there were certainly enough people who were furious with Sam going off with Pete.
Past tense? Although maybe I'm just unearthing the old fic. My issues with Pete never got logical grounding (he has the Deluise chin. I have a deep, abiding dislike of the Deluise chin and, you know, screw the storyline. Big. Square. Chin) but... gah. I think anytime a hint of "betrayal" rears its head, fandom drops like a bomb on the accused party. Because fandom's melodramatic and likes nothing better than to wallow in but you're breaking his/her/its heart!!. And it's always worse when it's the woman.
Or when it's the character that fandom's invested in (and i don't want to make assumptions, being completely uninvolved, but I'd guess that there's a fair few John/Teyla shippers that just want to pair John off with a female not-Elizabeth and Teyla was there... Which, I'd guess, would leave Teyla trying to live up to the standards needed to be "John's girl"? As always, my ability to be wrong is never in question).
Or maybe I've overdosed on cynicism today.
Torchwood, I only wade into for the fic (because god help me, I've started 'shipping it. Or whatever you call canon m/m) and avoid the batshit.
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Past tense? Although maybe I'm just unearthing the old fic. My issues with Pete never got logical grounding (he has the Deluise chin. I have a deep, abiding dislike of the Deluise chin and, you know, screw the storyline. Big. Square. Chin) but... gah. I think anytime a hint of "betrayal" rears its head, fandom drops like a bomb on the accused party. Because fandom's melodramatic and likes nothing better than to wallow in but you're breaking his/her/its heart!!. And it's always worse when it's the woman.
Or when it's the character that fandom's invested in (and i don't want to make assumptions, being completely uninvolved, but I'd guess that there's a fair few John/Teyla shippers that just want to pair John off with a female not-Elizabeth and Teyla was there... Which, I'd guess, would leave Teyla trying to live up to the standards needed to be "John's girl"? As always, my ability to be wrong is never in question).
Or maybe I've overdosed on cynicism today.
Torchwood, I only wade into for the fic (because god help me, I've started 'shipping it. Or whatever you call canon m/m) and avoid the batshit.