Quote:drakensis wrote:Hmm, let's take a look at the timing.
While I do find Jack's position in the SAO/SG-1 fic a touch grating, it's still quite early in and the rest of SG-1 are indicating Jack's in bad need of some downtime and not behaving the way he usually was. This suggests that at least in this case, Vathara's got something specific in mind. Perhaps I'm being too optimistic but that's how I'm reading it.
It's a year after Edora, so probably late season 4 (One Hundred Days was 3.17.) Dr Jackson is with them, which means it's probably before his Ascension in Meridian (5.21). Late season 4 gives us several points where Weird Stuff is happening to people and giving O'Neill reasons to be extra-paranoid - The Light, Prodigy, and Entity all in a row, probably within days or at most a couple of weeks of each other.
Janet and Teal'c are clearly aware, in chapter one at least, that the SAO players were in a VR sim, not a coma, and stated so explicitly to Jack and Sam. Except that by chapter 3 she's with them in having assumed they were in a coma, they couldn't measure brain activity because of the NervGear, and doesn't believe in the VR sim any more than O'Neill.
So, we have reason for Jack to be extra-paranoid, and we have a major continuity flaw in Janet's characterization of what was happening to the players.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.