Rodney McKay, international man of mystery

[mhalachaiswords]

Help.

Specifically, flist, it's about the parents of Rodney McKay. What do we know about them from canon? Every time I wrack my brain, it's all most likely fandom related. I'm thinking mostly about his mother - do we know anything?

And yes, this does have 97% to do with Physics of the Spin...

Thank you!

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[vipersweb]

I don't think we know anything about his parents. according to Stargate Wiki, his father read him moby dick at the age of 6 and since then, he's had recurring dreams of being eaten by a whale. Um... that's it.

[mhalachaiswords]

I suspected as much, but was leery of making any ficcly claims as I haven't seen most of seasons 4 and 5. Rodney is such a fascinating character.

[vipersweb]

to be honest? I'm tired of him. The show has descended in season 5 into the "Rodney as the king of the geeks is the best person ever." Trufax. I'm a bit annoyed that Teyla and Ronon got shafted in season 5. The first episode of season 5 is awesome. Very teamy.

[mhalachaiswords]

I think watching him in small batches helps. I've seen the first ep of season 5 (that was amazing - Sheppard in the Wraith dart with the baby? omg), then the Shrine, and the first five minutes of Vegas. I spend more time in the SGA fanfic, where I can chose which characters I want to interact with :)

[vipersweb]

*nods* I only have one episode left to watch on my DVR - Identity, but I think I'm going to skip as it has nothing to do except to "flesh out" Keller's character... b/c three episodes from the end, that's what we need. *sigh*

I keep up with SGA just so I know what's going on in fanfic. Shrine was nice - but again, for the team feel. I guess, what I wanted for season 5 - especially since it is the last season - was a series that focused on the team. Instead, we got Rodney is the best, rah, rah, rah. and oh yes! let us focus on these secondary characters like Woolsey and Keller.

[rude02]

-"flesh out" Keller's character... b/c three episodes from the end, that's what we need. *sigh*-
That's an episode I don't want to watch either...

And as someone who has watched the whole thing to the end of season 5, my overall opinion of this season is... dude they soooo screwed up the characters, the team's dynamic, the storyline, everything really!! when they Mary_Sue'd Rodney.

[e313]

and they didn't even Mary_Sue him properly. anybody remember 'Brain Storm'? *snort* it would have bn more in character to call everybody names, and go work on the problem alone.

[rude02]

word!