An Undone War Still Wages...

[fajrdrako]

Now, I don't watch Stargate Atlantis and normally I'd never read a piece of Stargate Atlantis fanfic. I had to read this one, though, because it was a crossover with Doctor Who, and, even better, featured Captain Jack Harkness. It was An Undone War Still Wages by Cherry Ice.

The Startgate Atlantis bits were over my head, though I could follow the action with no difficulty and mostly remembered what the characters looked like. Despite my ignorance, despite the fact that I felt it was more a Stargate Atlantis story than a Doctor Who story, I enjoyed it very much - good plot, good characterization of Captain Jack, Rose, and the Doctor, and a few fabulously good lines. The first:

"Jack?" McKay asks, and when Jack looks ove,r his mouth snaps shut, compressed to a line.

"McKay," Jack says. "Small galaxy." And this is a problem, this is a big problem, because Jack hasn't met him yet.

I do enjoy time travel paradoxes.

And later, over a wounded or dying man:

"You could fix him," Rose says, quiet.

The Doctor closes his eyes. "I can't fix anyone."

Liar, Atlantis says.

Comments

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I was wondering whether to read this or not, seeing that I've only ever seen the pilot of SGA. I finally decided to take the plunge - and the link doesn't work. Waaaah!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It's html at the end, not htm.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! Now, how did that fall off? Cut off by my printer, probably. Thanks for the correction.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Try this site: http://cherryice.livejournal.com/170114.html.