Operation LJPOST is underway!
So, Runners, man. What's up with them?
When I was thinking my thoughts about Sateda here, I was mostly caught in a "yum! yum!" zone.
Yum! Delicious! encompasses my feelings in general about the whole episode: Black leather? yum! Arrow in the butt? yum! yum!, Sheppard and his feelings? Delicious!, Ronon the Brave Little Toaster, and his Matrix Moves of Manly Mojo? I WILL LICK YOU ALL OVER!!!
But now my head has cleared a little, and I am trying to figure out WTF, re: Runners.
First off, I'm like, "Guys! Go rescue those other six runners! Right now!"
And maybe Caldwell will be all "no way!" and take his ball and go home, but they can do it Old-School Jumpers-Only style if they have to. (Which would be fine with me, because I hate the stupid Daedalus and how it totally ruined the Stranded! With Only Each Other to Depend On! awesomeness of the first season.)
Even if Sheppard's Compulsive Rescuing Disorder only applies to the people he loves, I have a hard time believing that Teyla would just blow off those other six Very Special Victims of the Wraith. And even if she is so disoriented by the Talk About John's Feelings that all she can do is sit in her room and write in her journal (Dear Diary: Today John Sheppard touched my hand for a second in Study Hall! Maybe 3 years from now he will give me a hug!"), I REALLY can't believe that Ronon wouldn't do something about them.
Oh oh!There could be a story about when he is feeling a little better, and gets out of the infirmary and goes looking for Rodney. He's suddenly free of so many things that his head is spinning. The whole time he has been on Atlantis, he has known that the Wraith (eh) King (hereafter known as Aurelius for obvious reasons) has been out there feeding and killing. He never stopped having nightmares about the tracker (a spike of dirty ice grating along his spine, freezing him from the inside out for seven years).
And while he's looking for Rodney, he's trying to figure out what to say. There are a hundred thousand Worlds with Rings, and a Star Count more without, and Rodney had reached across the vast empty blackness, swept aside Suns and Worlds and Rings, and found the place were Ronon had been lost.
and then, if this were actually a story instead of just noodling, there would be a bit about the way Ronon felt, pushed flat and held down by the meaty hands of the drones, with a new tracker tearing into his body. He had thought then about all the things he had dreamed and never done, and as he neared the lab, and heard the stream of Rodney's voice tumbling out into the hall, he let himself imagine wrapping himself around Rodney the way he had embraced Beckett, and stopping Rodney's mouth with his own.
But THEN when he gets to the lab, and is (with his new found verbosity) thanking Rodney for finding him and for figuring out that he was on Sateda, Rodney shows him the, uh, Tracker Tracking program he made. And Ronon is like "what are those six dots?", and Rodney says, "other Runners" and Ronon stares at him and then the screen is disbelief.
And while they watch, one of the lights blinks out.
And then there's a whole thing where Ronon gets a little crazy, and then a series of missions to rescue the others.
BUT -
NONE of this was actually my point, which, if you will recall, started out as WTF Runners?
If I am remembering correctly, Aurelius the Wraith King was all "You humiliated/chased/almost defeated me on Sateda" (a part of the battle we didn't get to see, I guess), "so now I am going to stick a tracker back in your body and send my minions to chase you again."
And I ask you: does that mean that back in Runner when newly captured Ronon was on the Hive Ship, and the Wraith (maybe even Aurelius, before his Male Pattern Baldness set in) pulled him out of the cocoon, and started to feed on him and stopped, he ACTUALLY stopped because he looked at Ronon's face and recognized him? As opposed to there being something in Ronon's body chemistry that makes him not taste good and therefore be appropriate Runner Material?
Although the Ronon of Runner says he doesn't know why the Wraith do this crazy shit, the Ronon of Sateda seems to be aware of his ongoing personal hostile relationship with Aurelius.
ALSO - what kind of test or exercise or ANYTHING is it for the Wraith to go hunting a Runner who has a TRACKING device planted in their body, that all of them can read with their palm pilots? That's not training the Wraith to do anything. If Ronon wasn't such a serious bad ass in a fight, it would totally just be shooting fish in a barrel.
Which makes me say - I wonder what the fish think about that?
I mean, Ronon (and Teyla, to a certain extent) have a little bit of story-telling associated with being a Runner. Ronon's list of stuff (sport, rite of passage, learn our weaknesses, etc) presumes that the Wraith need something from the Runner, that the whole miserable thing has a POINT to it. This episode made it seem as though there WAS no point. That it was being done JUST to hurt/punish Ronon. Which is horrible, but in a weird way makes sense. Ultimately the tracker makes it impossible to hide - Ronon is a tough tough cookie, but the fact that he was able to survive for seven years, when Aurelius (or any other Wraith) could have found him any time they wanted, makes me think that his "punishment" was being deliberately dragged out.
Which means that Aurelius let him survive for that long just for the pleasure of hurting him more. Like a mean little boy with a bug and a magnifying glass.
Ick.
Also! Two lovely people made me things!
The first is here. melagan made a beautiful picture of Ronon holding a baby, the way he imagines himself doing in that latest little bit of The Last Home Season.
It's beautiful! There is something about a man with a baby in his arms...hmmm. Thank you melagan!
The second is a hot! porny! story! by neery here which stemmed from this delightful conversation. Hooray! What a nice present to wake up to!
When I was thinking my thoughts about Sateda here, I was mostly caught in a "yum! yum!" zone.
Yum! Delicious! encompasses my feelings in general about the whole episode: Black leather? yum! Arrow in the butt? yum! yum!, Sheppard and his feelings? Delicious!, Ronon the Brave Little Toaster, and his Matrix Moves of Manly Mojo? I WILL LICK YOU ALL OVER!!!
But now my head has cleared a little, and I am trying to figure out WTF, re: Runners.
First off, I'm like, "Guys! Go rescue those other six runners! Right now!"
And maybe Caldwell will be all "no way!" and take his ball and go home, but they can do it Old-School Jumpers-Only style if they have to. (Which would be fine with me, because I hate the stupid Daedalus and how it totally ruined the Stranded! With Only Each Other to Depend On! awesomeness of the first season.)
Even if Sheppard's Compulsive Rescuing Disorder only applies to the people he loves, I have a hard time believing that Teyla would just blow off those other six Very Special Victims of the Wraith. And even if she is so disoriented by the Talk About John's Feelings that all she can do is sit in her room and write in her journal (Dear Diary: Today John Sheppard touched my hand for a second in Study Hall! Maybe 3 years from now he will give me a hug!"), I REALLY can't believe that Ronon wouldn't do something about them.
Oh oh!There could be a story about when he is feeling a little better, and gets out of the infirmary and goes looking for Rodney. He's suddenly free of so many things that his head is spinning. The whole time he has been on Atlantis, he has known that the Wraith (eh) King (hereafter known as Aurelius for obvious reasons) has been out there feeding and killing. He never stopped having nightmares about the tracker (a spike of dirty ice grating along his spine, freezing him from the inside out for seven years).
And while he's looking for Rodney, he's trying to figure out what to say. There are a hundred thousand Worlds with Rings, and a Star Count more without, and Rodney had reached across the vast empty blackness, swept aside Suns and Worlds and Rings, and found the place were Ronon had been lost.
and then, if this were actually a story instead of just noodling, there would be a bit about the way Ronon felt, pushed flat and held down by the meaty hands of the drones, with a new tracker tearing into his body. He had thought then about all the things he had dreamed and never done, and as he neared the lab, and heard the stream of Rodney's voice tumbling out into the hall, he let himself imagine wrapping himself around Rodney the way he had embraced Beckett, and stopping Rodney's mouth with his own.
But THEN when he gets to the lab, and is (with his new found verbosity) thanking Rodney for finding him and for figuring out that he was on Sateda, Rodney shows him the, uh, Tracker Tracking program he made. And Ronon is like "what are those six dots?", and Rodney says, "other Runners" and Ronon stares at him and then the screen is disbelief.
And while they watch, one of the lights blinks out.
And then there's a whole thing where Ronon gets a little crazy, and then a series of missions to rescue the others.
BUT -
NONE of this was actually my point, which, if you will recall, started out as WTF Runners?
If I am remembering correctly, Aurelius the Wraith King was all "You humiliated/chased/almost defeated me on Sateda" (a part of the battle we didn't get to see, I guess), "so now I am going to stick a tracker back in your body and send my minions to chase you again."
And I ask you: does that mean that back in Runner when newly captured Ronon was on the Hive Ship, and the Wraith (maybe even Aurelius, before his Male Pattern Baldness set in) pulled him out of the cocoon, and started to feed on him and stopped, he ACTUALLY stopped because he looked at Ronon's face and recognized him? As opposed to there being something in Ronon's body chemistry that makes him not taste good and therefore be appropriate Runner Material?
Although the Ronon of Runner says he doesn't know why the Wraith do this crazy shit, the Ronon of Sateda seems to be aware of his ongoing personal hostile relationship with Aurelius.
ALSO - what kind of test or exercise or ANYTHING is it for the Wraith to go hunting a Runner who has a TRACKING device planted in their body, that all of them can read with their palm pilots? That's not training the Wraith to do anything. If Ronon wasn't such a serious bad ass in a fight, it would totally just be shooting fish in a barrel.
Which makes me say - I wonder what the fish think about that?
I mean, Ronon (and Teyla, to a certain extent) have a little bit of story-telling associated with being a Runner. Ronon's list of stuff (sport, rite of passage, learn our weaknesses, etc) presumes that the Wraith need something from the Runner, that the whole miserable thing has a POINT to it. This episode made it seem as though there WAS no point. That it was being done JUST to hurt/punish Ronon. Which is horrible, but in a weird way makes sense. Ultimately the tracker makes it impossible to hide - Ronon is a tough tough cookie, but the fact that he was able to survive for seven years, when Aurelius (or any other Wraith) could have found him any time they wanted, makes me think that his "punishment" was being deliberately dragged out.
Which means that Aurelius let him survive for that long just for the pleasure of hurting him more. Like a mean little boy with a bug and a magnifying glass.
Ick.
Also! Two lovely people made me things!
The first is here. melagan made a beautiful picture of Ronon holding a baby, the way he imagines himself doing in that latest little bit of The Last Home Season.
It's beautiful! There is something about a man with a baby in his arms...hmmm. Thank you melagan!
The second is a hot! porny! story! by neery here which stemmed from this delightful conversation. Hooray! What a nice present to wake up to!