The Comfy Chair

I think I was drawn deeply enough into the fairly narrow focus of the story that I didn't think much about the reactions of others. That makes me think about my expectations--in many slash stories set in any uni where being out would be a bad thing and the relationship has to be kept secret, attention from outsiders can signal trouble. Lots of stories don't deal with that, with the repercussions and reactions and political aspects of being gay (though some do, those that are primarily romances often don't and I read a lot of romances), so maybe that's what I've become used to, now, why I wasn't looking for it. Hmmm. Because, now that you've brought it up, I do see that there would have been something, some kind of reaction. Seeing how the rest of Atlantis was reacting to what was going on would have been interesting, yeah. Especially since the big clue-in followed someone's reaction--someone back on earth, after all that time spent together on Atlantis. I think it would have added something to the story to have seen that included, but I didn't enjoy the story any less for it not being there, and I don't think I would on re-read after thinking about it, either. And, really, the length of time to the reveal wouldn't have been sustainable if that had been included, unless the reaction happened very early, way before the friendship and sense of family deepened to the point where an "ah-ha" moment would have resulted--early enough that a "what, are you kidding?" reaction would have happened and it had been laughed off and forgotten. Something like that. More hmmmm.