Unfortunately that quote makes me sound rather anti-Rodney and I hope I don't get a bunch of flames out of it A couple things on this: 1) I highly doubt anyone on my flist would flame you. Even the rabid Rodney fans. :P (although, for god's sake, if you *do* please let me know. Because I didn't choose to quote you because I think you're wrong, I did it because I respected what you said, and I would hate it if anyone gave you grief over what I've said here). 2) I don't think your quotes come off as being anti-Rodney at all. Hell the first quote from you says you don't understand how someone could dislike half of their pairing. And the second quote is about John, and doesn't, to me, reflect on your thoughts about Rodney at all. I've added an ETA to my post, but really, I don't think you need to worry, and I'm sorry if I made you do so. 3) The reason why I quoted you, instead of just making this a random meta quote out of nowhere, is because I think what you said was very well done, and summed up a lot of things that rabid Rodney lovers miss, but do all the time. I never would have been able to get that point across as clearly and simply as you did. It made me stop and think about what I do, and even though this post is all about me excusing the Rodney fan's actions that drive you crazy, it's really more of a complaint against TPTB and not against other fans.
the one they chose is John I think the reason why people choose John the most is, well, because of all the characters on the show, they're the most well developed, and they're the characters we ship. If we see John act out against Rodney, it hits us a bit harder because we feel that they should be in love and not mean like that to us. I'm... trying to think of situations where Rodney has been mean to John, but I'm actually drawing a blank, but that could totally be my blinders on. Also, because John and Rodney seem to get in trouble together, or get into equal amounts of trouble it's a lot easier to compare them, rather than, say Rodney and Ford, or Rodney and Teyla, because we don't see those two getting into the same situations as we would Rodney or John.
I think Rodney as a character stands on his own merits high enough that he doesn't need boosting from character assassination. That's very true. I think for a lot of people, especially if there is a really unbalanced amount of love for one character in a pairing, we just... have trouble understanding why others don't care for our favourite character as much as we do, or god, why would you love the other more? You're just the more balanced person (and probably more sane for it) in the equation :P
That said, I don't think it's always character assassination to draw parallels between two characters, nor to say, "I can't get behind character X because of this list of character flaws". Sometimes they just end up mashed up in the same sentence.
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A couple things on this:
1) I highly doubt anyone on my flist would flame you. Even the rabid Rodney fans. :P (although, for god's sake, if you *do* please let me know. Because I didn't choose to quote you because I think you're wrong, I did it because I respected what you said, and I would hate it if anyone gave you grief over what I've said here).
2) I don't think your quotes come off as being anti-Rodney at all. Hell the first quote from you says you don't understand how someone could dislike half of their pairing. And the second quote is about John, and doesn't, to me, reflect on your thoughts about Rodney at all.
I've added an ETA to my post, but really, I don't think you need to worry, and I'm sorry if I made you do so.
3) The reason why I quoted you, instead of just making this a random meta quote out of nowhere, is because I think what you said was very well done, and summed up a lot of things that rabid Rodney lovers miss, but do all the time. I never would have been able to get that point across as clearly and simply as you did. It made me stop and think about what I do, and even though this post is all about me excusing the Rodney fan's actions that drive you crazy, it's really more of a complaint against TPTB and not against other fans.
the one they chose is John
I think the reason why people choose John the most is, well, because of all the characters on the show, they're the most well developed, and they're the characters we ship. If we see John act out against Rodney, it hits us a bit harder because we feel that they should be in love and not mean like that to us.
I'm... trying to think of situations where Rodney has been mean to John, but I'm actually drawing a blank, but that could totally be my blinders on.
Also, because John and Rodney seem to get in trouble together, or get into equal amounts of trouble it's a lot easier to compare them, rather than, say Rodney and Ford, or Rodney and Teyla, because we don't see those two getting into the same situations as we would Rodney or John.
I think Rodney as a character stands on his own merits high enough that he doesn't need boosting from character assassination.
That's very true. I think for a lot of people, especially if there is a really unbalanced amount of love for one character in a pairing, we just... have trouble understanding why others don't care for our favourite character as much as we do, or god, why would you love the other more? You're just the more balanced person (and probably more sane for it) in the equation :P
That said, I don't think it's always character assassination to draw parallels between two characters, nor to say, "I can't get behind character X because of this list of character flaws". Sometimes they just end up mashed up in the same sentence.