DH is noticing Sheppard/Weir subetext this season.
I'm hoping it doesn't become text ("What's that thing above the subtext?"). I'm not sure why.
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-t - Jul 28, 2005 7:22:43 am PDT #2557 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Vonnie K - Jul 28, 2005 7:24:16 am PDT #2558 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Yeah. It's like, the yardstick against which all slashy subtexts are to be measured. The only other relationship I can think of that comes even close is Angel/Lindsey.
JenP - Jul 28, 2005 7:24:37 am PDT #2559 of 10001
It's interesting, because the McKay/Sheppard I've read is true to the characterizations, but the slash is so very much on the page even before I get to the actual slashy parts (to the credit of the authors), and yet, I don't see it so much on the screen. Which is fine - just different from, say, J/D.
Though, I have to admit that it was reading the J/D slash that people here pointed me to when I oh-so-innocently said "Yeah, I don't really see it. I mean, Daniel, sure, but Jack?" that caused a shift in my perception there. That just hasn't happened with McKay/Sheppard. But it's all good.
Steph L. - Jul 28, 2005 7:26:12 am PDT #2560 of 10001
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Yeah. It's like, the yardstick against which all slashy subtexts are to be measured. The only other relationship I can think of that comes even close is Angel/Lindsey.
Frodo/Sam. Oh, and S2 Wes/Gunn.
DebetEsse - Jul 28, 2005 7:27:35 am PDT #2561 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm not a huge Weir fan (something about her is slightly off-putting. I like her on paper, but onscreen, I find her a bit unrelatable)
I'm not a fan of the ship because it would be pairing up the military and civilain commanders of the operation, which seems like a royally bad idea, from their perspective, and from a storytelling one, as it makes all their conflicts into both personal and bureaucratic conflicts.
Vonnie K - Jul 28, 2005 7:28:35 am PDT #2562 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I don't really see J/D on the show. I buy J/D in well-written fic, but canonically? Not so much.
On the other hand, I haven't really read any House fic, but the House/Wilson on the show seems fairly blatant to me despite the fact I've only watched a handful of episodes.
-t - Jul 28, 2005 7:35:41 am PDT #2563 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not a fan of the ship because it would be pairing up the military and civilain commanders of the operation, which seems like a royally bad idea, from their perspective, and from a storytelling one, as it makes all their conflicts into both personal and bureaucratic conflicts.
I think that's what my subconcious was trying to get at with that NOOOOOOOOOO!
Dana - Jul 28, 2005 7:36:20 am PDT #2564 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Plus, Zelenka/Weir would be so much cooler.
-t - Jul 28, 2005 7:41:10 am PDT #2565 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's certainly more fun to say. But Zelenka/Anyone is fun to say. Zelenka Zelenka Zelenka. Whee!
Vonnie K - Jul 28, 2005 7:52:42 am PDT #2566 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Weir/Sheppard is issue-riffic. I don't think they'd work as a couple on any kind of long-term basis because of the complicated power-dynamic between the two. I don't think they'd go there on the show, and if they did, I wouldn't trust the writers to handle it with the kind of delicacy it requires.
I'd read Weir/Sheppard though, if someone wrote a fic about these two that dealt with all the things that make them wrong together and didn't give them some schmoopy happy ending.