WHY did he say he tripped? To me it looked like he protected her on purpose. Also Rodney is not modest
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After playing it over and over, I still think McKay trips, taking Harmony down with him. The fall looks uncontrolled. He basically slams into her belly first, foot out behind like he tripped. He looks surprised. He loses his grip on his gun, and scrabbles over the top of her to retrieve it.
It seems like a controlled save would be more hunched over.
McKay says he tripped and he sounds like he means it.
McKAY: Oh, no. No-no-no. I just – I tripped and fell on top of you. It was an accident.
Once he recovered, he did send Harmony ahead of him to cover. That was brave.
If McKay had saved her on purpose he would have taken credit for it.
Even for saving her.sigpic
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Originally posted by Major_Griff View PostI don't know. I think he didn't want her to know that he "doesn't not not like her". I think in the heat of the moment, instinct kicked in with the guns firing and he save a little girl from getting shot.
I liked that the writers went against the usual kid story ending and didn’t have them start to like her or make her ever became likable. No sentimentality.
Just before McKay fell on her, Harmony had disobeyed two explicit instructions from Sheppard to stay put and cover her ears. She ran out from cover in full voice, drawing Genii fire.
What’s not to like?
But McKay would have tried to make her go back to cover with him.
More likely, she would have continued to the pedestal device to summon the beast to smite all the Genii; not that she would have known how to control the drones or lived long enough to get the job done.
So, McKay saved her, even if he did it by tripping.
I do think McKay might have started to like her, but not until after he saw the painting.sigpic
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Originally posted by Lythisrose View PostI believe someone asked JM on his blog about this, and I don't think he gave an answer. Maybe this is supposed to be left up to the viewer's interpretation. It would make the painting funnier if Rodney had tripped, but I also think he's "heroic" enough to have done it on purpose.It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
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Originally posted by wise one View Posti think he did trip if u watch it back he fall and tries to grab his gun which the girl is in the way offLast edited by Hypochondriac; 01 February 2008, 06:30 AM.
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For all his personality flaws, McKay has developed a bit of a "do the right thing" heroic streak in him.
The dude was protecting the kid, no question, but he knew that she'd interpret it as some sort of "pledge of his eternal 'liking you' " and she'd expect him to stay and be her king. Plus, I think he's afraid to let anyone from SGA see that he's changed since coming to the Atlantis.
Of course when the painting came out...the "Pegusus galaxy" sized ego took over and he had to rib Sheppard about this "alternative" version of history.
That was pretty funny, almost beats fishing in a pond with no fish.
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