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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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[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!