SGA 5x01: Search & Rescue
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zelempaMaybe I've been remiss in checking my flist, but I haven't seen much about SGA 5x01. I didn't even know it had happened until ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keefaq told me. Are we all over SGA? I feel like I kind of am.
So, going into this episode I was braced for John/Teyla hints. Attempts by the PTB to put John with Teyla actually make me feel--not just disappointed, or annoyed, but violated on John's behalf, I'm just so convinced of my personal characterization of him as this closeted gay vulnerable hero awash with manly fragility.
Starting out, things look dire. John is having a romantic dinner with Teyla. He has the decency to look profoundly uncomfortable and he's about to kick her out (he has to get up really early in the morning. he, um, has a headache) when she turns into Ford and he starts bleeding through his sexy white dress shirt and we find out it's a guilt dream about his inability to save his teammates. So, that's okay.
As we continue with the episode it seems they're pointedly shipping everyone but John and Rodney: Rodney and Lorne are forced into close proximity in the rubble from last epi's booby-trapped Wraith base; John is trapped under a random Beam of Cliche Injury all "go on without me" to Ronon who refuses to leave his side. He actually calls Ronon "chief".
Ronon and John share some choice moments in this half of the episode. John tries to convince him to leave, saying it's selfish, it is--Ronon can go find help and bring it back--and Ronon's all, "How about I get you out and then we both find help, deal?" and continues to bustle around trying to fix John's predicament regardless of what John says. Later on when John proposes another self-loathing fatalistic plan, Ronon says "That isn't part of the deal," and John says, "You keep adding things to this deal," which legitimately makes me laugh. Then they have a touching brothers-in-arms think-we're-gonna-die farewell when they hear people above them digging them out, and figure out with their smarts that it's bad guys. Ronon hands John his gun, and they brace themselves to, in John's words, "shoot till we can't shoot anymore." John looks at Ronon, searching for some kind of appropriate farewell, and settles on, "It's been a pleasure." Ronon says "Same."
Speaking of manly fragility, John's got it in spades this week, between the guilt and the blood loss and the self-sacrificing instinct and the pathetic determination. When he's finally rescued (he is beamed directly to the infirmary, which is how you know this isn't Star Trek: they would beam people directly to sick bay), he insists of course on continuing to forge on bravely ahead in spite of every single person telling him he's too injured and he's a liability, because they have a shot at rescuing Teyla and, as John tells Keller, "I let a chance to rescue a teammate slip through my fingers. It's not going to happen again."
So far there's been no direct Sheppard/McKay interaction and when they do appear in the same scene--with Sheppard limping into the control room where McKay is talking to Carter--there's no reunion or even exchange of glances. But even in this woefully McShepless episode, it's worth noting that both John and Rodney have been repeatedly expressing specific concern about the other during their separation. They try to play it cool, but it comes up at every opportunity. "There's two other life signs," Sam tells Rodney, and Rodney immediately asks, "Do we know who they are?" When Keller mentions Rodney off-handly in the infirmary, John jumps on it: "McKay is alive?" So, there's that.
On board Michael's ship Teyla has been occasionally trying to convince her crappy milquetoast wraith-minion babydaddy to save her, to no avail. John, Rodney and Ronon finally arrive to rescue her; John and Ronon go to blow up the hyperdrive with C4 (a cute scene where Ronon snatches the C4 out of pain-writhing!John's hand and snaps "You don't have to do everything yourself") and Rodney has to deliver Teyla's baby OF COURSE. He's a real pansy about it. He makes these horrible gross-out faces. I don't know what he's complaining so much about; it's real easy, it just pops right out. When John and Ronon return, there's a baby. Teyla (giving him way too much credit) says Rodney delivered it, John says, "You did good, Rodney." No words for Teyla, who just had a baby. Who said this was a John/Teyla episode?
So they get away, and John holds the baby for awhile which is, okay, adorable, and then there's an infirmary wrap-up where Teyla thanks John for rescuing her, and John looks like he wants to stab his own open wound, he's so uncomfortable with being thanked. Teyla names her baby Torin John Emmagan. Fanfic name alert!
Oh, and the IOA fires Sam. Not for any real reason, they just want to put Woolsey in charge to... fail at life? And piss off John? This could be fun.
So that's that, and I'm probably already behind on episode 2!
keefaq told me. Are we all over SGA? I feel like I kind of am.So, going into this episode I was braced for John/Teyla hints. Attempts by the PTB to put John with Teyla actually make me feel--not just disappointed, or annoyed, but violated on John's behalf, I'm just so convinced of my personal characterization of him as this closeted gay vulnerable hero awash with manly fragility.
Starting out, things look dire. John is having a romantic dinner with Teyla. He has the decency to look profoundly uncomfortable and he's about to kick her out (he has to get up really early in the morning. he, um, has a headache) when she turns into Ford and he starts bleeding through his sexy white dress shirt and we find out it's a guilt dream about his inability to save his teammates. So, that's okay.
As we continue with the episode it seems they're pointedly shipping everyone but John and Rodney: Rodney and Lorne are forced into close proximity in the rubble from last epi's booby-trapped Wraith base; John is trapped under a random Beam of Cliche Injury all "go on without me" to Ronon who refuses to leave his side. He actually calls Ronon "chief".
Ronon and John share some choice moments in this half of the episode. John tries to convince him to leave, saying it's selfish, it is--Ronon can go find help and bring it back--and Ronon's all, "How about I get you out and then we both find help, deal?" and continues to bustle around trying to fix John's predicament regardless of what John says. Later on when John proposes another self-loathing fatalistic plan, Ronon says "That isn't part of the deal," and John says, "You keep adding things to this deal," which legitimately makes me laugh. Then they have a touching brothers-in-arms think-we're-gonna-die farewell when they hear people above them digging them out, and figure out with their smarts that it's bad guys. Ronon hands John his gun, and they brace themselves to, in John's words, "shoot till we can't shoot anymore." John looks at Ronon, searching for some kind of appropriate farewell, and settles on, "It's been a pleasure." Ronon says "Same."
Speaking of manly fragility, John's got it in spades this week, between the guilt and the blood loss and the self-sacrificing instinct and the pathetic determination. When he's finally rescued (he is beamed directly to the infirmary, which is how you know this isn't Star Trek: they would beam people directly to sick bay), he insists of course on continuing to forge on bravely ahead in spite of every single person telling him he's too injured and he's a liability, because they have a shot at rescuing Teyla and, as John tells Keller, "I let a chance to rescue a teammate slip through my fingers. It's not going to happen again."
So far there's been no direct Sheppard/McKay interaction and when they do appear in the same scene--with Sheppard limping into the control room where McKay is talking to Carter--there's no reunion or even exchange of glances. But even in this woefully McShepless episode, it's worth noting that both John and Rodney have been repeatedly expressing specific concern about the other during their separation. They try to play it cool, but it comes up at every opportunity. "There's two other life signs," Sam tells Rodney, and Rodney immediately asks, "Do we know who they are?" When Keller mentions Rodney off-handly in the infirmary, John jumps on it: "McKay is alive?" So, there's that.
On board Michael's ship Teyla has been occasionally trying to convince her crappy milquetoast wraith-minion babydaddy to save her, to no avail. John, Rodney and Ronon finally arrive to rescue her; John and Ronon go to blow up the hyperdrive with C4 (a cute scene where Ronon snatches the C4 out of pain-writhing!John's hand and snaps "You don't have to do everything yourself") and Rodney has to deliver Teyla's baby OF COURSE. He's a real pansy about it. He makes these horrible gross-out faces. I don't know what he's complaining so much about; it's real easy, it just pops right out. When John and Ronon return, there's a baby. Teyla (giving him way too much credit) says Rodney delivered it, John says, "You did good, Rodney." No words for Teyla, who just had a baby. Who said this was a John/Teyla episode?
So they get away, and John holds the baby for awhile which is, okay, adorable, and then there's an infirmary wrap-up where Teyla thanks John for rescuing her, and John looks like he wants to stab his own open wound, he's so uncomfortable with being thanked. Teyla names her baby Torin John Emmagan. Fanfic name alert!
Oh, and the IOA fires Sam. Not for any real reason, they just want to put Woolsey in charge to... fail at life? And piss off John? This could be fun.
So that's that, and I'm probably already behind on episode 2!