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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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[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.