would you like a little RAGE with your RAGE?

[xparrot]

So Martin Gero made some comments on the most recent episode of SGA.

"For five years, we didn’t even know it, but all [Rodney] wanted was for someone to tell him that they loved him in an unconditional way."

I want to...I want to kick Martin Gero's head in with a big spiky boot. OF LOVE.

So the love of friends and family (because doesn't Jeannie love him, too? or was she lying when she said "I love you" in "Miller's Crossing" and faking her tears in "The Shrine"?) counts for snot, because it's not romantic, sexual love.

And unconditional love is quoting a guy's own brain-damaged love confession back at him (six months later), and then offering him sex on a plane to make him shut up.

I have no boyfriend! I HAVE NO LOVE! What do I do??? My life is empty! Meaningless!

*cue total fucking mental breakdown*

Okay, now I'm going to do my best to forget this episode ever happened. There's been other eps I haven't enjoyed, but this is the first one that's seriously in danger of spoiling my fanning. It pretty much ruined Rodney's character for me even when I was ignoring the McKeller (I swear, I'd've been almost as outraged if the ep had gone the same way only with John instead of Keller, though at least then I'd have some McShep making out), and now that I am meant to think that banging Keller on the plane is the most significant and important event of Rodney's life in the past five years - yeah. Someone tell me how to hold onto my SGA love, because I don't want to lose this fandom, but the show seems pretty determined to use its dying breath to drive me away.

ETA: I gotta say, SGA these days is really making me appreciate NCIS. NCIS has one s5 ep that is explicitly the 100% opposite theme as this.

Comments

[astrumporta.livejournal.com]

You know, Mallozzi is taking questions for Gero about Brain Storm on his blog (http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com) (just add a comment). I'd give a small appendage if someone would ask Gero if he's a virgin (not counting prostitutes). Ha!

Some of the criticism of his YPF "feature film" was that the 4 relationships portrayed are very juvenile and seem to be aimed at people with almost no experience. I watched it and pretty much agree with that.

Maybe he's staying on with Universe because his view of relationships will finally jive with the ages of the actors? Not to insult 20-yr-olds, sorry!

Meanwhile I'm just not going to think about this episode anymore other than how hot Rodney looked in the tux.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if Gero only understands juvenile relationships, or if it's just that those are the kinds of relationships he likes to write. He might have a perfectly healthy relationship with his girlfriend but think that portraying such on TV would be boring (since he seems to believe that humor is the holy grail, and it's better to laugh at a character than actually like them...) In that case, yeah, maybe SGU will be more suited to him. He seems totally oblivious that a guy Rodney's age being in a high school relationship is more creepy than cute...

Argh! I was so annoyed by how Gero wrote Rodney that I couldn't even enjoy DH in a tux! *cries*