The funny thing is, the first couple seasons I really didn't see the John&Rodney...they seemed to be teammates but not much more. (I'm kinda impressed by all you folks who got it earlier, because you were totally right!)
LOL! For what it's worth, I'm equally impressed by people who were able to see it all the way back in early season 1! Some of the h/c-friendship people were writing darned good fic for them as early as "Storm/Eye".
I think it has a lot to do with seeing the potential there, and reading between the lines, and wanting more but not quite getting it in canon. It's one of those cases where I (and apparently a lot of other people) saw the character relationship in a certain way and really wanted it to go in a specific direction, and it actually DID, unlike a lot of ensemble shows where I'll fixate on a particular character relationship and then it won't go that way at all. (I imagine that if it had lasted long enough to develop the characters, Firefly would have done that last thing to me in a major way -- I was kind of like a compass needle swinging around in search of North when I watched that show, wanting a specific character relationship to fixate on but not really finding one. Several of them had a bit of promise for becoming the kind of thing I love to watch, and Mal/Zoe/Wash had a LOT of promise, but Whedon being the kind of writer he is, I suspected even at the time that romance or death would have eventually derailed most of the character dynamics that I liked.)
Ironically, we've had SO much fantastic character interaction with John and Rodney in canon over the last couple of seasons that my drive to write them isn't as strong as it used to be. I mean, most of the scenarios that I've done in fic, or wanted to do, have actually been done on the show by this point! I'm certainly loving it, but I don't have that corresponding burning urge to write fic for them, the way I get when canon refuses to "go there". (I think we've discussed this in the past, but that has a lot to do with why I never really was inspired to write much for YGO, because canon gave us all of that and then some.)
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LOL! For what it's worth, I'm equally impressed by people who were able to see it all the way back in early season 1! Some of the h/c-friendship people were writing darned good fic for them as early as "Storm/Eye".
I think it has a lot to do with seeing the potential there, and reading between the lines, and wanting more but not quite getting it in canon. It's one of those cases where I (and apparently a lot of other people) saw the character relationship in a certain way and really wanted it to go in a specific direction, and it actually DID, unlike a lot of ensemble shows where I'll fixate on a particular character relationship and then it won't go that way at all. (I imagine that if it had lasted long enough to develop the characters, Firefly would have done that last thing to me in a major way -- I was kind of like a compass needle swinging around in search of North when I watched that show, wanting a specific character relationship to fixate on but not really finding one. Several of them had a bit of promise for becoming the kind of thing I love to watch, and Mal/Zoe/Wash had a LOT of promise, but Whedon being the kind of writer he is, I suspected even at the time that romance or death would have eventually derailed most of the character dynamics that I liked.)
Ironically, we've had SO much fantastic character interaction with John and Rodney in canon over the last couple of seasons that my drive to write them isn't as strong as it used to be. I mean, most of the scenarios that I've done in fic, or wanted to do, have actually been done on the show by this point! I'm certainly loving it, but I don't have that corresponding burning urge to write fic for them, the way I get when canon refuses to "go there". (I think we've discussed this in the past, but that has a lot to do with why I never really was inspired to write much for YGO, because canon gave us all of that and then some.)