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 didn't see the slash potential 'til S3 either, but what was funny was that once I did, I could look back on the first two seasons and see some subtle stuff I'd missed the first time around.
gnine was saying that "Last Man" is to Rodney what "Miller's Crossing" is to John - MC proved how far John would go for Rodney (as far as it takes) and LM proved what Rodney would do for John
I commented to another person's ep review yesterday that S4 was the big fat season of canon McShep for me. After all, S4 brought us Millers Crossing and lots of smaller, but no less important moments scattered throughout the rest of the eps where John is so transparently in love with Rodney in this intense, *earnest* sort of way. And then we got the finale where Rodney finally responds to John's virtual love letter this season and gives him 25 years of his life in return. I do not care what the writers were thinking when they wrote this season, I will only squee over the fact that they unwittingly told the love story of John Sheppard and Rodney McKay in the process.
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Date: 2008-03-10 11:16 pm (UTC)I didn't see the slash potential 'til S3 either, but what was funny was that once I did, I could look back on the first two seasons and see some subtle stuff I'd missed the first time around.
I commented to another person's ep review yesterday that S4 was the big fat season of canon McShep for me. After all, S4 brought us Millers Crossing and lots of smaller, but no less important moments scattered throughout the rest of the eps where John is so transparently in love with Rodney in this intense, *earnest* sort of way. And then we got the finale where Rodney finally responds to John's virtual love letter this season and gives him 25 years of his life in return. I do not care what the writers were thinking when they wrote this season, I will only squee over the fact that they unwittingly told the love story of John Sheppard and Rodney McKay in the process.