Fic rec, and some meta

In case you've missed it, night_spear1287 has been posting Brotherhood, the third novel in her Daniel of Abydos series.

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And that leads to the meta, because Nightspear always includes a sentence or two from the upcoming chapter, and I suddenly realized, for the first time, that Learning Curve comes right after Legacy.

How in the world did Daniel face the idea of children literally losing their minds so calmly, in the face of what he'd just undergone himself? How much of Jack's fury at what was happening (and Teal'c's distress, too) hinge on the horror of watching a brilliant mind disintegrate again?

I don't want to even begin to take away from the episode-contained moral dilemmas (we discussed those back when redial_the_gate did Learning Curve, and I very much enjoyed reading all the comments again). But I do think the sequence of episodes lends even greater impact to the tragedy of Orban, and I'd love to see additional meta (or fic, heh) that addresses it.

"Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?"