SGA 3.15: The Game
I was about to start this off the way I usually do, by apologizing for having nothing intelligent or coherent to say, but then I realized: when do I ever have anything intelligent or coherent to say about these things? So let's just dispense with that from now on...
It would be hard for me to love an episode as much as I loved 'Tao of Rodney,' by this made me much more gleeful, say, than the transition from 'Grace Under Pressure' to 'The Tower.' Rodney and John are such boys. I love that they've been playing this game together for two years, if for nothing else than it totally, totally confirms that they hang out together all the time. I myself have doubted that sometimes, that they're really as pal-y as some fic makes them out to be. But it's canon now! Ha.
I may have done a tiny dance of continuity joy when in the flashbacks they did show Rodney in the khaki uniform and blue shirts of yore. *dork*
Heightmeyer would probably have a field day with the disparate ways Rodney and John controlled their universes. I'm not really sure what kind of deep psychological probing I'm capable of doing, but...
Well, Rodney's world is the more obviously interesting. Besides plastering his face everywhere, which is typically both self-important and insecure (and c'mon, admit it-some of you were also thinking that you'd be happy to get your hands on some of the less ugly Rodney paintings!), there's some interesting stuff being hinted at here to do with how Rodney views women. This is something that people have debated, because on the one side, there's the way he treated Sam (and people mostly reference '48 Hours' here-the dumb blonde comment is by far the most aggressive thing he ever says, and from there on out, he's actually kind of pathetically devoted to her), and on the other...well, the way he's treated all the other women on the show. Which has mostly been either a) exactly like he treats the men, or b) like he's totally enthralled. It's totally fitting that the leader of his country is a woman. And that it's named after a woman. Because I think for Rodney...well, the thing that he values the most is intelligence. Give him an intelligent woman and he's just...floored. On your knees, boy.
(Yes, this entire line of "reasoning" was just a way to further my theory that Rodney gives great head.)
[Unfortunately, though, none of this really helps me on my quest to figure out how to write convincing Rodney/Teyla fic.]
ANYWAY. John is, on the surface, much simpler...and so of course he's really much more complicated. I mean, I think it's pretty clear that he was probably taking the game much less seriously than Rodney (when it was still a game, that is), but I really wish they'd told us more about his society besides "it has a really big army." Like, for example, what sweaty bondage club of John's youth did he steal the idea for those outfits from?
Okay, other stuff. Um. Well, Teyla and Ronon, as usual, did not have enough to do. Beckett wasn't actually in this episode, and I didn't realize until just now. (Ooops.) Elizabeth...man, they could have totally let her use her mad diplomatic skillz in this episode, but did they? Nope. I kinda feel like they owe her an apology. Still, though, I liked when she laid the smack down on Zelenka and Lorne. And dude! Zelenka and Lorne! (LORNE! For more than three seconds!) Who wants to bet that there's suddenly a huge upsurge of Zelenka/Lorne fic now?
Important questions:
1. Does this push back the date at which Rodney and John were plausibly doing it? I mean, does this imply that they may have started doing it EARLIER? When? Please provide details of where they were doing it, and with what frequency. Diagrams are also acceptable.
2. Wouldn't it have been much easier to facilitate peace between the two warring nations if their respective oracles had made out in full view of everyone?
3. Is sending crates of citrus the pigtail-pulling of the Pegasus Galaxy?
4. After he got over being miffed about it, how hot do you think it made Rodney that John can beat him at chess?
And, seemingly in contrast to the previous questions: If you were Nola, wouldn't you have totally done Rodney one of those nights you were staying on Atlantis? I mean, sure, you'd be bitter and disenchanted, but you'd basically be fucking (who you'd thought was) God. That's awesome. But then, I'm a perverse bitch.
It would be hard for me to love an episode as much as I loved 'Tao of Rodney,' by this made me much more gleeful, say, than the transition from 'Grace Under Pressure' to 'The Tower.' Rodney and John are such boys. I love that they've been playing this game together for two years, if for nothing else than it totally, totally confirms that they hang out together all the time. I myself have doubted that sometimes, that they're really as pal-y as some fic makes them out to be. But it's canon now! Ha.
I may have done a tiny dance of continuity joy when in the flashbacks they did show Rodney in the khaki uniform and blue shirts of yore. *dork*
Heightmeyer would probably have a field day with the disparate ways Rodney and John controlled their universes. I'm not really sure what kind of deep psychological probing I'm capable of doing, but...
Well, Rodney's world is the more obviously interesting. Besides plastering his face everywhere, which is typically both self-important and insecure (and c'mon, admit it-some of you were also thinking that you'd be happy to get your hands on some of the less ugly Rodney paintings!), there's some interesting stuff being hinted at here to do with how Rodney views women. This is something that people have debated, because on the one side, there's the way he treated Sam (and people mostly reference '48 Hours' here-the dumb blonde comment is by far the most aggressive thing he ever says, and from there on out, he's actually kind of pathetically devoted to her), and on the other...well, the way he's treated all the other women on the show. Which has mostly been either a) exactly like he treats the men, or b) like he's totally enthralled. It's totally fitting that the leader of his country is a woman. And that it's named after a woman. Because I think for Rodney...well, the thing that he values the most is intelligence. Give him an intelligent woman and he's just...floored. On your knees, boy.
(Yes, this entire line of "reasoning" was just a way to further my theory that Rodney gives great head.)
[Unfortunately, though, none of this really helps me on my quest to figure out how to write convincing Rodney/Teyla fic.]
ANYWAY. John is, on the surface, much simpler...and so of course he's really much more complicated. I mean, I think it's pretty clear that he was probably taking the game much less seriously than Rodney (when it was still a game, that is), but I really wish they'd told us more about his society besides "it has a really big army." Like, for example, what sweaty bondage club of John's youth did he steal the idea for those outfits from?
Okay, other stuff. Um. Well, Teyla and Ronon, as usual, did not have enough to do. Beckett wasn't actually in this episode, and I didn't realize until just now. (Ooops.) Elizabeth...man, they could have totally let her use her mad diplomatic skillz in this episode, but did they? Nope. I kinda feel like they owe her an apology. Still, though, I liked when she laid the smack down on Zelenka and Lorne. And dude! Zelenka and Lorne! (LORNE! For more than three seconds!) Who wants to bet that there's suddenly a huge upsurge of Zelenka/Lorne fic now?
Important questions:
1. Does this push back the date at which Rodney and John were plausibly doing it? I mean, does this imply that they may have started doing it EARLIER? When? Please provide details of where they were doing it, and with what frequency. Diagrams are also acceptable.
2. Wouldn't it have been much easier to facilitate peace between the two warring nations if their respective oracles had made out in full view of everyone?
3. Is sending crates of citrus the pigtail-pulling of the Pegasus Galaxy?
4. After he got over being miffed about it, how hot do you think it made Rodney that John can beat him at chess?
And, seemingly in contrast to the previous questions: If you were Nola, wouldn't you have totally done Rodney one of those nights you were staying on Atlantis? I mean, sure, you'd be bitter and disenchanted, but you'd basically be fucking (who you'd thought was) God. That's awesome. But then, I'm a perverse bitch.