Hieroglyfics Recs

Rodney always wanted to be a Mountie! The clip choice is good and often utterly brilliant (I laughed out loud when the line about visiting Vancouver was matched with a shot of The Alien Planet That Somehow Always Looks Like Vancouver) and the internal timing is well done. My one criticism is that I think it would have benefited from judicious cutting - the song’s extremely long, and it felt to me as though the vidder was reaching for clips to use during the long dialogue section. To me, it’s a sort of “reverse” vid in that rather than re-interpreting the show through the song, it illustrates the song using the show.

Oh, Rodney. This is Rodney, his failures and his triumphs, his self-recrimination and his glee. Yay.

This is a remake of one of her earlier vids, and now contains spoilers through Tao of Rodney. I like the way she’s played with the colors, and the way the internal sync works - the movements to the beat are really cool. The message is a little mixed, as Rodney is not exactly strictly a scientist here, but it’s funny and makes me ♥ Rodney all over again.

Teyla and Rodney (and the rest of the team) gen (offscreen Teyla/OMC), illustrated, art-format. Spoilers for McKay and Mrs. Miller - personally I don’t think they are huge spoilers, but if you haven’t seen the ep you might be confused by what Rodney’s sister calls him. Teyla and Jeannie strike up a correspondence. It’s a sweet, humorous, heartwarming look at family dynamics - both between Rodney and his sister, and among the members of Rodney’s team, who function more or less as a family.

Rodney and Ronon gen. I suppose this is technically No Man’s Land related, because the characterization and situation spring directly from what’s shown in the episode, but there are no real spoilers past Allies. Rodney is obsessed with a multiplicity of ways to die. Darkly funny.

Rodney character piece, humor. I especially loved the use of repetition, fast cuts, and OMG the use of the WRAITH, hee!

Ancient technology turns Rodney into a Wraith. This is a very cool idea, interestingly executed. It’s in the dreaded Present Tense, which I hate. There are also a few canon problems; there’s no mention of Beckett’s retrovirus project, and the climax contradicts things suggested in Allies (which I won’t detail as not to spoil anyone, and I have to admit the climax is really fitting for the story, and honestly, I’m not sure how I would handle this problem). But Rodney’s characterization rings true to me, the insight into what it feels like to be a Wraith is believable and somewhat frightening, and the pacing pulled me right along and had my heart racing with emotion.

[ETA: after some discussion with the author (who hasn’t seen Allies) and the illustrator (who has) I realize that my conception of that episode is a little mistaken because I forgot about facts established in The Defiant One. And as I say, the climax is really perfect for the story. Also, ETA as I re-add this rec to my database, this story was written BEFORE Common Ground. So there.]