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SGA 3x08: McKay & Mrs. Miller
I just realized that I never did an episode-reaction post for "Common Ground". Not that I didn't like the episode; I loved it, in fact. There was much squee-ing. I was just too darn lazy to write a reaction to it.
But there are no words for the squee factor in this week's episode. I've watched it straight through twice, and watched parts of it ... more times than I care to admit.
MEREDITH!!! OMG, Meredith! And everyone else's reaction to it. Especially Sheppard. "Whatever you say ... Meredith."
Kate Hewlett was wonderful. I love her and I love her character. I do hope they bring her back in the next season. She's just the perfect combination of sweet, sympathetic and snarky. Asking Rodney if he started the war -- ha! And her little annoyed "Meredith!" and whacking him whenever he'd do something Rodney-ish. And the fact that she hit it off with the Atlanteans ... and Rodney's reaction to Sheppard's greeting her: "I've seen that look before ... *Kirk*!" It was pure delight.
This episode walked a fine line with the pathos, and in my opinion, never fell off once. They kept enough humor in Rodney's jealousy of Rod and his feelings of isolation from the team to never once stray into eye-rolling territory for me. And the sheer perfection that it was Sheppard that he went to, with his frustration over the Rod situation -- in John's quarters, no less! -- and that Sheppard nailed the crux of the problem with one off-hand comment? He does know Rodney well. And then, as if that wasn't enough, he set out to FIX it! But in character, always in character. It just about killed me to realize that Sheppard has seen Rodney's "Letters from Pegasus" tape, where he talks about the Atlanteans being his surrogate family -- and not only that, but keeps a copy of it on his laptop! Which, honestly, I'm not 100% sure how much in character that is ... but, he's SEEN it! And he set out deliberately to show Jeannie a different side of Rodney, the side of him that makes his team love him so ... SQUEEEEEEE!
The hug just tipped me into a giant pool of warm fuzzies. Because it was still so much in character -- Rodney's so awkward about it, and you could see the exact same desperation in his face as he had at the end of Trinity: the look he gets when someone who's really important to him is about to walk out of his life forever. In fact, the scene in Jeannie's quarters did make me think a lot of that final scene in Trinity, as Rodney's desperation not to lose someone he cares about makes him break through his emotional barriers and strips him down to the genuinely sweet person underneath all the snarkiness and lousy people skills.
And as if that wasn't enough, then there was the little "making it right" scene at the end with the team -- the thing that "Pegasus Project" didn't have. I kinda sense the hand of Sheppard in this one, as well. But just the fact that they all went out of their way to let Rodney know that they prefer their flawed McKay to the "better" model, and without being so obvious about it that Rodney would realize they were doing it on purpose ... SQUEE! And I loved the teasing of Teyla, and Teyla hitting Sheppard ... you know, Teyla and Ronon have both lightened up a lot this season. In fact, it seems to me that whereas Season 2 seemed to focus more on the individual character relationships (especially John/Rodney, John/Elizabeth and Teyla/Ronon) Season 3 has been really heavily playing up the team dynamic, especially the "family" nature of the group. And yet they're doing it while still giving us the John/Rodney scenes.
This is another episode, like Sateda, that doesn't make me want to run out and write or read a bunch of tags, because it was so emotionally complete in and of itself.
Oh, and did anyone else think that they were trying to give Ace McKay -- er, excuse me, Rod, "Sheppard hair"? It took me awhile to really think about why his hair was fluffed up like that, but when he was talking about the personality of alt-John, it really sounds like Sheppard and McKay's personalities are inverted in the other reality. So maybe Rod also has the "rakish" hair ...
But there are no words for the squee factor in this week's episode. I've watched it straight through twice, and watched parts of it ... more times than I care to admit.
MEREDITH!!! OMG, Meredith! And everyone else's reaction to it. Especially Sheppard. "Whatever you say ... Meredith."
Kate Hewlett was wonderful. I love her and I love her character. I do hope they bring her back in the next season. She's just the perfect combination of sweet, sympathetic and snarky. Asking Rodney if he started the war -- ha! And her little annoyed "Meredith!" and whacking him whenever he'd do something Rodney-ish. And the fact that she hit it off with the Atlanteans ... and Rodney's reaction to Sheppard's greeting her: "I've seen that look before ... *Kirk*!" It was pure delight.
This episode walked a fine line with the pathos, and in my opinion, never fell off once. They kept enough humor in Rodney's jealousy of Rod and his feelings of isolation from the team to never once stray into eye-rolling territory for me. And the sheer perfection that it was Sheppard that he went to, with his frustration over the Rod situation -- in John's quarters, no less! -- and that Sheppard nailed the crux of the problem with one off-hand comment? He does know Rodney well. And then, as if that wasn't enough, he set out to FIX it! But in character, always in character. It just about killed me to realize that Sheppard has seen Rodney's "Letters from Pegasus" tape, where he talks about the Atlanteans being his surrogate family -- and not only that, but keeps a copy of it on his laptop! Which, honestly, I'm not 100% sure how much in character that is ... but, he's SEEN it! And he set out deliberately to show Jeannie a different side of Rodney, the side of him that makes his team love him so ... SQUEEEEEEE!
The hug just tipped me into a giant pool of warm fuzzies. Because it was still so much in character -- Rodney's so awkward about it, and you could see the exact same desperation in his face as he had at the end of Trinity: the look he gets when someone who's really important to him is about to walk out of his life forever. In fact, the scene in Jeannie's quarters did make me think a lot of that final scene in Trinity, as Rodney's desperation not to lose someone he cares about makes him break through his emotional barriers and strips him down to the genuinely sweet person underneath all the snarkiness and lousy people skills.
And as if that wasn't enough, then there was the little "making it right" scene at the end with the team -- the thing that "Pegasus Project" didn't have. I kinda sense the hand of Sheppard in this one, as well. But just the fact that they all went out of their way to let Rodney know that they prefer their flawed McKay to the "better" model, and without being so obvious about it that Rodney would realize they were doing it on purpose ... SQUEE! And I loved the teasing of Teyla, and Teyla hitting Sheppard ... you know, Teyla and Ronon have both lightened up a lot this season. In fact, it seems to me that whereas Season 2 seemed to focus more on the individual character relationships (especially John/Rodney, John/Elizabeth and Teyla/Ronon) Season 3 has been really heavily playing up the team dynamic, especially the "family" nature of the group. And yet they're doing it while still giving us the John/Rodney scenes.
This is another episode, like Sateda, that doesn't make me want to run out and write or read a bunch of tags, because it was so emotionally complete in and of itself.
Oh, and did anyone else think that they were trying to give Ace McKay -- er, excuse me, Rod, "Sheppard hair"? It took me awhile to really think about why his hair was fluffed up like that, but when he was talking about the personality of alt-John, it really sounds like Sheppard and McKay's personalities are inverted in the other reality. So maybe Rod also has the "rakish" hair ...
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