He's adorable in Sense and Sensibility. Just a handful of lines, into which he crams a universe of weariness.
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Okay, seriously, the guys writing SGA now are the same guys who were writing it last year. There are times when one can play the "the new people just don't get it!" card, but this is not one of them. Everyone loves last year's season-ender, right? Well, the last two episodes of S1 were written by the same people who wrote the first two episodes of S2, and the guy who wrote Runner is Atlantis' executive producer.
t /grumpypants
(Oh, who am I kidding?)
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...turning into Xander?
Huh.
Well, I like Xander.
So do I, but I guess I was referring to the fact they kept making him the comedy buttmonkey and occasionally nearly terminally stupid.
In other words, annoyance at Xander's treatment is now becoming annoyance at Rodney's treatment.
occasionally nearly terminally stupid
???
WTF?
Funny how old fannish issues just keep going, isn't it? I get the same way.
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They're going for comedy. Which means making Rodney look more annoying and stupid than he's been recently. I suspect it'll come back around.
In S2, Fay, he's gotten some, er, pretty dopey, stunt-for-grins stuff foisted on him. At least, I think that's what we're talking about. I think the writers need to calm down a bit is it, mainly.
We're talking about slapstick?
This isn't good.
occasionally nearly terminally stupid
???
WTF?
I'm only going by vague feelings, here, but it seemed to me that they would have Xander be reckless or dumb in leter seasons. Things that he would not have done when he was younger.
Xander should have come away from The Zeppo with a better sense of maturity.
And he was maturing, but on occasion they seemed to have him become as he called it, the "butt monkey."