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Stargate SG-1/The Sentinel
Title: Distant Thunder
Author: Arianna
Author on LJ: I don't think she is...
Author's URL: her fanfic is hosted at Starfox's Mansion
Pairing: none
Why this must be read:
There are a lot of Stargate SG-1/The Sentinel crossovers, and a lot of them operate on the same premise--that Blair's Sentinel research for some reason or another comes to the attention of the SGC--but I like this one for several reasons. First, it doesn't assume that just because Daniel is an archaeologist that he's an anthropologist too. Which is something the series tends to do as well, but it's still nice to read a fic where it doesn't happen. :-) It also acknowledges that as brilliant as he is, Daniel can't know about *every* ancient Earth culture. He's more a student of the Fertile Crescent--Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc. Second, the story doesn't focus on Jack and Daniel to the total exclusion of the rest of the team. The first few SG/TS crossovers I read, before I started watching SG-1, I would never have known that Sam and Teal'c existed from them. It also doesn't ignore all the other Sentinel characters except Jim and Blair--Simon is involved and even Megan has a small role, and I love Megan. :-) Third, it doesn't follow the fanon convention that Cascade is Jim's territory and therefore he *gasp* can't leave. A lot of Sentinel fanon conventions I like; that one I never have because I find it limiting. The fourth thing...the ending! I won't say more because I don't want to spoil it, but I love it, even if it might be just the teeniest bit unrealistic within the realm of the Stargate universe. (I want to believe--oh, wait, wrong crossover... ;-) ) On top of all that, all the familiar characters are recognizable and all the new ones compelling. All told, it's a great read.
The only drawback is it's a little too heavy on the Sentinel side of things for someone who doesn't know the show to follow it, but for anyone who does know both shows it's a treat well worth looking into.
"It's like the Palace of Knossus," he murmured.
"The Palace of who?" Jack asked.
"The Minoan palace on Crete, the original maze of the Minotaur," Sandburg explained quietly. "It's an amazing feat of engineering..."
"Whatever," Jack replied, not really impressed.
"You don't understand," Sandburg explained. "It could indicate some kind of sharing of knowledge between those two early cultures, before the ancestors of these people were brought here. There's never been any evidence found of such contact on earth."
"And that matters because...?" Jack prompted, pretty sure the information was esoteric at best.
"Because it's fascinating," Sandburg snapped back, finding O'Neill's continued sarcasm and jibes irritating, and too tired to ignore them completely. But he swallowed and explained more patiently, "And also because it might give us some other clues about how these people think, what they believe."
"Okay, I can see how that would be helpful," O'Neill capitulated with a lift of his hands in surrender.
"Jack, would you give him a break," Daniel protested in irritation. Turning to Blair he added, "He's only half as dumb as he acts."
"That's a relief," Blair replied straight-faced, but his eyes twinkled when Sam snickered and Teal'c unbent enough to let a smile twitch on his lips. Jack just snorted. It was then that Sandburg realized what they, and especially Jack, were up to. They were trying to help him relax with the light byplay and he was more than willing to aid and abet their efforts on his behalf. His stomach was tied in knots and he was so very afraid of screwing up, he needed all the help they could possibly give to let some of the tension go, so that he could concentrate on the tasks ahead. He felt oddly comforted by the behaviours that reminded him of how Jim teased him in that dry way of his, to get him to loosen up when he was on the edge of panic.
Distant Thunder
Author: Arianna
Author on LJ: I don't think she is...
Author's URL: her fanfic is hosted at Starfox's Mansion
Pairing: none
Why this must be read:
There are a lot of Stargate SG-1/The Sentinel crossovers, and a lot of them operate on the same premise--that Blair's Sentinel research for some reason or another comes to the attention of the SGC--but I like this one for several reasons. First, it doesn't assume that just because Daniel is an archaeologist that he's an anthropologist too. Which is something the series tends to do as well, but it's still nice to read a fic where it doesn't happen. :-) It also acknowledges that as brilliant as he is, Daniel can't know about *every* ancient Earth culture. He's more a student of the Fertile Crescent--Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc. Second, the story doesn't focus on Jack and Daniel to the total exclusion of the rest of the team. The first few SG/TS crossovers I read, before I started watching SG-1, I would never have known that Sam and Teal'c existed from them. It also doesn't ignore all the other Sentinel characters except Jim and Blair--Simon is involved and even Megan has a small role, and I love Megan. :-) Third, it doesn't follow the fanon convention that Cascade is Jim's territory and therefore he *gasp* can't leave. A lot of Sentinel fanon conventions I like; that one I never have because I find it limiting. The fourth thing...the ending! I won't say more because I don't want to spoil it, but I love it, even if it might be just the teeniest bit unrealistic within the realm of the Stargate universe. (I want to believe--oh, wait, wrong crossover... ;-) ) On top of all that, all the familiar characters are recognizable and all the new ones compelling. All told, it's a great read.
The only drawback is it's a little too heavy on the Sentinel side of things for someone who doesn't know the show to follow it, but for anyone who does know both shows it's a treat well worth looking into.
"It's like the Palace of Knossus," he murmured.
"The Palace of who?" Jack asked.
"The Minoan palace on Crete, the original maze of the Minotaur," Sandburg explained quietly. "It's an amazing feat of engineering..."
"Whatever," Jack replied, not really impressed.
"You don't understand," Sandburg explained. "It could indicate some kind of sharing of knowledge between those two early cultures, before the ancestors of these people were brought here. There's never been any evidence found of such contact on earth."
"And that matters because...?" Jack prompted, pretty sure the information was esoteric at best.
"Because it's fascinating," Sandburg snapped back, finding O'Neill's continued sarcasm and jibes irritating, and too tired to ignore them completely. But he swallowed and explained more patiently, "And also because it might give us some other clues about how these people think, what they believe."
"Okay, I can see how that would be helpful," O'Neill capitulated with a lift of his hands in surrender.
"Jack, would you give him a break," Daniel protested in irritation. Turning to Blair he added, "He's only half as dumb as he acts."
"That's a relief," Blair replied straight-faced, but his eyes twinkled when Sam snickered and Teal'c unbent enough to let a smile twitch on his lips. Jack just snorted. It was then that Sandburg realized what they, and especially Jack, were up to. They were trying to help him relax with the light byplay and he was more than willing to aid and abet their efforts on his behalf. His stomach was tied in knots and he was so very afraid of screwing up, he needed all the help they could possibly give to let some of the tension go, so that he could concentrate on the tasks ahead. He felt oddly comforted by the behaviours that reminded him of how Jim teased him in that dry way of his, to get him to loosen up when he was on the edge of panic.
Distant Thunder
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Just FYI - in the United States, Archaeology is almost always taught as one of the four sub-disciplines of Anthropology. Students don't specialize until grad school, and even then, archaeology is still taught as part of the holistic science of anthropology - anthropologists in the US are very big on *holistic*, very big on the quantitative analysis of physical things as a key to understanding cultures. That's why the series and most stories assume that Daniel is an anthropologist, too; because he is.
You're right that he wouldn't necessarily have knowledge of every single culture on earth, though it's entirely possible that after ten-plus years of education and god knows how much post-doc work he's been sent to seminars on every one of them... =)
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