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Title: Male Enhancement (The Soul and the Company Store Remix)
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Rodney
Category: angst, AU
Length: epic
Warnings: n/a
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leahwoof
Author's Website: http://www.geocities.com/coffeeslash/leah/index.html
Author's Summary: I think it's time you told me why the bloody hell you have Lee and Zelenka's missing SX-7 on your bed.
Review:
This is a wonderful story; I can't think of any other word to describe it. It's sort of a fanfic oflavvyan's "Male Enhancement" (and will be recced once it's completed), which is also wonderful and can be found here.
Rodney, the ever socially-inept and emotionally-stunted scientist, orders a PlayFriend, the robot equivalant of sex-slave. John is a robot that shows up at Rodney's door and pretends to be his new PlayFriend. You can probably guess what happens next (this is a John/Rodney after all), but there's more.
This isn't "I, Robot" or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", yet it asks the same questions. Can robots feel? What are emotions? Are they just tiny little electrons traveling through our intricately-wired brain? And most importantly: what makes us human? Not all of these questions receive a proper answer in the story; they're not meant to be answered. Perhaps the essential thing here is that we think about them and arrive at our own answers.
The ending of this story left me feeling a bit...sad? Don't get me wrong; this story definitely comes with a happy ending, but I'm just a bit of an odd reader sometimes. I like stories that make me think, shows me the struggles of the characters, and leaves me with hope. My favourite two SGA stories are "Written by the Victors" (which I don't consider to have a happy ending, at least in the 'ship-sense) and "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose". But I digress. What I'm trying to say is: it's like in "A.I.", the little robot boy desperately wants to become human, and then what? A body of flesh is somehow better than a body of iron? Are humans inherently better? Again, we probably need to find our own answers.
Male Enhancement (Remix) is a well-plotted story with brilliant Rodney and John characterization. The author has also written a prequel/missing-scene piece called "Muscle and Blood and Skin and Bone". Highly Recommended.
Male Enhancement (The Soul and the Company Store Remix)
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Title: Male Enhancement (The Soul and the Company Store Remix)
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Rodney
Category: angst, AU
Length: epic
Warnings: n/a
Author on LJ:
leahwoofAuthor's Website: http://www.geocities.com/coffeeslash/leah/index.html
Author's Summary: I think it's time you told me why the bloody hell you have Lee and Zelenka's missing SX-7 on your bed.
Review:
This is a wonderful story; I can't think of any other word to describe it. It's sort of a fanfic of
lavvyan's "Male Enhancement" (and will be recced once it's completed), which is also wonderful and can be found here. Rodney, the ever socially-inept and emotionally-stunted scientist, orders a PlayFriend, the robot equivalant of sex-slave. John is a robot that shows up at Rodney's door and pretends to be his new PlayFriend. You can probably guess what happens next (this is a John/Rodney after all), but there's more.
This isn't "I, Robot" or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", yet it asks the same questions. Can robots feel? What are emotions? Are they just tiny little electrons traveling through our intricately-wired brain? And most importantly: what makes us human? Not all of these questions receive a proper answer in the story; they're not meant to be answered. Perhaps the essential thing here is that we think about them and arrive at our own answers.
The ending of this story left me feeling a bit...sad? Don't get me wrong; this story definitely comes with a happy ending, but I'm just a bit of an odd reader sometimes. I like stories that make me think, shows me the struggles of the characters, and leaves me with hope. My favourite two SGA stories are "Written by the Victors" (which I don't consider to have a happy ending, at least in the 'ship-sense) and "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose". But I digress. What I'm trying to say is: it's like in "A.I.", the little robot boy desperately wants to become human, and then what? A body of flesh is somehow better than a body of iron? Are humans inherently better? Again, we probably need to find our own answers.
Male Enhancement (Remix) is a well-plotted story with brilliant Rodney and John characterization. The author has also written a prequel/missing-scene piece called "Muscle and Blood and Skin and Bone". Highly Recommended.
Male Enhancement (The Soul and the Company Store Remix)
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