Extremely Fangirly in a Sci-Fi Kinda Way
Mar. 21st, 2005 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielApparently some people don't mind when I go off on some rambley tangents on my LJ because it always sounds most like me. So here's some rambley tangents...
SGA meme spam. Geeks rule!
::snigger::
Um...::blush::.........
........How'd they know?
I heart SGA (and SG-1) so much. So glad it doesn't suck like Jeff. Seriously.
I'm going to have to re-watch "The Siege I" (oh, the agony) because of some (good and welcome) distraction with Neesha being around. :) But my favorite part of all I saw? Besides Rodney screaming like a girl? Would have to be the first good-bye between McKay and Zelenka.
LAB. Rodney is packing a naqahdah generator into a case which is on top of a trolley. Zelenka is fussing around him, putting cables into the case.
McKAY: OK, I think I can handle this alone, Radek. Isn't there something better you could be doing?
ZELENKA: I think I should go.
McKAY: Yes, I agree – go.
ZELENKA: I mean on the mission.
McKAY: Why?!
ZELENKA: Sure, you probably know a little bit more about the satellite than I do ...
McKAY: Generous of you!
ZELENKA: ... but you know a lot more about the city than I do.
McKAY: OK, I think I see where this is going now.
ZELENKA: If, for whatever reason, there is problem there, it should be me, not you.
McKAY: There's not gonna be a problem.
ZELENKA: Rodney, you don't know that.
McKAY: If it seems like we can't fix it, we'll just turn round and come back. Now I realise I am invaluable everywhere ...
ZELENKA: You know what? Forget about it. I take it back.
McKAY smugly: Sorry ...
ZELENKA: No!
McKAY: ... you can't take it back because you've just admitted that I am smarter than you are!
ZELENKA indignantly: I admitted no such thing!
McKAY: It was hard for you to say but the truth shone through and you were compelled to speak!
ZELENKA: You are a miserable little man!
McKAY: Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, let's not ruin the moment here, huh? He closes the lid on the case and then turns to Zelenka. He pauses awkwardly for a moment. Now ... he shakes Zelenka's hand keep an eye on my city for me while I'm gone, huh?
ZELENKA: Good luck.
McKAY: Right. Right. He wheels the trolley out of the lab.
I mean, omg. I'd read, like, one really *great* McKay/Zelenka fic and a few good ones and could sort of see it on the show. (I'm really bemoaning the fact that I missed the very beginning of "Hot Zone" where the two of them play Prime/Not Prime and pick on Ford. Woe.) But that single tiny scene? That really made any slashiness obvious, if you go for that sort of thing. ;) On the other hand, the one that doesn't find subtext in everything ever, I love that scene because it's shown how much McKay has grown since first arriving in Atlantis. I don't feel comfortable vouching for Zelenka, because we don't get to see that much of him and I'm not sure if or how his character has developed/changed since we first saw him.
But McKay has changed. At least a little. Like I said in my last post, we have McKay in episode four not being able to remember Zelenka's name. ("...Czech, the Czech, the Czech whose name I can never remember."...."Zelenka. Why can I never remember that name?") And now in episode nineteen they're onto first names. Which doesn't mean a whole lot. Everyone uses first names at some point on Atlantis, but hearing them for the first time always sticks out. Like Teyla calling Ford "Aidan." Which actually just sounded a little odd.
Anyway. The scene just made me happy, in a sad kinda way, on every level. And, omg, they'd better not kill Radek becaue I will totally sic Jeff on them if they do. I'll admit that when I first saw him I was all "Oh no, another scientist dude who's name I have to figure out and remember. Woe." I'm so over that. I heart his li'l geeky Czech self with the fuzzy hair and the glasses...
Rodney screaming like a girl though. Wouldn't Shep just never let him live that down if he knew? It would be like the bit where McKay fainted in "Hide & Seek."
Infirmary.
BECKETT: He fainted.
MCKAY: Oh there's got to be a better word.
BECKETT: Faint is the proper medical term.
MCKAY: I passed out from. Manly Hunger.
SHEPPARD: Well Hang in there. on radio Dr Weir this is Sheppard. McKay's okay. He,uh,he fainted. leaves
Beckett grins
McKAY: Oh yeah that's very sympathetic. Let's all mock the dieing man. Thank you.
And later...
McKAY: You think I'm scared? I'm not scared I'll stay, I'll do this.
SHEPPARD: No that's okay you might faint again.
But Shep does eventually give it a bit of a rest, after a feat of bravery on McKay's part...
SHEPPARD: You must have passed out.
MCKAY: Oh thanks for not saying the other thing.
::grin:: How can you not love them?
So, yes, Shep would never let the girly scream go. Apart, together, friends, subtexty...Doesn't matter. Gotta love 'em.
And, y'know, Weir did put Shep in charge of his own li'l team and I'm assuming he got to choose who was on it and he totally chose McKay over all the other scientists. Because he knows McKay's the best. It may seem like they don't get along, because of the snarky banter. But that's the exact reason why they do, I think. Rodney snarks at John, John goes "pssh whatever" and snarks back. Snark snark snark. It's how Rodney communicates, and John gets that and doesn't really take him seriously. And Rodney needs for someone to not take him seriously and call him on his goofs. And not in a mean, omg-idiot kind of way, but in a friendly, ha-you're-an-idiot-watch-me-be-one-too kinda way.
And, well, with hair like Shep's....
I was going to say something serious about "The Siege I" because it was a serious episode and people I liked died (Grodin! Noooo!) or were stunned by Wraith, but McKay and Sheppard have ruined me for seriousness for now. Shame on them! (Not really.)
Well, that was long and not entirely what I had in mind when I decided to post and it totally doesn't make a lot of sense, but hey! whatever. ::shrug::
SGA meme spam. Geeks rule!
::snigger::
Um...::blush::.........
........How'd they know?
I heart SGA (and SG-1) so much. So glad it doesn't suck like Jeff. Seriously.
I'm going to have to re-watch "The Siege I" (oh, the agony) because of some (good and welcome) distraction with Neesha being around. :) But my favorite part of all I saw? Besides Rodney screaming like a girl? Would have to be the first good-bye between McKay and Zelenka.
LAB. Rodney is packing a naqahdah generator into a case which is on top of a trolley. Zelenka is fussing around him, putting cables into the case.
McKAY: OK, I think I can handle this alone, Radek. Isn't there something better you could be doing?
ZELENKA: I think I should go.
McKAY: Yes, I agree – go.
ZELENKA: I mean on the mission.
McKAY: Why?!
ZELENKA: Sure, you probably know a little bit more about the satellite than I do ...
McKAY: Generous of you!
ZELENKA: ... but you know a lot more about the city than I do.
McKAY: OK, I think I see where this is going now.
ZELENKA: If, for whatever reason, there is problem there, it should be me, not you.
McKAY: There's not gonna be a problem.
ZELENKA: Rodney, you don't know that.
McKAY: If it seems like we can't fix it, we'll just turn round and come back. Now I realise I am invaluable everywhere ...
ZELENKA: You know what? Forget about it. I take it back.
McKAY smugly: Sorry ...
ZELENKA: No!
McKAY: ... you can't take it back because you've just admitted that I am smarter than you are!
ZELENKA indignantly: I admitted no such thing!
McKAY: It was hard for you to say but the truth shone through and you were compelled to speak!
ZELENKA: You are a miserable little man!
McKAY: Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, let's not ruin the moment here, huh? He closes the lid on the case and then turns to Zelenka. He pauses awkwardly for a moment. Now ... he shakes Zelenka's hand keep an eye on my city for me while I'm gone, huh?
ZELENKA: Good luck.
McKAY: Right. Right. He wheels the trolley out of the lab.
I mean, omg. I'd read, like, one really *great* McKay/Zelenka fic and a few good ones and could sort of see it on the show. (I'm really bemoaning the fact that I missed the very beginning of "Hot Zone" where the two of them play Prime/Not Prime and pick on Ford. Woe.) But that single tiny scene? That really made any slashiness obvious, if you go for that sort of thing. ;) On the other hand, the one that doesn't find subtext in everything ever, I love that scene because it's shown how much McKay has grown since first arriving in Atlantis. I don't feel comfortable vouching for Zelenka, because we don't get to see that much of him and I'm not sure if or how his character has developed/changed since we first saw him.
But McKay has changed. At least a little. Like I said in my last post, we have McKay in episode four not being able to remember Zelenka's name. ("...Czech, the Czech, the Czech whose name I can never remember."...."Zelenka. Why can I never remember that name?") And now in episode nineteen they're onto first names. Which doesn't mean a whole lot. Everyone uses first names at some point on Atlantis, but hearing them for the first time always sticks out. Like Teyla calling Ford "Aidan." Which actually just sounded a little odd.
Anyway. The scene just made me happy, in a sad kinda way, on every level. And, omg, they'd better not kill Radek becaue I will totally sic Jeff on them if they do. I'll admit that when I first saw him I was all "Oh no, another scientist dude who's name I have to figure out and remember. Woe." I'm so over that. I heart his li'l geeky Czech self with the fuzzy hair and the glasses...
Rodney screaming like a girl though. Wouldn't Shep just never let him live that down if he knew? It would be like the bit where McKay fainted in "Hide & Seek."
Infirmary.
BECKETT: He fainted.
MCKAY: Oh there's got to be a better word.
BECKETT: Faint is the proper medical term.
MCKAY: I passed out from. Manly Hunger.
SHEPPARD: Well Hang in there. on radio Dr Weir this is Sheppard. McKay's okay. He,uh,he fainted. leaves
Beckett grins
McKAY: Oh yeah that's very sympathetic. Let's all mock the dieing man. Thank you.
And later...
McKAY: You think I'm scared? I'm not scared I'll stay, I'll do this.
SHEPPARD: No that's okay you might faint again.
But Shep does eventually give it a bit of a rest, after a feat of bravery on McKay's part...
SHEPPARD: You must have passed out.
MCKAY: Oh thanks for not saying the other thing.
::grin:: How can you not love them?
So, yes, Shep would never let the girly scream go. Apart, together, friends, subtexty...Doesn't matter. Gotta love 'em.
And, y'know, Weir did put Shep in charge of his own li'l team and I'm assuming he got to choose who was on it and he totally chose McKay over all the other scientists. Because he knows McKay's the best. It may seem like they don't get along, because of the snarky banter. But that's the exact reason why they do, I think. Rodney snarks at John, John goes "pssh whatever" and snarks back. Snark snark snark. It's how Rodney communicates, and John gets that and doesn't really take him seriously. And Rodney needs for someone to not take him seriously and call him on his goofs. And not in a mean, omg-idiot kind of way, but in a friendly, ha-you're-an-idiot-watch-me-be-one-too kinda way.
And, well, with hair like Shep's....
I was going to say something serious about "The Siege I" because it was a serious episode and people I liked died (Grodin! Noooo!) or were stunned by Wraith, but McKay and Sheppard have ruined me for seriousness for now. Shame on them! (Not really.)
Well, that was long and not entirely what I had in mind when I decided to post and it totally doesn't make a lot of sense, but hey! whatever. ::shrug::
