What...fucking the hell?
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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!
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.
Fay - Sep 21, 2008 2:41:19 pm PDT #4797 of 30001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I can see how Rodney's good nerdy qualities could appeal to someone more than Ronon's good laconic he-man qualities, despite the obvious inequity in physical appeal. However, since the former are bundled with egotism, hypochondria, and enough whinging to put an Emo 14-year-old girl to shame, there's no way in hell.
This.
I'm very fond of Rodney, and will read McShep until the cows come home - but, sweet merciful heavens, Momoa is insanely scrumptious, and Ronon is capable, efficient, lethal, laconic, has a sense of humour and has the emotional intelligence that Rodney so thoroughly lacks. (Have just been mainlining Season 4, and am slain by Ronon's reaction to the pregnancy news. Bless him. He is a wee scone. A wee scone with the most amazing arms, and a reassuringly big gun.)
Sure, hang out with Rodney for the clever and the geeky and all that - but for nonplatonic purposes, despite Hewlett's undeniable charm, Ronon really does win.