June Something Day 15

Day 15: What fandom pairing took you over like Venom took over Eddie?

McShep for sure.

I've enjoyed many ships over my fandom life, but none have hit me so damn hard as John and Rodney. It feels utterly criminal to me that they didn't explore it in canon, and usually I'm easyosy about what does and doesn't happen in fiction. Maybe the creators were going for a BFF thing, maybe, but it sure seems like JF and DH played it romantically. Sometimes it's kind of inconsistent, like certain writers/directors were pro-McShep and others were anti-McShep, and I switch from "is this queerbaiting?" to "is this queer-coding?" so fast sometimes I get whiplash.

And then there was that ending.

Look, I adore Jennifer, absolutely adore her. Her youthful vigour was a fantastic addition to the show. But the delicious chemistry she had with Ronon lit the screen on fire, so to dump that and push her to Rodney (IIRC so that "the geek gets the girl for once") made me squick a little bit. DH and JS have some really good scenes together, but they don't have much in the way of sexual chemistry. It feels so familial and not something that's going to end up in tangled sheets (which is actually the same way I feel about John and Teyla).