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[bluflamingo]

Dear Atlantis fic writers,

If you're going to mention in your story in which John's team is taken captive on another planet that (a) the gate is unguarded and (b) they've been held for the best part of a month, you need to at least acknowledge that they'd expect Lorne to have come blazing through to save them at some point during this month. And fine, he can not succeed for whatever reason, but John and co would expect Atlantis to at least try to rescue them, and probably be worried over why it hasn't happened. I mean, they're busy, but they're not *that* busy.

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[scrollgirl]

Ahahaha! They probably got so wrapped up in the h/c aspect of the team being tortured or starved or forced to perform sex acts for their captors to remember the whole "rest of Atlantis" bit.

[bluflamingo]

Depressingly, I can totally believe this. Well, way too wrapped up in the 'John's been mind controlled to want to touch Rodney, and it's totally not rape when Rodney has sex with him while John's mind-controlled *and* drunk, because John threw himself at Rodney, and Rodney had been really good at resisting him up to that point!'

Cos God knows John, having been pissed off at his best friend raping him, would totally come round to see it that way after all!

Sorry-possibly I'm ranting over the lack of mention of Atlantis because it winds me up less than *that* part of the story.

[rubygirl29]

Thank you, thank you! I agree 100%. I like to have some balance, too. I like to know that Lorne, McKay and Co., are really doing their best to rescue their friends and teammates. It just makes me feel so much better when I'm reading a very angsty story.

[bluflamingo]

Well, in this story McKay was too busy raping John to be able to effect a rescue, but yeah - I don't mind if they don't succeed in a reascue, I don't even mind if we don't find out until the end why they didn't succeed, but a passing mention of 'oh, if only Lorne would burst through the door right now/oh, it sucks that my second in command hasn't got his act together yet to rescue us/oh, what on Earth can have happened to Atlantis, I hope everyone is okay' wouldn't have killed anyone.

[slybrarian]

Yeah. It's also important to remember those nifty flying machines that John is so fond of, as they make a variety situations rather less difficult to escape. So do subdermal transponders, for that matter.

[bluflamingo]

In her defence, they walked in this case, but yeah, you'd think that in a month, the Daedalus could have got out to Pegasus and beamed them up. Or, you know, I'm not picky, I'll settle for 'why hasn't Atlantis come to rescue us, what on Earth can be wrong?' and we find out at the end. But it's like they stepped through the gate and Atlantis completely ceased to exist for them.

[patk]

*g* Oh, yes. No clue which story you're talking about but that's *exactly* the kind of thing a beta should catch because I can see how an author would totally miss that point, being completely engrossed in another (much more interesting to them) part of the story.

Even in canon John was noticeable unsettled about the fact that nobody showed up to rescue him in "Epiphany". ;-)

[bluflamingo]

The thing that gets me is, someone pointed this out to her in comments and she basically said she didn't want to write another rescue story. And I'm sitting there going, well, you know, it's not like there's no canon where people have to rescue themselved for one reason or another. The one where Kolya feeds John to the wraith, say. Just a simple, yikes, I wonder where they can be from John, followed, once they're home, by, oh, we couldn't rescue you because *insert reason here*.Problem solved, I would have thought!