I do recognize your point that rather than showing Keller actively working on a cure, they instead showed her spending time with Rodney or watching the tape.
This is where I feel the show, the writing of the show, the writing of "The Shrine", undercuts Keller's abilities as a doctor in favor of putting her in a pairing. I agree they needed time to establish the relationship if they were going to include it at all; I just keep thinking that if Keller had been Carson, the ep would have focused more on what Carson actually was doing to try to save Rodney. (Or maybe it would've had more Zelenka or something, considering we see Carson doing bloody all nothing to save Rodney in "Tao," save what Rodney asks for help with. Carson, you ass. Umm, where was I?)
(This is where I get all weird and obsessive, because I have a gut feeling that Keller has gotten less medical technobabble than Carson has. I don't have proof of this, I just have an urge to, I dunno, count out their technobabble-to-other-dialogue ratio and see whose is higher. I get this impression that one of the reasons most people perceive Keller as less brilliant than Rodney or Carson is because she isn't given as much opportunity to show off her mad skillz, and that her accomplishments are overshadowed; there are times that what Carson or Rodney does is spelled out, while Keller's achievements are more background - and therefore more difficult to attribute directly to her. E.g. we know Carson engineered the original Wraith-to-human retrovirus from scratch, because he tells us so; if he was working with a team, they're not mentioned. While as we know that Keller was following Michael's research to make the Wraith-fix in "The Queen", since Michael already had gotten it working with himself; but we don't know how much Keller had to change it to work on other Wraith.)
People seem to be generally assuming that Rodney's conversation with Sheppard on the pier was sincere -- that he meant what he said to John, not that he was confused and incoherent and not really Rodney. Yet people are assuming that at roughly the same time he was having this sincere conversation with John, he was totally out of his head and mistaking Jennifer's kindness towards him for something more.
Hmmm, interesting. To me, what Rodney said on the pier wasn't really important; it was John's reactions to it that were significant - the pier scene for me was much more about John's feelings for Rodney than vice versa. What touched me then was not Rodney's wish to say goodbye, but John's refusal. Rodney's feelings for John I saw much later, on say day 15, when he had lost more of his mind and was still crying out for John, not recognizing Jennifer even when she was right there with him.
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This is where I feel the show, the writing of the show, the writing of "The Shrine", undercuts Keller's abilities as a doctor in favor of putting her in a pairing. I agree they needed time to establish the relationship if they were going to include it at all; I just keep thinking that if Keller had been Carson, the ep would have focused more on what Carson actually was doing to try to save Rodney. (Or maybe it would've had more Zelenka or something, considering we see Carson doing bloody all nothing to save Rodney in "Tao," save what Rodney asks for help with. Carson, you ass. Umm, where was I?)
(This is where I get all weird and obsessive, because I have a gut feeling that Keller has gotten less medical technobabble than Carson has. I don't have proof of this, I just have an urge to, I dunno, count out their technobabble-to-other-dialogue ratio and see whose is higher. I get this impression that one of the reasons most people perceive Keller as less brilliant than Rodney or Carson is because she isn't given as much opportunity to show off her mad skillz, and that her accomplishments are overshadowed; there are times that what Carson or Rodney does is spelled out, while Keller's achievements are more background - and therefore more difficult to attribute directly to her. E.g. we know Carson engineered the original Wraith-to-human retrovirus from scratch, because he tells us so; if he was working with a team, they're not mentioned. While as we know that Keller was following Michael's research to make the Wraith-fix in "The Queen", since Michael already had gotten it working with himself; but we don't know how much Keller had to change it to work on other Wraith.)
People seem to be generally assuming that Rodney's conversation with Sheppard on the pier was sincere -- that he meant what he said to John, not that he was confused and incoherent and not really Rodney. Yet people are assuming that at roughly the same time he was having this sincere conversation with John, he was totally out of his head and mistaking Jennifer's kindness towards him for something more.
Hmmm, interesting. To me, what Rodney said on the pier wasn't really important; it was John's reactions to it that were significant - the pier scene for me was much more about John's feelings for Rodney than vice versa. What touched me then was not Rodney's wish to say goodbye, but John's refusal. Rodney's feelings for John I saw much later, on say day 15, when he had lost more of his mind and was still crying out for John, not recognizing Jennifer even when she was right there with him.