YES YES ME TOO! He does terrible and impulsive and bad things, and he gets away with it too often usually on account of good intentions, and when he gets angry he kills people, sometimes en masse - and I still lust after him. However...
in my head, I've kind of found a way to reconcile it all, and it's THIS. *points to story*
... and it's worked wonders in MY head as well, for which I cannot thank you enough.
As for Elizabeth and Rodney's projection - YES! I picked up on John's tendency to project most recently in "The Tower", when he goes all knight in shining armor for that chick who throws herself at him (seriously, he feels compelled to save her and take care of her because she offered him sex!); and the way he talks to McKay in your fic is TOTALLY along those lines - I could HEAR him. Same with Rodney, who's never been a reliable narrator anyway and who, on the show, keeps struggling with guilt over the fact that, hey, people have sacrificed their lives to save his! So of course he'd freak out over his MVP status, and of course he'd pass the freakout onto John. I mean, it's not just logical, it's CANON.
OK, I'm going to stop commenting here obsessively and take this squee over to my LJ. *g*
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Date: 2006-03-06 08:42 am (UTC)in my head, I've kind of found a way to reconcile it all, and it's THIS. *points to story*
... and it's worked wonders in MY head as well, for which I cannot thank you enough.
As for Elizabeth and Rodney's projection - YES! I picked up on John's tendency to project most recently in "The Tower", when he goes all knight in shining armor for that chick who throws herself at him (seriously, he feels compelled to save her and take care of her because she offered him sex!); and the way he talks to McKay in your fic is TOTALLY along those lines - I could HEAR him. Same with Rodney, who's never been a reliable narrator anyway and who, on the show, keeps struggling with guilt over the fact that, hey, people have sacrificed their lives to save his! So of course he'd freak out over his MVP status, and of course he'd pass the freakout onto John. I mean, it's not just logical, it's CANON.
OK, I'm going to stop commenting here obsessively and take this squee over to my LJ. *g*