![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sga: i have questions and i need answers!
Mar. 17th, 2006 01:27 pmCalling my List!
Is it detrimental to my health to be watching these SGA episodes tail to tail? Was it less mentally destabling for those of you who saw them in timed week-by-week drip feeds on television? Am I going to be suffering from Stargateglut?
When I first discovered fanon and read SGA fic and had no clue at all about canon, I asked people on my List: why are so many fics about Rodney and Sheppard? The fic that lured me into SGA had, after all, been![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
julad's Rodney/Zelenka so I was kind of surprised not to find hundreds of Zelenka fics out there. Instead, I found hundreds of Sheppard/McKay fics.
Why? Various people told me it was because of canon. That Rodney and Sheppard had this chemistry in canon, that they were always sparring and in situations together.
NOT TRUE!! I believed this because I knew no canon, and I approached canon with much expectation of the Rodney/John goodness. But NO! In 90 percent of the episodes I have watched so far, they do not interact much at all! They are rarely in two-shots together. Most of the time, in fact, they inhabit parallel plot lines. So one of them will be off-world while the other one is doing something on Atlantis, or one of them will be in a coma somewhere while the other one is out in space or under water or in a different geographical location altogether. There is a lot of 'meanwhile back on the farm' between Rodney and Sheppard. And the sparring? So mild, so unchemistry. Rodney/Sheppard is totally not canon! It is all FANON!
Next discovery I make while glued to the SGA ep screen is that a) McKay is God's gift to women, b) McKay loves short-haired blondes and is forever kissing women or fantasising about kissing women in every third episode I've watched, and is so totally het it is mega-cute and yes, the hetter the man, the hotter the slash, and c) McKay interacts a lot with Zelenka.
It is not the OTP McKay/Sheppard that is canon. No! It is the OTP McKay/Zelenka!! I knew it!!!
In the episodes I have watched, I have seen McKay and Zelenka spar, debate, insult each other, spar some more, talk rapidfire science, gaze deeply into each other's eyes, gaze deeply into each other's eyes some more, press their nipples up against their sciency nylon T-shirts, and spar some more.
When I asked what episode do you rec me to watch first, people recced 'Trinity'. Now I realise that they recced this because it is one of the very few, few episodes in which we have some McKay/Sheppard gazing!
Given the deep indifference of McKay to Sheppard in canon (deep slashy indifference, that is; no doubt he esteems him as a colleague blah blah but he does not gaze deeply), where then does the OTPishness in fanon come from? I need a new theory, people. Is it born from the marysueish lust for the rugged good looks of Sheppard that the fans harbour, rather than McKay harbours? And why do the fans lust for the rugged good looks of Sheppard? Why not for the handsome smooth looks of Aiden Ford? Is this because fans prefer white men to brown?
Speaking of brown: someone suggested that the 'random black man' seen by t'h on t'screen was Ford. But the name of Ford's actor is Rainbow Sun Francks. I am not American but this strikes me not as an African American name but as a Native American name. So Ford is not black! He's less black than Lt Uhura!! Plus ¸a change.
I had forgotten how interesting it is to be immersed in a canon. I had forgotten that canon immersion can actually enhance fanon appreciation and fandom involvement. I had forgotten that canon is a wonderful remedy against fanon and enables me, at any rate, to appropriate the whole thing, canon/fanon, for my own purposes.
Because, of course, I continue to insist that Harry/Dudley is the true canon of HP, not Harry/Draco.
I discover that it is not that I am resistant to canon as such but that I have my own take on canon.cathexys would probably call this mycanon, heh.
*cackles perversely as is my wont every four months or so*
Now I must scuttle back to t'realbook. 3,500 words down, 1,500 to go to the end of the Introduction.
Is it detrimental to my health to be watching these SGA episodes tail to tail? Was it less mentally destabling for those of you who saw them in timed week-by-week drip feeds on television? Am I going to be suffering from Stargateglut?
When I first discovered fanon and read SGA fic and had no clue at all about canon, I asked people on my List: why are so many fics about Rodney and Sheppard? The fic that lured me into SGA had, after all, been
julad's Rodney/Zelenka so I was kind of surprised not to find hundreds of Zelenka fics out there. Instead, I found hundreds of Sheppard/McKay fics.Why? Various people told me it was because of canon. That Rodney and Sheppard had this chemistry in canon, that they were always sparring and in situations together.
NOT TRUE!! I believed this because I knew no canon, and I approached canon with much expectation of the Rodney/John goodness. But NO! In 90 percent of the episodes I have watched so far, they do not interact much at all! They are rarely in two-shots together. Most of the time, in fact, they inhabit parallel plot lines. So one of them will be off-world while the other one is doing something on Atlantis, or one of them will be in a coma somewhere while the other one is out in space or under water or in a different geographical location altogether. There is a lot of 'meanwhile back on the farm' between Rodney and Sheppard. And the sparring? So mild, so unchemistry. Rodney/Sheppard is totally not canon! It is all FANON!
Next discovery I make while glued to the SGA ep screen is that a) McKay is God's gift to women, b) McKay loves short-haired blondes and is forever kissing women or fantasising about kissing women in every third episode I've watched, and is so totally het it is mega-cute and yes, the hetter the man, the hotter the slash, and c) McKay interacts a lot with Zelenka.
It is not the OTP McKay/Sheppard that is canon. No! It is the OTP McKay/Zelenka!! I knew it!!!
In the episodes I have watched, I have seen McKay and Zelenka spar, debate, insult each other, spar some more, talk rapidfire science, gaze deeply into each other's eyes, gaze deeply into each other's eyes some more, press their nipples up against their sciency nylon T-shirts, and spar some more.
When I asked what episode do you rec me to watch first, people recced 'Trinity'. Now I realise that they recced this because it is one of the very few, few episodes in which we have some McKay/Sheppard gazing!
Given the deep indifference of McKay to Sheppard in canon (deep slashy indifference, that is; no doubt he esteems him as a colleague blah blah but he does not gaze deeply), where then does the OTPishness in fanon come from? I need a new theory, people. Is it born from the marysueish lust for the rugged good looks of Sheppard that the fans harbour, rather than McKay harbours? And why do the fans lust for the rugged good looks of Sheppard? Why not for the handsome smooth looks of Aiden Ford? Is this because fans prefer white men to brown?
Speaking of brown: someone suggested that the 'random black man' seen by t'h on t'screen was Ford. But the name of Ford's actor is Rainbow Sun Francks. I am not American but this strikes me not as an African American name but as a Native American name. So Ford is not black! He's less black than Lt Uhura!! Plus ¸a change.
I had forgotten how interesting it is to be immersed in a canon. I had forgotten that canon immersion can actually enhance fanon appreciation and fandom involvement. I had forgotten that canon is a wonderful remedy against fanon and enables me, at any rate, to appropriate the whole thing, canon/fanon, for my own purposes.
Because, of course, I continue to insist that Harry/Dudley is the true canon of HP, not Harry/Draco.
I discover that it is not that I am resistant to canon as such but that I have my own take on canon.
cathexys would probably call this mycanon, heh.*cackles perversely as is my wont every four months or so*
Now I must scuttle back to t'realbook. 3,500 words down, 1,500 to go to the end of the Introduction.