What the fuck have TPTB done to my favorite character?! As if the embarrassing contortions of Rodney in The Intruder hadn't been bad enough, or the laughable mistake of let's-eject-the-clip-instead-of-pulling-the-trigger in The Siege Part 3, now we have to deal with Rodney's shaky voice and idiotic babblings of being Ford's "best friend" in Runner.

This is not the character I fell for in season 1. This is comic relief. This is not the Rodney McKay I've come to know and adore.

How much further will they push it - until we all cringe in our seats, sing lalalalala, screw our eyes closed whenever McKay appears on screen, and live happily in denial (= fanfic) only? Until we stop watching SGA?

Could we please go and kick the series' writers in the head? Hard?

Stop screwing up my show!

And hey, at least Caldwell's I-am-an-ass status is finally firmly established. Nice dig against Sheppard because of Sumner. Although I wouldn't have John expected to show so much emotion. It was almost OOC.