Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Plus, Zelenka/Weir would be so much cooler.
It's certainly more fun to say. But Zelenka/Anyone is fun to say. Zelenka Zelenka Zelenka. Whee!
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.
I don't really see J/D on the show.
I do a little, but, again, that's because my filter got altered a bit. It's not Angel/Lindsey, or Clark/Lex for sure (where it doesn't even take a head tilt and a squint to see it). But, truly canon? Well, no. But then neither are the others, really ('cept that one time, er, with Spike).
No, I agree about John/Elizabeth, and, like I said, I don't think they'll actually go that route, but it does seem like the writers picked up on something and are now having a bit of fun with it.
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.
Ditto. Oddly enough, I haven't been all that interested in searching out the fic.
Agreed with all those who think that SG:A's Beckett is adorable. I want one of my own.
