I can't believe...

[katikat]

... that I ever thought that Stargate: Atlantis was boring. I mean, John and Rodney and Teyla and Ronon (sorry, never liked Ford), they are just... I mean, honestly! They are... I want to squish them silly.

Song vids like blimvisible's My Brilliant Idea or JulesVids' Men of Devotion or Sheppynette's John Sheppard's ATA Gene make me simply bounce off the walls!

Then there are the awesome fics! Like Dasha's "Salt of the Earth", a fic in which Rodney falls in love with John but John is straight, though he considers his friendship with Rodney more intimate and important than any love ship he could ever have and it's... squee inducing, it really is!

And I'm now reading Sonny Whitelaw and Elizabeth Christensen's "The Chosen", an SGA tie-in novel set after The Storm in S1 - and reading this book I realized that I was really missing the "female touch" in the latest books. I don't know why but the male writers are all about technical babble and OOC behavior and it irks! I think that the female authors pay much more attention to the characters themselves and they try to keep them as true to their TV-selves as possible. The male writers don't really bother and it's a shame :(

Comments

[ixchel55.livejournal.com]

I used to read tie-in novels of my favorite shows but after discovering fanfic I realized that it's much more to my taste than professional writing. I'm not just talking about the slash and the sex, either. Even with GEN I like good fanfic more. I think fen are just more tied into exactly why it is we love the shows and the characters so much. Most of the published authors of franchise series just don't seem to get it.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I love fanfiction but the tie-in novels are official stuff, sanctified by TPTB, basically new official adventures. Reading those feels like the show didn't end. And Fandemonium has done a good job hiring fanfic authors so far - Sally Malcolm, the co-owner of Fandemonium, was a fanfic writer herself - only lately did they start feeling like they used too many female authors, hence the atrocity that was James Swallow's Nightfall. I actually wrote them and asked about the female authors. I wonder what and if they will answer.

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

... that I ever thought that Stargate: Atlantis was boring

LOL! To be fair though, SGA did lose its way for a bit, but Ronon replacing Ford was definitely when I became interested again!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That was what did it for me too. When I bought the DVDs and watched it for the first time, I couldn't wait to get to the "good part" aka S2+ :P