xparrot | would you like a little RAGE with your RAGE?

So Martin Gero made some comments on the most recent episode of SGA.

"For five years, we didn’t even know it, but all [Rodney] wanted was for someone to tell him that they loved him in an unconditional way."

I want to...I want to kick Martin Gero's head in with a big spiky boot. OF LOVE.

So the love of friends and family (because doesn't Jeannie love him, too? or was she lying when she said "I love you" in "Miller's Crossing" and faking her tears in "The Shrine"?) counts for snot, because it's not romantic, sexual love.

And unconditional love is quoting a guy's own brain-damaged love confession back at him (six months later), and then offering him sex on a plane to make him shut up.

I have no boyfriend! I HAVE NO LOVE! What do I do??? My life is empty! Meaningless!

*cue total fucking mental breakdown*

Okay, now I'm going to do my best to forget this episode ever happened. There's been other eps I haven't enjoyed, but this is the first one that's seriously in danger of spoiling my fanning. It pretty much ruined Rodney's character for me even when I was ignoring the McKeller (I swear, I'd've been almost as outraged if the ep had gone the same way only with John instead of Keller, though at least then I'd have some McShep making out), and now that I am meant to think that banging Keller on the plane is the most significant and important event of Rodney's life in the past five years - yeah. Someone tell me how to hold onto my SGA love, because I don't want to lose this fandom, but the show seems pretty determined to use its dying breath to drive me away.

ETA: I gotta say, SGA these days is really making me appreciate NCIS. NCIS has one s5 ep that is explicitly the 100% opposite theme as this.

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"At the same time, we have the social construct of the romantic "ever after"; there are almost no stories that put friendship above romance, in the end. You pretty much can't write a "happily ever after" that doesn't involve romantic love & marriage; there's no formula for it."

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I just realized why I even read slash. I just like the "happily ever after" and nothing-ever-coming-between-them thing so much. On a sidenote, friendshipper is nearly the only author that I know of who manages to do that without writing slash (there are a few others, including the owner of the journal I´m now trespassing in, but she´s the best (that´s a purely personal opinion, of course.) Somebody once called it friendship romance, I think - that´s even better than slash.)
And, well, sorry for replying here anonymously and with nothing to say, but I don´t even have an account and I just wanted to thank you for the insight. So, thanks again.
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Awwww, thank you! ^____^ That is very sweet. I really appreciate it.

It was totally wanting more of John and Rodney that got me into reading slash in this fandom. Since the beginning, my tastes have changed and I've begun craving slash stories that do interesting things with the relationship more than stories that keep them together. But sometimes I'm just in a mood for the boys doing stuff together, and it's much easier to find that in slash than in gen.

that's kind of funny. I started reading Gen Sheppard and McKay stories to get that feeling of something different that you can't find in slash.

I didn't even know what slash was when I started reading fanfic. I read gen, love h/c, and then between the deep friendship I was feeling watching the series on tv and reading more and more fic, I slowly got into slash to see the deeper friendship and as you so aptly put "wanting more of John and Rodney" and "craving slash stories that do interesting things with the relationship more than stories that keep them together." I ended up reading all kinds from satisfying relationship stories to PWP, depending on my mood. Still read gen, but just seems to be so much more slash and now I do crave it for the friendship and relationship, sex can be totally optional. Brainstorm has really stirred the emotions, hit a lot of sore spots and riled up all sides. The Gero interview struck me, as it did xparrot, like a slap in the face, just like the Brad Wright interview when he decided to go with SGU and basically kicked SGA to the side of the road and couldn't see why anyone was angry. I hope you are feeling better. Your posts are very well thought out and interesting.

Oh, most of my favorite slash OTPs, I started slashing less because I wanted to see them together and more because I didn't want to see anyone else coming between them. Gen smarm-fic sometimes has similar themes (and Friendshipper's is some of the best! ^^) But slash is often "safer" - you can be sure with slash that a random romantic interest isn't going to be introduced halfway through and take time away from the relationships you care about.

would you like a little RAGE with your RAGE?

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