Heh. My flist has been full of squee the past few days (for Vegas) (and also, to be fair, rage at Vegas. Squee and rage! What a show....)
I think perhaps the biggest problem with season 5 was that the season was already in production when it was cancelled. The cancellation made everyone more critical and more hopeful. Critical because these being the last few episodes, they now had to be *good*; and hopeful of getting all the things we most wanted wrapped up in ribbon. So people who love team really wanted to see good team interactions, and were angry when (for example) Teyla and Ronon were *missing* from Vegas. People who supported a 'ship wanted it made canon, or failing that, at least have the two characters alive and single at the end; and woe to the writers if they did it wrong (note that these are the writers who thought that date-rape drugs were a really funny joke back in S3 and write quips about marriage being like torture, so: not real good with the romance).
If S5 had been written with the foreknowledge that it would be last, I would hope it would have been more even and resolve more... *lives in fantasy world*
I came into the fandom as a McKay/Sheppard writer, but I have written McKeller (and also John/Parrish, John/Woolsey). I'm not a die-hard 'shipper. But I expect that I have to make a pairing believable, and to me that is where the canon McKeller failed. I can believe McShep without one single declaration of love, because of all the on-screen moments of caring and emotion between the two; if the writers had given me Rodney running to Jennifer in the Shrine and drinking beer with her, or racing cars with her, that would have given me a lot more understanding of the pairing than a few 'I love you's ever would.
I haven't noticed that the fandom seems divided at all, except along the old 'live and let live' line between het and slash. I think most of the squee-reduction is due to the closing of canon at the end of S5, and all the various inevitable disappointments that that entails. McKeller is one to some people, lack of good team interaction another, what happened to Elizabeth another, what happens to the whole Pegasus galaxy another, the WTF Rodney-Radek hostility another, I could go on and on. There won't be closure for most of these outside of fanfic. Which hopefully will be a good thing. We have better writers *picture my pointy, wicked smirk*
*coughs* contains Vegas spoilers
I think perhaps the biggest problem with season 5 was that the season was already in production when it was cancelled. The cancellation made everyone more critical and more hopeful. Critical because these being the last few episodes, they now had to be *good*; and hopeful of getting all the things we most wanted wrapped up in ribbon. So people who love team really wanted to see good team interactions, and were angry when (for example) Teyla and Ronon were *missing* from Vegas. People who supported a 'ship wanted it made canon, or failing that, at least have the two characters alive and single at the end; and woe to the writers if they did it wrong (note that these are the writers who thought that date-rape drugs were a really funny joke back in S3 and write quips about marriage being like torture, so: not real good with the romance).
If S5 had been written with the foreknowledge that it would be last, I would hope it would have been more even and resolve more... *lives in fantasy world*
I came into the fandom as a McKay/Sheppard writer, but I have written McKeller (and also John/Parrish, John/Woolsey). I'm not a die-hard 'shipper. But I expect that I have to make a pairing believable, and to me that is where the canon McKeller failed. I can believe McShep without one single declaration of love, because of all the on-screen moments of caring and emotion between the two; if the writers had given me Rodney running to Jennifer in the Shrine and drinking beer with her, or racing cars with her, that would have given me a lot more understanding of the pairing than a few 'I love you's ever would.
I haven't noticed that the fandom seems divided at all, except along the old 'live and let live' line between het and slash. I think most of the squee-reduction is due to the closing of canon at the end of S5, and all the various inevitable disappointments that that entails. McKeller is one to some people, lack of good team interaction another, what happened to Elizabeth another, what happens to the whole Pegasus galaxy another, the WTF Rodney-Radek hostility another, I could go on and on. There won't be closure for most of these outside of fanfic. Which hopefully will be a good thing. We have better writers *picture my pointy, wicked smirk*