Sam & Jack are a couple but Daniel is Jack's best friend, because Sam couldn't possibly be.
Maybe there-in lies the problem. I have no problem with romance itself, but I'm not going to feel it or believe it if the people don't seem to like each other as people, rather than lust for each other. I think there are plenty of shows that show this well, how friends can transition to romance, but still be friends. It just baffles me why this seems to be an issue with the SG writers. Is it the "Big Damn Heroes" and the "Big Damn Sci-Fi/Action Show" mindset? If they get too mushy will all the college boys get turned off?
Actually, I don't know if this is about romance, or rather the belief that men and women completely lack the grounds to be friends, and can only ever relate to one another romantically.
It almost seems like that... but then you do have Teyla interacting with her teammates in a non-romantic manner. She and Rodney don't interact much, but when they do it's more like siblings than anything resembling UST. She and Ronon are so very much brother and sister (rolling her eyes at him at the beginning of "Progeny" for some reason cracks me up to this very day.) I really don't see anything romantic between her and John either, just two very close friends.
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Maybe there-in lies the problem. I have no problem with romance itself, but I'm not going to feel it or believe it if the people don't seem to like each other as people, rather than lust for each other. I think there are plenty of shows that show this well, how friends can transition to romance, but still be friends. It just baffles me why this seems to be an issue with the SG writers. Is it the "Big Damn Heroes" and the "Big Damn Sci-Fi/Action Show" mindset? If they get too mushy will all the college boys get turned off?
Actually, I don't know if this is about romance, or rather the belief that men and women completely lack the grounds to be friends, and can only ever relate to one another romantically.
It almost seems like that... but then you do have Teyla interacting with her teammates in a non-romantic manner. She and Rodney don't interact much, but when they do it's more like siblings than anything resembling UST. She and Ronon are so very much brother and sister (rolling her eyes at him at the beginning of "Progeny" for some reason cracks me up to this very day.) I really don't see anything romantic between her and John either, just two very close friends.