Up until "Sanctuary", he only uses Rodney when he's spectacularly frustrated/exasperated with him. I kind of get the impression that now it's the other way round. I know he refers to him as 'McKay' to Caldwell, and I can hear him saying "McKaaaay" in a really exasperated voice. So I'm thinking that they're sort of interchangeable, with one for standard 'I'm talking to you' stuff and one for 'what the hell did you do this time?' stuff.
So I'm not sorry at all! This is the kind of thing that makes a huge difference in stories - I'm writing a set at a kind of 'unspecified point post S2' (ie featuring Ronon) where names get used quite a bit, and I'm finding that it really matters for getting the character voices right!
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I kind of get the impression that now it's the other way round. I know he refers to him as 'McKay' to Caldwell, and I can hear him saying "McKaaaay" in a really exasperated voice. So I'm thinking that they're sort of interchangeable, with one for standard 'I'm talking to you' stuff and one for 'what the hell did you do this time?' stuff.
So I'm not sorry at all! This is the kind of thing that makes a huge difference in stories - I'm writing a set at a kind of 'unspecified point post S2' (ie featuring Ronon) where names get used quite a bit, and I'm finding that it really matters for getting the character voices right!