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I haven't read a tie-in in FOREVER. Such nostalgia! I used to order them into my small town library six or eight at a time, and then read them in an hour at the park. Mostly Voyager, TNG and Deep Space Nine (I looked it up, and discovered that I'd actually read Melissa Scott's DS9 book), and my very favourites, Peter David's Excalibur books. I've read a few SG-1 tie-ins, but this was my first for Stargate Atlantis.
I have, as I've said before, a weird relationship with Stargate Atlantis. It was shaped almost entirely in season one and changed very little in the following seasons. The writers I surrounded myself with in fandom focused largely on Elizabeth, city politics, and Pegasus Galaxy politics, instead of the harder military sci-fi and Earth politics aspects of the show. So reading "Homecoming", set in what's basically Season Six, was a bit of a departure for me.
That said, I really enjoyed it. And I think the thing I enjoyed the most was how many supporting characters got to show up (because you don't have to pay the actors, obviously, so you can do whatever you want). And I'm not just talking Radek and Banks. I'm talking people we haven't seen hide or hair of since season two. ;)
( Spoilers! )
8/10 for nostalgia, the part where the City was awesome, the jokes about tava beans, that time John was happy about using the Twain line, the part where the expedition anthropologists classify new Pegasus cultures by how far from the Gate they choose to settle, every scene with Radek, and Jennifer and Rodney's as yet unnamed cat, about whom I may or may not already be writing fanfic. :)
I have, as I've said before, a weird relationship with Stargate Atlantis. It was shaped almost entirely in season one and changed very little in the following seasons. The writers I surrounded myself with in fandom focused largely on Elizabeth, city politics, and Pegasus Galaxy politics, instead of the harder military sci-fi and Earth politics aspects of the show. So reading "Homecoming", set in what's basically Season Six, was a bit of a departure for me.
That said, I really enjoyed it. And I think the thing I enjoyed the most was how many supporting characters got to show up (because you don't have to pay the actors, obviously, so you can do whatever you want). And I'm not just talking Radek and Banks. I'm talking people we haven't seen hide or hair of since season two. ;)
( Spoilers! )
8/10 for nostalgia, the part where the City was awesome, the jokes about tava beans, that time John was happy about using the Twain line, the part where the expedition anthropologists classify new Pegasus cultures by how far from the Gate they choose to settle, every scene with Radek, and Jennifer and Rodney's as yet unnamed cat, about whom I may or may not already be writing fanfic. :)
