"Flying Blind" by Minnow (PG)

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Rec Category: Gen

Category: Gen, Team, Atlantis
Warnings: PG; spoilers for "The Seige, Part 2"; casting spoiler for a Season 2 character but only insofar as CS exists, not how the writers plan to use CS (unless Minnow is psychic).
Author: minnow1212
Author Website: None, but her fic is indexed here.
Link: http://www.livejournal.com/community/sga_flashfic/66821.html

Summary: They were always dependent on the kindness of strangers. Written for the "darkness" challenge at sga_flashfic.

Why read it: "Flying Blind" is absolutely wonderful -- my favourite team-fic so far. A first-contact mission goes wrong, with unpleasant consequences for Sheppard -- but that's almost not the point. It's all in how the characters react to their situation.

Minnow explores the POV of all five main characters, slipping under the surface of canon to get at the heart of them. I'm particularly impressed by her Ford and Teyla: he's smart and take-charge, but inexperienced and so very military; she's cosmopolitan and nobody's victim, alternatively grateful and resentful. Weir and Sheppard are terrific; McKay is dead-on. Tense, thoughtful, funny, and a bit angsty: gen-fic of the highest order.


Go read "Flying Blind".