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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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I'd be a lot cooler with the McKeller if Keller had friendships with the rest of the team - "marrying into the family" as it were. But two of the major McKeller episodes physically separate Rodney from his team...

But a romantic partnership isn't formed with family. It is, by its nature, something that must start with the featured two. It's afterwords that family gets brought in. No matter who Rodney formed a romantic partnership with, it was going to happen with just the two of them. Even if SGA went totally bold and made his partner John, we would have had an ep or two that featured just them forming their new relationship. But, once that partnership is formed, family becomes part of the package.

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...!)

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.

Hmm... I'd argue the "used to be". One romantic episode with Rodney as leading man (with his "brothers" chuckling at him in the background, and his date's father mentioned a time or two) doesn't strike me a schismatic shift. ;) If we're watching Rodney fully embrace family (and I think that's been a continuing theme throughout the series) it makes sense he finds a romantic partner. Family forms from that romantic core, after all.

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.

But Jennifer has never been isolated from Rodney's "family". Episode after episode has had her involved with and working with various members (including his sister Jeannie). That part came first, the romance with Rodney, which by its nature had to be just the two of them, came second. They were heading back to Atlantis by episode's end, so I'm sure Rodney's family will be involved with the two of them as a romantic pair. Rodney isn't having to choose. (I seriously doubt he'll have to make that choice. This ain't Romeo and Juliet. *g*)

would you like a little RAGE with your RAGE?

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