SGA 3X14 "Tao of Mckay" SPOILERS
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justalurkrFirst, if you don't like the character of Rodney McKay? This is so the episode on which to take a miss. It is, as the title implies, all about the boy.
Second, on careful consideration, NO...I don't think that could have been slashier. It was so slashy, the writers felt compelled to add one overt and several nearly subtle denials of homoerotic UST statements to the dialog, the overt one going out from Shep to Mc, quite literally with love.
OK, it's entirely possible this could have been gayer, but only if there'd been an actual, on-screen, m/m blowjob between Rodney and one of his many studmuffins.
Third, it's entirely possible none of Rodney's usual studmuffins felt up to the task, seein' how Atlantis had finally taken the opportunity to feel Rodney up with a breathtaking thoroughness that left everyone else feeling a little inadequate. Plus, the city could be one of those crazy-jealous bitches who don't turn off your hot water, but substitute something clear, odorless and lethal when you transgress on her pet.
Fourth, David Hewlett is totally letting his hair grow, isn't he? We'll have cherubic curls by the finale, YAY! He looks lickable.
Fifth, the hurt/comfort whores of the world need to stock up on extra virtual cigarettes for after this little h/c orgy airs. Was there a single character left un-woobie-fied? I think not. Was there a single character left uncomforted? Nope, I don't believe there was.
Side note on the Power of McShep: Ronon got a hug. Rodney got a hug back. Radek got Rodney's hands on his naked chest. (Rodney/Radek-ers, please remember to maintain some sense of decorum--OK, please just don't trample the rest of us on the way to your bunks.) Carson got a desperate clutch. John got..."we're good, right?" Seriously...did anyone who's seen this ep notice any significant physical contact between Sheppard and McKay? Well, Sheppard did remove Rodney's headband in what might be considered a suggestive manner, but he looked worried when he did it.
Plus, Flanigan got to deliver the overt m/m UST denial. How frakkin' paranoid are the show writers, anyway? I say "Flanigan" and not "Sheppard," by the way, because that line broke the rhythm of the scene in a way that made Joe seem to drop out of character like a stone, though I could be projecting. ;)
End sidenote
Sixth, Teyla got tea? While Weir gets to be the New (and Not Improved) Sam Carter? Writer-dudes, put down your surfboards and meet me at Jon Stewart's Camera Three.
Boys, as one friend to another friend, if you're trying to promote the delusion of Rodney McKay As Straight Guy, or At Least Not Humping The Colonel, The Caveman, His Doctor or His Engineer, you really need to work harder on the m/f vibe where he's concerned. Teyla is crazy-assed hot. Weir is Rodney's boss and surrogate mommy. I know you're trying to characterize Rodney as an all around fumbler with the fairer sex, but even the freakiest little geeks get it right more often than you have Rodney even getting that there's a woman in the room. What you're doing here is successfully establing the character and reputation of Rodney McKay as closeted gay boy desperately maintaining the cover of a Lothario by hitting on women with whom he has no chance whatsoever of an appropriate relationship, because he knows their girlfriends would kick the ever-living shit out of his candy ass were he actually serious.
End Camera Three lecturette
Finally, I had a hard time not losing containment over this episode. Rodney is on, baybee. In da house. Full throttle, high impact, every moment of every scene. David Hewlett must've had a ball with this ep, and this makes me Happy.
That the writers more or less turned themselves inside out trying to de-slashify what I can only see as a slash orgy just ices the cake. I'd ramble on a bit more, but must head off to work now.
Second, on careful consideration, NO...I don't think that could have been slashier. It was so slashy, the writers felt compelled to add one overt and several nearly subtle denials of homoerotic UST statements to the dialog, the overt one going out from Shep to Mc, quite literally with love.
OK, it's entirely possible this could have been gayer, but only if there'd been an actual, on-screen, m/m blowjob between Rodney and one of his many studmuffins.
Third, it's entirely possible none of Rodney's usual studmuffins felt up to the task, seein' how Atlantis had finally taken the opportunity to feel Rodney up with a breathtaking thoroughness that left everyone else feeling a little inadequate. Plus, the city could be one of those crazy-jealous bitches who don't turn off your hot water, but substitute something clear, odorless and lethal when you transgress on her pet.
Fourth, David Hewlett is totally letting his hair grow, isn't he? We'll have cherubic curls by the finale, YAY! He looks lickable.
Fifth, the hurt/comfort whores of the world need to stock up on extra virtual cigarettes for after this little h/c orgy airs. Was there a single character left un-woobie-fied? I think not. Was there a single character left uncomforted? Nope, I don't believe there was.
Side note on the Power of McShep: Ronon got a hug. Rodney got a hug back. Radek got Rodney's hands on his naked chest. (Rodney/Radek-ers, please remember to maintain some sense of decorum--OK, please just don't trample the rest of us on the way to your bunks.) Carson got a desperate clutch. John got..."we're good, right?" Seriously...did anyone who's seen this ep notice any significant physical contact between Sheppard and McKay? Well, Sheppard did remove Rodney's headband in what might be considered a suggestive manner, but he looked worried when he did it.
Plus, Flanigan got to deliver the overt m/m UST denial. How frakkin' paranoid are the show writers, anyway? I say "Flanigan" and not "Sheppard," by the way, because that line broke the rhythm of the scene in a way that made Joe seem to drop out of character like a stone, though I could be projecting. ;)
End sidenote
Sixth, Teyla got tea? While Weir gets to be the New (and Not Improved) Sam Carter? Writer-dudes, put down your surfboards and meet me at Jon Stewart's Camera Three.
Boys, as one friend to another friend, if you're trying to promote the delusion of Rodney McKay As Straight Guy, or At Least Not Humping The Colonel, The Caveman, His Doctor or His Engineer, you really need to work harder on the m/f vibe where he's concerned. Teyla is crazy-assed hot. Weir is Rodney's boss and surrogate mommy. I know you're trying to characterize Rodney as an all around fumbler with the fairer sex, but even the freakiest little geeks get it right more often than you have Rodney even getting that there's a woman in the room. What you're doing here is successfully establing the character and reputation of Rodney McKay as closeted gay boy desperately maintaining the cover of a Lothario by hitting on women with whom he has no chance whatsoever of an appropriate relationship, because he knows their girlfriends would kick the ever-living shit out of his candy ass were he actually serious.
End Camera Three lecturette
Finally, I had a hard time not losing containment over this episode. Rodney is on, baybee. In da house. Full throttle, high impact, every moment of every scene. David Hewlett must've had a ball with this ep, and this makes me Happy.
That the writers more or less turned themselves inside out trying to de-slashify what I can only see as a slash orgy just ices the cake. I'd ramble on a bit more, but must head off to work now.
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Date: 2006-12-13 02:58 pm (UTC)I will have to live for screencaps and episode summaries until I get to see this airing on US tv.
You Tube?
Date: 2006-12-13 07:56 pm (UTC)Re: You Tube?
Date: 2006-12-13 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 04:20 pm (UTC)Thank God for YouTube! I just watched the episode and squeee! That was just awesome. David Hewlett rocked the house.
The hug to Ronon. "I healed them." The hug from Ronon.
That "like a friend" line really disrupted the momentum of that scene, didn't it.
I thought Rodney was so cute in that little scene at the end with Elizabeth.
They've had some really kick-ass episodes. Sheppard being all tough and finally out-drawing Kolya last week was also outstanding (though I cna't stand the Lucius character).
Hey, girl, where on Youtube
Date: 2006-12-13 07:29 pm (UTC)Re: Hey, girl, where on Youtube
Date: 2006-12-13 07:42 pm (UTC)My employer has become all tacky-like about YouTube and firewalled it from LAN six ways from Sunday. :(
Re: Hey, girl, where on Youtube
Date: 2006-12-13 10:08 pm (UTC)The other parts follow on from that and should be easy to find.
It's not paranoid if...
Date: 2006-12-13 07:55 pm (UTC)Re: It's not paranoid if...
Date: 2006-12-13 10:06 pm (UTC)The scene where Rodney gets telepathy and starts answering everything Elizabeth thinks before she says it remind me of an SGA story where ROdney is sort of exiled because he's gotten short-term telepathy. Only people with the Ancient gene are safe around him.
But yea, TPTB were saying Not Gay! very emphatically.
Re: It's not paranoid if...
Date: 2006-12-14 05:41 am (UTC)This was driving me crazy until I ransacked the Crossroads index for it. ;)
CORRECTION
Date: 2006-12-14 05:42 am (UTC)Re: It's not paranoid if...
Date: 2006-12-14 08:17 pm (UTC)And thanks for finding the link.
Minnow has a great story up on the under the mistletoe community where John is a prince of the fairies (no, not that sort).
Re: It's not paranoid if...
Date: 2006-12-14 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-14 02:38 am (UTC)Just one? I'm thinking McOrgy.
Fourth, David Hewlett is totally letting his hair grow, isn't he? We'll have cherubic curls by the finale, YAY! He looks lickable.
I like it when his hair's a bit longer, circa the Boa vs. Python era (bad movie, good hair *g*). And he always looks lickable. ;)
Plus, Flanigan got to deliver the overt m/m UST denial. How frakkin' paranoid are the show writers, anyway? I say "Flanigan" and not "Sheppard," by the way, because that line broke the rhythm of the scene in a way that made Joe seem to drop out of character like a stone, though I could be projecting. ;)
I don't think you were projecting. Flanigan did drop character in that scene. You know what it reminded me of? RDA when he was forced to suffer through scripted shippy crap. It put them out of character because it wasn't in character to act that way. The writers just can't stand having slash-friendly scenes without putting in a disclaimer.
While Weir gets to be the New (and Not Improved) Sam Carter?
I was rolling my eyes over Rodney writing a book lauding the Wonder That Is Weir, especially with the implication he was working on it for a while, because we never saw him get super typing speed as one of his powers. When he said that Elizabeth had gotten a lot of crap as the leader of the expedition, I wanted to add that it's because she's a crap leader.
That said, it was probably the first episode in a long time that Weir didn't bug the hell out of me. Though I was going through a bit of WTF over her talking to Rodney about Ascension. John may not have paid much attention during his six months in pre-AscensionLand, but he knows more about it up close and personal than Weir does.
Also, would it have killed them to have Weir telling Rodney they'd contacted the SGC for him to talk to Daniel, the only earther they know who's Ascended, but Daniel was offworld or otherwise incommunicado, so they were on their own figuring out the ins and outs of Ascension.
WRITERS: Yes, killed us in a horrible, painful way.
AUDIENCE: We would have enjoyed it.
WRITERS: Which is why we didn't write it. Ha!
AUDIENCE: No, we meant the whole killing you in a horrible, painful way thing.
WRITERS: Security!
SECURITY: Remember that raised we asked for last week and we were told there just wasn't enough money in the budget, but you laughed and said you'd be sure craft services kept us in donuts so we didn't have to worry about starving?
WRITERS: Um. Yes?
SECURITY: You're on your own, sunshine. Mmmm, donuts.
The Camera Three lecturette is right on, but don't give them the idea of seriously shipping Rodney when That Woman is going to be on the show next season.
David Hewlett must've had a ball with this ep, and this makes me Happy.
It makes me happy
in my pantstoo. For about 90% of the episode, he was doing his own dialogue, as well as speaking for the other characters too. He and Shanks really need to compare notes on what they did to get the pages and pages and pages of dialogue. *g*That the writers more or less turned themselves inside out trying to de-slashify what I can only see as a slash orgy just ices the cake. I'd ramble on a bit more, but must head off to work now.
I think it would make their heads all explode-y to know that I watch the show to see The Big Gay Space Adventure.
Which is deliciously ironic, isn't it? ;)