SGA 3... er: The Game (YAY!)
I loved this episode before it frigging aired, people. John! Rodney! Canonically playing geeky games together in their downtime! But this, this did me several better.
Okay, when they were telling Elizabeth all about it, and they had their flaily exposition of excited dorkitude going? God, okay, for one thing: they sounded exactly like certain WoW addicts I know, ardently defending their realm of awesome, in which they are, like, Level 60 Night Elves and they only need 20 more gold to get the purple armour of darkness! or whatever, and it was so cute. JOHN, YOU FUCKING GEEK ADLFKJASLKJ I LOVE YOU. And not only that, this has been their secret pastime, which they only do, you know, nights and between missions (!), for the last TWO YEARS.
TWO FUCKING YEARS. WE OFFICIALLY HAVE CANON THAT THEY HAVE BEEN GEEKY PALS SPENDING THEIR NIGHTS OFF TOGETHER SINCE SEASON ONE. DANCE FOR ME, MONKEYS! DANCE!
*dances*
The mention of Katie Brown was kind of weird - I liked the continuity (it's just so rare!), but it didn't make much sense, what with the hideous train-wreck that was the first date and her status as a soft scientist and non-blonde. So, like, either they're using each other for sex with awkward post-coital conversations about crushing babies under steam-engines, or Katie, having been long since told the score by Cadman, is now making Rodney give her foot-rubs and paint her nails in return for use as a beard. (Rodney thinks it's a great idea, because he is a deeply paranoid man and also Katie makes very good cake, so she talks about her day and he divulges his most neurotic worries about their relationship, and at midnight on the dot she hands him a wrapped piece of cake for the Colonel and boots Rodney out the door. He has, however, marked a worrying upswing of oranges consumed by Colonel Sheppard at breakfast; he won't be really concerned until John starts eating citrus-tainted things at dinner, but still, they need to have another talk.)
The name of Rodney's place sounded like Guilder to my ears, and I was really hoping that John's place was called Florin. Alas, it was not, and a great opportunity was missed, but I'm still taking it as a shout-out. Also, God, John, your country's leader is an English-accented leather daddy? You just - I - I can't. You spent a lot of your teenage years locked in your bedroom sulking and strumming along to I Hung My Head and you never got over that phase, did you? I bet you still have a kohl pencil somewhere.
I was tickled a little by Rodney's face being over everything in his country - like trinityofone said, a little insecure-egotistical thing that's very Rodney - and also that his place was so steampunk. Literally steampunk! And he was thrilled by it! I noticed that he didn't hit on the Sam clone he had running the place, either - which was great, because it would have been a little skeevy, him being kind of their god and all - but with the Elizabeth-flirting from last week's episode, it kind of made me think that Rodney never really seriously flirts with women, ever. The only kind of women he flutters his lovely, lovely lashes at with any confidence are the ones who he knows will turn him down or won't take him seriously. Give him a woman who is actually interested in him and he's a mess.
Anyway, other characters:
Elizabeth! Underused, I think. I mean, has she actually been allowed to win any negotiations since the Siege? I'm kind of amused that she has totally become the nanny for all of them when they're not in immediate peril, though.
Teyla! Also hideously underused, but she did get to use her patented deadly "I should not let you two morons out of my sight, I swear to God" look. Ronon... well, aside from the baby thing, he got to hang his head in despair while Teyla did her Look.
Lorne! In conjunction with Zelenka! That was too cute. The potato thing! And the going evil! And the being yelled at by Elizabeth! I hope there's a sudden rash of Lorne/Zelenka from this, I really do.
Overall, it wasn't a brilliant episode per se, but as canon confirmation that John and Rodney are best girlfriends and have been forever it fucking rocked. Especially because it ended with them playing chess together, thus proving that it really wasn't the game they were interested in so much as finding vaguely grown-up ways to pull each other's pigtails in their downtime. Works for me!
Okay, when they were telling Elizabeth all about it, and they had their flaily exposition of excited dorkitude going? God, okay, for one thing: they sounded exactly like certain WoW addicts I know, ardently defending their realm of awesome, in which they are, like, Level 60 Night Elves and they only need 20 more gold to get the purple armour of darkness! or whatever, and it was so cute. JOHN, YOU FUCKING GEEK ADLFKJASLKJ I LOVE YOU. And not only that, this has been their secret pastime, which they only do, you know, nights and between missions (!), for the last TWO YEARS.
TWO FUCKING YEARS. WE OFFICIALLY HAVE CANON THAT THEY HAVE BEEN GEEKY PALS SPENDING THEIR NIGHTS OFF TOGETHER SINCE SEASON ONE. DANCE FOR ME, MONKEYS! DANCE!
*dances*
The mention of Katie Brown was kind of weird - I liked the continuity (it's just so rare!), but it didn't make much sense, what with the hideous train-wreck that was the first date and her status as a soft scientist and non-blonde. So, like, either they're using each other for sex with awkward post-coital conversations about crushing babies under steam-engines, or Katie, having been long since told the score by Cadman, is now making Rodney give her foot-rubs and paint her nails in return for use as a beard. (Rodney thinks it's a great idea, because he is a deeply paranoid man and also Katie makes very good cake, so she talks about her day and he divulges his most neurotic worries about their relationship, and at midnight on the dot she hands him a wrapped piece of cake for the Colonel and boots Rodney out the door. He has, however, marked a worrying upswing of oranges consumed by Colonel Sheppard at breakfast; he won't be really concerned until John starts eating citrus-tainted things at dinner, but still, they need to have another talk.)
The name of Rodney's place sounded like Guilder to my ears, and I was really hoping that John's place was called Florin. Alas, it was not, and a great opportunity was missed, but I'm still taking it as a shout-out. Also, God, John, your country's leader is an English-accented leather daddy? You just - I - I can't. You spent a lot of your teenage years locked in your bedroom sulking and strumming along to I Hung My Head and you never got over that phase, did you? I bet you still have a kohl pencil somewhere.
I was tickled a little by Rodney's face being over everything in his country - like trinityofone said, a little insecure-egotistical thing that's very Rodney - and also that his place was so steampunk. Literally steampunk! And he was thrilled by it! I noticed that he didn't hit on the Sam clone he had running the place, either - which was great, because it would have been a little skeevy, him being kind of their god and all - but with the Elizabeth-flirting from last week's episode, it kind of made me think that Rodney never really seriously flirts with women, ever. The only kind of women he flutters his lovely, lovely lashes at with any confidence are the ones who he knows will turn him down or won't take him seriously. Give him a woman who is actually interested in him and he's a mess.
Anyway, other characters:
Elizabeth! Underused, I think. I mean, has she actually been allowed to win any negotiations since the Siege? I'm kind of amused that she has totally become the nanny for all of them when they're not in immediate peril, though.
Teyla! Also hideously underused, but she did get to use her patented deadly "I should not let you two morons out of my sight, I swear to God" look. Ronon... well, aside from the baby thing, he got to hang his head in despair while Teyla did her Look.
Lorne! In conjunction with Zelenka! That was too cute. The potato thing! And the going evil! And the being yelled at by Elizabeth! I hope there's a sudden rash of Lorne/Zelenka from this, I really do.
Overall, it wasn't a brilliant episode per se, but as canon confirmation that John and Rodney are best girlfriends and have been forever it fucking rocked. Especially because it ended with them playing chess together, thus proving that it really wasn't the game they were interested in so much as finding vaguely grown-up ways to pull each other's pigtails in their downtime. Works for me!