And then he gets hit by a TRUCK. A LOT. Also, Doppelganger.
Maybe it’s the fact that VioletSmiles and I have been making fun of lying in the dark listening to Sarah McLachlan’s “Possession” on repeat and carving names into my wrists for the last week (ie: it being Rodney’s favored method of dealing with his convincing himself that Sheppard and Sam Carter are having filthy sex, those whores) but today I suddenly thought, “Hey, you know what fandom I haven’t read/checked in on/written for in ages? X-Files!” It turns out that this is because when you do start looking into X-Files fandom again, there’s a really appalling amount that involves (a) Mulder and Scully historical celtic romance, (b) Mulder gets kidnapped and raped by crazed, escaped serial killers he put away during his tenure with VICAP and (c) Mulder and Scully have a huge fight! He walks out on her! Into the night! Where he gets hit by a car! I’m not kidding. It’s too bizarre to be a joke. Also, it’s kind of weird to look around X-Files rec pages where everybody is raving about how awesome Prufrock’s Love is, but referring to her as “Pru,” which makes me knee-jerk go, “What? What what?” every time I see it in print. Oy.
And now, incoherent Doppelganger stuff!
Random mean things in Doppelganger that I love:
(1) Rodney still having nightmares about being eaten by a whale because his father read him Moby Dick: number one, Moby Dick is beautifully written, the cadence of the language is interesting, so I don’t entirely fault the guy for reading it to his kid, although I’m making a note not to do it to my own; number two, Moby Dick is a seriously, SERIOUSLY gay book. So now I know where Rodney’s deep desire to get married and have babies with a boy is coming from. WHAT? I HAVE A CURIOUS SOUL, OKAY?
(2) Keller’s entire nightmare could be attributed to having seen too many Alien movies in preparation for the trip to Atlantis. Which, if I was a senior attending for the base, is something I would recommend strictly as a hazing measure. And I’m glad they called it during the following breakfast scene.
(3) Ronon, international man of yenta. And of course of manpain once he goes through the entire city, frantic for some sign of life. God, it kills me.
(4) At this point I have to detour and say that Joe Flanigan playing evil psychopaths is just — okay, there’s something deeply wrong with me if I think it’s as hot as I think it is. Let’s think about this: his character in that awful episode of CSI: Miami was hot like burning, and it was because he beat people with baseball bats. And this episode where he’s like, burying Ronon alive, was super hot. DDDDDDDD: DDDDDDDDD:
(5) OH MY GOD RODNEY, THIS KILLS ME. ALIENS. PUKING. AND THEN I WAS EATEN BY A WHALE. ARRRRRGH.
(6) Money lines of the night:
JOHN: Did I have a goatee?
TEYLA: *SIGH*
ME: SCREAM.
RODNEY: I’m pretty screwed up.
JOHN: Tell me about it.
ME: SCREAM.
RODNEY: …I thought there’d be more hot girls here.
JOHN: Yeah!
ME: SCREAM.
(7) John’s feet hanging off the end of the bed is just — God, so freshman year college. And my eternal belief in John and Teyla as best friends just kills me — it is obviously freaking him out to hug her and he’s going to do it anyway, because he loves her so much.
(8) OMG Y’ALL, I CANNOT EVEN. GUYS, I LOVE THIS EPISODE SO MUCH I’M LIKE WORDLESS OF WITH LOVE AND STUFF.
Of the not awesome, I cannot believe they killed Kate Heightmeyer. In the grand scheme of characters, it’s not a big, but like, I felt close to her — she and I spent a lot of time together in Cartography by Touch and History of Maps. Anybody think they’ll haul somebody in to replace her?
WORD on the extremely wrong hotness that is psychopath!John, wielding both baseball bats and Ronon-bashing pipes.
Oh the John and Teyla friendship topic, did you happen to see what Robert Cooper said on Mallozzi’s blog yesterday about the continuation of that hug scene that didn’t make the final cut?
Also? Guess who actually shoveled the dirt onto Jason in the buried alive bit? Hint: It rhymes with Moe Danigan. :-)
it’s okay. i’m confused with yin-again all the time if i ever refer to myself as ‘yin’!
dude. psychopath john is so hot. so. hot. :> ♥
As long as it’s not Carter’s wife from Eureka because that’s already the way one show looks like it’s headed and I’m not keen on shrinks.
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…And neither is John.
There was so much hot in this episode I nearly burst into flames.
I adored Doppleganger SO MUCH and I totally agree with everything you just said :) As for Heightmeyer, I was indifferent towards her, but Atlantis seriously needs a psychiatrist on staff and with her gone they’re a mental breakdown waiting to happen. For sanity’s sake, I really hope they get a replacement soon!
dude, way to warn me about the clown in the canoe. i literally had to walk away from my computer for a minute.
also, i love Be. she is awesome. too bad she’s also satan.
At this point I have to detour and say that Joe Flanigan playing evil psychopaths is just — okay, there’s something deeply wrong with me if I think it’s as hot as I think it is.
UH YES EXACTLY
It’s spontaneous-combustion-of-panties hot. Just…yes. Yes, please, that. With the baseball bat and the burying-alive. Note: if there is something wrong with us, then the sickness is endemic in this fandom. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think that CSI: Miami ep isn’t just totally smoking hot (of course, we all feel guilty about it, but still). Rowr, in a very wrong, wrong, hawt-dirty and wrong way.
WORD on how hot psycho!Shep is. I have to constantly remind myself that it’s wrong to lust after an evil, killing crystal entity just because it looks like JFlan. And then I rewatch the episode and see him smirk/grin/loom/kick ass evillly and all my good intentions go out the window. Again.
I watched the episode, laughing my ass off the entire time and then they killed Kate and I was like….ummm okay…right.
What killed me was watching Joe beat up Joe. I sat there watching it and confused several people in my house who just don’t get fanfiction and my weird yet cute obsessive tendencies as I salivated and said out loud “Oh My God, the fandom just exploded with glee” Now I have two Johns in SGA and two Lornes in 4400. Psycho!John was awesome though. Awesome.
Nope, nothing wrong with you at all. I’m with you all the way on the hotness of Psycho!Sheppard.
But what about Rodney’s whale friend Sam? I thought he’d decided he liked whales–or at least he liked them when they weren’t overwhelming the city trying to communicate “Danger coming, you morons.”
I squee with you and hear you re: Heightmeyer. & :-( Even made an icon of her (which I’d offer, but yeah, yeah, WordPress).
Dude. Ronon dragging Rodney away by the collar.
Yes to all of the above, and also: If you have ever read seperis’ Crimes Against Humanity fic you will know that psychopath!John is unbelievably hot and awesome. There is just no disputing this. And now I really want to watch that CSI episode.
Also: Team! Yes! You all rock!