I agree with everything you said here and I'm totally a hardcore OTP'er. For me, the division exists more between those McShep fans that are more John oriented and those that are more Rodney oriented. I'm a Rodney girl myself so I was furious at the idea that so many John fans thought Rodney should've thrown everything up in the air in the middle of wartime to save John when he didn't even think it was possible at that time. That fans actually begrudge Rodney the one year he was on earth and found some comfort with Keller just makes me crazy. He spent the next *25 freakin' years* working to bring John and everyone else, including the Pegasus galaxy itself, back so maybe he could be cut some slack for y'know trying to make a life for himself.

All that said, I'd like to think that if it'd been reversed and it'd been John instead of Rodney, I would've still been able to see the big picture. I saw it in Trinity so I'd like to think my love for Rodney wouldn't have completely blinded me here.