Rodney McKay/David Hewlett Thunk/Discussion/Appreciation

[sueKay]

Curses! My own volume 1 disk is missing...looks like I'll be netflixing Rising!

[sueKay]

Well...anyone else watched Rising yet? I did as we have a houseguest for the next couple of days so I might not get a chance to watch it later...Here's some observations:

1. Ah that sense of wonder when we first see Atlantis! I got so excited the first time I saw this! The vfx in Atlantis still rivals those on most shows today.
2. Rodney's first line - “Carson, get back here.”
3. That orange fleece.
4. Aw...Rodney's disappointment at not having ATA.
5. Yeah McKay, great plan getting Beckett to sit in the chair...In saying that it's how Sheppard ends up getting read into the program in the first place!
6. Quick aside – I still don't think Rainbow Franks has aged a day since this was made.
7. Rodney doesn't look overly thrilled at the prospect of going to Atlantis when Daniel suggests it.
8. Zed-PM...And hand gestures
9. Weir says every member of her team is prepared to make a one-way trip to Atlantis. Rodney looks less than happy at that!
10. Did McKay already meet Sheppard on his way to the base? He already knows that Sheppard's a Major. I wonder if Sheppard was McKay's taxi's to the base lol
11. Poor Rodney, giving up his cat.
12. That shirt.
13. His first genuine smile is when the ZPM rig lights up
14. Rodney looks like he's bricking it when the gate's dialing
15. And looks a bit panicky on Atlantis after the gate shuts down
16. Even Dr-I'm-not-impressed-by-the-Stargate is amazed by his first glimpse of the city
17. Rodney the doom merchant... “If we don't stop what we're doing right now we're dead!”
18. Aside - Who the heck was in charge of hair for this episode?
19. Weir's pretty indecisive over what to do when the shield's going to collapse...a level-headed Rodney keeps her in check. First sign that Rodney under pressure is the best Rodney.
20. I will never get bored of watching Atlantis rise
21. Another aside – you'd think a substantial chunk of the expedition were Canadian...I've counted a number of people wearing Canadian flags. Think I might go back at some point and count them all.
22. The most irksome blooper of Rising – when Sheppard gates in with the Athosians there's no shaky cam, but there is before and after.
23. Yet another aside – Sheppard undergoes a personality transplant between parts 1 and 2 (but judging by things Joe's said at cons I think that was at the producer's request)
24. From the outset Weir's about the only one who can stop Rodney from moaning without telling him to. The rest of the expedition have to tell him to zip it.
25. Rodney's already on a first name basis with Carson, and obviously already knows Elizabeth and Peter through Antarctica.

Well...thoroughly enjoyed watching Rising again!!! Out of the three pilots for Stargate, I think Rising is easily the strongest. It's clear from this episode though that Rodney was originally going to be a supporting character, instead of co-lead like he would become pretty quickly. I also sense he (or rather the original character Ingram) was supposed to be Weir's confidante.

[RodneyIsGodney]

^that is a lot of observations! Good on you!

I love the outfit Rodney is wearing when he leaves his cat with his neighbor.
And, yes, the hand gestures are too adorable when he's explaining what a Zedpm is.


The orange fleece of yumminess...

...with hand gestures. And bonus smile.

Curses! My own volume 1 disk is missing...looks like I'll be netflixing Rising!

So's mine. Haven't had a chance to look for it yet. (I may do that now...or after dinner). I REALLY wanna watch "Rising"!

[sueKay]

^that is a lot of observations! Good on you!

I love the outfit Rodney is wearing when he leaves his cat with his neighbor.
And, yes, the hand gestures are too adorable when he's explaining what a Zedpm is.

I really don't like Rodney's dress sense lol...In saying that I prefer this shirt to the suit he worse in Universe..

The orange fleece of yumminess...
http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps9sl3v0rv.jpg
...with hand gestures. And bonus smile.

I figured out how to screencap from Netflix today...might post come caps

I wonder if that was David's fleece or if he stole it from wardrobe

So's mine. Haven't had a chance to look for it yet. (I may do that now...or after dinner). I REALLY wanna watch "Rising"!

I gave up looking and netflixed it :\

[sueKay]

No-one else watched Rising yet?

[Gwen1984]

No-one else watched Rising yet?

Nope. Was going to today but non-computer stuff got in the way. I will be able to on Friday.

[sueKay]

Nope. Was going to today but non-computer stuff got in the way. I will be able to on Friday.

No probs, I know you've had stuff on this week ***hugs***

[sueKay]

Ah well...here's some caps from Rising




The orange fleece


Poor kitty, poor McKay


What me? Terrified of going through the gate? Nope, not all!!




McKay telling Weir what she has to do

[Replicator Fifth]

Well...anyone else watched Rising yet? I did as we have a houseguest for the next couple of days so I might not get a chance to watch it later...Here's some observations:

1. Ah that sense of wonder when we first see Atlantis! I got so excited the first time I saw this! The vfx in Atlantis still rivals those on most shows today.
2. Rodney's first line - “Carson, get back here.”
3. That orange fleece.
4. Aw...Rodney's disappointment at not having ATA.
5. Yeah McKay, great plan getting Beckett to sit in the chair...In saying that it's how Sheppard ends up getting read into the program in the first place!
6. Quick aside – I still don't think Rainbow Franks has aged a day since this was made.
7. Rodney doesn't look overly thrilled at the prospect of going to Atlantis when Daniel suggests it.
8. Zed-PM...And hand gestures
9. Weir says every member of her team is prepared to make a one-way trip to Atlantis. Rodney looks less than happy at that!
10. Did McKay already meet Sheppard on his way to the base? He already knows that Sheppard's a Major. I wonder if Sheppard was McKay's taxi's to the base lol
11. Poor Rodney, giving up his cat.
12. That shirt.
13. His first genuine smile is when the ZPM rig lights up
14. Rodney looks like he's bricking it when the gate's dialing
15. And looks a bit panicky on Atlantis after the gate shuts down
16. Even Dr-I'm-not-impressed-by-the-Stargate is amazed by his first glimpse of the city
17. Rodney the doom merchant... “If we don't stop what we're doing right now we're dead!”
18. Aside - Who the heck was in charge of hair for this episode?
19. Weir's pretty indecisive over what to do when the shield's going to collapse...a level-headed Rodney keeps her in check. First sign that Rodney under pressure is the best Rodney.
20. I will never get bored of watching Atlantis rise
21. Another aside – you'd think a substantial chunk of the expedition were Canadian...I've counted a number of people wearing Canadian flags. Think I might go back at some point and count them all.
22. The most irksome blooper of Rising – when Sheppard gates in with the Athosians there's no shaky cam, but there is before and after.
23. Yet another aside – Sheppard undergoes a personality transplant between parts 1 and 2 (but judging by things Joe's said at cons I think that was at the producer's request)
24. From the outset Weir's about the only one who can stop Rodney from moaning without telling him to. The rest of the expedition have to tell him to zip it.
25. Rodney's already on a first name basis with Carson, and obviously already knows Elizabeth and Peter through Antarctica.

Well...thoroughly enjoyed watching Rising again!!! Out of the three pilots for Stargate, I think Rising is easily the strongest. It's clear from this episode though that Rodney was originally going to be a supporting character, instead of co-lead like he would become pretty quickly. I also sense he (or rather the original character Ingram) was supposed to be Weir's confidante.

wow didn't know we had to take notes O_O lol jk yeah a lot of memories and that excitement when it begins. though it does bring back bitter sweet pangs I miss this show. I love Weir and I love Shepard in these episodes. What I liked most about Atlantis is that it was character centric and I got attached to a lot of the characters.

About several of your points, yeah a lot of things I never noticed until you mentioned them haha. like that he was on first name basis with Carson and that he knew Shepard's rank. Also I never noticed that Rodney is very grounding for Weir and helps her make the right decisions. omg yes! it is so beautiful to see the city rise from the ocean!! Wow your right about Shepard's personality change :O I liked the first one . I don't think Rainbow Franks has aged a day either, he was always the hotter of the main cast (then they consigned him to cameos at the end of the series) overall good observations sueKay!

I did really love how McKay developed from SG1. less of an ******* more of a flawed genius that is quiet lovable.

^that is a lot of observations! Good on you!

I love the outfit Rodney is wearing when he leaves his cat with his neighbor.
And, yes, the hand gestures are too adorable when he's explaining what a Zedpm is.


The orange fleece of yumminess...
[IMG]http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t344/katydid29/Stargate%20SGA/rodney-mckay-orange-fleece_zps9sl3v0rv.jpg
...with hand gestures. And bonus smile.


So's mine. Haven't had a chance to look for it yet. (I may do that now...or after dinner). I REALLY wanna watch "Rising"!

Aww that's smile is so cute!

yeah, that orange fleece is looking sexy! Its really cute on Rodney XD

I really don't like Rodney's dress sense lol...In saying that I prefer this shirt to the suit he worse in Universe..



I figured out how to screencap from Netflix today...might post come caps

I wonder if that was David's fleece or if he stole it from wardrobe



I gave up looking and netflixed it :\

haha yeah.. but, its okay we forgive him right?

cool! wonder is I can with Amazon Video? O_O

I gave up too I'm using Amazon Prime video.

No-one else watched Rising yet?

I was working two 14 hr shifts two days in a row at work and then Wednesday I was catching up on sleep. I got to watch it today though

Nope. Was going to today but non-computer stuff got in the way. I will be able to on Friday.

I understand

Ah well...here's some caps from Rising

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/sueKay/capture_331_06102015_020344_439_zpsfalzfkoy.png
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/sueKay/capture_453_06102015_020850_841_zpsxhpkxq2c.png
The orange fleece

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/sueKay/capture_560_06102015_022935_530_zpsyzrbizxt.png
Poor kitty, poor McKay

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/sueKay/capture_695_06102015_023514_618_zpssdj3tk0l.png
What me? Terrified of going through the gate? Nope, not all!!

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/sueKay/capture_724_06102015_023627_479_zpsipjon8zy.png

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/sueKay/capture_106_06102015_150006_094_zpsgmtmyy8m.png
McKay telling Weir what she has to do

very nice collection of highlights

[sueKay]

wow didn't know we had to take notes O_O lol jk yeah a lot of memories and that excitement when it begins. though it does bring back bitter sweet pangs I miss this show. I love Weir and I love Shepard in these episodes. What I liked most about Atlantis is that it was character centric and I got attached to a lot of the characters.

I got really attached to the characters...I adore them. It was seamless casting as well - they all just gelled together. When I watch Rising though the thing that I'm most aware of is all the wasted potential. We never saw the actual city properly for one (though that was down to the budget), but there was so much left to explore character and plot-wise at the end...such a pity.

About several of your points, yeah a lot of things I never noticed until you mentioned them haha. like that he was on first name basis with Carson and that he knew Shepard's rank. Also I never noticed that Rodney is very grounding for Weir and helps her make the right decisions. omg yes! it is so beautiful to see the city rise from the ocean!! Wow your right about Shepard's personality change :O I liked the first one . I don't think Rainbow Franks has aged a day either, he was always the hotter of the main cast (then they consigned him to cameos at the end of the series) overall good observations sueKay!

Thank you

Rodney is so supportive of Weir all the way through, and I was kind of pissed off that they never really showed how he reacted to her death...And also when Teyla announced her pregnancy - no reaction to that either though we got to see everyone else's.

They really screwed up with Ford...Rainbow played the character as best as he or any actor could have given how little they wrote for him...Ford could have been a really interesting character too.

I did really love how McKay developed from SG1. less of an ******* more of a flawed genius that is quiet lovable.

Yeah I love how he went from obnoxious irritant to arrogant scientist with a heart of gold

I was working two 14 hr shifts two days in a row at work and then Wednesday I was catching up on sleep. I got to watch it today though

Yikes, but yay!

[Replicator Fifth]

I got really attached to the characters...I adore them. It was seamless casting as well - they all just gelled together. When I watch Rising though the thing that I'm most aware of is all the wasted potential. We never saw the actual city properly for one (though that was down to the budget), but there was so much left to explore character and plot-wise at the end...such a pity.



Thank you

Rodney is so supportive of Weir all the way through, and I was kind of pissed off that they never really showed how he reacted to her death...And also when Teyla announced her pregnancy - no reaction to that either though we got to see everyone else's.

They really screwed up with Ford...Rainbow played the character as best as he or any actor could have given how little they wrote for him...Ford could have been a really interesting character too.



Yeah I love how he went from obnoxious irritant to arrogant scientist with a heart of gold




Yikes, but yay!

Very seamless! The characters had a wonderful dynamic with each other! I cried pretty hard when Carson was killed, they brought him back but its seemed really half baked :/ It would have been nice to see the city proper but, as you say that is expensive. Exactly! so many things left unresolved! there was so much to develop and it could have gone strong for at least one more season.

Yeah, its really sad. now that I actually see this relationship he had with Weir he must have been affected. And of course his completely cold and dismissive reaction when they sent the replicator Weir to oblivion was very strange to put it mildly

Spoilers for people who haven't seen the SGA replicator arc and for non McKay related stuff

Spoiler:

Also, Weir, another tragedy. It was weird that they didn't have an alternative for either replicator Weir or for the Asuran replicators other then just kill them all. Their code could be tampered with as proven by the Wraith and he (McKay) could have just modified the code to say, "kill wraith, protect non-wraith" As a fan of the bug people I felt rather pissed at the narrow mindedness of the writers. McKay would have been able to fix their code!

"and then ford became addicted to that enzyme wraith inject to their victims and he acts nothing like the ford we knew and loved and then dies." An example of character development gone very wrong.

I am shamed to admit by season 5 I was McKayed out. There was one writer who really liked that character and made it focus on him too much to the point where I was sick of hearing about him. As I rewatch the early episodes it has just enough that you want to see him more but, doesn't shove it down your throat how awesome he is. I guess when we get to that point in the rewatch I'll see how I feel now about it now.

[sueKay]

I don't think I ever got McKay'd out, though he did get shoehorned into episodes that didn't fit his character *cough cough* Brainstorm *cough cough*

[RodneyIsGodney]

I really don't like Rodney's dress sense lol...In saying that I prefer this shirt to the suit he worse in Universe..

I think Rodney dresses like the geek that he is. And that's okay with me.

I figured out how to screencap from Netflix today...might post come caps

Awesome.

I wonder if that was David's fleece or if he stole it from wardrobe

I think he pilfered it from set at some point. Unless he actually asked to keep it.

No-one else watched Rising yet?

Sorry. I still haven't found my disc yet. I looked for quite a while today.

Ah well...here's some caps from Rising

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psfalzfkoy.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psxhpkxq2c.png
The orange fleece

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psyzrbizxt.png
Poor kitty, poor McKay

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...pssdj3tk0l.png
What me? Terrified of going through the gate? Nope, not all!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psipjon8zy.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psgmtmyy8m.png
McKay telling Weir what she has to do

These. Are. AMAZING! Thunk you so much!

I did really love how McKay developed from SG1. less of an ******* more of a flawed genius that is quiet lovable.

Me too!

Aww that's smile is so cute!

It so is!

yeah, that orange fleece is looking sexy! Its really cute on Rodney XD

He wears it so well.

I don't think I ever got McKay'd out, though he did get shoehorned into episodes that didn't fit his character *cough cough* Brainstorm *cough cough*

I like "Brainstorm" ...Rodney with the axe!

[Replicator Fifth]

I don't think I ever got McKay'd out, though he did get shoehorned into episodes that didn't fit his character *cough cough* Brainstorm *cough cough*

okay yeah thats more accurate actually.

[sueKay]

David's posted a new video