(and pretty much no f-f friendship, which makes me a sad panda).
Sam and Teyla need girl time too! ;_; I gave them the points for effort in that one episode of SG-1 with Sam and Vala's girl time, even though it came off a little more like a guy's idea of female bonding than actual female bonding.
But a lot of shows that have romantic relationships will show more than the sexual attraction; they'll show the characters bonding over other things, having fun together, talking, sharing interests. While as SG seems to find this part of romance so - boring, or something? - that it's unnecessary.
This is so very true. I'm not exactly a romantic at heart, but I do find myself enjoying those shows where the characters act like real people who have something in common more than the bedroom time. The thing I like about shows like Chuck, the OC, and Big Bang Theory is that while the romance is intended, the actual tangible relationship between the characters -- not just the "romance" -- is explored. It's not always buddy-buddy friendship, but it's not some weird strict division of labor between friendship and romance.
And now Rodney & Keller should have more in common than that, both being super-intelligent geeks, but the show almost goes out of its way not to give us anything. Keller doesn't like physics, Rodney doesn't like medicine (though he pretends to around her) - and we've been given nothing else. They both like beer?
Beer is good. But yeah, they really haven't given us anything -- I think a lot of it is based on extrapolation. If, sometime in the far future where I can forgive the relationship for being conceived by Martin Gero (I really need to get over that), and wanted to write something in which their "relationship" is addressed -- I would have to dig deep and do a lot of sorting in my mind to make it work within the mental framework I have of the characters. Normally, I'm okay with this--but right now I just can't be bothered.
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(and pretty much no f-f friendship, which makes me a sad panda).
Sam and Teyla need girl time too! ;_; I gave them the points for effort in that one episode of SG-1 with Sam and Vala's girl time, even though it came off a little more like a guy's idea of female bonding than actual female bonding.
But a lot of shows that have romantic relationships will show more than the sexual attraction; they'll show the characters bonding over other things, having fun together, talking, sharing interests. While as SG seems to find this part of romance so - boring, or something? - that it's unnecessary.
This is so very true. I'm not exactly a romantic at heart, but I do find myself enjoying those shows where the characters act like real people who have something in common more than the bedroom time. The thing I like about shows like Chuck, the OC, and Big Bang Theory is that while the romance is intended, the actual tangible relationship between the characters -- not just the "romance" -- is explored. It's not always buddy-buddy friendship, but it's not some weird strict division of labor between friendship and romance.
And now Rodney & Keller should have more in common than that, both being super-intelligent geeks, but the show almost goes out of its way not to give us anything. Keller doesn't like physics, Rodney doesn't like medicine (though he pretends to around her) - and we've been given nothing else. They both like beer?
Beer is good. But yeah, they really haven't given us anything -- I think a lot of it is based on extrapolation. If, sometime in the far future where I can forgive the relationship for being conceived by Martin Gero (I really need to get over that), and wanted to write something in which their "relationship" is addressed -- I would have to dig deep and do a lot of sorting in my mind to make it work within the mental framework I have of the characters. Normally, I'm okay with this--but right now I just can't be bothered.