Stargate Atlantis - 1 Rec
Nov. 13th, 2009 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
recsforalloccasionsFreedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose by synecdochic -- This story is about the aftermath of the choices we make. It's about Rodney after John; after Atlantis; after the Wraith; after the SGC. In her replies to feedback and in the DVD commentary, synecdochic repeatedly quotes Spider John Koerner's line: "the meaning of life is: do the next thing." This story is about doing the next thing, about going on, about coming to terms with the past and taking it into the future. It's about loss and resilience and possibility. It's entirely likely that this story will make you cry. In places it hurts, the kind of bone-deep hurt that comes from knowing you're reading something real and true. But this is not a sad story, and that, I think is why I love it so much. It is so clear at the end of this story that Rodney is really, truly happy, even in the aftermath of everything.
synecdochic offers a glimpse of a Rodney McKay who is not the man we see on the show now, but is very much the man he could some day become. Rodney's past is touched upon in hints and suggestions and casual references that paint a vivid portrait as much with what isn't said as with what is. His present is a sharp and note-perfect portrayal of academia in all it's complexity.
This is fiction at it's best, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished it. I've read it three times now and each time I came away with something more to think about, another perspective to look at it from, another layer of narrative to contemplate.
synecdochic -- This story is about the aftermath of the choices we make. It's about Rodney after John; after Atlantis; after the Wraith; after the SGC. In her replies to feedback and in the DVD commentary, synecdochic repeatedly quotes Spider John Koerner's line: "the meaning of life is: do the next thing." This story is about doing the next thing, about going on, about coming to terms with the past and taking it into the future. It's about loss and resilience and possibility. It's entirely likely that this story will make you cry. In places it hurts, the kind of bone-deep hurt that comes from knowing you're reading something real and true. But this is not a sad story, and that, I think is why I love it so much. It is so clear at the end of this story that Rodney is really, truly happy, even in the aftermath of everything.synecdochic offers a glimpse of a Rodney McKay who is not the man we see on the show now, but is very much the man he could some day become. Rodney's past is touched upon in hints and suggestions and casual references that paint a vivid portrait as much with what isn't said as with what is. His present is a sharp and note-perfect portrayal of academia in all it's complexity. This is fiction at it's best, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished it. I've read it three times now and each time I came away with something more to think about, another perspective to look at it from, another layer of narrative to contemplate.