'k, thankee! Because given what I've seen of Atlantis so far, there would have to have been some major personality changes for John/Rodney to work believably. As for homoerotic subtexts ~shudders~ Damn, it irritates me that the fandom public can't seem to accept the idea that two people of the same sex can have a deep, emotionally intimate friendship that doesn't automatically have to be romantic or even sexual in its nature. Slash started with fanfics about Kirk/Spock, which was and ever will be plain ridiculous. Kirk as Roddenberry depicted him was well toward the hypermasculine end of the sexual bell curve, and Spock was to all intents and purposes an alien, whose emotions were carefully structured and whose sex life, apart from the times of pon farr, was nonexistent. And as for the whole Potterverse thing, eurrrgh, don't get me started :-(

Wouldn't it be interesting, though, to actually see a gay relationship in an SF show?

Huh? You mean there isn't? But surely...blimey, that's just plain strange. Maybe I've spent so much of my life chronicling same-sex activities in my own sf that I just assumed 'twas there in other published/screened things!

...hand on a sodding minute! Willow! Hah!

...or does Buffy just qualify as fantasy...?