I'm still trying to figure out my thoughts and feelings about this ep; McKeller in general; life, love, and relationships IRL and in fiction of various sorts; and what I can say to people to make them stay in the fandom through January and beyond.
And, really, I've got very little.
A couple of thoughts, based on what little I could read of the Gero article, this post, and the comments:
(1) There's really no such thing as unconditional love, except, if you're lucky, what you feel for your children when they're not actively poking you with sticks, IME.
(2) How Jennifer treats Rodney? That's "I love you, now change." Nothing unconditional about it. BTDT, didn't work, ever.
(3) Slash vs. friendship fic vs. smarm vs. ?: My big issue w/ slash (and romance in general) is that, in it, love, actually fixes anything. And, it doesn't, or not much. The thing is, friendship doesn't really, either. But that doesn't mean that life isn't full of moments of grace, courtesy other people; those are what I most like to read; well, when I'm not gobbling up slash or gooey smarm.
(4) There *is* something more to a sexual relationship than it being merely the logical extension of another sort of relationship, else people would have a lot more sexual partners concurrently than they tend to.
(5) Rodney and Keller are welcome, in my book, to do whatever on the plane they want. I don't think it's going to much affect how I write team!fic into the future, unless TPTB manage, in the next four episodes, to convince me that there's something fundamentally there.
(6) A lot of the fun of fanfic, for me, is taking the illogical bits - like, why DIDN'T McKay try harder to stop the bridge? - and making them make sense, even if it comes down to, people just aren't always on top of their games, or maybe someone was pumping in stupid!gas.
no subject
And, really, I've got very little.
A couple of thoughts, based on what little I could read of the Gero article, this post, and the comments:
(1) There's really no such thing as unconditional love, except, if you're lucky, what you feel for your children when they're not actively poking you with sticks, IME.
(2) How Jennifer treats Rodney? That's "I love you, now change." Nothing unconditional about it. BTDT, didn't work, ever.
(3) Slash vs. friendship fic vs. smarm vs. ?: My big issue w/ slash (and romance in general) is that, in it, love, actually fixes anything. And, it doesn't, or not much. The thing is, friendship doesn't really, either. But that doesn't mean that life isn't full of moments of grace, courtesy other people; those are what I most like to read; well, when I'm not gobbling up slash or gooey smarm.
(4) There *is* something more to a sexual relationship than it being merely the logical extension of another sort of relationship, else people would have a lot more sexual partners concurrently than they tend to.
(5) Rodney and Keller are welcome, in my book, to do whatever on the plane they want. I don't think it's going to much affect how I write team!fic into the future, unless TPTB manage, in the next four episodes, to convince me that there's something fundamentally there.
(6) A lot of the fun of fanfic, for me, is taking the illogical bits - like, why DIDN'T McKay try harder to stop the bridge? - and making them make sense, even if it comes down to, people just aren't always on top of their games, or maybe someone was pumping in stupid!gas.