Just wanted to say that it's been a pleasure reading these commentaries all season. Even though my list of good episodes is almost entirely different than yours--the overlap being Doppelganger and kinda-sorta Tabula Rasa--I think your critiques are excellent and pretty damned entertaining, in a laugh-through-the-tears kidna way.
Great description of Keller's consumption and the absolutely bizarre choice to have Rodney take action only after her death. I'm a McKay/Sheppard OTPer, but that isn't even it--the slash thrust of this season for me has been John pining away for an oblivious and quite possibly straight Rodney, and I'm such an angst whore that I get a lot of satisfaction from that--I'm just super annoyed that they made McKay look so incredibly selfish. The FATE OF THE UNIVERSE wasn't enough motivation for him, show? And the relationship that spurred him to action is one that doesn't even *exist* yet in our timeline? I really like the idea of Rodney/Keller (except for the part where I want Ronon/Keller), but that doesn't mean that I'm ready for Keller to be the absolute center of Rodney's life. Couldn't they just let him be a hero because he's awesome, and not because he found and lost domestic bliss? Augh.
The FATE OF THE UNIVERSE wasn't enough motivation for him, show?
Well, that's the crux of it. After Atlantis's combined monkeying around with Replicator programming and Wraith DNA has culminated in the complete collapse of the Pegasus Galaxy -- here in the season finale, I wanted someone to step up just a little bit, and no one did -- except maybe Sam, which is poignant because it wasn't even under her watch that all this shit went down in the first place. And then to find out in Rodney's case that it wasn't because there was nothing he could do, but because the things he could do were simply too much work until there was a chance to reunite with his dead wife in it for him....
Look, I get that very few of us devote our whole lives and every waking moment to righting the wrongs of the world; we're all "selfish" in that sense, barring a very few special people. But on the other hand, most of us didn't personally cause those wrongs to begin with. It really makes Rodney look like a special kind of asshole that for the whole rest of his life, he never seems to view it like that, as something he owed the hundreds of thousands of dead people who now lie in Atlantis's wake.
Great description of Keller's consumption and the absolutely bizarre choice to have Rodney take action only after her death. I'm a McKay/Sheppard OTPer, but that isn't even it--the slash thrust of this season for me has been John pining away for an oblivious and quite possibly straight Rodney, and I'm such an angst whore that I get a lot of satisfaction from that--I'm just super annoyed that they made McKay look so incredibly selfish. The FATE OF THE UNIVERSE wasn't enough motivation for him, show? And the relationship that spurred him to action is one that doesn't even *exist* yet in our timeline? I really like the idea of Rodney/Keller (except for the part where I want Ronon/Keller), but that doesn't mean that I'm ready for Keller to be the absolute center of Rodney's life. Couldn't they just let him be a hero because he's awesome, and not because he found and lost domestic bliss? Augh.
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Well, that's the crux of it. After Atlantis's combined monkeying around with Replicator programming and Wraith DNA has culminated in the complete collapse of the Pegasus Galaxy -- here in the season finale, I wanted someone to step up just a little bit, and no one did -- except maybe Sam, which is poignant because it wasn't even under her watch that all this shit went down in the first place. And then to find out in Rodney's case that it wasn't because there was nothing he could do, but because the things he could do were simply too much work until there was a chance to reunite with his dead wife in it for him....
Look, I get that very few of us devote our whole lives and every waking moment to righting the wrongs of the world; we're all "selfish" in that sense, barring a very few special people. But on the other hand, most of us didn't personally cause those wrongs to begin with. It really makes Rodney look like a special kind of asshole that for the whole rest of his life, he never seems to view it like that, as something he owed the hundreds of thousands of dead people who now lie in Atlantis's wake.
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