sga fic: His Dinner with Jeannie

[xparrot]

gnine had the original idea around which this story is built. I've read several "Miller's Crossing" tags with a similar premise, but none of them were quite what we wanted. Our interpretation of Jeannie is slightly different from others I've seen; we're maybe a bit more sympathetic to her than some, and this story reflects that take.

SGA: His Dinner with Jeannie {5,823 words}
PG, gen angst; "Miller's Crossing" tag, set between "This Mortal Coil" and "Be All My Sins Remember'd"
A little while after "Miller's Crossing," John has a conversation with Jeannie about what transpired.

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Comments

[sholio]

Oh, this is just so wonderful -- I think this satisfied me in a way that many "Miller's Crossing" tags haven't, because you dealt with the ethical issues with what they did and yet in a way that's very sympathetic to the characters; Jeannie's reaction is just right for her, and "McKay & Mrs. Miller" totally made me fall in love with John and Jeannie's interactions, so I was delighted to get more of that here. Basically, I love the Jeannie/Rodney relationship, and the John/Jeannie relationship, and of course the John/Rodney -- and we got ALL of them here! Nice character insights too. Very happymaking. ^_^

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read a couple tags that had Jeannie being surprised/touched by her brother's attempted gesture, but never mentioned the other side, that someone died so that she could live...Rodney never handles that terribly well, and I can't see that Jeannie would, either; what we see of her is so compassionate (not to mention being crazy liberal pinko sort, for whom the death penalty would never be an ethical option...)

And I was disappointed not to get any John-Jeannie interaction in M'sC, so it was fun to get it in here!

[sholio]

And I was disappointed not to get any John-Jeannie interaction in M'sC

Oh, me too! The last ten minutes of the episode did a nice job of making up for my disappointments with it, but I was hoping for more interaction between Rodney's real sibling and his surrogate sibling(s). *g*

One thing I did like was John with Madison ... I wish we'd gotten a bit more of that, but the implication that they'd been playing together happily was adorable.