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Jennifer Keller: An Apologia
Jul. 13th, 2013 08:03 amI meant to finish writing this in time for Meta Month of May or my own recent Stargate Extravaganza, but the lethargy of pregnancy got to me. :) Thankfully, newborns don’t do much more than eat, sleep, and poop, so I’ve had plenty of downtime for writing since my younger daughter has been born.
I don’t think it’s a secret that Jennifer Keller and her canonical romantic relationship with Rodney McKay are roundly disliked by a significant portion of SGA fandom. I like her character very much, and I’ve always been puzzled by many of the reasons I’ve seen given for that dislike. Since the Keller antipathy is pretty inextricably tied up with antipathy for the McKeller ship, I want to address a couple of the most commonly given reasons I’ve seen given that Keller is bad for McKay and by extension just bad news in general. I’ll close out with a brief discussion of one aspect of the accusation that Keller is a Mary Sue.
( Herein lies roughly 2300 words in defense of Jennifer Keller )
So to recap, I don’t understand some of the criticism of Keller’s character, and this is my take on the specific critiques that don’t, in my opinion, have a canonical basis.
I don’t think it’s a secret that Jennifer Keller and her canonical romantic relationship with Rodney McKay are roundly disliked by a significant portion of SGA fandom. I like her character very much, and I’ve always been puzzled by many of the reasons I’ve seen given for that dislike. Since the Keller antipathy is pretty inextricably tied up with antipathy for the McKeller ship, I want to address a couple of the most commonly given reasons I’ve seen given that Keller is bad for McKay and by extension just bad news in general. I’ll close out with a brief discussion of one aspect of the accusation that Keller is a Mary Sue.
( Herein lies roughly 2300 words in defense of Jennifer Keller )
So to recap, I don’t understand some of the criticism of Keller’s character, and this is my take on the specific critiques that don’t, in my opinion, have a canonical basis.
