I am so, so glad you responded to my comment on seperis' lj because if you hadn't I never would've found my way over to your posts about the finale. And can I just say how happy-making it is to finally have found someone who saw the events of Last Man in the same light that I did? I will definitely have to check out your flist for more like-minded commentary.
The end...it felt like A.I., kept reaching good endings, several times, and then not ending. I kinda wanted it to end with Sheppard getting put into cold storage, or else with him coming back through the gate.
Yeah, I could've done without the tagged on present ending because we all know they're gonna survive and be on to their next adventure in like the first fifteen minutes of the premiere so it's not much of a cliffhanger.
This whole season we've noted that they seem to make a particular effort to give us a Sheppard-McKay scene every ep. So to top it off they give us an entire ep - no alien princess, just the two of them alone in an empty future and talking.
As a McShep fan, I thought there was a real lovely symmetry here to the finale.
Rodney's supposed to be the egotistical one but he doesn't want to talk about himself; John has to drag it out of him. And John has to know, because Rodney matters.
This was one of the most significant bits of McShepness for me in the ep. That Rodney doesn't offer his history to John, including the lengths he went to to save him is big and that John questions that omission right before he steps into the pod and demands to know is even bigger.
I barely see any actual romance in their relationship - love, yes, but the love of friends, of family, holding on.
Yeah, that's the impression I got, too. I'm surprised so many people read more into it.
And John, in the future, worries about changing that, worries about Rodney losing a chance for happiness even if the price is the loss of Atlantis and Pegasus and almost everyone he cares for and John, oh John, how you love your team, how you love Rodney, beyond all sense or reason.
This was a moment that I missed the first and second time around. I was so focused on Rodney's answer that I missed the magnitude of John's query. But you're right, it's incredible that John's mind goes to it possibly being right that Rodney's happiness should win out over the fate of Pegasus and its inhabitants including John and the rest of his team.
Lorne decorates his office with a painting of Atlantis!
Aww, I missed this, too. Thanks for pointing it out!
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Date: 2008-03-10 10:42 pm (UTC)The end...it felt like A.I., kept reaching good endings, several times, and then not ending. I kinda wanted it to end with Sheppard getting put into cold storage, or else with him coming back through the gate.
Yeah, I could've done without the tagged on present ending because we all know they're gonna survive and be on to their next adventure in like the first fifteen minutes of the premiere so it's not much of a cliffhanger.
This whole season we've noted that they seem to make a particular effort to give us a Sheppard-McKay scene every ep. So to top it off they give us an entire ep - no alien princess, just the two of them alone in an empty future and talking.
As a McShep fan, I thought there was a real lovely symmetry here to the finale.
Rodney's supposed to be the egotistical one but he doesn't want to talk about himself; John has to drag it out of him. And John has to know, because Rodney matters.
This was one of the most significant bits of McShepness for me in the ep. That Rodney doesn't offer his history to John, including the lengths he went to to save him is big and that John questions that omission right before he steps into the pod and demands to know is even bigger.
I barely see any actual romance in their relationship - love, yes, but the love of friends, of family, holding on.
Yeah, that's the impression I got, too. I'm surprised so many people read more into it.
And John, in the future, worries about changing that, worries about Rodney losing a chance for happiness even if the price is the loss of Atlantis and Pegasus and almost everyone he cares for and John, oh John, how you love your team, how you love Rodney, beyond all sense or reason.
This was a moment that I missed the first and second time around. I was so focused on Rodney's answer that I missed the magnitude of John's query. But you're right, it's incredible that John's mind goes to it possibly being right that Rodney's happiness should win out over the fate of Pegasus and its inhabitants including John and the rest of his team.
Lorne decorates his office with a painting of Atlantis!
Aww, I missed this, too. Thanks for pointing it out!