"yes, it is science fiction, the characters at the heart of these stories are real people, subject to the same hopes, disappointments, and desires as you or I."
My biggest complaint about this argument for shipping is that for 13+ years the Stargate franchise has got on very well thankyou very much without establishing romantic relationships between main characters. Yes, of course the characters are going to get involved, have s.e.x, suffer heartbreak etc etc etc (or at least they would if they were real people), but what I don't understand is why all of a sudden we have to watch it happen. The closest they ever came before to hooking up main characters was Sam and Jack (I don't count Daniel and Vala in the same way I don't count Rodney and Keller in The Last Man - the reset button did its job on both counts) but, obviously, military protocol meant that was never going to be consummated.
My point is that it's all very well to say these things happen in RL so why not on the show, but by showing them on the show they have turned the show into something it never, ever was before. People fart in RL too - are we going to be subjected to the after effects of a too-spicy vindaloo next?
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Date: 2008-12-11 07:04 am (UTC)My biggest complaint about this argument for shipping is that for 13+ years the Stargate franchise has got on very well thankyou very much without establishing romantic relationships between main characters. Yes, of course the characters are going to get involved, have s.e.x, suffer heartbreak etc etc etc (or at least they would if they were real people), but what I don't understand is why all of a sudden we have to watch it happen. The closest they ever came before to hooking up main characters was Sam and Jack (I don't count Daniel and Vala in the same way I don't count Rodney and Keller in The Last Man - the reset button did its job on both counts) but, obviously, military protocol meant that was never going to be consummated.
My point is that it's all very well to say these things happen in RL so why not on the show, but by showing them on the show they have turned the show into something it never, ever was before. People fart in RL too - are we going to be subjected to the after effects of a too-spicy vindaloo next?