Carson and Rodney have clearly had a needling relationship from the off - interactions over the chair, or Carson twitting Rodney mildly as he prepares to administer the ATA gene treatment. I guess there will be people who will point to Rodney mocking Carson's useless flying skills and fear of the chair, and say that it's just turnabout to have Carson calling Rodney a great big baby for protesting about an arrow in the arse. Like you, I'd kind of prefer my doctor to have a degree more professionalism, especially if the same doctor can't seem to get something as simple as a morphine dose for an established patient of his remotely right.
I blame the writers for everything that vexes me about the show! It's definitely the case that scriptwriters, like fan writers, will vary in how much they write characters who match the subjective settings in my head. I agree, though that part of this is lazy writing, which manifests itself sharply with John and Rodney, maybe because so many of us are heavily invested in them and will analyse every last murmur between them to death. McKay has so many character quirks now, it's easier by far to do 'prickly around children' than to invent something else which works in a scene to show Rodney's difference from the average settings for most people, for example.
And I think the projecting is both of the writers who want to be Rodney, and the writers wanting Rodney to be David Hewlett, who loves slapstick comedy and does it just fine, and who has no vanity when it comes to McKay making a dick of himself, if that's what the script asks him to do.
So yeah, this is more about sloppy show writing, for me, which gives me hope that they won't be consistently sloppy.
I blame the writers for everything that vexes me about the show! It's definitely the case that scriptwriters, like fan writers, will vary in how much they write characters who match the subjective settings in my head. I agree, though that part of this is lazy writing, which manifests itself sharply with John and Rodney, maybe because so many of us are heavily invested in them and will analyse every last murmur between them to death. McKay has so many character quirks now, it's easier by far to do 'prickly around children' than to invent something else which works in a scene to show Rodney's difference from the average settings for most people, for example.
And I think the projecting is both of the writers who want to be Rodney, and the writers wanting Rodney to be David Hewlett, who loves slapstick comedy and does it just fine, and who has no vanity when it comes to McKay making a dick of himself, if that's what the script asks him to do.
So yeah, this is more about sloppy show writing, for me, which gives me hope that they won't be consistently sloppy.
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