butterfly | Stargate: Atlantis 5x06

Stupid show made me cry. More than once. David is a really fantastic actor and he made me cry. Related to the 'fantastic actor' bit, he was rather painfully accurate there. Plus, any form of 'person has brains and then loses them' pretty much always makes me cry. My great-aunt had Alzheimer's, plus I read Flowers for Algernon at an impressionable age.

On the side of things that are sad in a completely different way, the Keller/McKay romance is not looking healthy, I have to say. Like Katie Brown, she appears to like the 'nice' Rodney McKay better, which is the same as not really liking Rodney at all. And... either the writers on doing this on purpose or they really don't understand writing -- romance needs to be written just like anything else, which is to say that what you want the audience to believe needs to be back up by actions. Rodney told Jennifer that he 'loved' her. But it wasn't her name that he screamed in the middle of the night. It wasn't Jennifer that he ran to for reassurance. It wasn't her name that lasted through everything else. It wasn't her words that convinced him to do something that he couldn't understand the meaning of. All of that was about John. They may be trying to tell us that Rodney loves Jennifer, but everything that they are showing us says that he loves John.

The team-love in this episode made me absolutely gleeful. I adored Ronon's scene with Jeannie. I loved Ronon and Teyla for caring so much about Rodney and wanting to have that one last day with him. Because... he's going to be abrasive and a jerk and they want that back to say good-bye to. Because they really do care about Rodney, not about this random guy who's saved their lives a few times. Again, show rather than tell. These four people absolutely adore each other, just as they are (aw... just like in the VVC Vid "Why Walk When You Can Fly?").

*cuddles team*