SGA fic: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés (+ challenge)

[xparrot]

Firstly - McShep HappyFic Challenge! I've been waiting for something like this to pop up, since we all need it now. Since I not-so-secretly love unmitigated and absurdly happy endings even more than I love angst, I am all over this one (...whether or not I'll be able to write something for it is another matter, but we'll see...) It's very open-ended, so go! Sign up! Be happy!


Then, changing gears so fast that I apologize for the whiplash, a new fic:

This is...okay, I don't like the McKay/Keller pairing. My reasons range from my fairly levelheaded disinterest in seeing any romance in the show, to the increasingly emotional and irrational. But I don't want to take out that dislike on Keller, not when we have so little show left to enjoy; I don't especially like the char as she's been written anyway, but I'm trying. So really, this is less an actual fic and more me working to come to terms with the pairing, such as it is. Such as I see it, so I can move on and see Jennifer in her own right. Any McKeller OTPers will probably want to give this one a pass, for your own good.

(And next I will return you to your regularly scheduled Rodney/TEAM/McShep squee, before gnine has my head for straying!)

SGA: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés {~3,300 words}
PG, McKay/Keller, spoilers for "The Last Man" and "The Shrine"

Read it on AO3

Comments

Re: sgafic: breaking up in three easy cliches

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have issues with Keller other than the pairing stuff, but the biggest problem I have with the pairing itself is that they're just not suited for one another. I don't see Keller as being any better for Rodney than Katie Brown was, and I don't think Rodney would be very good for Keller's low self-confidence...

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Re: sgafic: breaking up in three easy cliches

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

So I am rereading things randomly off of the year-end roundup (or I had been, my headache has grown to epic proportions so I might leave off on the reading after this one...) Aaaaand I decided to read this one, somewhat randomly, and also somewhat because I'm tossing around a Keller/Rodney breakup fic of my own ... Anyways, how 'bout some meta-ish-y thoughts on this story? I still like it as a kind breaking up (and for the sympathetic treatment of both characters), but one thing that stuck out to me on this reread (that I think I noticed the first time but couldn't formulate) is that in my mind this Keller, doesn't actually love Rodney, not as one loves a spouse. She cares for him, yes, but I think she's a little bit wistfully in love with the softened Rodney from when he was ill, and it seems that that flavours all of the rest of her reactions with him.. (Note that this is subtly different from what she tells herself...) Anywho, there is more thoughtses, but to my great annoyance they are locked up inside my headache and so I'll just post this and go have a lie-down.

If the above comment made no sense, how 'bout we just pretend that I wrote "Re-read this and still like it and Keller and Rodney still are nowhere near right for eachother"

Re: sgafic: breaking up in three easy cliches

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, it makes sense; this is how I see it myself, really - in the story, and in the show. Keller likes Rodney and she wants to love him - she wants to be in love, to have that security and happiness. But she doesn't really know him well enough to love him - which is a lot Rodney's fault, because he's so nervous to really be himself around her. And I think Rodney is the same, desperately wanting to love and to be loved, and thinking this genuine caring is enough. But I don't think either of them really know each other well enough for the feeling to be real; they're in love with the hope of being in love, not truly in love with each other, and that's not enough.