SGA 5x16: Brainstorm
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xparrot*yawns, waves* I had a bad cold that put me mostly out of commission, feel like I've been living in a hole for the last week. Hi, everybody! Did you miss me?
Anyway. New SGA. Warnings for massive oversensitivity. Yes, I know it's just a silly TV show. And I know some folks enjoyed this ep - I envy you, I really wanted to - so please don't read if you're not in the mood for squee-harshing.
I actually didn't mind the McKeller terribly much in this episode.* That was because I didn't see it, because it's hard to have McKeller without McKay. And I didn't see much of Rodney McKay. The beginning maybe, yeah, okay, he's awkward with women, he's got an ego, he doesn't get along with his colleagues, that's Rodney.
But then there's an emergency, a planet-threatening danger, confused and bickering scientists struggling far out of their depths - and where the heck was Dr. Rodney McKay, Head of Science & Research on Atlantis, who has spent five years taking charge and ordering around scientists and military personnel in desperate life-or-death situations, as recently as a couple weeks ago in "Prodigal"? He appeared for maybe thirty seconds near the end, but was so timid and ineffectual the rest of the time that he was unrecognizable. For that matter, where the heck was Dr. Rodney McKay, unrepentant asshole of "Forty-Eight Hours", who maybe couldn't define "humble" but knew his physics and wouldn't back down even to hot blonde geniuses? I don't think that Rodney would've even let the damn device get turned on, he'd have kicked up such a fuss. If this is the "kinder and gentler Rodney McKay" - swap him back for the old model, stat. Atlantis doesn't need kind & gentle nearly as much as she needs confident, commanding competence.
Okay, I know it was supposed to be a comedy ep, I just wish Gero would stop writing serious jeopardy into his comedy eps, because it makes the characters all look like insensitive boobs, when they deal with life-and-death by becoming jerkish idiots. That includes every physicist in the episode.
* This doesn't mean I liked the McKeller. I didn't get a feeling that she respects Rodney in the slightest, and I still don't understand what she sees in him. I mean, I see a lot to love in Rodney, but I have no idea what Keller does. Is it the blue eyes? How fast he talks? Was she a Traders fan with a thing for Grant Jansky? But the 'shipping didn't bother me as much as I thought it would, because really, I don't see how this can possibly be a viable relationship. There's nothing there. Keller is bored by physics, we know how Rodney feels about medical science, and we've yet to see them talk about anything else. They're physically attracted to one another to some extent (though Rodney doesn't seem to notice her more often than not) but that's it. It's a high school crush and if they both think this is love, based on so little - yeah, they don't have a chance.
Also, why the heck couldn't the other scientist go rescue Keller at the end? Or Bill Nye, who had expressed interest in her before? It's not like Rodney's massive brain was much use in axing down a door. Very confused there.
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utopiantrunks has been showing us Big Bang Theory, and I gotta say, it's a problem when a CBS sitcom has not only stronger characters and more believable relationships (I like the geek/girl 'ship of BBT), but also better technobabble. (Seriously, where was the pseudo-science? If Rodney's going to be with his intellectual brethren, I want at least one verbal tangent into the incomprehensible, when everyone around him will actually understand what he's saying!)
Anyway. New SGA. Warnings for massive oversensitivity. Yes, I know it's just a silly TV show. And I know some folks enjoyed this ep - I envy you, I really wanted to - so please don't read if you're not in the mood for squee-harshing.
I actually didn't mind the McKeller terribly much in this episode.* That was because I didn't see it, because it's hard to have McKeller without McKay. And I didn't see much of Rodney McKay. The beginning maybe, yeah, okay, he's awkward with women, he's got an ego, he doesn't get along with his colleagues, that's Rodney.
But then there's an emergency, a planet-threatening danger, confused and bickering scientists struggling far out of their depths - and where the heck was Dr. Rodney McKay, Head of Science & Research on Atlantis, who has spent five years taking charge and ordering around scientists and military personnel in desperate life-or-death situations, as recently as a couple weeks ago in "Prodigal"? He appeared for maybe thirty seconds near the end, but was so timid and ineffectual the rest of the time that he was unrecognizable. For that matter, where the heck was Dr. Rodney McKay, unrepentant asshole of "Forty-Eight Hours", who maybe couldn't define "humble" but knew his physics and wouldn't back down even to hot blonde geniuses? I don't think that Rodney would've even let the damn device get turned on, he'd have kicked up such a fuss. If this is the "kinder and gentler Rodney McKay" - swap him back for the old model, stat. Atlantis doesn't need kind & gentle nearly as much as she needs confident, commanding competence.
Okay, I know it was supposed to be a comedy ep, I just wish Gero would stop writing serious jeopardy into his comedy eps, because it makes the characters all look like insensitive boobs, when they deal with life-and-death by becoming jerkish idiots. That includes every physicist in the episode.
* This doesn't mean I liked the McKeller. I didn't get a feeling that she respects Rodney in the slightest, and I still don't understand what she sees in him. I mean, I see a lot to love in Rodney, but I have no idea what Keller does. Is it the blue eyes? How fast he talks? Was she a Traders fan with a thing for Grant Jansky? But the 'shipping didn't bother me as much as I thought it would, because really, I don't see how this can possibly be a viable relationship. There's nothing there. Keller is bored by physics, we know how Rodney feels about medical science, and we've yet to see them talk about anything else. They're physically attracted to one another to some extent (though Rodney doesn't seem to notice her more often than not) but that's it. It's a high school crush and if they both think this is love, based on so little - yeah, they don't have a chance.
Also, why the heck couldn't the other scientist go rescue Keller at the end? Or Bill Nye, who had expressed interest in her before? It's not like Rodney's massive brain was much use in axing down a door. Very confused there.
utopiantrunks has been showing us Big Bang Theory, and I gotta say, it's a problem when a CBS sitcom has not only stronger characters and more believable relationships (I like the geek/girl 'ship of BBT), but also better technobabble. (Seriously, where was the pseudo-science? If Rodney's going to be with his intellectual brethren, I want at least one verbal tangent into the incomprehensible, when everyone around him will actually understand what he's saying!)
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Date: 2008-11-23 04:17 pm (UTC)i can't blame the characters though. i blame the writers. for some reason they're really really bad at the romance thing. the more sg1 or sga i watch the more i understand the slashers, though i definitely didn't start that way, but either the writers do it on purpose or they r better at describing friendships in dire circumstances or sm. it's ridiculous how easier it is2grasp daniel-jack and john-rodney as opposed2 daniel-vala and rodney-keller and, i assume, nobody on the writers stuff actually tries to give us slash. at this point they should just omit the clumsy attempts at romance and go for the sci-fi adventure!