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

[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.

[dovil]

Me? Personally? I saw a lot of things, but that could be because my physician keeps warning about mixing my prescriptions with alcohol.

I saw two adults encoaching into middle age with very, very busy jobs who are finding snatches of time when they can to be with each other. I don't see music swelling and Rodney running into the labs to clasp Katie to his manly bosom while gazing feverishly into her eyes and declaring his undying love, because I doubt they're that kind of people and Rodney would need to be high on crack.

It's had, what, five seconds of screen time? To me it's just a nice way of showing that Rodney can have a love life and something outside of the team, without eating up a lot of the screen time over it. Not when theirs explosions and space vampires to be had, hahaha!

[cesperanza]

I liked her better in Sunday; she had more backbone. Here, maybe because she's sick, her tenativeness mushed into--well, mush! I want them to be geeks! I want her to be IN on the joke of the cactus, which I don't think she is at all alas! I liked her better when she was smart enough to have that line about the subtext--that's a smart line. That shows she's thinking!

[dovil]

True, I think it would have been better if the joke had been delivered from her instead of the writers.

That shows she's thinking!

It definitely shows that she's got a handle on Rodney and isn't going in blind. It will be interesting to see how this progresses as the season goes on.