there's a difference between having a kind bedside manner and being in over your head, and having most everything you say come out sounding like you're scared of something That's it exactly. I like how Jewel played Kaylee on Firefly, and there she was also someone who had decided to take on a role a little over her head and depart into the unknown. But as Keller, yeah, I think she often seemed too nervous to be someone who had signed up for the Stargate program. Especially when (ahhh, what ep?) Carson was talking about all the medical candidates they had and one of them did the...cliff jumping for fun, or whatever.

As for McShep stories...hmmmm...I've read stories that have Rodney break up with Keller amicably and not...ones in which Keller is some kind of evil demoness...and ones in which the author pretends they never happened. I think if I really wanted to write McShep during that time I'd not dwell on them much--some of those stories took so much time to deal with the end of the relationship that they were hardly McShep, you know? Unless maybe that was the point, but then a 15,000 word story about them breaking up, ugh, I don't really find that interesting. The ones I thought dealt with it best went about their McSheppy business and spent a short amount of time with "they hadn't been getting along, and Rodney realized it was because he'd been attracted to John this whole time," and that was about it.

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