If I haven't told you this before, I shall do so now: I have so, so , so musch love for you and these recs posts. Every so often (ie usually when you post) my friend, who is also in Fandom/on LJ will receive and email with the instruction "read this post [insert link to your post]. You don't need to read the links, just read the post." *g*
If I end up reading my first Due South fic ever, after having only watched a season or so about 12 years ago? I'm totally blaming you. No. Really. I mean it.
Also, it was also very weird to see you see you rec Triptych just after I'd done so (http://loriel-eris.livejournal.com/378025.html).
Moebius For The Beginner - It's long
[NB: Bear in mind it's ages since I've seen it and I was "wtf???!" at the time. And I completely fail at life because someone on my flist did a timeline of Moebius which was oh god so awesome and I can't find the post...]
Original!SG1 find reference to a ZPM on earth 3000 years ago in the time of Ra. They decide that Ra never took it with him and no-one used it, so it's been sitting useless on Earth for 3000 years. But they have no idea where.
Cue plan to go back in time to find the ZPM and collect it/leave it somewhere they will know where to find it in the present (I'm kinda hazy on this point) just before it will be lost for all time (thus not disrupting the timeline).
There's a fuck-up and they can't get back home. They decide to make a video tape of Things The SGC Should Know And Will Be Used To Check That The Timeline Isn't/Wasn't/Hasn't Been Disrupted By SG1 Staying In The Past. Thus SG1 fill a tape with things such a Jack's pond doesn't have any fish, Clinton was president from whenever to 200 and we landed on the moon in 1969. They *want* to bury the tape with the Stargate, which they know was buried (because they unburied in 1929 in Giza) when Ra left Earth (because of rebellion, I'm pretty sure). So they kinda also hope to start/incite the rebellion. I'm pretty sure that shit happens and the plan goes awol (and there may or may not be capture, but there's definitely "we're stuck here and we can't contaminate the timeline type arguments") the tape doesn't get buried and we--
Cut to present day. Which is so frelled. And we have geek!SG1. Jack's on a boat in... the north. Sam's a civilian shit-upon-froma great-height assistant geek. Daniel's a local local college teacher (basically the most shit upon kind of teacher/lecturer). Teal'c is First Prime. The SGC finds this video tape and comes to collect them all to explain what they're all doing on a tape found with a top secret device the Stargate. (I can't remember details, but the timeline was really fucked up - geek!SG1 was definitely not the biggest change!)
Stuff happens (mainly, they get FirstPrime!Teal'c on board). Geek!SG1 including Teal's, minus Daniel, go back 2995 years (I really do not know). The only original!SG1 left is Daniel.
There's debates on timelines and paradoxes and wtf and stuff. *insert hand wavey* Read: I can't remember exactly what happens. Except, there's a plan on Daniel's part and the gate isn't buried yet and they're still working on the rebellion. They have a grand plan to bury the Stargate and tape (which Daniel still have 5 years later) and the plan is set in motion and there's action! and impending doom and then cut to-
Present day and we're back at the beginning on the episode, before Daniel finds the reference to the ZPM ie the whole two eps haven't happened yet. Jack appears with basically ZPM in one hand and this tape (see above) that they're on, but none of them remember filming. Everything in present day is is as the tape!SG1 describe, so everyone assumes that they/noone else has fucked up the timeline.
Cut to SG1 and Jack's cabin and a fish jumping out of the water.
And the whole of fandom going omfgwtfbbqpolarbearsyouhavegottobekiddingme!!!??
End of Episode.
And despite how it looks I still haven't got my head around this episode.
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If I end up reading my first Due South fic ever, after having only watched a season or so about 12 years ago? I'm totally blaming you. No. Really. I mean it.
Also, it was also very weird to see you see you rec Triptych just after I'd done so (http://loriel-eris.livejournal.com/378025.html).
Moebius For The Beginner - It's long
[NB: Bear in mind it's ages since I've seen it and I was "wtf???!" at the time. And I completely fail at life because someone on my flist did a timeline of Moebius which was oh god so awesome and I can't find the post...]
Original!SG1 find reference to a ZPM on earth 3000 years ago in the time of Ra. They decide that Ra never took it with him and no-one used it, so it's been sitting useless on Earth for 3000 years. But they have no idea where.
Cue plan to go back in time to find the ZPM and collect it/leave it somewhere they will know where to find it in the present (I'm kinda hazy on this point) just before it will be lost for all time (thus not disrupting the timeline).
There's a fuck-up and they can't get back home. They decide to make a video tape of Things The SGC Should Know And Will Be Used To Check That The Timeline Isn't/Wasn't/Hasn't Been Disrupted By SG1 Staying In The Past. Thus SG1 fill a tape with things such a Jack's pond doesn't have any fish, Clinton was president from whenever to 200 and we landed on the moon in 1969. They *want* to bury the tape with the Stargate, which they know was buried (because they unburied in 1929 in Giza) when Ra left Earth (because of rebellion, I'm pretty sure). So they kinda also hope to start/incite the rebellion. I'm pretty sure that shit happens and the plan goes awol (and there may or may not be capture, but there's definitely "we're stuck here and we can't contaminate the timeline type arguments") the tape doesn't get buried and we--
Cut to present day. Which is so frelled. And we have geek!SG1. Jack's on a boat in... the north. Sam's a civilian shit-upon-froma great-height assistant geek. Daniel's a local local college teacher (basically the most shit upon kind of teacher/lecturer). Teal'c is First Prime. The SGC finds this video tape and comes to collect them all to explain what they're all doing on a tape found with a top secret device the Stargate. (I can't remember details, but the timeline was really fucked up - geek!SG1 was definitely not the biggest change!)
Stuff happens (mainly, they get FirstPrime!Teal'c on board). Geek!SG1 including Teal's, minus Daniel, go back 2995 years (I really do not know). The only original!SG1 left is Daniel.
There's debates on timelines and paradoxes and wtf and stuff. *insert hand wavey* Read: I can't remember exactly what happens. Except, there's a plan on Daniel's part and the gate isn't buried yet and they're still working on the rebellion. They have a grand plan to bury the Stargate and tape (which Daniel still have 5 years later) and the plan is set in motion and there's action! and impending doom and then cut to-
Present day and we're back at the beginning on the episode, before Daniel finds the reference to the ZPM ie the whole two eps haven't happened yet. Jack appears with basically ZPM in one hand and this tape (see above) that they're on, but none of them remember filming. Everything in present day is is as the tape!SG1 describe, so everyone assumes that they/noone else has fucked up the timeline.
Cut to SG1 and Jack's cabin and a fish jumping out of the water.
And the whole of fandom going omfgwtfbbqpolarbearsyouhavegottobekiddingme!!!??
End of Episode.
And despite how it looks I still haven't got my head around this episode.