it's why they work so well as friends, because they don't demand the other to say the difficult things...
Yes, exactly! You weren't in the fandom yet when "Sunday" aired, but there was a lot of meta-ing about Rodney's "best friend" comment to Carson in that episode. My own reading of that whole situation is that Rodney thinks of Carson that way because Carson used to push Rodney to open up, in a similar way to how Teyla does with John. In some ways, what Rodney's become (a better person, a better friend) he owes to Carson, who wouldn't let him close himself off and push people away. But Carson also wanted more from him than he was able to give -- e.g. the goodbye scene in "Return", or the fishing thing in "Sunday". John, on the other hand, accepts him as he is. John gets him. As of "Sunday", I don't think Rodney really understood what he had, with either John or Carson, but especially with John because the comfort level is so high that he might not even realize that it is friendship -- it just is. With everything that's happened over the last year, it seems that he's starting to realize what he's got, and to reach out and not take for granted that the people around him will always be there.
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it's why they work so well as friends, because they don't demand the other to say the difficult things...
Yes, exactly! You weren't in the fandom yet when "Sunday" aired, but there was a lot of meta-ing about Rodney's "best friend" comment to Carson in that episode. My own reading of that whole situation is that Rodney thinks of Carson that way because Carson used to push Rodney to open up, in a similar way to how Teyla does with John. In some ways, what Rodney's become (a better person, a better friend) he owes to Carson, who wouldn't let him close himself off and push people away. But Carson also wanted more from him than he was able to give -- e.g. the goodbye scene in "Return", or the fishing thing in "Sunday". John, on the other hand, accepts him as he is. John gets him. As of "Sunday", I don't think Rodney really understood what he had, with either John or Carson, but especially with John because the comfort level is so high that he might not even realize that it is friendship -- it just is. With everything that's happened over the last year, it seems that he's starting to realize what he's got, and to reach out and not take for granted that the people around him will always be there.