SGA 5x06: "The Shrine"
Aug. 23rd, 2008 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotSays it all:
WORTH. THE. WAIT.
I. I just. I. They gave us this.
--incoherent, out of order--
This:
Ronon half-holding Jeannie.
Enough "John"s to make up for the entire damn show prior.
Holy moses, can Kate Hewlett act. She's got down that Hewlett under-acting thing in the eyes and the voice that breaks your fucking heart because it's so real it's agony.
Which is yes, yes, that Hewlett thing, because David was. Well. Not like we didn't expect it. But WOW. Every stage of decline. And the swings, the laughing it off and the frustration and the fear and the anger and the falling apart and the gone and the wow wow wow wow.
(Except that in the early stages, his acting was to play himself, and Rodney is so very not David for all the jokes his castmates love to make. But here was McKay as David Hewlett and that was CREEPY AS HELL or was it just me? So McKay less intelligent becomes DH, in DH's mind, and that...makes much sense.)
The film of tears over John's eyes for most of the ep. And his smile of memory in the jumper.
Beer. From a mini-fridge. "A lot." They clapped and gave fanon wings, or made it a real boy, or something, but CANON NOW.
Ronon's "I owe him" and for what now? Could be a lot but Ronon's going to do it.
Teyla's hand on Rodney's forehead. Teyla got shafted (if not as badly as in "Tao") but HAND ON FOREHEAD.
And Rodney all shivery.
And Ronon CARRYING.
And Rodney in the halls, banging on the door, screaming John's name, screaming. I tell you, he could never say "John" again after this and I would still be fulfilled (sad, but fulfilled).
THE PIER THE PIER THE PIER THE PIER. And John's toes and "Betty" and "Arthur" and this is "I can't" times 1,000 and that final spittake and Rodney laughs and they enjoy being together, so much, they're just happy together.
Woolsey is <333333 and he's worried and he lets them go and he is the bestest commander ever that they have had (sorry Sam, I still adore you, but you didn't get a chance and he is and OH.)
And they go through all that and bring Rodney and he...is mad as hell and not the least grateful and OH RODNEY NEVER STOP BEING RODNEY.
Ham must be hard to come by on Atlantis? Maybe Jeannie snuck it in with her...
The holding, the touching, the grabbing, the John booking it across the cave when Rodney screams, and Jeannie and John putting themselves between Rodney and Keller, ours and you will not hurt him.
And in the end, the rest of the team is crashed one room over, where Keller had forced them to go, after John passed out after being awake for a week straight, and Ronon had a chance to carry him but couldn't make it another step himself after dropping John on the spare bed, and Kanaan came with Torren tucked in one arm and wrapped his other around Teyla, and she leaned on him gratefully as he walked her after her teammates, and now they're all in a pile across two slid-together beds and and snoring to raise the dead, waiting for their Rodney (whole, wholly Rodney again) to come wake them.
(Do need missing scenes, as David Nykl I am fairly sure mentioned a dramatic Rodney-Radek scene in this ep and we caught scarcely a glimpse of Zelenka, plus I'm wondering if there might've been more in the jumper in the first flashback as that's a very sudden transition. And the tag is way way way too short.)
So. Yes.
Don't know if it displaced "Tao" as #1, will need to watcha dozen times again to tell. Did have quibbles with Keller, quibbles with her char as it's consistently been written, but hell, will discuss that later, am planning an essay, hoping people can talk me out of it because I'd just as soon not be sulky about her.
Oddly didn't really have any quibbles with the McKeller, I don't like it but I can see it, and of course Rodney would say "love," because he does fall so fast and so easily, how many crushes has he mentioned? and he's losing his words, can't talk around it, so he just says it.
Didn't have any quibbles because Rodney said "I love you," but when he's lost more, when he's losing it all, when he's stripped down to nothing - there's only one name he remembers, and it's not Jennifer's, and it's not his own. John is Rodney's taisetsuna hito, Most Important Person. That is that is that.
(And Brad Wright - Brad Wright said it was the pier, that THIS was the scene that was what SGA was about, to him. It's about friendship and not saying goodbye and not leaving people behind and also oh yeah JOHN AND RODNEY LOVE EACH OTHER FOR EVER AND EVER AMEN. I don't care if it's slash or platonic or the way a friend feels about another friend or whatever, it doesn't matter, it's just. Yes.)
And CtO? Not jossed. Kripked, if anything.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gnine pointed out, too, that I so called him insisting on "Mr."...
gnine it feels weird to rewatch without you, come back soooon :(
naye get over here quickly what's taking you so long just hijack a plane and come now!!!!
Upon watching again, couple more squee-points:
Ronon's line about hot air escaping and Rodney can laugh at himself even shivering.
John in the Doppelganger black fleece of angst!!!
Jeannie's "Sweetie, I just need to go outside for one second" in her Mommy voice, because she's got a kid and she can do this (<3 Jeannie eternally)
Ronon shared a meal with his grandfather - canon Satedan feasts?
"It'll be dangerous, not just for you, but for your friends" - yup, Jennifer's learned how to use that Team Thing against them!
It's "the pier" and Atlantis has more than one, so this is definitely a regular thing...
WORTH. THE. WAIT.
I. I just. I. They gave us this.
--incoherent, out of order--
This:
Ronon half-holding Jeannie.
Enough "John"s to make up for the entire damn show prior.
Holy moses, can Kate Hewlett act. She's got down that Hewlett under-acting thing in the eyes and the voice that breaks your fucking heart because it's so real it's agony.
Which is yes, yes, that Hewlett thing, because David was. Well. Not like we didn't expect it. But WOW. Every stage of decline. And the swings, the laughing it off and the frustration and the fear and the anger and the falling apart and the gone and the wow wow wow wow.
(Except that in the early stages, his acting was to play himself, and Rodney is so very not David for all the jokes his castmates love to make. But here was McKay as David Hewlett and that was CREEPY AS HELL or was it just me? So McKay less intelligent becomes DH, in DH's mind, and that...makes much sense.)
The film of tears over John's eyes for most of the ep. And his smile of memory in the jumper.
Beer. From a mini-fridge. "A lot." They clapped and gave fanon wings, or made it a real boy, or something, but CANON NOW.
Ronon's "I owe him" and for what now? Could be a lot but Ronon's going to do it.
Teyla's hand on Rodney's forehead. Teyla got shafted (if not as badly as in "Tao") but HAND ON FOREHEAD.
And Rodney all shivery.
And Ronon CARRYING.
And Rodney in the halls, banging on the door, screaming John's name, screaming. I tell you, he could never say "John" again after this and I would still be fulfilled (sad, but fulfilled).
THE PIER THE PIER THE PIER THE PIER. And John's toes and "Betty" and "Arthur" and this is "I can't" times 1,000 and that final spittake and Rodney laughs and they enjoy being together, so much, they're just happy together.
Woolsey is <333333 and he's worried and he lets them go and he is the bestest commander ever that they have had (sorry Sam, I still adore you, but you didn't get a chance and he is and OH.)
And they go through all that and bring Rodney and he...is mad as hell and not the least grateful and OH RODNEY NEVER STOP BEING RODNEY.
Ham must be hard to come by on Atlantis? Maybe Jeannie snuck it in with her...
The holding, the touching, the grabbing, the John booking it across the cave when Rodney screams, and Jeannie and John putting themselves between Rodney and Keller, ours and you will not hurt him.
And in the end, the rest of the team is crashed one room over, where Keller had forced them to go, after John passed out after being awake for a week straight, and Ronon had a chance to carry him but couldn't make it another step himself after dropping John on the spare bed, and Kanaan came with Torren tucked in one arm and wrapped his other around Teyla, and she leaned on him gratefully as he walked her after her teammates, and now they're all in a pile across two slid-together beds and and snoring to raise the dead, waiting for their Rodney (whole, wholly Rodney again) to come wake them.
(Do need missing scenes, as David Nykl I am fairly sure mentioned a dramatic Rodney-Radek scene in this ep and we caught scarcely a glimpse of Zelenka, plus I'm wondering if there might've been more in the jumper in the first flashback as that's a very sudden transition. And the tag is way way way too short.)
So. Yes.
Don't know if it displaced "Tao" as #1, will need to watch
Oddly didn't really have any quibbles with the McKeller, I don't like it but I can see it, and of course Rodney would say "love," because he does fall so fast and so easily, how many crushes has he mentioned? and he's losing his words, can't talk around it, so he just says it.
Didn't have any quibbles because Rodney said "I love you," but when he's lost more, when he's losing it all, when he's stripped down to nothing - there's only one name he remembers, and it's not Jennifer's, and it's not his own. John is Rodney's taisetsuna hito, Most Important Person. That is that is that.
(And Brad Wright - Brad Wright said it was the pier, that THIS was the scene that was what SGA was about, to him. It's about friendship and not saying goodbye and not leaving people behind and also oh yeah JOHN AND RODNEY LOVE EACH OTHER FOR EVER AND EVER AMEN. I don't care if it's slash or platonic or the way a friend feels about another friend or whatever, it doesn't matter, it's just. Yes.)
And CtO? Not jossed. Kripked, if anything.
gnine pointed out, too, that I so called him insisting on "Mr."...gnine it feels weird to rewatch without you, come back soooon :(naye get over here quickly what's taking you so long just hijack a plane and come now!!!!Upon watching again, couple more squee-points:
Ronon's line about hot air escaping and Rodney can laugh at himself even shivering.
John in the Doppelganger black fleece of angst!!!
Jeannie's "Sweetie, I just need to go outside for one second" in her Mommy voice, because she's got a kid and she can do this (<3 Jeannie eternally)
Ronon shared a meal with his grandfather - canon Satedan feasts?
"It'll be dangerous, not just for you, but for your friends" - yup, Jennifer's learned how to use that Team Thing against them!
It's "the pier" and Atlantis has more than one, so this is definitely a regular thing...
