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Fucking Ronon looks like he was carved out of stone and birthed from the head of Zeus, but his anime schoolgirl smile is killing my boner.
Right, so, on the “watching tv shows” front, last week my BFF and I were having an argument. We’d finished watching Deep Space Nine, which, mind you, we’d been trying to force ourselves to watch for upwards of FIVE YEARS. DS9 was… very much as we expected, I think with me enjoying it more than he did, but we unequivocally agreed that although we love Star Trek and it was important that we watch DS9 for plot-knowing, Quark-loving, Klingon-enjoying reasons, TNG is the vastly superior tv show. BUT THEN we ran into a problem.
What show should we watch next? Normally it would be this classic anime, Z Gundam, but I have this problem where watching anime for a living has completely removed any ability for me to relax when watching a show with subtitles, let alone an anime with them, and also I’m in the middle of a CROCHET FRENZY and I’d prefer a show in English so I can look at my crochet during the boring bits.
So it came down to Star Trek Voyager or Stargate Atlantis. See, we actually own the giant SG-1 boxset with the awesome stargate on the box, and I fell completely madly in love with the show and My Boyfriend, General Jack O’Neill, and had in the past totally refused to watch Atlantis because 1. it was lacking Jack 2. it stars Rodney, that misogynist Carter-abusing BASTARD 3. It wasn’t DONE yet. I hate watching shows with my BFF that haven’t finished airing yet.
But now SGA is completed and DS9 really took the wind out of our sails and Voyager is… kind of considered to be a crap show, but then again the parts of DS9 we liked the best and the parts of TNG we like the best are always the goofy stupid bits so maybe Voyager would actually be our new favorite show?
We ended up settling our argument with BATTLE OF THE PILOTS. I mean generally the pilot of a show is never good, you know? So one night we watched the pilot of Voyager. It was… actually pretty great! As these things go. There was a bunch of crap we didn’t care about, namely, FUCK THE MAQUIS AND ALL PLOTS RELATED TO THEM, but the story was fun and the characters were solid and the unabashed Star Trekkery was enjoyable.
But then we watched the Stargate Atlantis pilot the next night.
OH FUCK IT WAS GOOD. First of all when Daniel started blithering technobabble within the first five minutes I almost began to weep with joy. Second of all the plot was all WHAM BAM OH GOD OH SNAP WAIT WHAT HOLY CRAP every five minutes. None of the characters (except Rodney, that BASTARD) were unlikeable, and that Ford character, he’s CUTE. A cutey-patootie, if you want to get technical. Not like Kim on Voyager, who, although he is cute, primarily encourages a never-ending stream of clarinet and type-a asian stereotype jokes.
Shmanyways, shame on me, I have agreed to watch SGA with the BFF. We kinda ZOOMED through season 1 and are on the final arc right now, actually. It’s been great! Predictable cliche plots left and right though. I mean I know that obviously I’m quite aware of sci-fi tv show trips so I’m not like the best person for considering what is and is not cliche, but DAMN, if you were a bunch of MENSA-joining, galaxy-traveling scientists and soldiers, wouldn’t you be a LOT MORE GENRE-SAVVY than this? SG-1 at least presented to us the idea of someone *becoming* more genre-savvy over the years, and I suppose Rodney (that BASTARD) is more understanding of his world as being… bound by particular rules and expectations… but all those other nerdy background characters, they should fuckin’ GET IT, man.
Aaaannnyway I digress.
My point is… what was my point? Oh yes. I am enjoying SGA except I have this totally weird problem where I’m not super into any character on the show. By all rights it SHOULD be Sheppard. (Is that how it’s spelled? do they give him two p’s on purpose do you think?) I mean he’s my TYPE and all. But for some reason he’s just not… I’m just not into his FACE, I dunno… Ford, he’s adorable, but I know that he leaves by the end of the season and stuff so I’m not attached and besides, he’s the sort of baby-faced youngling that scifi shows LOVE to mutilate and make HARDCORE and whatever and I’m so not interested in that. Also he’s a BABY, ugh.
But I happen to know that this dude (as pictured above) Ronon comes on the show. And my BFF informs me that I will like him very much. So I’m waiting around for him. COME TO ME, RONON. I WISH TO OBJECTIFY YOU~
It’s just freaking WEIRD to enjoy a show so much where I don’t find myself glued to the screen for particular characters. With SG-1 I fell head over heels in love with all FOUR of the main team, almost immediately, but I’m 20 episodes into this sucker and I’m still calling Rodney (that BASTARD) a bastard and I still think there’s something weird about Sheppard’s face and I find Teyla INCREDIBLY ANNOYING because why does she TALK like that it’s just DUMB and Weir is BORING and… okay, I do love Dr. Zelenka and Dr Beckett. But… they’re not on-screen enough! AAAARGH
Anyway. RONON. COME INTO MY BOUDOIR.
Obviously I will keep you updated; I’m sure I will eventually love Rodney, I just CAN’T EVER FORGIVE HIM FOR BEING SO GROSS ABOUT CARTER. NEVER FORGET. And most all other women. Obviously he’s gay for Sheppard. I mean, obviously. And yet, not shipping it! WHO KNOWS MAN. THIS SHOW IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING.
