To be honest, the lack of arrogant!Rodney killed the episode for me. I love Rodney when he's being an obnoxiously brilliant asshole (...put it this way, I actually liked him in SG-1) and I was terribly disappointed to get almost none of that in the ep.
As a McShepper, I'm sort of torn. On the one hand, the McKeller is so unbelievable that it doesn't seem like much of a threat to the McShep, whatever the writers think. On the other hand, it's frustrating to see a relationship done so badly, to see Rodney get this poor shadow of real love and have it be considered "unconditional," what he always needed, while the true loyalty and support his team gives him is ignored. Keller defending Rodney - or better yet, ignoring the other scientists, and laughing at them with Rodney behind their backs - might've helped bring me around.
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Date: 2008-11-25 08:56 pm (UTC)To be honest, the lack of arrogant!Rodney killed the episode for me. I love Rodney when he's being an obnoxiously brilliant asshole (...put it this way, I actually liked him in SG-1) and I was terribly disappointed to get almost none of that in the ep.
As a McShepper, I'm sort of torn. On the one hand, the McKeller is so unbelievable that it doesn't seem like much of a threat to the McShep, whatever the writers think. On the other hand, it's frustrating to see a relationship done so badly, to see Rodney get this poor shadow of real love and have it be considered "unconditional," what he always needed, while the true loyalty and support his team gives him is ignored. Keller defending Rodney - or better yet, ignoring the other scientists, and laughing at them with Rodney behind their backs - might've helped bring me around.