Re: Gah.

SG-1 badfics by Ansela on 2009-02-04 19:09:00 UTC Reply

Surviving
Due to blood transplant, Jack gets AIDS. i'm rating this as a teen because i think most people can handle this kind of stuff but, i'm just warning you now this has to do with AIDS, i will try to update fast.

The AIDS is diagnosed after a week, the pacing is terrible, capitalisation of names is erratic, Cam is at the SGC at the same time as Jack and Janet, the Gate Room now seems to be the Control Room, there are ANs in the middle of paragraphs, there are multiple speakers per paragraph (which gets better in later chapters) and, IMO, the whole thing is far too f---ing flippant about the situation.

Blood Ties
Carters Brother has come to her with a secret now she has to convince everyone to let Andy, her niece, stay at the SGC in order to protect her, Asguard, and the SGC from being uncovered by government factions

Andromeda Carter, daughter of Mark Carter and niece of Samantha Carter. Yes, Sam has a niece in canon. No, we don't know her age or name. That, however, is no excuse for turning the poor lass into a Sue. Using abbreviated ranks (e.g. Maj.) in narrative and speech is silly. Mark knowing about the 'Asguard' is WTF-worthy. And if you're going to Sueify a canonical family member, at least be consistent about the spelling of her full name.

Blood and Water
Leaving a pregnant Vala Mal Doran at the SGC, SG1 and Vala's younger sister, Xala, go on a reconaissance mission against the Priors. Set in late Season 9, prior to the finale.

The universe doesn't need another Mal Doran. The universe couldn't handle another Mal Doran. And how the f--- is Vala pregnant and at the SGC? That completely messes up canon timelines.

Gah. by Neshomeh on 2009-02-04 21:55:00 UTC Reply

We've been talking about AIDS in my Epidemiology class, so I happen to know that it takes about two weeks to even build up enough HIV in your system to transmit it to someone else and about four weeks before it's detectable. A diagnosis of full-blown AIDS after just one week is pretty much impossible.

Note that there are about two whole weeks in which you can be shedding virus without even the possibility of knowing about it. Scary stuff.

Whoever takes that one, please include a nice big helping of "Bad Science/Biology/Medicine" on the charge list.

~Neshomeh

Re: Gah. by Pads on 2009-02-05 02:55:00 UTC Reply

As I mentioned to Ansela earlier, and admittedly my biology can be corrected here, but, as you say, it's HIV that builds up in one's system. Not AIDS. The nasty one's passing on? It's not AIDS, it's HIV. And it doesn't always develop into AIDS. I think there's tests that show HIV pretty quickly, though possibly not as quickly as the fic mentioned has, but tests that pick up AIDS after that long? Whoever's got it must have a piss poor immune system, for it not to just have been transmitted but also to have developed that fast.