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Help me out, SV folk. In last night's edition of the Fandom Exchange Program, I showed kassrachel "Transference." There must be fic that came out of that episode, right? But I can't for the life of me think of any.

I've been totally falling down on the FEP-recs job lately. I know a ton of classic SV fic that's related to episodes in the first couple seasons, and I can think of a fair bit that grew out of seasons 5 and 6, but seem to be facing a gaping hole for season 4. Of course, it's possible that this is the show's fault and not mine, but there's got to be SOMETHING, hasn't there? So actually, if you know of any great stories connected to season 4 in general, I'd love to hear your suggestions.

(Earlier in the FEP, I tried to give Kass a sense of overall plot arc while highlighting the best episodes. I'm not doing that with season 4 -- the overall arcs were too ridiculous. But there were definitely some standout great episodes in the middle of the magical-plot-rocks/possessed-by-a-French-witch dross.)

It's possible that the Fandom Exchange Program I've started with kassrachel is working a little too well. Kass is getting fairly caught up in SV, and I'm getting a very late start to my work-day because I got all absorbed in SGA fic. *hangs head* (It's not my fault! She recced me a story by cesperanza! I can't help if if she brought out the big guns! Then again, I did put her onto lanning's "Identical" series last week, so I might just possibly have been asking for it.)

I find that, while I'm enjoying the SGA episodes we watch, they're kind of like popcorn: tasty, and I'm happy to snack on more of them, but I don't exactly feel passionate about them. The fic, on the other hand, seems to me like much stronger stuff, and the fact that so many of my favorite writers from SV and DS have been scarily prolific in SGA suggests to me that I could lose a lot more time here. Most recently we watched the end of SGA s1 and the start of s2 -- "The Siege," parts 2 and 3 -- and I've just read Speranza's MVP. Note to self: never, ever start reading a long Speranza story at the beginning of a workday.

On the SV front, last night we watched "Tempest" and "Vortex." There's just so much to love there. And driving home afterwards, I had a thinky thought. ( Read more... )

We're getting together for another night of viewing tomorrow, which means I need to decide which episodes of season 2 I'm going to show her. Some of them are no-brainers: "Heat" and "Red," OBVIOUSLY. (I'm thinking the two of them will make for a most cracktastic evening.) Later on, "Prodigal" and "Rosetta" are essential, and I'm also incredibly fond of "Insurgence." My problem is that there are just so many episodes in season 2 that contain incredibly important character development, and we won't have time for all of them. Because what about "Duplicity"? What about "Lineage"? What about "Skinwalker" -- it's silly, sure, but do we need it to understand everything that comes later? And how could I possibly leave out "Calling" and "Exodus"?

What do you think, SV fen? If you had to select, say, 6 episodes from season 2, which ones would you pick? Which ones that I've listed would you cut? This decision is just too hard.