Rodney gives me more WFTH moments than any protagonist on any show I've watched in ten years. How do the writers not see this?
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
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Consuela - Sep 21, 2008 11:01:32 am PDT #4787 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Polter-Cow - Sep 21, 2008 11:32:52 am PDT #4788 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What...fucking the hell?
amych - Sep 21, 2008 11:35:29 am PDT #4789 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Watch from the hall?
Polter-Cow - Sep 21, 2008 11:50:22 am PDT #4790 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ooooh.
Consuela - Sep 21, 2008 11:51:40 am PDT #4791 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
amych got it. Rodney makes me squirm with sympathetic embarrassment.
amych - Sep 21, 2008 11:55:14 am PDT #4792 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
sympathetic embarrassment.
I hate that. Which is probably how I managed to dig up the phrase from the acronym.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2008 11:57:58 am PDT #4793 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not entirely sympathetic. Even when I agree with his point, he phrases it so badly...like his "we're all on the same team" speech to Ronon. Eager Beavers? What an intense lack of self-knowledge.
Consuela - Sep 21, 2008 11:59:20 am PDT #4794 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, yeah, in that sense, you're right. I don't sympathize with Rodney, but I am embarrassed for him, because he's not emotionally-intelligent enough to be embarrassed on his own behalf.
Calli - Sep 21, 2008 1:26:22 pm PDT #4795 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I can't see putting up with Rodney's personality in a romantic relationship, but he'd be fun to talk to. Ronon's a lot less grating, but I'd miss being able to bat around pop culture stuff.
I'd prefer John over either of them. I'm not much into talking about emotions myself, and he's good on other topics. Also, pretty.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2008 1:31:24 pm PDT #4796 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think I surprise anyone by picking Ronon over everyone. John--there's something not quite right about him. I don't know how to explain it. Something about his vagueness I think would annoy after a while.