"an awkward and disturbing part of the team" - this totally made me crack up for some reason.
You know, at the end of the series the first time around, I think I would've argued about John not really being left with a place, but reading this, I think you're right. Actually, John and Ronon both ended up having their lives defined largely in terms of the team and Atlantis. Rodney and Teyla could both probably be happy anywhere at this point, but neither John nor Ronon have really found their ... long-term future, I guess. (Though, given that's the case, they could always do something like ... become private detectives or mercenaries together, if Atlantis never goes back to Pegasus. XD)
But yeah, I didn't mind the ending nearly as much as a lot of people did. It's very open-ended, I think. They're all together, with a lot of potential future adventures and a number of different ways they could get back to Pegasus, with or without Atlantis. I can think of worse ways they could've ended the series ... and like you, I'm kind of glad they never got around to doing the season six stuff they were planning.
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Date: 2015-02-16 09:33 pm (UTC)You know, at the end of the series the first time around, I think I would've argued about John not really being left with a place, but reading this, I think you're right. Actually, John and Ronon both ended up having their lives defined largely in terms of the team and Atlantis. Rodney and Teyla could both probably be happy anywhere at this point, but neither John nor Ronon have really found their ... long-term future, I guess. (Though, given that's the case, they could always do something like ... become private detectives or mercenaries together, if Atlantis never goes back to Pegasus. XD)
But yeah, I didn't mind the ending nearly as much as a lot of people did. It's very open-ended, I think. They're all together, with a lot of potential future adventures and a number of different ways they could get back to Pegasus, with or without Atlantis. I can think of worse ways they could've ended the series ... and like you, I'm kind of glad they never got around to doing the season six stuff they were planning.