3.Whatever: "Tao of Rodney"

[trinityofone]

Um. OMGRODNEYSQUEE. I...I lack coherency? My voice is going to remain permanently high-pitched for the next four hours? This was totally worth getting up an hour early to see before work even though I had to stay late yesterday and probably will have to again today? Because Rodney is just...a force of good in the universe? Frequently, literally?

And maybe I should stop ending everything with a question mark?

Anyway. I loved this episode. If you love Rodney, I think it would be hard not to be *flailflailflail* about this episode. (Although, for God's sake, writers, you are giving me body issues by constantly going on and on about his supposed chub. Can't we save that for the bad fanfic, please?)

Actually, speaking of fanfic...are they just basically filming fic plots now? Can we look forward to amnesia soon? Gay sex?

That may have been my one beef with the episode, in fact: that the last minute alternate solution deprived of us possible amnesia (maybe they're saving it?) and definite nakedness. *pout*

Okay, I'm going to try for some real analytical thoughts (Ha!) about the various characters and how they interacted with our man of the hour.

Radek: I love completely and entirely, and he can mutter at me in Czech anytime. He really is, as Rodney said, a remarkably good person, and yes Rodney (and everyone) should be less snippy to him, although I also think he's not, y'know, a helpless victim. Radek can take care of himself!

Carson: I don't really get Rodney and Carson's friendship/animosity/whatever, mostly because I don't think the writers do either. So, um...well, Paul McGillion looked especially fit in that grey top this week, didn't he?

Teyla: SO CRIMINALLY UNDERUSED MY GOD. I'd give an arm and a leg for a good Teyla arc. I'd throw in a kidney if Rodney and Teyla could have some prolonged interaction.

Ronon: I ADORED Ronon in this ep. I've loved all the con reports about David and Jason paling around, and I think that's definitely coming through. YAY. Big Ronon hugs are definitely for yay. And god, that scene about Ronon's scars...that was so well handled, even subtly handled. That might have been my favorite moment in the ep. You know, aside from all the other ones.

(Although I do have to say, Ronon totally thought Rodney was going to ask something else at the beginning of that scene. He was considering saying yes, too.)

Elizabeth: I mostly liked. She was concerned and proactive. Don't know why she felt the need to go back on the "We love you," thing—it was pretty clear that Rodney was joking and doesn't think there's any kind of serious thing between them. Romantic chemistry, they do not have. (Which is kind of too bad, because I'd be on board for some Rodney/Elizabeth if there were even the smallest sparks. I basically want Rodney to have sex with everybody.)

Lorne: Hi! It's so great to finally see you again! How have you...no, wait, come back!

John: Was totally going to kiss Rodney before he passed out. And was wonderfully red-eyed in the infirmary scene with his over-compensating, "Like a friend!" Which was actually nearly a mini-tragedy of missed chances and deserves to have angsty fic written about it. *nods*

Also, did you notice how John was conspicuously absent for the whole section where Rodney was actively reading minds? Draw your own conclusions.

As for Rodney himself...the last vestiges of coherency leave me again. I love him, and I love him especially when he's excited and animated—which he was a lot in this ep—and when he's brave and tragic—which he was a lot, too. And God, he was beautiful. Really, just...gorgeous. *projects thoughts Atlantis-ward* YES, HOT. YOU, RODNEY!

So, um, yeah. Stripped of anything else to say, I suggest using the rest of this space for a Rodney McKay squee-fest. Y'know: honk if you love Hewlett?

Comments

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Rodney was astonishingly beautiful. Fluffy hair and fluffy eyelashes, lying on the floor in Sheppard's room, pretty, pretty arms, pretty blue eyes, vulnerable nape of his neck--the man is positively edible, and don't try and tell me that Sheppard wasn't thinking exactly that the entire time.

And John's broken voice as they stood around watching Rodney did not make me go all sniffly, nope, not one bit.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

When he was in the control chair, his eyelashes? GOOD GOD MAN. They could've made a whole show just about them!

And I love when he's giddy, because his whole face lights up. And I love that he got to be confident (for a while) in this ep, because Rodney/David's whole bearing changes, and it's amazing to watch. A little of the Rod creeping in.

And yes, you know John was secretly going through the most intense emotional roller coaster and we just barely got to see it, but it was undeniably there and just...*sigh* We should get good fic out of this! It makes me want to start reading and writing again!

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

I cried like a tiny child.

[pqueen.livejournal.com]

Seriously. They must have forgotten what his old hair style was like since the Mrs. Miller episode. Every episode since then has had his hair sticking up. It's cute.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Or else Rodney got styling tips from Rod!

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

I believe that the only thing Rodney and Rod managed to discuss without Rodney getting mad and storming out was the problem of thinning hair and all the different things they've attempted to invent to deal with it, and how "John Sheppard just doesn't understand, the lucky bastard."