Degrees of Realism

[sg_wonderland]

princessofgeeks  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.

Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I like the author to have a grounding in reality, and breaking that significantly only when they know that is what they are doing. This is a higher standard than most script writers achieve, which is why I like this of authors though I've read fic and enjoyed stories where it's not met.

Hammond's blessing would require very special conditions. Like they're successfully keeping the secret and something 'weird' gives Hammond the knowledge. The Air Force wouldn't be able to blindeye it since Daniel is a Combat Archaeologist, and Jack is his commander. Even after DADT is repealed (man, that makes me so happy that that's a historical sentence not a future sentence except to the show's seasons' Jack/Daniel.)

They will have to, in this reality-compliant view (and yes, it's enjoyable reading the contrary, and this is my opinion of rcv, ymmv) stay in the closet. Of course, the general store up near the cabin knows. A can of some sort of treat shows up in their order per some 'determined schedule', but places like that are very good at accepting shared secrets that still are secret and never spoken.

Yeah, I've got a science-fiction field around all science in sci-fi, It's powered by Aristotle and several Playwrights running in a very big wheel.