Aquarium 4.09 -- "Miller's Crossing" commentary
The other day Mary said to me, "So you can flag offensive content on lj now," and I said, "SWEET! I'm starting tomorrow!" But then she explained to me that you have to have a specific reason, and that "Rodney is a secret cutter fic" and "misuse of the word 'canon' in a sentence" are not on the list. Once again, warnings labels never cover the
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I would like to formally ratify this rule. Thank you.
and second, pissed off that they’re making him wear the same crap that Sheppard wears.
Did you notice in the scene with Walter, when Ronon leans back in his chair he tugs uncomfortably on the bottom of his shirt. It's too loose! It's all wrong!
EEEEEEEEEE! SHOULDER HOLSTER, SHOULDER HOLSTER! EEEEEEEEEEEE!
Caps: Lots of shoulder holster caps
it feels like something entirely different to me from everything that’s gone before it, but in a nicely organic way - not out of nowhere, but just in the sense of stepping up to a new level.
I particularly like that they gave us a minute of McKay and Sheppard heart to heart last week to lay the ground for this week. They've established the geeky friendship (I know those guys, too!) but in the last couple of weeks they've established that they discuss serious shit seriously. Organic is exactly the right word for it.
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Hee! I just assumed he was fidgeting because he wasn't allowed to run away or punch Walter (right, it's Walter) in the head -- but I like your version better! He really does hate Earth clothes.
Thanks for the caps! That scene where he comes out of the car, with his dress shirt and the shoulder holster and his gun drawn, made me LONG WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING for a badass FBI AU. Which there probably is, but not about Ronon, and clearly that's key to this whole thing. *g*
They do seem to be taking character in general rather more seriously this season than they have in the past, which I am obviously *all for.* If only the show and I had a relationship based on trust, I could stop waiting for the other shoe to fall all the time.... *g*
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Yes, a thousand times. There's a pre-WW2 cop AU where John and Ronon are cop partners and Rodney is the forensics expert or ME or something like that. It's McShep so Ronon is in a supporting role, but I still got lovely black and white pictures in my head. But that's as close as we got. I don't particularly recommend it to you and I can't because I didn't bookmark it!
My second favorite thing about that scene, after what he was wearing, was how he got out of the car while it was still moving. **hearts**
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and they were SO a family with the sending home to the hotel....
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*happy sigh*
Also, thank you for this, about John:
But this, which seems comparatively minor to me
Yeah, me, too, so much that after reading a bunch of reviews I was starting to question my judgment. I'm pretty sure I'm an unusually ethical person (based on RL stuff I've done and had happen to me professionally), but I know I'd have no problem making the same choice John did.
But I'll watch those two scenes between John and Rodney a hundred times and never get tired of it.
*contented sigh*
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Seriously, my reaction to that was basically a big "whatever," because as far as I'm concerned, it's a plundered well. We'll just add Wallace's name to the list of however many people Our Wraith Friend has killed since John let him go a year ago. I already knew that John would sacrifice human lives to the Wraith for a tactical advantage (and that's a generous interpretation of "Common Ground," the assumption that he sensed some potential tactial advantage in the move), so he's pretty much the same John to me this week that he was last week. And yeah, given that the decision had already been made (even via Not Talking About It) to keep this Wraith alive for his strategic value against the Replicators, then I don't see what the big deal is that John found ( ... )
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Also, your description of the John and Rodney relationship is exactly how I see them, and I, like you, saw slashiness for the first time ever in this episode. Really interesting.
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