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.
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.