Gnine

To be perfectly honest with you, looking at your previous list, I think this would be a total waste of your time and mine. I can make a list, and then what? Mine will be as subjective as yours will, and we'll butt heads over whether any item on the list should "really" be on there, and nothing will be accomplished except to frustrate us both.

All that this debate is doing for me so far is making me sad and frustrated and, worse, making me kinda dislike Rodney. *g* There's nothing like vehemently having one character's virtues praised over another to make me resent the popular character, and I was already getting to that point with the McShep vs. Rodney/Keller factions. The active anti-Keller sentiment among John/Rodney shippers over the last couple of weeks has honestly gotten me to the point where, right now, I wouldn't touch a McShep fic with a ten-foot pole. (I actually tried reading one last night. I had to skip over the John/Rodney scenes and eventually gave up.) What your pro-Rodney list is mainly doing for me right now is starting to convince me that the anti-Rodney crowd is right, that Gero et all really *do* write him as a gigantic self-insert, and I'm starting to see why the anti-Rodney people are so frustrated by his large role in the show. I don't want to end up hating Rodney, and I'm starting to feel like I'm sliding down that road. I'm not convincing you, you're not convincing me, and this is leaving me angry and disillusioned with the rampant partisanship of fandom. The last thing I want to do is find myself an unwilling participant in a ship-war. So I think this is a good time for me to disengage.