Date: Mar. 30th, 2007 01:45 am (UTC)
Rodney is immensely entertaining and sympathetic, with his unabashed egotism and condescension and fear and crooked slash of a mouth, and his knack for getting caught in sticky situations

Rodney is such a great character. I love how expressive he is both physically (those hands!) and verbally. He's just fascinating to watch. As fanfic writers constantly note, all of his emotions show on his face (a nifty contrast to John).

So much wasted potential there. The first few episodes should really have paid more attention to what they were finding in Atlantis, all the crazy stuff that must have happened as they poked at unknown equipment in a totally alien operating system

I was really hoping that they would do that. I think they were afraid of losing their SG1 audience, though, so they focused on the Wraith (who, I agree, are over the top, but at least are better villains than the Gouald [however one spells that]). Luckily, fanfic has happily filled in the gaps. :)

You mention most of my favorite S1 eps in your post: there's a lot of great slashy McKay/Sheppard subtext and snark there. Not to mention Zelenka/McKay sparkage in "The Storm" (the two of them together are a riot).

Oh, the hurt and/or comfort scenarios are always my favorites. Even little bitty moments

Agreed. I also like the moment in that ep when Zelenka realizes there's something wrong w/ Rodney and impatiently shoves away the thermometer the medic is trying to stick in Z's ear.

Just, so happy to be happy and carefree, casually fannish instead of intensely fannish, in the first flush, and so on.

Yeah, I love that feeling. Luckily, with SGA (and Torchwood), I've managed to keep that feeling. :)
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