[Condensing here, though it's still two comments long, damn it.]
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John as a character has too many faces, and often not enough transition between them to make me follow him. Instead he comes off as an asshole.
I have tried so hard to figure out why this is, because I think John could be one of those characters I fall head over heels for if I could just get a read on him, but I can't. Who John is in any given episode seems to be a combination of what the story calls for, who wrote the script, and some other indefinable quantity, like what JF had for dinner 37 days before the first full moon of the month the script was written.
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Switching fandoms, Don, in Numb3rs does that sometimes. I mean I *love* Don, he's the reason I watch the show, but every once in a while he'll do something that makes me go :S.
Don and John, yes. I made a post last season sometime about how similar they really were. (Or actually, I might have just been mocking their hair and pants, but meant to write a serious post about how similar they are.) What's different for me is that the writers can really redeem Don. I was incredibly impressed at the end of last season when the writers showed some of the positive changes in Don as a result of his being in therapy, and it just bowled me over. Don's a bit mercurial too, but the writers do a much better job of justifying it to the point that I can usually buy it. Plus, I just love Don. I don't really have that kind of attachment to John.
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and Carter through her brilliance shows him up and then has him exiled to Siberia.
Switching gears back to SGA now. Personally, the Siberia thing has always bothered me. I only saw that episode once and with my goldfish memory I barely remember it, but it's so strange for McKay to go from "She exiled me!" to "I want to romp with her!" Granted, SG-1 McKay, early SGA McKay and later SGA McKay are all different people, but hello, she had him exiled. To Siberia. Because she didn't like him. Can we say bitch? And yet, I still kinda like her, mostly sight unseen. Oh, Stargate -- the tangled web you weave!
Re: SGA S4
I have tried so hard to figure out why this is, because I think John could be one of those characters I fall head over heels for if I could just get a read on him, but I can't. Who John is in any given episode seems to be a combination of what the story calls for, who wrote the script, and some other indefinable quantity, like what JF had for dinner 37 days before the first full moon of the month the script was written.
Don and John, yes. I made a post last season sometime about how similar they really were. (Or actually, I might have just been mocking their hair and pants, but meant to write a serious post about how similar they are.) What's different for me is that the writers can really redeem Don. I was incredibly impressed at the end of last season when the writers showed some of the positive changes in Don as a result of his being in therapy, and it just bowled me over. Don's a bit mercurial too, but the writers do a much better job of justifying it to the point that I can usually buy it. Plus, I just love Don. I don't really have that kind of attachment to John.
Switching gears back to SGA now. Personally, the Siberia thing has always bothered me. I only saw that episode once and with my goldfish memory I barely remember it, but it's so strange for McKay to go from "She exiled me!" to "I want to romp with her!" Granted, SG-1 McKay, early SGA McKay and later SGA McKay are all different people, but hello, she had him exiled. To Siberia. Because she didn't like him. Can we say bitch? And yet, I still kinda like her, mostly sight unseen. Oh, Stargate -- the tangled web you weave!