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luciazephyrSo, I'm re-watching some of SGA in prep for the new season, and The McKay Thing in The Long Goodbye has got me wondering.
Okay, so. If the TPTB are smart (and we know they can be), they'll use this. This? Is the foundation for a Rodney vs. Atlantis plotline and that would seriously rock the casbah. I can tell you right now that it would be my favorite episode. One man- one supergenius- against Lizzie, John, Radek, and his own team. 'Cause, goddamn, if not an episode, it should at least be a fanfic. Why hasn't it been done yet?
And I want to be Hewlett play the bad guy in an episode. 'Cause he would be amazing. Rodney's smug superiority plus "you are all at my mercy"? v. good. And he'd justify it. Like, he'd find out how to make the city fly and Lizzie would tell him no, so he'd take matters into his own hands. Hell, use a deus ex machina and have Rodney hit with an alien drug that lowers his inhibition and common sense. Then John would have to get to him ASAP to inject him with a Beckett-made antidote to get our Rodney back.
It'd be the best episode ever. Hell, make it a mid-season two-parter! Part one is Rodney going crazy from Alien Drugs and taking over, part two is John trying his damnest to save hisboyfriend.
Anyone who goes to a con should ask about it at a panel if Gero or Cooper or another one of the writers is there. Recite the line about memorizing codes and ask if that'll ever come up again or if we'll get a "Rodney vs. Atlantis" episode.
I love my men smart, sexy, and slightly mad.
So, tell me: how would you do a badguy!Rodney episode? Are there any other episode ideas you'd like to see/write?
-Luce
Caldwell: Can you hack it somehow, override her code?
Rodney: You do know who you're talking to?
Caldwell: So that's a yes?
Rodney: I'm just saying, if anybody can, I can. I helped design the system.
Caldwell: Then do it, please.
Rodney: Alright, but I'm using my access code.
Caldwell: Why, 'cause still don't trust me?
Rodney: No, because it's a sixteen digit alphanumeric code I will have to enter God knows how many times and I haven't gotten around to memorizing yours yet.
Okay, so. If the TPTB are smart (and we know they can be), they'll use this. This? Is the foundation for a Rodney vs. Atlantis plotline and that would seriously rock the casbah. I can tell you right now that it would be my favorite episode. One man- one supergenius- against Lizzie, John, Radek, and his own team. 'Cause, goddamn, if not an episode, it should at least be a fanfic. Why hasn't it been done yet?
And I want to be Hewlett play the bad guy in an episode. 'Cause he would be amazing. Rodney's smug superiority plus "you are all at my mercy"? v. good. And he'd justify it. Like, he'd find out how to make the city fly and Lizzie would tell him no, so he'd take matters into his own hands. Hell, use a deus ex machina and have Rodney hit with an alien drug that lowers his inhibition and common sense. Then John would have to get to him ASAP to inject him with a Beckett-made antidote to get our Rodney back.
It'd be the best episode ever. Hell, make it a mid-season two-parter! Part one is Rodney going crazy from Alien Drugs and taking over, part two is John trying his damnest to save his
Anyone who goes to a con should ask about it at a panel if Gero or Cooper or another one of the writers is there. Recite the line about memorizing codes and ask if that'll ever come up again or if we'll get a "Rodney vs. Atlantis" episode.
I love my men smart, sexy, and slightly mad.
So, tell me: how would you do a badguy!Rodney episode? Are there any other episode ideas you'd like to see/write?
-Luce
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Date: 2006-06-16 04:38 am (UTC)I even have imagined scenerios for the Atlantis vs. Earth. (Begin Babble: Like, they each, separately, find out there's a store of ZPMs somewhere, and both go after them and meet on that planet. Earth would need them, of course, for whatever shit they got themselves into THIS time and Atlantis would need them because of whatever (reallygoodMcKayapproved!)reason they need them (perhaps Atlantis needs to leave the planet and go somewhere else or something). Whatever it is, it would be dreadfully important. So they end up at odds with each other, and McKay manages to trick Sam somehow, and Atlantis makes off with the ZPMs, thus saving the Pegasus Galaxy, but, whoops, making enemies of the Earth (and, man, imagine the allies one could have if they WEREN'T aligned with Earth...).)
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Date: 2006-06-16 04:56 am (UTC)That could work. Maybe as a season finale. Here's to hoping Martin Gero is connected to the hive mind of fandom and hears that.
*really just wants Rodney > Sam*
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Date: 2006-06-16 05:09 am (UTC)The problem with it, of course, is who's in control. We as the SGA fans want Rodney and co. to be the better group, but if it's something that's not just in SGA, but is a crossover that has episodes in both series, then I don't think there's a big chance of Atlantis coming out as the definitive better group....
They say they're going to show more about John's past and I'm really hoping that it's still very vague, because my desire for the char is that there's some sort of Ancient-related "plot" around him. Like, he's the reincarnation of an Ancient, or he's part of an Ancient eugenics program, or something like that. I was so excited because in the book "Reliquary" they have a lot of little details involving just how Ancient John is. Well, in both of the newer books, actually....
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Date: 2006-06-16 05:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-16 05:37 am (UTC)