SGA Saturday

Exactly. Rodney can be who he is, an average looking middle-aged socially mal-adjusted geek, and still be the hero of a show and be rewarded with the woman of his dreams, but someone like Dr Biro or Dr Novak (another character I would have loved to see more of) are somehow too scary to get more than a couple of minutes worth of screen time. :/

I like het in theory, but way too often het changes the characters in ways that slash don't. I like my John Sheppard to be bad-ass and affable and a little goofy, and not turn into Edward Cullen just because he's paired with a woman instead of a man. There is definitely good het around, but a lot of the time, the man's personality will be rewritten so he fits into the mould of 'love interest', and I hate that.

ETA: That's not to say that there's not a lot of good SGA het around, or that slash doesn't come with its own share of issues.