four Dragons" is pretty great for Yu being neat. I enjoyed the plot. I'd read it for Yu and the plot, really, but be warned that it's likely to annoy on the Jack front.

- dark_puck: Haru/Katara; the rain goes on
- karma_aster: Sam/Jack, street-hockey, and a skinned knee
- neldluva: Sokka/Katara. Furs.
- bookblather: Lord and Lady Placida? "Well, that was impressive."
- hiza_chan: Azula/Zuko, brother knows best
- weirdlet: Yue/Hahn, royal prerogative
- floranna: Song/Zuko, fire flakes
- dunmurderin: Screw and his lady love who's name escapes me at the moment...
- lavanyasix: Aang/Ty Lee, a price for magic
- air_n_darkness: animated: Elita-1/Sentinel Prime. Prompt: Misunderstandings
- charles_rb: Optimus (Animated)/Blackarachnia (BW S1): "I think there's been a mistake."

And now we see why I said I'd do flashfics rather than drabbles.

Title: Chicago 25
Fandom: Stargate SG-1/Gargoyles
Characters: SG-1, Lexington, Brooklyn, Broadway, Goliath, Eliza, Hudson, Angela
Rating: G
Classification: Gen

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( Chicago 25 )

(Today's fandom and situation are from karma_aster, sapphirebreeze, and far too many musical references on my part. To suggest tomorrow's flashfic, comment on this entry.)