(Snarky) episode recap for "Tracker."
Sep. 22nd, 2008 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiercelydreamedOn this last week's exciting episode of Stargate: Atlantis: sexual jealousy works three ways, doctors cringe at scars, very stealthy people suddenly forget the meaning of the word "cover," and Rodney McKay's fighting skills are intermittently craptastic because they're apparently on a timeshare contract co-owned by Jennifer Keller.
In summary: everyone's competence continues to vary at the whims of the "plot." Which, by the way, is so completely straightforward that I'm not sure it actually warrants the term. Basically, stuff happens in exactly the order they attempt it.
Oh writing staff. Really. Didja all throw a giant party two days before this and then write this one in the post-E mental hangover?
However, Ronon's smile remains painfully endearing. And the ending scene somehow won me over. I probably should be in feeling some feminist pain about it (c.f.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thingswithwings if you don't know what I mean), but this is the show that brought us 1) John and Rodney divvying up sibling princesses, 2) John and Carson high-fiving over an all-female gate team, and 3) John* and Rodney competing over random "sexy" alien leaders/scientists/whatever too forgettable for me to be able to name. Really, it's like I was braced for a bucket of guck to the face and someone wearily flicked lint at me instead. I'm too relieved to have gotten a scene that actually felt like something Ronon and Rodney were really in (again, c.f. thingswithwings) to manage to care.
* John, honey, I noticed your name keeps coming up here, and all I gotta say is: overcompensating. I stand by my opinion that dating Rodney McKay makes the military commander of Atlantis wander the outer halls like a kicked puppy. C.f. the opening scene of this episode.
In summary: everyone's competence continues to vary at the whims of the "plot." Which, by the way, is so completely straightforward that I'm not sure it actually warrants the term. Basically, stuff happens in exactly the order they attempt it.
Oh writing staff. Really. Didja all throw a giant party two days before this and then write this one in the post-E mental hangover?
However, Ronon's smile remains painfully endearing. And the ending scene somehow won me over. I probably should be in feeling some feminist pain about it (c.f.
thingswithwings if you don't know what I mean), but this is the show that brought us 1) John and Rodney divvying up sibling princesses, 2) John and Carson high-fiving over an all-female gate team, and 3) John* and Rodney competing over random "sexy" alien leaders/scientists/whatever too forgettable for me to be able to name. Really, it's like I was braced for a bucket of guck to the face and someone wearily flicked lint at me instead. I'm too relieved to have gotten a scene that actually felt like something Ronon and Rodney were really in (again, c.f. thingswithwings) to manage to care.* John, honey, I noticed your name keeps coming up here, and all I gotta say is: overcompensating. I stand by my opinion that dating Rodney McKay makes the military commander of Atlantis wander the outer halls like a kicked puppy. C.f. the opening scene of this episode.