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SGA 4x14: Harmony
I wasn't really that inspired to write up a reaction post this week, as has generally been the case lately, but I went and typed out a fairly long comment at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naye's post, so I figured I could rework it as an actual episode reaction post, albeit brief. (Hmm, I keep adding stuff to it. Maybe not so brief, then!)
Basically: Hee!
It was a cute and fun episode. Like some of last season's (e.g. Game) this one felt like it could have been really good if it had been a little deeper and more serious with maybe a little more anthropological research than a high school textbook on the Middle Ages that the writers read 20 years ago *g*, but as it was, all it achieved was fluff and fun. SO MANY PLOT HOLES HELP HELP HELP. Still ... who's gonna argue with a little bit of fluff and fun? It's not going to be an episode I'll rewatch much, but I managed to turn my brain off and have a lot of fun. :D
This really felt like the John and Rodney version of "Missing", only without the serious undertone of that one. Still, it made a nice counterpoint to it, though of the two I liked "Missing" better (despite the lack of John and Rodney in that one ... but the coolness of having a girl "Butch and Sundance" duo made up for it).
I really liked Harmony. She was bitchy, but smart and tough and competent and brave. I was actually pretty impressed with the writers for going ahead and bringing her crush on John out of subtext into actual text -- it's such a taboo subject that I was expecting them to dance around the issue, and pleased that they went ahead and dealt with it. (His look of horror when she asked him to be her king! Oh, John.)
So many cute scenes with Rodney and John! He called him John ... again ... multiple times! (It still feels really weird to me, after two years, to get used to hearing Rodney say "John." But in a good way!)
I figured from the get-go that Harmony would have some kind of epiphany about Rodney. I was hoping it would be a more, er, emotionally fraught situation, let's just say. (Yes, I wanted h/c. So sue me. *g*) But still, nice, and her about-face, switching the crush from John to Rodney, was not just hilarious, but SUCH a 13-year-old thing to do. And the painting, oh god! *dies*
I've gone around to a few LJs and seen Sheppard fans griping about the episode casting their hero in a bad light ... which seriously cracks me up, because Rodney's been the brunt of the jokes for years, and now the tables have been turned and it makes me giggle! I love them both, and I find the jokes at Rodney's expense equally funny, but it's about Sheppard's turn, darn it! The painting slayed me, and now Rodney's got ammo to counter the lemon and whale jokes. You just know Rodney won't let him live it down. :D
naye's post, so I figured I could rework it as an actual episode reaction post, albeit brief. (Hmm, I keep adding stuff to it. Maybe not so brief, then!)Basically: Hee!
It was a cute and fun episode. Like some of last season's (e.g. Game) this one felt like it could have been really good if it had been a little deeper and more serious with maybe a little more anthropological research than a high school textbook on the Middle Ages that the writers read 20 years ago *g*, but as it was, all it achieved was fluff and fun. SO MANY PLOT HOLES HELP HELP HELP. Still ... who's gonna argue with a little bit of fluff and fun? It's not going to be an episode I'll rewatch much, but I managed to turn my brain off and have a lot of fun. :D
This really felt like the John and Rodney version of "Missing", only without the serious undertone of that one. Still, it made a nice counterpoint to it, though of the two I liked "Missing" better (despite the lack of John and Rodney in that one ... but the coolness of having a girl "Butch and Sundance" duo made up for it).
I really liked Harmony. She was bitchy, but smart and tough and competent and brave. I was actually pretty impressed with the writers for going ahead and bringing her crush on John out of subtext into actual text -- it's such a taboo subject that I was expecting them to dance around the issue, and pleased that they went ahead and dealt with it. (His look of horror when she asked him to be her king! Oh, John.)
So many cute scenes with Rodney and John! He called him John ... again ... multiple times! (It still feels really weird to me, after two years, to get used to hearing Rodney say "John." But in a good way!)
I figured from the get-go that Harmony would have some kind of epiphany about Rodney. I was hoping it would be a more, er, emotionally fraught situation, let's just say. (Yes, I wanted h/c. So sue me. *g*) But still, nice, and her about-face, switching the crush from John to Rodney, was not just hilarious, but SUCH a 13-year-old thing to do. And the painting, oh god! *dies*
I've gone around to a few LJs and seen Sheppard fans griping about the episode casting their hero in a bad light ... which seriously cracks me up, because Rodney's been the brunt of the jokes for years, and now the tables have been turned and it makes me giggle! I love them both, and I find the jokes at Rodney's expense equally funny, but it's about Sheppard's turn, darn it! The painting slayed me, and now Rodney's got ammo to counter the lemon and whale jokes. You just know Rodney won't let him live it down. :D
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