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This is about THE scene, y'know which one I'm talking about, and, uh, certain shippers' reactions to it.

Sheppard: Shouldn't you guys be bickering or something?
McKay: We've got nothing to bicker about. *points to Zelenka* He's run out of bad ideas. Finally.
Zelenka: If we survive this, I'm putting in for a transfer.
McKay: Oh, please. We both know you've done your best work under me.
Zelenka: Under you? I am my own department head, you know!
McKay: Please, we know that department's a joke!
Sheppard: Would you two guys just make out and get it over with?

First off, let me just say how much I love the fact that Sheppard is now the Big Gay Yenta of Atlantis. That just rules.

But what's tickling me the most? The reaction of the McShep folks.

Now, honestly, I'm not trying to gloat or anything like that, but c'mon, this was M/Z's moment of gold! McSheppers have their own community dedicated to turning every episode into McShep subtext, and some of them are up in arms about a single scene that scores a point for McKay/Zelenka? C'mon folks, seriously, chill.

*grins* So, far they've been mostly going, "Projecting much," or "OMG, OOC moment! *flail*" or pointing out how IMMEDIATELY afterwards Sheppard and McKay do a mind-meld (even though, um, that's like Mind-meld - M/S - 1, M/Z - 100, dudes).

I'm posting some of the more humorous reactions of McSheppers so far. Anonymous, because otherwise it'd be outright mocking, methinks.

Meh, he said [just make out and get it over with]? If he did, 'tis only cos he's jealous.

The make out line... that was spoken like a man who's in luuuuurve (and more than a little frustrated--Stupid Replicators and their Stupid laser beams--that *he* can't make out with McKay while they plan on saving the day)

However bad the two nerds are, soon as John and Rodney start going at it (and they do! merely seconds later!) its with so much more heat. The whole back-and-forth conversation was gold: GOLD! Best John/Rodney moment EVER!!!!

[Sheppard's] criteria seems to be bickering = you should make out, which means holy god, he and McKay must've been shagging like rabbits since the moment they met.

John telling Zelenka and Rodney to make out because it's his defense mechanism. He is totally JEALOUS.

That was the one thing in this episode that annoyed me, being that it came waaaay out of the fucking blue. Like [name deleted] said, if bickering and picking on each other is a sign of UST, then John and Rodney have been doing it - with extreme prejudice - since the first hour they landed on Atlantis.

*shakes head* So much more heat? Seriously? And I love how Sheppard and McKay's single mind-meld apparently cancels out ALL of McKay and Zelenka's. That's just...hilarious.

And let me just point out this from "The Seige II," one of McKay and Zelenka's numerous mind-melds, thank you. (Hey,