rodney, why are you not so awesome?

[lobelia321]

I have now seen most of the series 3 episodes of SGA, and why is the character of Rodney not being developed? Do others get the impression that he seems stuck in a time loop, just again and again going over the same old gestures, attitudes and snippets of speech that he elaborated in series 1 and 2?

Scriptwriters! Hello!

Or is it that the less-than-stellar acting abilities of his rps counterpart are starting to crawl to the fore? I'm thinking, oh there goes that thumbs-out gesture again, or, aha he's pulling his mouth again in that 'Rodney' way. It's easier to notice John-rps-counterpart's wooden-ness (and it's so endearing, I forgive him for it; he tried so hard to scream and be tormented in Common Ground, there, there, *pets him*) than the flappiness of Rodney-rps-counterpart but after a while, it is perhaps a flap too far.

Also: the overkill of football rps. And by overkill I mean overdose and whoa. Because, in the days of lotrps, there was a stream of pics and news, sure, but nothing like on this scale. The clubs play a match every week, and sometimes more often. The boys are in the news, like, all the time. And I'm talking mainstream news, breakfast radio, not weird teenie magazines called Sneak or Heat that I bought wearing dark sunshades and hid away in a brown paperbag. Also, actors do not regularly flash their naked thighs or strip off their sweat-sodden tops to reveal their well-muscled pecs but footballers do. And yes, lotrps showered us with canon lurv when there were snoggings and huggings at every fucking premiere but football? Snoggings, huggings, embracings, gropings, weepings every week on mainstream television.

How can my brain take it?

Also, their characters are therefore less mysterious because exposed so much. Every dog and his master chats about the footballers and speculates and has opinions; it's way beyond slash. And even mainstream TV goes slashy and posts (I meant, broadcasts) love odes to Ronaldo/Rooney!

I may well morph into Little Red Riding Hood, if this goes on.

Now there's one hot pairing. Hood/wolf. *growls* "My, what a big ... you've got!" And so forth. Okay, it's het but hey.

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I lost the SGA love overnight. I can't even read the good stuff. God, I'm fickle. Maybe it'll come back, my fickle cuts both ways.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The fickleness of fandom. It can be very sudden.

Ooh, wild things.

What do you love now then?

[wanderlost.livejournal.com]

but football? Snoggings, huggings, embracings, gropings, weepings every week on mainstream television.

*blinks* You say it like it's a bad thing!

How do I get to Upton Park? You went to the West Ham game, yes? Or did West Ham come to your stadium? I'm confused now. I know that you saw West Ham play, because pretty Ryan O'Neill was there.

Anyways, I'm trying to get a ticket to the West Ham vs ManU, but I don't know if the tube (subway, metro?) goes there.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

West Ham came to play Cambridge United for some sort of friendly charity deal whatever, who cares, they were HERE, in my local tiny stadium!!! Yes, which means I saw Ryan from, like, three feet distance.