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“I think you can relate to it when you’re young, our age, and when you’re older. There’s always one person in the room that you want to see you. There’s one person that you really wish could actually see you and that person rarely puts their eyes on you. I think that’s the thing between them, they wanted to be seen by one specific person and that’s a very beautiful drama.” —Mads Mikkelsen on Hannibal & Will’s relationship

AND IF THAT’S NOT THE PERFECT SUMMARY OF EXACTLY HOW THEY PLAYED RODNEY MCKAY AND JOHN SHEPPARD. EVERY. SINGLE. SCENE.

And whereas in Hannibal it was apparently a conscious choice, who knows if it was for McShep at the time, (I have a low bar for expectations lately) this is still the way the characters come through on the screen. I will die on this hill.

Rodney is constantly looking up to Sheppard for how to be the tough guy, how to save the day, because it lines up with what his ego says he should be capable of doing, too. And any time he makes a move, he quite literally looks to John for validation of it. This egotistical, arrogant, genius who thinks himself smarter than an entire PLANET, looks to a washed-up flyboy for validation on nearly everything he does in the same relative proximity as the man.

And then there’s John Sheppard who shoots anything he can and then quite literally stops to ask himself “What would McKay do?” if he can’t shoot something. The guy seeks out this nerdy scientist as a friend and as the guy who’ll help him keep Atlantis safe, when he’s got entire teams of trained military expertise that should probably maybe have been his first line of “Defensive” action in many situations. He shows off with math trivia because it makes Rodney practically drool on himself every time it happens. 

That can be read as friendship, it can be read as jealousy, it can be read as brotherly, it can be read as romantic, or it can be read as that ol’ fantasy scenario in which the best friend is the one you end up with because that’s the one who gets you and who chooses you back.

Best. Thing. Evar.

Even in canon they were platonic life partners, each found in the other what they needed even if it was never overtly romantic because neither needed, or even wanted it, the lady in their relationship was Atlantis and that worked for them and it neither needed encouragement or explanation, it just was

But someone (cough naming no names because I don’t need to) heard about mcshep and no homoed the show so hard it knocked Atlantis into another galaxy

And it meant poor Jewell staite played a character who had no point other than the lady who broke up mcshep for reasons because Rodney had a brain transplant obvs

But very much this, because Keller had potential as a cool character for like all of a MINUTE before they did a hard and fast character assassination to shove her at McKay and have her essentially try to change everything about McKay in order to be with him. And then she goes on to be this judgement-queen about Ronon, too, and there’s this “nice” character anti-growth arch for her wherein she becomes a mean person who hates everything about the building blocks of the show.

Shepp is there 5 seasons and gets no character growth compared to what they shoehorned in on keller, and they just used her as a wedge and hammered her into place to screw up the Dynamics of the original crew, literally by having her criticize them. I get that the others were not perfect, but that was what made them entertaining as characters.

And battlestar was airing and going colossally well, because it is that good, and he wanted a slice of that pie but SGA was taking money that could be used to make Stargate Galactica, I mean universe

So he found what the fans liked, hated it, and sabotaged everything to follow new trends without understanding why bsg worked and created a dark lost in space and crashed the franchise 

Then because it wasn’t his fault he skipped the Stargate  literally broke it up and put it in a skip

But the guy who made leverage discovered it and either bought it or took it, and it appears as modern art throughout leverage

So he made the Librarian movies, then Leverage, then the Librarians show. And he would make vague mentions of SG at times, but mostly has I don’t have anything to do with that.

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