How could there not be conflict *g*? Neither of them is very demonstrative, neither of them likes to communicate and their conflicting career goals would force them to compromise... which neither of them likes to do. It's a gold mine for Mills-and-Boon break up plots (the ones where they get back together years later and have grown up enough to work for it instead of walking as soon as it gets hard), but ones that are actually rooted in reality instead of fake misunderstandings.
I think Gero made a comment about how it was his last writing/directing gig for Atlantis, so I'm not 100% sure how much he did/didn't do (but he did just direct a movie, so...), but I think that's probably a main cause of the narrative dissonance: he didn't see the need to explain/show the relationship further because it was so clear in his head.
I just don't want to see this argument progress any further, TBH. I've already lived through this once with the Jack/Sam, Jack/Daniel canon-vs-fanon ship wars in SG-1 and it was extremely unpleasant. Can't we all just get along? *g*
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I think Gero made a comment about how it was his last writing/directing gig for Atlantis, so I'm not 100% sure how much he did/didn't do (but he did just direct a movie, so...), but I think that's probably a main cause of the narrative dissonance: he didn't see the need to explain/show the relationship further because it was so clear in his head.
I just don't want to see this argument progress any further, TBH. I've already lived through this once with the Jack/Sam, Jack/Daniel canon-vs-fanon ship wars in SG-1 and it was extremely unpleasant. Can't we all just get along? *g*