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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: 2008-11-27 12:41 pm (UTC)But an episodic show like NCIS - the viewers are tuning in for one thing, and switching it around now would throw off the majority of people watching. Speaking as a new NCIS fan, I'm not bored with NCIS; after mainlining the series, I'm very looking forward to getting "more of the same". Fans, being so invested, I think are more likely to get bored than casual viewers, but I kind of feel that's the fault of the fan, more than the show. If your tastes have changed, if you want something else out of your TV, you should find a new show, not ask for your old show to change - because then all the people still watching the show for what you used to like will be very disappointed to lose it.
Though the problem with a "contract" is if the show is unsuccessful as it is, mixing it up might be called for. SPN was *bad* last season; I'm enjoying the new season a lot more because of the total change in tone (don't know if I'm alone, though, haven't seen the ratings?) It's a balancing act, of whether you're going to piss off more viewers by changing things, or not changing things. In SGA now, the issue with romance is while some viewers are enjoying it, I don't think anyone *wanted* it that badly - I don't think very many viewers would've been disappointed if they hadn't done any romance, because no one was watching SGA for romance - while as a lot of viewers are very disappointed in the romance we've been getting.
A lot of shows I think run into the problem that the writers get bored before the audience does. So shows "jump the shark" - sometimes it's to boost flagging ratings, but sometimes the jump happens and then the ratings dive, and I think that's when the writers are wanting to do something new. (Which is why I'm sort of thinking canceling SGA and starting SGU might've been the right choice, rather than trying to make SGA into something else. I don't blame the writers for wanting to write romance, everyone needs a change of pace - but SGA is just not the show for it.)
(I think this is also why NCIS s6 is working so well for me - it recently was put into new hands, and I think the new guy is more invested in what the show is, rather than bored and wanting it to be something else...)