Aquarium 4.17, "Trio," version incoherent

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WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? WHAT THE FUCK, SHOW??!?

Oh, my God. This cannot go anywhere that is good.

(Except also? It's kind of *awesome.* SO HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY WRONG that it cycles back around and becomes awesome....)

Am now exhausted by the sheer volume of WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!? that I am experiencing. Bed now, processing later.

Oh, SHOW.

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[linabean.livejournal.com]

Oh, my faith in their writing skills is such that I bet they don't think they even need to address the way they left Ronon and Keller at the end of "Quarantine." What? They're done with that storyline now! It was a cute little idea, but now they're bored with it, so obviously they don't need to wrap it up or assume it would have had any kind of effect on the characters. Come on now!

Man. These writers. I mean, in this episode, I was able to buy the way Rodney and Keller were characterizing the way things got left with Katie, because I could buy that Rodney was giving Keller bad/incomplete information, and then Keller was responding to that as if it were true. (The way things actually happened in "Quarantine," Rodney wasn't saying he needed some time for himself, not the way he made it sound to Keller. It was abundantly clear he was saying he wasn't ready for *marriage*. There's no way, in "Quarantine," Katie could have thought he was trying to break up with her--it made sense for Katie to decide the relationship was over, but only if it's because she decided she didn't want to invest herself further in someone who, to put it bluntly, so desperately needs some more therapy.) But I'm wondering if the writers think it actually went down the way Rodney and Keller said in "Trio"--they've decided they like Rodney being even more emotionally and interpersonally hapless than he was in "Quarantine," so they've just decided they can retcon it so Rodney accidentally dumped Katie.

But it'll be okay! Because Keller, whose history of being socially stunted doesn't count, since we found out about it in "Quarantine," will be able to show Rodney the light so he can learn how to get along with people. At least until he needs to forget again, just like he did after "Grace Under Pressure," "McKay and Mrs. Miller," "Tao of Rodney," and so on. Good times.