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Eheheh. Malp on a stick. They don’t even need fangirls. They do it themselves!
Sheppard makes the “I’m about to jump in without testing the waters first!” face, but then he doesn’t. He’s so not-stupid! It’s dreamy. And then he CONTINUES TO NOT BE STUPID, by realizing that just because he can’t hear them doesn’t mean they can’t hear him. Not that they can, of course, but it’s cute anyway.
Heh. Although shooting himself. That was kind of funny.
And the "Good one, John! Shoot yourself!" line really grabbed me for some reason, and it took me a while to figure out why, but it's because Sheppard isn't "John" to me, he's "Sheppard," and I think that's generally true; most people call him Sheppard or Colonel, although I can't remember if there are meaningful numbers of exceptions off-hand. In any case, John feels to me like the thing Sheppard calls himself when he's alone in his head, maybe with an echo of his parents or his childhood friends--whoever he would have been "John" to--getting ticked off at him, which really sold the "internal monologue" style of dialog for me, and also made it feel bizarrely, touchingly intimate for just a second.
I usually have trouble with Shalott’s characterization of McKay in Transcendental (while nonetheless loving the story and, you know, everything else she writes with a white-hot passion), but episodes like this make me buy that characterization.
I continue to love the way Flanigan plays Sheppard in crises that just affect him--anger and frustration and nerves; a surprising lack of real bravado. Absence of spunky humor: it’s the new anti-hero!
Eheheh. Zelenka’s idea. Of course it was.
Ahahah. I love the montage’o’Sheppard’s-complete-disinterest-in-enlightenment. Please, please, let it continue and not segue into a montage’o’native-girl-lovin. Remember, Sheppard! She could be a Wraith spy! (Yeah, I knew I wasn’t going to get my wish there.)
“I’m starting to develop some serious abandonment issues here!” Aw. That’s basically the best thing ever. ‘S funny, because I was just watching the Farscape episode in which Crichton gets accidentally abandoned, and this episode has been reminding me of it for, like, hours.
Rodney: So that’s a ratio of...
Teyla: Here, allow me to prove that, given several hours, I too can do basic math! Can we move on?
Native girl: I’ve been spying on you constantly. With my mind. Yes, I AM kind of creepy. Come and cuddle! I know we’re going to have sex. Resistance is futile.
Huh. Thousands of fanfic writers are plotting their next pissy jealous Rodney fics.
Ah, and Weir continues the trend of making bad command decisions only where John is concerned. I dislike this form of “characterization.”
Hmm... How come ascension boy can maintain his little goatee thingy, but Sheppard can’t shave?
Aw! A date! With Cadman! That makes me so happy! In concept. Please to not spend screen time on it.
“What is it with you and ascended women??” Heh. And once again, Dr. McKay fangirls on our behalf.