Degrees of Realism
Aug. 11th, 2013 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sg_wonderlandprincessofgeeks posed an interesting question about where a post-SGC Jack would live in the DC area. A fascinating discussion ensued which gave me a couple of thoughts. One, the SG-1 fandom is not dead since lots of folks offered differing and intelligent opinions. (I like to think of us as a diverse, think-y crowd!)Which led me to this question: How much realism do you require in your SG-1 world? (I must admit to being one of the folks who, in at least one fic, put Jack in a neighborhood he probably couldn't afford.
What can you hand wave and where does that become the sticking point for you? The Air Force looks the other way for Jack/Daniel? For Jack/Sam? Daniel is finally allowed to publish a little something? Sam gets to change the face of physics?*
*On a purely personal note, I'd love to see Amanda Tapping make a Sam-appearance on The Big Bang Theory. I contend that any theoretical astrophysicist who is an avowed sci-fi fan would have at least one fantasy about himself and TV's goddess of physics. I'm just saying if Howard can do a tubby with Battlestar's Starbuck, then Leonard is bound to have dreams of an encounter with Sam.
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Date: 2014-01-18 11:49 pm (UTC)Pardon the edit, but I got the wrong amount for housing allowance, which was actually around $1,300/month, not $3,000. :-p It may actually have been higher though, considering DC is a very expensive area.
And as a continuation of the main topic: As for hand-waving science, I'm okay with suspending my disbelief with a gigantic heavy construction crane, so long as the science is internally consistent within the universe in question. Oddly, I'm a little bit less okay with things like anthropology and mythology. However, I am Death when it comes to them screwing up with various real-life weapons and weapons systems, that bugs the crap out of me.
Sorry, I'm on muscle relaxers so I'm a bit more spastic than usual, which is bad enough to begin with. :-p