Well, that's the thing! They're just so fucking dumb. And I wish I had the powers of denial that some fans do, but I am chained to canon in deep, reptilian ways, and I know that, deep down, they are shallow and -- were you the one who said this? I think, maybe... -- dumb as a bag of hair.
One thing I realized back in my roleplaying days is that the thing about trying to write or play a character is that no matter how hard you try, you can't create someone smarter than you are. You can create someone tougher than you are, prettier than you are, more powerful than you are in any number of ways, heck, even funnier than you are (*all* my characters are way funnier than I am), but not smarter. Your limits are your character's limits, in that respect. And I think the SGA writers? Are a bunch of stupid boys who have fetishized a level of intelligence that they will never possess.
But Rodney and Ronon do make everything *so much better.* This is an objective truth!
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One thing I realized back in my roleplaying days is that the thing about trying to write or play a character is that no matter how hard you try, you can't create someone smarter than you are. You can create someone tougher than you are, prettier than you are, more powerful than you are in any number of ways, heck, even funnier than you are (*all* my characters are way funnier than I am), but not smarter. Your limits are your character's limits, in that respect. And I think the SGA writers? Are a bunch of stupid boys who have fetishized a level of intelligence that they will never possess.
But Rodney and Ronon do make everything *so much better.* This is an objective truth!