It's possible that you could see the ending as an extension of Calvin's childhood fantasies - he's finally discovered that there *are* things like transmogrifiers and time machines and he's going to get to play Spiff Spaceman after all.
On the other hand, it totally jarred me out of the story and annoyed me, like what is this doing here? so you may be right about (b), but that could also just be because I feel overwhelmed by SGA fans and chatter at the moment and having it pop up somewhere I didn't expect was irritating.
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Date: 2005-12-28 01:54 am (UTC)It's possible that you could see the ending as an extension of Calvin's childhood fantasies - he's finally discovered that there *are* things like transmogrifiers and time machines and he's going to get to play Spiff Spaceman after all.
On the other hand, it totally jarred me out of the story and annoyed me, like what is this doing here? so you may be right about (b), but that could also just be because I feel overwhelmed by SGA fans and chatter at the moment and having it pop up somewhere I didn't expect was irritating.