A question for--

[smg01]

--SG-1 folks with either better memories or better attention to detail than I have:

We know Sam got her promotion to full colonel before deploying to Atlantis. The promotion came after Ark of Truthiness yes? Does it go against cannon to have her receiving it just prior to leaving for Atlantis?

*Valiantly working to pound the square peg of my jacksamfriends prompt into the round hole of my story idea.*


ETA: Thanks for the feedback.

Drat. I really liked the ending that I had in mind. 'Tis okay though. The general idea will still work.

Comments

[a-loquita.livejournal.com]

I believe both Sam Carter and Cm Mitchell were both promoted before the events of AoT....

[jungleeyedgirl.livejournal.com]

Doesn't John salute her in that first couple of episodes in S5 of SGA? So before she's put in command of the city, she got promoted.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Sam was promoted after Ark of Truth apparently. They're still Lt. Colonels there.

As someone else pointed out, she had the promotion when she was on the Midway station with Dr. Lee in SGA's season four premiere.

A few producer comments have said both Sam and Cam were promoted to full colonels. Continuum canon is a bit iffy. Landry mentioned no record of a "colonel mitchell" in the USAF in the alt. timeline (and it seems in those circumstances he'd have used "lieutenant colonel" rather than just doing the normal abbreviation). The ending credits list them both as lt. cols (so someone didn't get the memo at bridge, heh).

[a-loquita.livejournal.com]

I actually posted this very question once to RCC on JM's blog about the fact that the credits list them both as Lt. Col. and RCC answered that the credits were a mistake, and that after the events of Unending but before AoT they were both promoted. This, of course, gets us into the age old problem of whether or not the things writers/producers say they *intended* should be considered canon.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

This, of course, gets us into the age old problem of whether or not the things writers/producers say they *intended* should be considered canon.

I think the logical conclusion here is that anything "intended" that I also agree with is canon. Anything that I don't agree with is wishful thinking from writers and/or producers. ;)

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

Credits aside, I am pretty sure the rank they physically had on their uniforms in AoT was Lt Col.

So the intentions of the show runners aside, I go with Lt Col in the first movie based on what the uniform says.

[a-loquita.livejournal.com]

Oh really? I never noticed before that they had their rank on their BDUs off-world. Huh. Interesting!

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I could be imagining the whole thing, so don't quote me.

I tend to hallucinate at the sight of pretty boys and girls in uniform.

[jungleeyedgirl.livejournal.com]

This, of course, gets us into the age old problem of whether or not the things writers/producers say they *intended* should be considered canon.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Sorry, thinking of some of the stuff Mallozzi has spewed into cyberspace and having to take it as canon makes my blood boil.

OK mentioning the guy's name at this point makes my blood boil, but still.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Well, he's in a category all his own. What that category is, I'll leave to individuals to define for themselves.