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Watched K2 and loved it but agree with some of the points here, especially.......
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..........WHERE WAS THE HUG!!!!
But then, i think for Rodney, that would have been admitting they couldn't save him. If he didn't say goodbye, then he wasn't really gone - again.
Still - i felt the angst, i think that was what made me cry sad, more so than poor old Carson's predicament! I felt so sorry for Rodney.
I lurk around here mostly, but I'd like to weigh in.
K2
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I think Rodney was in too much denial for a hug. As Squonk said, it would be too close to admitting defeat. I don't think Rodney would have accepted any comfort from any of them, even Carson. Based on his reaction to Weir in TMC (it's too much like Carson; I just can't deal), he's just too emotionally fragile. When Carson steps away from Ronon, Rodney basically turns his back to Beckett and starts technobabbling. It's more than he can process so he just doesn't. He desperately needs a hug, but one at that moment would have completely undone him.
I think I will go and read some whumpy fic now - I have so many stories bookmarked that I have not had time to read I will make a nice cuppa and spend half an hour reading!
Goodnight lovely whumpers!
Mx
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I'm not crazy - I just have another consciousness in my brain So he just looks crazy
I lurk around here mostly, but I'd like to weigh in.
K2
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I think Rodney was in too much denial for a hug. As Squonk said, it would be too close to admitting defeat. I don't think Rodney would have accepted any comfort from any of them, even Carson. Based on his reaction to Weir in TMC (it's too much like Carson; I just can't deal), he's just too emotionally fragile. When Carson steps away from Ronon, Rodney basically turns his back to Beckett and starts technobabbling. It's more than he can process so he just doesn't. He desperately needs a hug, but one at that moment would have completely undone him.
I totally agree!
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I think it was GateEngineer17 who mentioned Rodney in the blue-light, and the fact that you could see him turn away, unable to look at Carson. I think your assessment of Rodney here was spot-on. He was unable to filter all of his emotions----unwanted emotions---and so he turned them off and didn't deal with them at all. He broke my heart in this episode. He seemed so fragile, he might actually break. I also agree with what you said about him not accepting comfort from anyone at that point with Carson entering stasis. Eventually, maybe, but not at that moment. He slays me sometimes.
I think Rodney was in too much denial for a hug. As Squonk said, it would be too close to admitting defeat. I don't think Rodney would have accepted any comfort from any of them, even Carson. Based on his reaction to Weir in TMC (it's too much like Carson; I just can't deal), he's just too emotionally fragile. When Carson steps away from Ronon, Rodney basically turns his back to Beckett and starts technobabbling. It's more than he can process so he just doesn't. He desperately needs a hug, but one at that moment would have completely undone him.
I agree. I think you gave an excellent summary of how I saw the ending as well. Poor Rodney!
I lurk around here mostly, but I'd like to weigh in.
K2
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I think Rodney was in too much denial for a hug. As Squonk said, it would be too close to admitting defeat. I don't think Rodney would have accepted any comfort from any of them, even Carson. Based on his reaction to Weir in TMC (it's too much like Carson; I just can't deal), he's just too emotionally fragile. When Carson steps away from Ronon, Rodney basically turns his back to Beckett and starts technobabbling. It's more than he can process so he just doesn't. He desperately needs a hug, but one at that moment would have completely undone him.
Thanks for letting me play!
Oh absolutely...
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... he probably didn't know how he felt - wanting to believe his friend really was back, not wanting to believe he might not be trust-worthy (though be the end i think he proved he was) and certainly not wanting to believe they might lose him again.
Although my initial reaction was that they should have hugged, i don't think Rondey was too all over the place emotionally for it to have been anything but awkward and upsetting.
The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd
I'm curious if anyone would ever consider my one and only Rodney story as a light version of "whump". But its in german and I do not feel competent enough to translate it.
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