I'm just going to YES you resoundingly for all of this. Nothing really coherent to add, just YES YES YES, everything you say!
I hated this episode, to the point that it's practically ruining the show for me to think about it (...I know, I really ought to stop!) The McKeller drives me nuts, but Rodney with his old colleagues was what really got to me, that he was so damn pathetic with them, like everything he's done in Atlantis meant nothing. The part when he stands up to stop the guy, and then he's all timid and shy and listens to Keller and sits down again - where the hell was Rodney McKay who sneered at Sam Carter's genius, who stood up to Kolya, who's done extreme science under a ticking clock or side by side with Replicators and life-sucking WRAITH - how the hell could a roomful of scientists possibly intimidate him after that? Why didn't he just point out the scientific flaws in Tunney's theory, deluge him with technobabble until the other scientists realized Tunney didn't know what he was doing? What happened to Rodney??? Did travel through the stargate remove his spine? Was the private jet laced with some kind of ego-reducing poison? Or is he so interested in looking good to Keller that he'd let Tunney put the PLANET at risk?
--ARGH! SO ANGRY! And Gero thinking this ep was the best thing he's ever written...didn't help at all. Siiiiiigh.
AU IT! oh, please!! I need as many fixes as I can get...
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:10 am (UTC)I hated this episode, to the point that it's practically ruining the show for me to think about it (...I know, I really ought to stop!) The McKeller drives me nuts, but Rodney with his old colleagues was what really got to me, that he was so damn pathetic with them, like everything he's done in Atlantis meant nothing. The part when he stands up to stop the guy, and then he's all timid and shy and listens to Keller and sits down again - where the hell was Rodney McKay who sneered at Sam Carter's genius, who stood up to Kolya, who's done extreme science under a ticking clock or side by side with Replicators and life-sucking WRAITH - how the hell could a roomful of scientists possibly intimidate him after that? Why didn't he just point out the scientific flaws in Tunney's theory, deluge him with technobabble until the other scientists realized Tunney didn't know what he was doing? What happened to Rodney??? Did travel through the stargate remove his spine? Was the private jet laced with some kind of ego-reducing poison? Or is he so interested in looking good to Keller that he'd let Tunney put the PLANET at risk?
--ARGH! SO ANGRY! And Gero thinking this ep was the best thing he's ever written...didn't help at all. Siiiiiigh.
AU IT! oh, please!! I need as many fixes as I can get...