Rodney Darcy

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Apologies to Mr Colin Firth and to David Hewlett, but I had to do it!



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I think this is a sign that I need some sleep!

Comments

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

And as much as I love Liz and Darcy, the secondary characters are so wonderful as well. If it were a total crack AU you could make Lucius and his 'erb Wickham. Mr. Collins?

(OMG, Dr. Weir could be Mr. Collins and Zelenka is Charlotte Lucas *sporfle*)

And who do you make Bingley and Jane? All the Bennet family?

I think what you'd have to do is make it a present-day AU, and cut most of the subplots beyond the Elizabeth/Darcy. Although Sam could fill in for Caroline Bingley, maybe. Or maybe Kavanagh is such a dick because he wants Rodney all to himself. Make John more of a grunt than he is, or maybe a lab tech, so Rodney can look down on his education, while still thinking he can rise above it?

[twincy.livejournal.com]

But then it is all so complicated.

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.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

danamaree had a good idea below. Make John into Bingley and ship those two, but still have a Lizzie be someone else. I'm thinking Sam or Teyla.

But yeah, too many subplots.

[twincy.livejournal.com]

But John as Mr Happy Bouncy The World Is a Wonderful Place Bingley?

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

I can see John as that, because does come across as very charming, and happy. Underneath not so much. But it's not such a stretch.

OK, in a AU world, where anything can be worked out, it's not a stretch ;)

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

.. 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).

[twincy.livejournal.com]

...

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!