Awesome, as usual! I love the "left behind by Earthers" theme that's going on. And it really creeps me out that Sam is all, "Well, so much for those guys. Let's go somewhere else." Different from the Sam we know, and yet not.
The meeting between Vala, Meredith and Jehan was perfect. Just the right tone, great characterization. Jehan's freak-out afterward made me feel so bad. All those years he's thought he was the last one, only to have everything he believed (and believed in) ripped apart.
This is the line that sticks with me: "He was who he had always been, though, so he used his name, given at birth, and not some made up one." That out the four of them (Teyla, Vala, Rodney and John) Rodney is the least changed, the only one who doesn't feel like he's become a different person. He might seem the most cowardly, from an outside perspective, but he's the most solid one, the strongest, of them all. One might argue that he went through the least trauma, in relative terms, but for a man so dependent on his mind to be trapped like he was, shown that his mind is not as powerful as he thought... I think that's pretty damned traumatic. He's definitely a changed man, but not a different man, and it makes me wonder if there's anything out there that can alter Rodney at the same level as the others.
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Date: 2009-06-18 09:05 pm (UTC)The meeting between Vala, Meredith and Jehan was perfect. Just the right tone, great characterization. Jehan's freak-out afterward made me feel so bad. All those years he's thought he was the last one, only to have everything he believed (and believed in) ripped apart.
This is the line that sticks with me: "He was who he had always been, though, so he used his name, given at birth, and not some made up one." That out the four of them (Teyla, Vala, Rodney and John) Rodney is the least changed, the only one who doesn't feel like he's become a different person. He might seem the most cowardly, from an outside perspective, but he's the most solid one, the strongest, of them all. One might argue that he went through the least trauma, in relative terms, but for a man so dependent on his mind to be trapped like he was, shown that his mind is not as powerful as he thought... I think that's pretty damned traumatic. He's definitely a changed man, but not a different man, and it makes me wonder if there's anything out there that can alter Rodney at the same level as the others.