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McShep-aholic much?
Aug. 6th, 2009 10:46 pmOk, so I've always been a big fan of McShep, but I've realized how decidedly odd my preferences are...
So,obviously, I'm a HUGE fan of John/Rodney (or Rodney/John), and I enjoy OT4 as long as they primarily pair off John/Rodney & Teyla/Ronon. I prefer Rodney gay than straight, but if John is with a woman, I'd like Rodney to be with a woman too...but typically not Jennifer Keller.
I'd rather read about John with someone else than Rodney with someone else.
Rodney can only be with Major Lorne if John brought him to play. Otherwise, I'm sad.
The only person I really don't like John with is Elizabeth Wier, although there are a few really great stories that are the exception. (In fact, I like stories where perfect Wier gets shot down for Rodney...but I think part of that is because I'm not fond of skinny women...yeah, I'm horrible!)
it's just wierd though, I really don't like Rodney paired with anyone. Definately not Cameron Mitchell or Major Lorne. But John can pair with either of them.
I remember there's one story where Rodney is lost ot Atlantis for a long time. And John never gives up hope & is really obsessive. And then they get Rodney back & he's not interested in John anymore & even gets together with Lorne & Chuck. It was an interesting story, but I couldn't deal with the pairings & the whumping for poor John. It made me so miserable, I imagined John going psycho and killing everyone--chuck and lorne first, himself last, but having rodney still alive to see everyone die. (I know, sick. but it made me happier to imagine an awful plot twist to insanity than the way things were going in the story.)
Or there's the other one where Jennifer ends up with both Rodney and Ronon, and Rodney leaves the team & John is all alone. The author wrote a sequel where Rodney moves John closer to his family. I just wanted John to throw it back in his face! Say something like "You want me to see even more closely how much I'm alone? That you'd rather shack up with the happy couple and their child than even think of a relationship with me? Fuck that, I'm resigning!" And John goes back to Earth. Starts a relationship with Mitchell. Or maybe Carter? And then Rodney comes after him like a year later. By then he'd bombed his relationship with Jennifer and Ronon, and he gets there & John's got his own happy family.
Oh, yeah & I'd love to see a Dark! John-kills-Jennfer fic where he makes sure to let her know that she "did it to herself" by trying to take Rodney from him. (It's so sick of me...but really, I might have to try writing it.)
Pretty much the only time I like Jennifer Keller is when she's with someone else. I even sorta liked the relationship on screen, but it seemed to come out of practically no where & the writers kept giving us these hints of McShep longing (Hello! The Shrine much?!? or what about the scene between Rodney and John in Tracker? Or when John notices Keller and Rodney in the beginning of Brainstorm?)
And another thing, Brainstorm, otherwise known as the episode with no Teyla, 30 seconds of John and Ronon and then Jennifer in ugly boots for half the episode. Where's my team? Why could they not be on screen??? I would have rather seen Teyla or Ronon go with if John couldn't. Can you imagine Ronon? Everyone would be so confused. ("Oh, well, I wanted to bring my partner, but he's got the same thing Ronon's girlfriend's son has, so the three of them are stuck at the hotel. Teyla keeps telling us that John is being a bigger baby than Torren, who is under a year. )
So,obviously, I'm a HUGE fan of John/Rodney (or Rodney/John), and I enjoy OT4 as long as they primarily pair off John/Rodney & Teyla/Ronon. I prefer Rodney gay than straight, but if John is with a woman, I'd like Rodney to be with a woman too...but typically not Jennifer Keller.
I'd rather read about John with someone else than Rodney with someone else.
Rodney can only be with Major Lorne if John brought him to play. Otherwise, I'm sad.
The only person I really don't like John with is Elizabeth Wier, although there are a few really great stories that are the exception. (In fact, I like stories where perfect Wier gets shot down for Rodney...but I think part of that is because I'm not fond of skinny women...yeah, I'm horrible!)
it's just wierd though, I really don't like Rodney paired with anyone. Definately not Cameron Mitchell or Major Lorne. But John can pair with either of them.
I remember there's one story where Rodney is lost ot Atlantis for a long time. And John never gives up hope & is really obsessive. And then they get Rodney back & he's not interested in John anymore & even gets together with Lorne & Chuck. It was an interesting story, but I couldn't deal with the pairings & the whumping for poor John. It made me so miserable, I imagined John going psycho and killing everyone--chuck and lorne first, himself last, but having rodney still alive to see everyone die. (I know, sick. but it made me happier to imagine an awful plot twist to insanity than the way things were going in the story.)
Or there's the other one where Jennifer ends up with both Rodney and Ronon, and Rodney leaves the team & John is all alone. The author wrote a sequel where Rodney moves John closer to his family. I just wanted John to throw it back in his face! Say something like "You want me to see even more closely how much I'm alone? That you'd rather shack up with the happy couple and their child than even think of a relationship with me? Fuck that, I'm resigning!" And John goes back to Earth. Starts a relationship with Mitchell. Or maybe Carter? And then Rodney comes after him like a year later. By then he'd bombed his relationship with Jennifer and Ronon, and he gets there & John's got his own happy family.
Oh, yeah & I'd love to see a Dark! John-kills-Jennfer fic where he makes sure to let her know that she "did it to herself" by trying to take Rodney from him. (It's so sick of me...but really, I might have to try writing it.)
Pretty much the only time I like Jennifer Keller is when she's with someone else. I even sorta liked the relationship on screen, but it seemed to come out of practically no where & the writers kept giving us these hints of McShep longing (Hello! The Shrine much?!? or what about the scene between Rodney and John in Tracker? Or when John notices Keller and Rodney in the beginning of Brainstorm?)
And another thing, Brainstorm, otherwise known as the episode with no Teyla, 30 seconds of John and Ronon and then Jennifer in ugly boots for half the episode. Where's my team? Why could they not be on screen??? I would have rather seen Teyla or Ronon go with if John couldn't. Can you imagine Ronon? Everyone would be so confused. ("Oh, well, I wanted to bring my partner, but he's got the same thing Ronon's girlfriend's son has, so the three of them are stuck at the hotel. Teyla keeps telling us that John is being a bigger baby than Torren, who is under a year. )
