I am astonished by how much I enjoy the romance of Big Bang Theory! I recently got into that, and yeah - I adore Penny, and even though she and Leonard probably are incompatible, I don't really mind their UST. Which says a lot, considering how much UST can grate on me. But yes, it helps that it's a real relationship beyond the UST - it helps, too, that Penny is a fully developed character; she's a believable human being, and she has relationships that aren't about romance (Penny + Sheldon is some of the funniest stuff of the show! They really need to take over the world together.)
That's one of the nice things about getting into NCIS now, too, there's female characters that I really like, on their own and in relation to the other characters. Heck, at this point I'm so fond of all the relationships that they could probably make a 'ship among any of the mains, and I wouldn't freak out...
...Geeze. SGA is just bad at writing female characters. I keep thinking that I've got some weird misogynist tendencies, and then I watch all these shows where I love the girls...it's not me, SGA, it's you! (Though they are dynamite at picking incredibly charismatic, likable actresses...I love Sam at least 70% because of Amanda Tapping, and Rachel Luttrell makes Teyla. I feel sorry for Jewel Staite, she's awesome and she deserves better than this!)
But yeah, they really haven't given us anything -- I think a lot of it is based on extrapolation.
As far as I can tell, even the folks who do like McKeller more like it for the potential (Rodney finally getting married like he thinks he wants) than what we've actually seen...because we've seen so little. And yeah, sometimes I'm willing to fill in the details, but this 'ship has been such an ill-conceived hack-job that I'm just gonna skip it. XP
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That's one of the nice things about getting into NCIS now, too, there's female characters that I really like, on their own and in relation to the other characters. Heck, at this point I'm so fond of all the relationships that they could probably make a 'ship among any of the mains, and I wouldn't freak out...
...Geeze. SGA is just bad at writing female characters. I keep thinking that I've got some weird misogynist tendencies, and then I watch all these shows where I love the girls...it's not me, SGA, it's you! (Though they are dynamite at picking incredibly charismatic, likable actresses...I love Sam at least 70% because of Amanda Tapping, and Rachel Luttrell makes Teyla. I feel sorry for Jewel Staite, she's awesome and she deserves better than this!)
But yeah, they really haven't given us anything -- I think a lot of it is based on extrapolation.
As far as I can tell, even the folks who do like McKeller more like it for the potential (Rodney finally getting married like he thinks he wants) than what we've actually seen...because we've seen so little. And yeah, sometimes I'm willing to fill in the details, but this 'ship has been such an ill-conceived hack-job that I'm just gonna skip it. XP
Martin Gero is a moron!