Practically everything I find something really interesting on this show, Gero turns out to be responsible for it.
Eh. I don't like Gero that much. He writes Rodney well, but that's about it. Granted, part of my problem is that I find him one of the worst offenders in the "Ronon is a big dumb grunt who shoots things" area. Much as Cooper and Mallozzi annoy me, they do occasionally try to give Ronon a little deeper characterization.
it becomes Rodney’s fault at the point where he bullies Jeannie into ignoring the basic human desire to help a dying girl and her distraught parent. By being, you know, Rodney, and snippily insisting that the only thing that really ought to matter to him is him, he pretty much guarantees that Henry is going to make it about him. Sometimes, it’s just better to start out by not being a dick in the first place.
I honestly don't think he was being a dick--or if he was, then I'd have been a dick in the same way. I'm sorry that your kid is dying, dude, but at the point at which you hired people to storm my sister's house, hold her husband at gunpoint and drag her off, and then kidnap me, I don't owe you jack shit. I actually liked that Rodney refused to believe Wallace would let them go, because it shows that he's learned something over the past few years. He knows how desperate people think, and that if you're captured, your first duty is to escape. It wasn't that he was unsympathetic to Wallace's situation, but Wallace blew it when he chose to deal with it by force, rather than by, you know, asking for help.
Also, Wallace didn't have to go get the nanites when he injected Jeannie. He was prepared to have to do that, which is another indicator to me that his word was worthless from Rodney's POV.
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Date: 2007-12-03 06:08 am (UTC)From:Eh. I don't like Gero that much. He writes Rodney well, but that's about it. Granted, part of my problem is that I find him one of the worst offenders in the "Ronon is a big dumb grunt who shoots things" area. Much as Cooper and Mallozzi annoy me, they do occasionally try to give Ronon a little deeper characterization.
it becomes Rodney’s fault at the point where he bullies Jeannie into ignoring the basic human desire to help a dying girl and her distraught parent. By being, you know, Rodney, and snippily insisting that the only thing that really ought to matter to him is him, he pretty much guarantees that Henry is going to make it about him. Sometimes, it’s just better to start out by not being a dick in the first place.
I honestly don't think he was being a dick--or if he was, then I'd have been a dick in the same way. I'm sorry that your kid is dying, dude, but at the point at which you hired people to storm my sister's house, hold her husband at gunpoint and drag her off, and then kidnap me, I don't owe you jack shit. I actually liked that Rodney refused to believe Wallace would let them go, because it shows that he's learned something over the past few years. He knows how desperate people think, and that if you're captured, your first duty is to escape. It wasn't that he was unsympathetic to Wallace's situation, but Wallace blew it when he chose to deal with it by force, rather than by, you know, asking for help.
Also, Wallace didn't have to go get the nanites when he injected Jeannie. He was prepared to have to do that, which is another indicator to me that his word was worthless from Rodney's POV.