SGU Week Day 5: wildcard
I'm just posting some of my most ridiculous memes here for your enjoyment~
Mr. Sandman, send me a meme. Make it the dumbest shit I've ever seen.
Eli gets Rush a Garfield shirt. He refuses to take it off.
Lisa and Dale watched Terminator last week.
Pour one out for the Neopets that got abandoned because their owners got stranded on a spaceship.
"All right, Brody, you can put adding those knife blades to the sides of the shuttlecraft on the back burner. This week, we're making a blender. But like, a cool blender. A blender that could blend a guy."
"A brick."
"Yeah, well, if it can blend a brick, it can blend a guy."
"Water? You mean like in the toilet?"
Extra Dip
I think if they could move past their differences, with their combined imagination and familiarity with the ship's systems, they could generate something truly ludicrous.
This actually has context but I am not going to give it to you
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Title: another god and another country (1/1)
Word Count: 3,545
Relationships: Rodney McKay & Ronald Greer, Ronald Greer/Lisa Park (mentioned)
Summary:
Finally home but no longer Colonel Young’s most loyal soldier, Ronald Greer is unmoored and at a crossroads in what many people would consider the prime of his life.
Lucky for him, the last person in the universe he’d have expected is crazy enough to offer a safe harbor.
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I think Greer is such an interesting and important addition to stargate canon!
From the beginning military characters have always been the protector. Obviously, because the scientists aren’t always trained to defend themselves. Mostly, the military characters are good guys. They protect their people, and often refuse orders from above to harm innocents.
But do we really believe every military person in the stargate missions would act that way? Military people are famously trained to obey orders above all else. This is sometimes mentioned in passing in sga/sg1 but never really focused on.
So the question can be raised, what if there was a military protector character who did obey orders without question?
Now we have Greer. He is military, and practically obsessed with being a protector. He canonically will follow young’s orders- even including torture (kinda) and (believed) murder of another military leader, without question because young is his commander. Now, he does seem to pick and choose who he thinks is worth obeying - he will listen to young, but other military commanders he doesn’t approve of (like Telford) are liable to get malicious compliance or outright rebellion. We also can’t forget he was basically in prison at the beginning because he attacked a military superior he didn’t agree with (also Telford I think?)
It is canon that Greer is not violent just be violent, he sees it as a necessary tool to get things done. If anything he doesn’t want to be violent for no reason or all the time - as we see when he remembers his abusive father. He wants to be different than that!
I also don’t think he’s necessarily a bad person or a one dimensional character. He obeys orders blindly at times, but he has many other aspects than that, and as I said above he doesn’t just listen to anyone. His blind loyalty does need to be earned.
So if Greer plays the protector as expected, and seems to pick and choose who he feels are good leaders, how is that different than in previous stargate shows?
The problem is that Greer will see anyone as an enemy if ordered to - when the scientists who are typically protected by military characters in stargate canon stage a coup that seems not only logical but legitimate in its reasoning, he no longer sees them as his people to be protected - they are now enemies.
He seems to dislike them intensely, at times trying to intimidate them (without being ordered to) or making them aware he’s watching them for punishable behavior. He’s sometimes shown following them around the ship, looking for something to prove they are going to rebel again - that they are truly enemies. Even military people aren’t safe - once Telford is revealed as a mole, and thus an enemy, he is willing to stand by as young seems to torture and kill him - even stopping people trying to save him by force.
We also see, when he is under the hallucinogenic affects of the tick, that once his beliefs that the scientists are conspiring actively again are confirmed, he takes drastic action almost immediately.
Of course, we do have remember he is under the affect of an unknown substance.
However, how and why he takes violent action is revealing:
He follows rush and Camille, the leaders of the conspiracy from before, and has previously thought he saw them doing unsavory actions. Once he sees rush act “guilty” - simply by running away - he leaps into action, and violent action.
He follows rush, and then closes him, Camille, and himself into a room and destroys any way for them to get the door open again.
However, I want to stress he is not doing this because he feels like it - we are explicitly shown that he is hallucinating young on his radio, giving him orders that lead to this behavior.
Young, or what he believes to be young, essentially orders him to imprison and interrogate rush and Camille. Camille is already injured at this point and he either cannot not see it because of the substance, or chooses not to acknowledge it. Otherwise, whether this intended interrogation includes active violence and straight out torture is never clear. However, “young” also tells him that he is allowed and even encouraged to kill her if needed, and he doesn’t seem to hesitate at this.
His blind following of orders in the end not only encourages him to allow immoral behavior, but leads to him threatening the very people he’s supposed to protect!
He’s a great example of how the stargate protector trope could go wrong, and I love watching him grow throughout the show.
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SGU Week Day 3 (yeahhhhhhh, 3): Favorite Friendship
There are so many wonderful friendships in SGU, but I really love the friendship between Greer and Matt (sorry it just feels weird to call Greer "Ron" even though that's his name, idk why that is??). It's just so strong and genuine, and I love seeing healthy portrayals of masculine friendship.
I'd venture to say that they're the two most competent guys on Destiny's crew, but in my memes, they've kinda devolved into two lovable himbos who share a brain cell (but they lost it). Here are some of my favorites.
We all wish there were more episodes, right?? Here's an "episode" I made where Matt and Greer decide to capture a space bison, believing it to be a dinosaur.
Rush is there, too. He must suffer at the hands of Matt and Greer's combined energy.
See! They know stuff!!
OIL. [patriotic screeching]
They're so ambitious I love them
It is a dinosaur as long as you believe
For the oil [patriotic screeching]
And now for something completely different~
They know about dinosaurs and ghosts. They are very smart 💚
And just for fun, here's a little nonsense with guest appearances by Eli and Colonel Young. They're having a little too much fun with that Waluigi board.
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