I actually liked Sheppard from the beginning (I tend to be low-key fond of the Square-Jawed Hero Types), but I didn't become interested in him as a character until it started becoming clear how deeply, deeply weird he really was. And yeah, JFlan gets a lot of credit for that. Also the writers, for making him into a fanboy dork (some of the Sheppard fangirls confuse me in part because they seem to love him for his Square-Jawed-Lone-Ranger-Heroness and ignore his more immature and dorktastic sides, which are the parts I love best about him...)
...but aww, I always kind of liked Kirk. I mean, he's no Spock, but who is? (Is char A usually the sidekick/char B the hero, I wonder? Because part of the problem might be, too, that the sidekick's Most Important Person is usually the hero, while the Hero will have multiple loves vying for attention, and then you feel sorry for sidekick-A, who loves B so deeply but B doesn't completely return it. I wonder if that's kinda what happened with the McShep - Rodney became more a hero later, with John behaving as the love-sick sidekick, so sympathies switched? --no idea if this means anything, just wondering! I may have too much fun analyzing fannish behavior... ^^;)
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Date: 2008-09-17 04:18 am (UTC)...but aww, I always kind of liked Kirk. I mean, he's no Spock, but who is? (Is char A usually the sidekick/char B the hero, I wonder? Because part of the problem might be, too, that the sidekick's Most Important Person is usually the hero, while the Hero will have multiple loves vying for attention, and then you feel sorry for sidekick-A, who loves B so deeply but B doesn't completely return it. I wonder if that's kinda what happened with the McShep - Rodney became more a hero later, with John behaving as the love-sick sidekick, so sympathies switched? --no idea if this means anything, just wondering! I may have too much fun analyzing fannish behavior... ^^;)