I can't help but suspect a little that - at the moment - Rodney wouldn't even be really *willing* to question his way of coding John.
Yes - and therein lies the problem. Given John's unwillingness to break his silence and actually express himself openly to Rodney and also given Rodney's cluelessness as a result of he pre-determined 'coding', there isn't an easy solution. We've already seen that John wasn't going to interfere in Rodney's plans to propose to Katie, so I can quite easily imagine him never 'coming out' to Rodney about his feelings. We've also watched Rodney's response to almost losing John - and so also know that he's unlikely to approach John himself with anything other than friendly relief. Hell, Rodney was all but dying and neither of them did anything!
I think this is why fanfic often relies on the tried and tested trope of having someone else, usually Teyla, point out the obvious to one of the boys. Anything else (brush with death, ending DADT, amnesia, losing Atlantis) has pretty much already been shown not to work in canon. But still, canon has indicated pretty solidly that, despite all this, the feelings are truly there!
Given we're well into the last season, and given that TPTB are never in a million years gonna go for the ending we slashers would like, I can't really see any of the personal relationships on the show ever being completely resolved. I take comfort in the fact that this means we can't get Rodney/Keller and also that I can fix things the way they are supposed to be in fanfic!
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Date: 2008-09-26 01:33 pm (UTC)Yes - and therein lies the problem. Given John's unwillingness to break his silence and actually express himself openly to Rodney and also given Rodney's cluelessness as a result of he pre-determined 'coding', there isn't an easy solution. We've already seen that John wasn't going to interfere in Rodney's plans to propose to Katie, so I can quite easily imagine him never 'coming out' to Rodney about his feelings. We've also watched Rodney's response to almost losing John - and so also know that he's unlikely to approach John himself with anything other than friendly relief. Hell, Rodney was all but dying and neither of them did anything!
I think this is why fanfic often relies on the tried and tested trope of having someone else, usually Teyla, point out the obvious to one of the boys. Anything else (brush with death, ending DADT, amnesia, losing Atlantis) has pretty much already been shown not to work in canon. But still, canon has indicated pretty solidly that, despite all this, the feelings are truly there!
Given we're well into the last season, and given that TPTB are never in a million years gonna go for the ending we slashers would like, I can't really see any of the personal relationships on the show ever being completely resolved. I take comfort in the fact that this means we can't get Rodney/Keller and also that I can fix things the way they are supposed to be in fanfic!
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