Yeah. I think what happened with SGA is that the "Shouldn't we talk to them first instead of shooting on sight?" line got shifted to Weir, and occasionary to Teyla. Rodney is usually silent/absent during those ethical debates, unless he's in the "mad scientist" role -- "Can I drop the bomb? can I? I want to see if it works!" Otherwise, he's completely neutral -- "Okay, the bomb is ready to drop. Are we dropping it or not? Make up your minds!"
But come to think of it, it's scary how often John and Rodney agree on almost everything. The only major disagreement between those two I can recall is the one in Adrift on whether to use the nanites to save Elizabeth. Trinity wasn't a disagreement on a principle, just that Rodney didn't want to give up and admit he couldn't control the experiment. I feel like I'm forgetting *something* -- surely in three and a half seasons, they've had more than one major disagreement?
Oh, right, the "first strike" against the replicators in First Strike, and the attack against the replicator fleet in All My Sins... In First Strike, Rodney was against the first strike idea, and John was for it, but they never did discuss it *with each other*. And there wasn't really an argument in All My Sins, since Rodney didn't have an alternate method to shut down the replicators ready. And if Rodney had been ready, John would have been happy to use the more permanent method.
Anybody think of any more arguments between those two? It definitely is a totally different dynamic than Jack/Daniel -- those two ate arguments for breakfast!
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on 2008-01-18 10:02 pm (UTC)But come to think of it, it's scary how often John and Rodney agree on almost everything. The only major disagreement between those two I can recall is the one in Adrift on whether to use the nanites to save Elizabeth. Trinity wasn't a disagreement on a principle, just that Rodney didn't want to give up and admit he couldn't control the experiment. I feel like I'm forgetting *something* -- surely in three and a half seasons, they've had more than one major disagreement?
Oh, right, the "first strike" against the replicators in First Strike, and the attack against the replicator fleet in All My Sins... In First Strike, Rodney was against the first strike idea, and John was for it, but they never did discuss it *with each other*. And there wasn't really an argument in All My Sins, since Rodney didn't have an alternate method to shut down the replicators ready. And if Rodney had been ready, John would have been happy to use the more permanent method.
Anybody think of any more arguments between those two? It definitely is a totally different dynamic than Jack/Daniel -- those two ate arguments for breakfast!