Big Bang/Exchange Fic Discussion #1

[spnanonhaven]

Post your threads for Big Bangs and exchange fics here.

Format like so:


SUBJECT: Title [Pairing, Rating] by AUTHOR
CONTENT: Art by whoever

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Comments

Re: D/C SA Week 2: 9/27 - 10/3

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I know I'm going to be in a minority on this, but the Sam characterization in Sam is a Genius really didn't work for me. I completely buy Sam thinking he's smarter than Dean and Castiel and the way that it's used here (where Sam turns out to be wrong). But the extreme level to which Sam takes it in his thoughts in this story, plus the insistence on expressing it in mathematical terms, really grated. The math especially really baffled me because since when is Sam particularly fond of math? The characterization wasn't silly enough in its OTTness, for me, to have me laughing at Sam from the beginning. Instead, I got annoyed - a little bit at Sam, but a lot bit at the author.

Re: D/C SA Week 2: 9/27 - 10/3

[(Anonymous)]

I'm of two minds regarding the math thing. On the one hand, OMG Maths! Using it as metaphor - loved that!

On the other, yes, Sam. Characterisation-wise it didn't ring true.

Though I still like it. *g*

Re: D/C SA Week 2: 9/27 - 10/3

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me, Nonnie? You've said everything that I was thinking while reading this fic, only in a far clearer way than I likely would have.

The math especially really baffled me because since when is Sam particularly fond of math? This part is what bothered me especially. Sam wanted to be a lawyer, not a mathematician, so shouldn't this fic have been peppered with, say, legal terms?

I think I'm going to call this one having been written by one of the fandom's former Stargate Atlantis writers. Because all of the math really puts me in mind of a Rodney/John story.

Re: D/C SA Week 2: 9/27 - 10/3

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Holy crap, maybe I really am you, because I was thinking yesterday after I posted this that the whole math thing (and extreme arrogance about his own abilities thing) would be in character for Rodney McKay, so maybe there was an SGA connection. Spooky.

Re: D/C SA Week 2: 9/27 - 10/3

[(Anonymous)]

NA. The maths thing is from 'Metamorphosis', when the older hunter asked Sam if he was 'still a mathlete'.

Learn your fucking canon, people.

-_-