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xparrotSo 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.
"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.
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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.