I now officially hate Weir, Sheppard, Dex and McKay. The sanctioned torture.
It's not relevant that their victim turned out to be innocent in the end. It's not relevant that he fainted before he could actually be hurt by his torturer. It's not relevant that Weir might have had the slightest twinge of remorse afterwards. It's not important that McKay "only" kept silent instead of actually ordering it - like Weir (with her words) and Sheppard (with his nod).
This can't be excused or explained away. There is always another way.
Stooping to torture makes you less than human. It turns you into a monster.
I only watch a series whose characters I like, whose characters I root for. I cannot root for monsters. I was bawling the whole time since that first order by Weir and nod by Sheppard. I cried because I had to watch my heroes turn into people I no longer recognized.
And if anyone just dares imply that Kavanagh brought it all onto himself by being uncooperative, a jerk and by bashing poor Lizzie, I am gonna go mental. In contrast to everyone else, he had her pegged since "38 Minutes", and I applauded him when he accused her of being incompetent during his first "interview" in "Critical Mass". I always felt that when she tore into him during that jumper-stuck-in-the-gate fiasco, she was needlessly cruel, dismissive, unreasonable and just plain old wrong. He was concerned - there was no indication that he advised caution because he was a coward. That was only something she decided to interpret into his words and dress him viciously down for in public.
Atlantis is the SGC's Guatanamo Bay - be suspected, be accused, be held without access to a legal representative, be convicted without a trial or being heard, be tortured.
Somehow I am certain Kavanagh will not get ten minutes of grovelling and begging for forgiveness by Weir and her cohorts in the next episode. And they are the people I am supposed to be a fan of.
Strangely enough, I don't have the stomach for some McShep lovin' right now. Actually, I kind of wish their dicks fell off.
I had plans to write a post-"Trinity" fic in which Kavanagh had to correct the timeline by finding and working with an AU Rodney McKay, and they turned into something like friends - very much to Sheppard's consternation. I wanted to redeem Kavanagh, and show Sheppard that McKay did not depend on his friendship. Now I would have to redeem McKay, and I just don't feel like doing that at the moment.
And thankfully I'm not the only one broken up over this, as evidenced by this and this. The majority seems to be ignoring the issue, but at least not all of fandom does.
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You know, even though some of us did not have as strong a reaction as you I truly believe that most of us saw the issues, saw the way they were handled and were not impressed. But to me it doesn't really change my view of Sheppard and McKay at least. This is how I see it: I have an idea of who these people are and just because one writer (or a whole raft of writers) tries to sell me a line about what they would or would not do, I don't have to buy it. Personally I think we allow ourselves to be sold too, too, many times by the media and I am now at the point where I simply refuse to play. It didn't bother me as much as it did you because I don't buy into their view of the world. You know it's not just the slash - it only starts there. If you don't buy into the heterocentricity of their world what keeps you buying into the morality(or lack thereof) of their world? If they stop me liking the characters then somehow they've managed to get inside my head and impose their worldview on me. I refuse to let anyone do that. Especially a bunch of guys on the other side of the world whom I've never met and possibly wouldn't care to spend more than a few minutes with if I did. Think about it: they're controlling your reactions and that is never a good thing. If you liked them before, despite the very human flaws they embodied, why allow someone else to change that? This 'canon' is just fanfic made by conventional ficcers. It's just someone's version of reality which I can either accept or...not.
And the fic idea is exactly what I'd love to read. Come on, don't let anyone get to you like that. I've had my moments when I absolutely detested John Sheppard, but I always get over it, because he lives in my head, but not the version brought to an unsuspecting, hypnotised public every week in the conventional ficcers version of 'reality'. Take control of your reality, don't let it be dictated to you.
You don't know me but I used to haunt your rec pages back in the day. You introduced me to JAG slash which I loved and I always read your comments with interest, so do forgive my presumption.
Unfortunately, I cannot subscribe to fanon-over-canon so easily. Yes, I know I'm being manipulated by the writers -- in fact, we Rodney McKay fans have been shaken up and pushed around a lot ever since we had to suffer through that infamous scene in "The Siege Part 3" --, but my denial button rarely works for me when I'm involved in a series that's still in production.
Richie Ryan's death in "Highlander - The Series", for example, didn't register even as a blip on the radar for me when I was all into Duncan MacLeod/Methos. But that was only because I knew about it beforehand and was therefore able to set it in relation to the series as a whole. Which was because the series had over for quite some time, and the fans had made their peace with its developments, and incorporated all the resulting conflict into their fanfic.
I was hooked onto SG:A when not even half of its first season had aired. I kept waiting with bated breath for the next new episode.
I've gotten too close. I need to take that step back you've advised. Problem: Stepping back usually means I abandon a fandom, and I'm afraid that -- since I don't think I'll ever make my peace with the developments in "Critical Mass" -- the very same thing is going to happen here.
Where's that nice river in Egypt when you need it?!