SGA - my Sheppard/McKay story in seasons 1-3

[wickedwords]

I am so excited that SGA is starting back up again tonight. I want to see if things kinda turn out like I expected. Looking back on the last few years with a McShep eye, here's what I saw as themes:

Season One: John and Rodney discover Atlantis and each other. They have a lot of fun getting to know each other, and it slides into sex around the time of the Defiant One. Then the Wraith show up, and those two weeks before the Siege are some of the most intense emotional and sexual experiences either of them has ever had. But when the Daedelus shows up to rescue them (yay!), reality crashes down on them both. OH NOES! What have they been doing?

Season two: Was all about finding their feet with each other, after that intense emotional rush from the seige and the shakeup of coming in contact with earth again. So things were shaky at times, and their emotional connections stretched as they learn what their boundaries are now that they are back in the 'real world.'

Season three: It's about family. After all that dancing around and relearning each other, John and Rodney have come to understand how solid they are with each other, and what their teasing really means. They are each trying to make a life for themselves in Atlantis, and Rodney is still looking for the white picket fence that John gave up on with his divorce. John's vision of the future is pretty scaled back, and what he has now is the best thing that he could hope to have. They sleep together occasionally, but Rodney is still looking around for his perfect life.

And that's where they are at as we go into season 4.

Comments

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

I really, truly adore the way you think.

::squees in happy Season 4 glee::

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

I really want to watch the show that's in your head. :D

So, if I might make a guess about Season 4: you're looking for the tension over Rodney and John's different visions of their lives and futures to come to a head? Possibly spurred by the arrival of Sam, both as a reminder of Rodney's (former?) interest in her and as an undermining of John's place on Atlantis?

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Sam becomes the burr in John's side, and he tries really hard to not let it get to him, becoming almost overly-pleasant. Rodney, who has this separation between his vision of what his life should be like and his relationship with John, doesn't really notice; his schizm between reality and fantasy means that he can just ignore it. So that split becomes a bigger and bigger source of tension just as you said.

Hee! I am such an angst queen. While other people write happy endings between the seasons, I'm writing break-up stories.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Starting off with a slashy premise helps me fanwank during the actual show.

[emyrys.livejournal.com]

yes, I agree -- those are exactly what happened season by season.

You are very astute to have discerned the oh-so-blatant carefully hidden themes :-).

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

I'd really like the 'nice abs' theme one of these seasons, wouldn't you?

[arallara.livejournal.com]

Niiiiice.... I like your arc!

SGA is my first "live" media fandom (RPS is a whole other thing), and I think I haven't quite figured out yet how to build my personal slashy narrative arc out of the canon while the canon is still open. With my closed canon fandoms, I could watch the whole thing from beginning to end multiple times until my "vision" of the characters' relationship emerged from all the details. I'm having a hard time getting a handle on my take on John/Rodney. Which is nice in some ways, I suppose, because it means I'm more easily convinced by a variety of different approaches from various SGA writers. But I think it's also an obstacle for me when I get the occasional urges to try writing in this fandom.

Anyway, I like your version here. :) And I hope you post along the way during the season about how the fourth season fits with the relationship narrative you've built over the first three seasons.

Spoiler free squeeeeeee

[emyrys.livejournal.com]

I am LOVING this episode!!!!!

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

oh, you are so, so clever! I love these themes you expound, and your vision of the characters...

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Episode 1 fits in with things for the most part, so we'll have to see how it goes. I expect more changes in the show this year, and I'm not sure how the characterizations will spin, but today, I am happy and full of squee.

Then again, I am totally gone on the boys, so it takes very little to make me happy.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We'll have to see how this works as the season progresses, but I am always willing to adapt my theories up until they completely break. *g*