Prior to this episode, the version of John's parents that I have loved the most -- and the one that I felt rang truest -- was in a story I read some time back, in which John had gone most of his life believing that his parents hated him, when in reality they simply didn't know how to deal with his emotionally closed-off nature. My description really doesn't do justice to it, because it was really a wonderfully drawn character portrait -- his parents being naturally open and somewhat pushy about it, John being very private and close with his emotions, and the three of them going their whole lives ... well, up to the time of the story ... with his parents believing that John didn't love them, and John shutting them out because he couldn't live up to what he thought he had to be in order to be loved. It really stuck in my head because it made me think "Yeah, that's just so right!" I think it'd become a sort of personal canon for me, and one thing I loved about this episode is that it actually came pretty close to that.
That said, I do wish they would do the same sort of thing when other characters are not in an episode...say a scene with Ronon in last weeks episode or at least a mention of Teyla in either.
Yeah, I agree. Just a throwaway line of dialogue would do ...!
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That said, I do wish they would do the same sort of thing when other characters are not in an episode...say a scene with Ronon in last weeks episode or at least a mention of Teyla in either.
Yeah, I agree. Just a throwaway line of dialogue would do ...!