Another SG:A Vegas thought
Jan. 6th, 2009 03:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tenayaI wrote this in a comment on another journal but I noticed something else. Spoilers.
Apparently I am in the minority about the McKeller. What I saw in their brief exchange was:
They pass in the hallway, they call each other by their first names. They extend their lingering looks by either turning their heads or with Rodney, his upper body. He briefly checks out her ass. I actually read his expression as having intent. His attention was completely on her for those few seconds. When I pass a male coworker in the hallway, I don't do any of those things so it seemed very shippy to me.
But, interestingly enough as I reran this sequence on Tivo, Rodney's line before the pass with Keller was "Personally, I think people chose to live in their own happy little delusions. They don't want to know the truth." Could that have been a message from RCC to his fellow writers who have been pushing the McKeller ship? Too subtle? On one hand, RCC has no problem using the characters that way. On the other hand, he was one of them that pushed the J/S ship.
I actually haven't been paying very good attention about who writes what (except to say, "Oh look! A countdown, more new characters than regulars and lots of wandering around. I bet it's a Mallousy script!") What else has RCC written in SG:A? Okay, a quick check at IMDB says he co-wrote Rising. He wrote, Sateda, and Vegas, with excerpts of The Lost Boys, The Inquisition. Hmmm...that's not enough to extrapolate that he doesn't ship in SG:A.
Apparently I am in the minority about the McKeller. What I saw in their brief exchange was:
They pass in the hallway, they call each other by their first names. They extend their lingering looks by either turning their heads or with Rodney, his upper body. He briefly checks out her ass. I actually read his expression as having intent. His attention was completely on her for those few seconds. When I pass a male coworker in the hallway, I don't do any of those things so it seemed very shippy to me.
But, interestingly enough as I reran this sequence on Tivo, Rodney's line before the pass with Keller was "Personally, I think people chose to live in their own happy little delusions. They don't want to know the truth." Could that have been a message from RCC to his fellow writers who have been pushing the McKeller ship? Too subtle? On one hand, RCC has no problem using the characters that way. On the other hand, he was one of them that pushed the J/S ship.
I actually haven't been paying very good attention about who writes what (except to say, "Oh look! A countdown, more new characters than regulars and lots of wandering around. I bet it's a Mallousy script!") What else has RCC written in SG:A? Okay, a quick check at IMDB says he co-wrote Rising. He wrote, Sateda, and Vegas, with excerpts of The Lost Boys, The Inquisition. Hmmm...that's not enough to extrapolate that he doesn't ship in SG:A.
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Date: 2009-01-06 03:45 pm (UTC)Keller was a bit tarted up with her eyeshadow too (maybe she was undercover trying to fit into the Vegas motif).
Yeah, I'm not sure what we're supposed to gather from that. I know McKeller is supposed to be established ship, but it's AUs and anything can happen and that interaction was just...weird.
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Date: 2009-01-07 04:50 am (UTC)It's amazing the different lenses we all wear! I still don't see any of what you did in Jennifer passing Rodney in the hall. Here's mine: Rodney's standing there waiting for John to recover from getting mind-fucked by Todd. He sees Jennifer coming. She gives him a little smile. It could be, "Hi, co-worker." It could be, "I think you're cute." (Okay, considering it's RCC, this could be it.) It could be, "Ah, you are the one who gets to tell the persistent Detective Sheppard our secrets." As she passes behind him in the tight hallway, he turns and gives her a little salute of acknowledgment with his eyes, as well as saying her name. What you see as his attention on her I see as him taking the excuse of a distraction to turn away and give Sheppard a little break. His mouth looks a little wry--he doesn't look in any way warm. I feel like I'm usually ultra-sensitive to PTB attempts at shippiness, and so I'm grateful I don't see it here.
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Date: 2009-01-07 03:55 pm (UTC)I read her expression to be like those young women who get all tarted up (good expression) and go trolling for a certain man. When she sees that he wants her, she gets very satisfied, smug, happy--goal achieved.
I'd say they were bumping uglies in the supply closets.
And it was an AU and it doesn't matter except that I'm just damn tired of Bridge taking every opportunity to push on a point that is irrelevant but that they know annoys part of their audience. They are just petty little shits. Sorry.
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Date: 2009-01-07 03:58 pm (UTC)Tell you what, when I've time I will watch that scene again and see if I can see what you see (cause it brings me no happiness my way.) *g* Maybe I need to go to the beginning of the whole McKay and Sheppard scene for context. I'll try.