Legacy pimp: No Reset Button

[tielan]

jo_graham has another meta about Legacy up at her journal.

This one's about the lack of reset button and what it meant for the writers of the series and where they've taken the story arcs. (Specifically, they mention Ronon, so the Ronon-fans should probably go over and take a gander at what's in store.)

I can't say how much it means to me that these writers are writing the story-from-here in the Legacy series: because I've watched TPTB dismiss the characters who weren't white and weren't male, coding them as insignificant, stupid, and unimportant; I've watched the majority of fandom do exactly the same thing, in some cases worse than anything TPTB cooked up.

And all of a sudden there are writers who'll be writing not!John, not!Rodney, not!Jack, and not!Daniel as though they've got hopes and plans and places to go, things to be, actions to do, stories to influence?

Large portions of my f-list and dwircle from SGA are people who struggled with the fact that TPTB and fandom didn't really give anyone who wasn't John or Rodney a fair go.

In the Legacy series, they do. And it's an and, not an or. Neither John nor Rodney are ignored, dismissed, or left with one or two lines but nothing to do. It's not "reverse racism" at all: it's inclusion and acceptance. They're still valued, they're just alongside Teyla and Ronon, Sam and Radek, Woolsey, Lorne, Cadman, Carson and a slew of other characters.

So, really, if you struggled with the show's exclusion of anyone who wasn't John or Rodney, these stories are going to blow your mind. Of course, if you love John and Rodney, they're going to blow your mind as well.

Comments

[ladyjax]

Why are these books not out yet? Whhhhhhyyyy?

I hate waiting.

[tielan]

I know! I'm all "HURRY UP AND BRING THEM OUT, FANDOMONIUM!"

There should be Death Game later this year, though. That's an in-continuity story that's pretty good (from the drafts, anyway).