It's part of the whole insecure 'I have to beef up my favourite's talent/angst/woobiness by doing down his nearest rival on the show' thing. It's as if they can't quite believe the superlativeness of Hewlett if they can't prove it by trashing everything about Flanigan.
There are whole stories out there doing Rodney-angst that can only rack up Rodney's pain by making John so OOC/horrible/vindictive that he's downright unrecognisable. A certain long Vicisstiudes of St Rodney epic is being posted right now, with Rodney's post-Trinity pain augmented by John and Elizabeth being so mean that you can almost read it to a soundtrack of "He was despised" from the Messiah.
Flanigan may never win an Oscar, but he's a created a John Sheppard that I like loads. Hewlett may be the better actor - he's certainly more versatile - but I don't think he needs this sort of pathetic support from his fangurls to prove it. I don't feel the need to denigrate Hewlett in order to bolster my love of Joe - why can't they be grown up enough to return the compliment?
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There are whole stories out there doing Rodney-angst that can only rack up Rodney's pain by making John so OOC/horrible/vindictive that he's downright unrecognisable. A certain long Vicisstiudes of St Rodney epic is being posted right now, with Rodney's post-Trinity pain augmented by John and Elizabeth being so mean that you can almost read it to a soundtrack of "He was despised" from the Messiah.
Flanigan may never win an Oscar, but he's a created a John Sheppard that I like loads. Hewlett may be the better actor - he's certainly more versatile - but I don't think he needs this sort of pathetic support from his fangurls to prove it. I don't feel the need to denigrate Hewlett in order to bolster my love of Joe - why can't they be grown up enough to return the compliment?