You've got to FIGHT for your RIGHT to SQUEE.

[cesperanza]

*fights way up from sea of work, kicking legs furiously*

1) So I got the most amazing art in the mail from Pentapus. Seriously, you have to dig this:

Comments

[klo_the_hobbit]

SAKMDLKSAMD COOLEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. ZOMG.

[dovil]

That envelope is just so many layers of fantastic. Wow!

McKay and Sheppard are my favs, but I agree about how Teyla and Ronon should be getting more of their share of screen time. Maybe they could have one less explosion and technobabble fest an episode and slot them in that way.

I agree about Katie, and to be honest I don't think she's quite the no-personality cardboard cutout that people see here as. Hell, she called out Rodney for not exactly being Mr Subtext, and the fact that she named a penis plant covered in prickles after him was just priceless. Though I must admit I watched the Sunday commentary where Gero said that they've done the horizontal business so I'm viewing it from that angle - maybe without that what's shown on screen isn't enough to push them out of the fumbling courting stage?

[mecurtin]

Gero said that they've done the horizontal business

That may be his idea, but I really don't think that's what the actors are trying to show and I don't think that's what's showing up onscreen. A number of the people commenting on my post think DH & Brenda are actively resisting TPTB's plans for the Rodney/Katie relationship -- a fascinating development from any angle.

[dovil]

People watch one scene and take away a thousand different interpretations. I think we should all jelly wrestle to see who becomes the winner, but that's probably more because I like combining exercise with the chance to eat large amounts of food.

Probably we wont really know until the actors themselves speak up - DH has a blog doesn't he? Someone should run in and ask him while we stand behind the door and giggle a lot.

Personally, I think that they really do care about each other (Rodney's "Are you sure you're okay" line had the eyes of empathatic caring going on, awww), plus they're adults - I can't imagine them having gone out for so long without bonking each other - it doesn't have to equate true love, it just means they have functioning genitalia and perhaps fancy each other.

I think it was less about say DH resisting the idea, and more about him playing for laughs. Because awkward Rodney is often funny Rodney.

[mecurtin]

What do *you* see onscreen, then? Indications are that TPTB *did* want their relationship to be True Love, Get Married-type love: passion, romance, the whole bit. But very few viewers seem to be receiving that from what's onscreen -- though I wonder how the comments over at Gateworld are running. Very deadly, you go first.

[teenygozer]

OMIGOD DIORAMA OF RODNEY'S MANY DREAMS OF BEING EATEN BY A WHALE!!! Amazing, and clever!

What does the word-balloon inside the mouth say?

Now by popular demand!

[cesperanza]

http://trickster.org/speranza/photos/friends.jpg

http://trickster.org/speranza/photos/lunch.jpg

[anatsuno]

pentapus rocks mightily! Much to be jealous of.

You're not alone with the weed storyline. I keep imagining Rodney w/ the munchies.. It would not be pretty. Plus, there is potential to have one of these "and then there was a spontaneous citywide orgy due to the secondary effects of the plant" scenarios I like so much.

[tropes]

GOD GOD GOD WHY DO I ONLY GET BILLS IN THE MAIL. CLEARLY I HAVE THE WRONG FRIENDS.

I'm so so with you on your read of the episode. I am desperate for an episode coda in which Rodney goes to visit John after and has to face having not been there when John woke up.

Maybe I will write it myself!

[cesperanza]

Please please do!! YAY!

[trinity_clare]

*koff* unamaga wrote one.

[tropes]

Ooh, sweet.

I think I'll still write my idea too though. :D