There really are a ridiculous amount of subplots, aren't there? And I'm sure if you're really determined, you can find a SGA counterpart for every character and make it work to some extent...
... but then there's still the gay, and the 1800 not being all so happy about the gay. So yes, it's either rip it completely out of its context and make it present day -- but then you'd have to stay *really* close to the original story (apart from setting, obviously) to make it resemble P&P even a little bit. Almost like Bridget Jones' Diary, only gay.
I think it'd work much better if John actually were Wickham (or, erm, Daniel Cleaver). He's a believable asshole, and you'd have all the wonderful angry tension between him and Rodney (Darcy). And then you could swing it the illicit love affair way, and you wouldn't have to pull it out of the 1800s, but it really wouldn't be very P&Py anymore.
.. but then there's still the gay, and the 1800 not being all so happy about the gay.
Ah, that's why marriage of conveniences are a great thing! Way to keep the community from the scandal, and since romantic friendship between girls were considered all right, and the manly men went off hunting together up on the moors and the abandoned hunting lodg and spent time locked up in the study (or whatever) discussing very important manly things, it's not like they didn't have lots of opportunity (especially if you pay the servants well).
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There really are a ridiculous amount of subplots, aren't there? And I'm sure if you're really determined, you can find a SGA counterpart for every character and make it work to some extent...
... but then there's still the gay, and the 1800 not being all so happy about the gay. So yes, it's either rip it completely out of its context and make it present day -- but then you'd have to stay *really* close to the original story (apart from setting, obviously) to make it resemble P&P even a little bit. Almost like Bridget Jones' Diary, only gay.
I think it'd work much better if John actually were Wickham (or, erm, Daniel Cleaver). He's a believable asshole, and you'd have all the wonderful angry tension between him and Rodney (Darcy). And then you could swing it the illicit love affair way, and you wouldn't have to pull it out of the 1800s, but it really wouldn't be very P&Py anymore.
See? Complicated.
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But yeah, too many subplots.
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OK, in a AU world, where anything can be worked out, it's not a stretch ;)
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Ah, that's why marriage of conveniences are a great thing! Way to keep the community from the scandal, and since romantic friendship between girls were considered all right, and the manly men went off hunting together up on the moors and the abandoned hunting lodg and spent time locked up in the study (or whatever) discussing very important manly things, it's not like they didn't have lots of opportunity (especially if you pay the servants well).
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okay, now I want to write *that*. Except maybe only loosely inspired by Austen. Because that whole, ahem, "hunting" on the moor thing? Oh, delicious.
Damn you!