SGA 5x09 Tracker

[theeverdream]

I just saw Tracker for the first time.

John.  John.

And I know, I know, this is such old news, but I haven't seen all of season 5 yet, and yes obviously I knew about the Rodney/Keller thing, and I know everybody has talked about it to death but.  Just... that one moment at the beginning.  John's face kinda broke my heart a little bit.

Not that I hate Keller or anything. I really enjoyed her in this episode - I think it would take guts to fight a Wraith even with some fighting men around you, but how totally awesome was it that she snuck up on one and stabbed it?  And I'm not anti-McKeller, except for the fact that I don't read het, but it has nothing to do with that pairing specifically.

I dunno... I just... I think a lot of times we read slashy stuff into what we see on shows, but the beginning, it's like Joe Flanigan was like "okay, I'm going to be as pining as possible here" or something because wow.

So now I'm going to go read a bunch of stuff where John is a happy John :-)

Comments

[analineblue.livejournal.com]

I totally agree about that scene with John. :D I remember watching it and thinking something like... "Okay, I'm really not reading anything into this right now--he's PINING! O__O" I'd actually stumbled across that clip on YouTube before I saw the episode, so I knew it was coming, but... Yeah, wow. John~ ;__;

[blackchaps.livejournal.com]

We watched it too yesterday! For about the tenth time though, and yeah, John looks all piney and Rodney looks all guilty! I didn't even need my slash goggles for it!

[diek09.livejournal.com]

At the beginning I felt a bit upset Keller was replacing a lot of things as Carson (I almost cried when he died), but little by little she gained a place in my heart too.

Besides, John and Rodney can be together and Keller doesn't have to know about it, lol...

[calcitrix.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of that way with not having watched a lot of clips from cons or interviews but I've read summaries and comments, and people reported Joe and David joked about putting that stuff in there on purpose. I dunno; sometimes I do wonder.

When that whole thing with the anti-keller sentiments hit I laughed about it because it seemed silly. If people are going to write about a non-canon relationship, it shouldn't really matter what happens on the show anyway, right? I didn't like her kinda wimpy attitude at the beginning and during Missing, but she definitely got better. (And I'm not particularly anti McKeller. I even painted them for SGA secret Santa year before last)