Originally posted by Easter Lily
How is it great, cool and wonderful for Rodney and Shep or Rodney and Carson or Ronon and Shep to make buddy jokes and cracks in the worst of circumstances and build their male bonding but it's not 'Ok' for Elizabeth and John to build theirs in whatever way they choose to? Because it has a flavor of some biased, perceivedly 'dangerous' female/male bonding? Is male/female love such a dangerous thing that it will destroy everything else and make it weaker rather than better?
I've just wondered about this. What is it that is so scary about loving feelings being expressed between two humans? Is it that they're afraid TPTB are going to try and make Atlantis into a sappy melodrama? You ask me, it's in the trying to hard to assure everyone that will never happen where tptb messes up sometimes with a one step forward -two scardy cat steps back non-sensical approach. How is it 'OK' for sex to be shown as long as it's 'casual' sex that doesn't 'mess' with the status quo or 'change' relationships in some way? That very sentence just gave me the hibbiejeebies to *type*. Such simple-mindedness isn't good long-term for a show imo and it makes for stale storytelling and boring characterizations.
Imo, one thing that SGA has going for it that gives it a chance to be different from SG-1 and 'make it' longer term is that it's so much more tight and character based. Most of the really great stories -like TRW-spring from the character traits, faults, weaknesses, strengths etc. Also, how can the audience ever 'buy into' the idea that Atlantis is a 'new world'/ a 'new frontier' unless the new people go about taking ownership of it? That's not gonna happen long-term and the steps of the ancients will never be followed unless mate units are established right alongside power commands etc. I think that's why I don't like the cross-overs too much. SG-1 is Earthly based and earthly ruled. This thing is so different and has so much potential to blow up as an entity to itself and a world that Earth spawns that it can be proud of. But the characters have to be true to who they are completely for that to evolve and that includes being true to their hearts whereever and whoever that might lead them to.
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