Heh - which is why I hate most romance on TV, because I have little interest in romantic relationships on their own; I only really enjoy romance that has a friendship (or other) component, and would just as soon have romance stay in the background, if it must be there. Rodney & Katie Brown never had an episode devoted solely to them, and I found their relationship as convincing as McKeller. I wouldn't really have liked an episode all about John & Rodney's Big Gay Love, either; I'd rather have friendship stories with them. SGA used to be a show about family; if they were going to do a romance in it, then it would've been more fitting to the theme to do that romance in the context of the family.

When you date someone really close to their family, then you'll meet their family pretty soon into the relationship (my family's very close, and the brother's girlfriends always got to know us quickly!) So for the writers to isolate Rodney & Keller like this, when their relationship has already progressed as far as "love" - that plays false to me. The closer someone is to their family, the more important it is for their romantic partners to be compatible with the family - so to make so little effort to bring Keller into the team makes it seem like either she's an unsuitable partner for Rodney, or else that Rodney's team isn't that close to him after all. (The fact that she barely seems to know John is especially weird; in college I dated a guy with a BFF frat brother, and I quickly got to know the BFF almost as well as my boyfriend...!)