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Just a couple of things about



1. I’m getting tired of everyone being so mean to Rodney. Look, Sheppard woke up the fucking Wraith and no one ever rubs it in to him because they know how badly he feels about it already. Also, while I really like Jeannie, I’m annoyed at the way she had to give up her career so she could have one lousy kid. I mean, take a couple of years off, fine. But the whole domestic bliss scene gives me creepy flashbacks to the Feminine Mystique. Jeannie maybe learned the meanness from her parents just like Rodney did, but how come her marriage is soooooooooooo perfect. I’d like her a little better if she was either as nice to Rodney as she is to everyone else, or, more realistically, if she snarked at other people as much as she does at him.

Rodney has done everything he can to atone for his earlier behavior. When can people forgive him and start recognizing he’s grown as a person?

2. “I can’t.” It’s so interesting to me the way Joe played this scene, leaving so much glorious room for all of us to fill in whatever we want. I finished “I can’t” with “go there.” He can’t even discuss or consider Rodney sacrificing himself.

3. The scene in John’s bedroom at the end. God. I’ve been reading all the various reactions. Here’s what I like to think: Rodney comes to John to see how he’s coping. John copes the way he always does, i.e. by repressing. Rodney totally knows he isn’t getting the real story and he sees the best way he can help John cope is by glossing over the whole thing and distracting John from thinking about it with trivialities. Because in my world Rodney is deep and subtle and understands John as no one else does. Also he’ll follow John into any morally grey area John wants to go, but he is not fooled.