etben | SGA! and a little SG-1

Dear My Show,

Now, as you already know, you are mine and I am yours. You did know that, right? I'm never going to give you up. It's pretty much a done deal, at this point: I love you with every fiber of my being, and nothing will ever ever change that.

Still, I have to admit: I have doubted you. This whole Michael storyline...I mean, I'll go where you take me, and I'll love every minute of it, but I'll spend a lot of time squeezing my pillow and whimpering and occasionally shouting at John Sheppard to not be a tremendous dick. I will always love you, show, but I've been feeling a little worried about you, lately.

All that is in the past, now. You have given me everything I ever loved about you: snarky banter, Rodney McKay being tremendously clever and explaining things, John Sheppard being completely not straight at all (and also bad with people in a dorky-cute way), completely bizarre pseudo-science, a crisis-that-really-really-is-a-crisis-but-that-also-is-the-best-kind-of-absurd, team love and worry, John and Rodney being mad geeky together, Ronon being sexy, good triumphing over evil.

AND we now have canon jokes about John's hair. Seriously, show, could I possibly love you more?

All my love,

etben

Now, Dear (one of) My Fandom(s),

OK - I know I've been leaving you alone for a while. I'm sorry, really I am - work, and then car trouble, and then...well, and then it's now. I've been thinking of you this whole time, I promise! And as soon as I can focus enough to write, I have stories for you.

But, right now I need a favor. Or, well, a few favors.

Please, somebody, somewhere, write these stories:

the story of john getting attracted to Rodney and thinking it's the serum and being awkward about it (shutup it would be shmoopy and dumb and I would love you FOREVER if you wrote it)

the story about how John, possibly the least straight person on Atlantis, is the only one who ISN'T attracted to Lucius

the story (going back to 3.1, which I watched this afternoon) where John starts paying more attention to Rodney (and Radek), as per his bizarre little flashback thing on the hiveship (and sex ensues)

the story about how John learned to fly a spaceship, because it's not exactly the same as flying a plane, right? right? so he must have learned, at some point, unless he's just naturally incredible, and no, I'm sorry: that's Rodney's job. (it's more than a little possible that this fic involves the phrase "the enemy's gate is down", because I'm Wrong Like That.)

something involving Elizabeth and Woolsey, possibly in a romantic context, because, again: I am Wrong Like That. Or maybe that's a different kind of wrong? Doesn't matter, really; I'm wrong in a number of different ways.

So, yeah. Get on that, won't you? I'd do it myself, but I'm busy making Rodney have sex with his alternate-universe (female) self, making him think he's hallucinating John Sheppard, making him ~~have sex with~~ banter wittily with Ray Kowalski and Benton Fraser, and making him sing. And, um, possibly setting Ronon up with a hot linguist, because...because, OK? The point is that I'm busy, and so YOU ALL should write me these stories.

Or just send porn.

Lots of love,

etben

I also caught a few minutes (or, ok, forty minutes) of , and...um, what? I mean, first of all, I really wish they'd warn us about crossover episodes, because I totally didn't see this one coming. And it seems like it's a pretty big plot point, except that I missed the part at the beginning where they were explaining it all, so I've really just got Teal'c talking slowly, Daniel Jackson raising my favorite linguistic issue ever, and...everyone else being a total dick to Rodney.

I mean, the lemon thing? No. Fucking no, man. That is absolutely not on. I dig the part where John told that other guy (is he cameron? *is totally oblivious to shows other than Her Show*) that Rodney's great in crisis situations, because that brings to mind the two of them sitting around and John bragging about his ~~boyfriend~~ teammate.

But bringing out a lemon and waving it in Rodney's face? ...um, I'm going to go with a no on that one. I can see it working for John - don't think that he would, mind you, but I can see the two of them growing old together on Atlantis and John waving a little lemon at Rodney to make him work faster, and Rodney just flapping his hand and ignoring John and saying, "yes, fine, whatever" about it. Really, that could be interesting as a response to this episode - Rodney mentions it, and John freaks out and yells at Cameron (and possibly has sex with Rodney), and the next time he's trying to make Rodney hurry for less-than-crisis reasons, Rodney says something snippy about "what, no lemon to hurry me up?" (or, no: maybe that's how John finds out? fuck. I don't want to write this!) and it's completely inappropriate and also really damn funny, and then it's a thing.

But coming from someone not John Sheppard, and in the situation of the episode? Dude, SG-1. There is a reason that you are Not My Show.

ETA: OK, so I now realize that I didn't see as much of the show as I thought I had. Hmm. Don't want to download, but I really may have to, just to get a sense of the intent. Gosh darn you, SG1! I don't want to like you! Even if s1 carter is absurdly cute...

In non-spoilery news...I'm home! And have been binging on fic and show. Any recs, people? I know, I know: I begged for them a while ago, and you came through in spades. Still...got any more of the good stuff?