Uh, my mileage varies, actually. I'm mostly a Rodney fan and I'm bothered, because the whole McKay/Keller thing seems more designed to emphasize Keller's character than anything else. While I'm happy for the writers to get their alter egos together and be happy and have babies and/or whatever, I don't appreciate the frankly ham-handed way they're doing it.
I thought the McKay/Keller thing was cute in the beginning, but their romance 'progressed' in a way I simply can't buy.
Never mind that it is taking away from the team love, and that's what I was watching the show for in the first place. Not for Rodney McKay, not for John Sheppard, not for their interaction (though that certainly didn't hurt). For years, SGA has been about four people and a revolving cast of supporting characters. For that matter, SG-1 has long been about four people and a revolving cast of supporting characters, and incidentally I stopped watching when the writers/producers started messing with that.
There's a difference between the canon of a show and the multitude of interpretations through fanfic. I like to keep the two separate. SGA was about friendship and adventure. Now it's about romance, one step from a soap opera in space/on another planet, and that's not what I'm watching sci-fi for.
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I thought the McKay/Keller thing was cute in the beginning, but their romance 'progressed' in a way I simply can't buy.
Never mind that it is taking away from the team love, and that's what I was watching the show for in the first place. Not for Rodney McKay, not for John Sheppard, not for their interaction (though that certainly didn't hurt). For years, SGA has been about four people and a revolving cast of supporting characters. For that matter, SG-1 has long been about four people and a revolving cast of supporting characters, and incidentally I stopped watching when the writers/producers started messing with that.
There's a difference between the canon of a show and the multitude of interpretations through fanfic. I like to keep the two separate. SGA was about friendship and adventure. Now it's about romance, one step from a soap opera in space/on another planet, and that's not what I'm watching sci-fi for.