Here is the thing, for me: if it were the only Rodney-has-hubris episode, that I wouldn't mind it as much. But it's like "Grace Under Pressure" and "McKay and Mrs Miller" and "Tao of Rodney" -- they're all fun episodes, but they all do the exact same thing. And it's the same thing with... Rodney's bad with people! He gets the funny case of syphilis! He has HUBRIS. So, for a while it was interesting. And for a longer while, it was interesting as meta, interesting as a commentary on what fans do with tropes, on apology-fic, on imagined rightness. But now, it's... look! TPTB want us to know that Rodney's got hubris! As I said to trobadora, it's not a bad episode in its own right, but it's so smack-dab in the middle of my biggest problem with the show (and I like the show!) that I can't disconnect it from all of that meta. Maybe next year it'll be interesting again.
And, yes, oh my god that scene with the pan-up? JESUS CHRIST, director! That is another moment when it's, like, "What were the Porn TPTB thinking? Other than that man-pain is hot?"
PS: not as hot as John all "no you musn't!" to Weir. And later making the face of "well, that's it then" before Wraith, Round Two. OH MY GOD.
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Date: 2007-09-14 06:44 pm (UTC)And, yes, oh my god that scene with the pan-up? JESUS CHRIST, director! That is another moment when it's, like, "What were the Porn TPTB thinking? Other than that man-pain is hot?"
PS: not as hot as John all "no you musn't!" to Weir. And later making the face of "well, that's it then" before Wraith, Round Two. OH MY GOD.