#contagonist

[speakingbubblez]

Sometimes I think about how Virgil is a contagonist then I remember that no one knows what a contagonist is.

[hangfiretales]

Mckenzie Morgan, aged 14. 

He’s Rom and Alec’s younger step-brother. He spent his holidays with them as a small child but they haven’t seen him for a few years until they’re forced to spend their summer break with him. He’s wealthy and well-educated. He’s also stubborn, precociously brilliant, manipulative, and too observant for his own good. For somebody so quiet he manages to attract a lot of chaos. 

Rom doesn’t approve of the way he treats the entire world like a scientific experiment. And she doesn’t like the way he talks about his teacher, either-- Mr Prideaux, the assistant form-master. 

Morgan is currently a boarding student at Charterhouse School. His father intends him to either inherit the family engineering business or join the military in some strategic capacity.

Morgan has other ideas. Morgan always has other ideas.

Morgan was waiting, hands in pockets, by the open taxi door. That was his father's pose, Harry Morgan's pose, that straight-backed stance in a short man and both hands dug deep.

He'd look like Harry too with that bony face. The deep-brown colouring, the break in his strong-bridged nose. But he had barely any of his father's softened Welsh sound, and not even a suggestion of his humour.

Five facts:

He was born in Cairo, travelled through South Africa with his parents when he was a child, and spoke German and French better than English when he first visited Britain at the age of seven.

He has several given names and doesn’t much like them. Everybody has always called him by his surname.

He’s lazy. Sometimes he takes shortcuts, and they get him into trouble. 

He’s very fond of his father but doesn’t see much of him; he spends most of his time in England, shipped between boarding school and his hated aunt. 

He has a weakness for lemon drop lollies.

[isagrimorie]

@contagonist replied to your post “Also, looking back at SGA posts, I  now remember why I stayed away...”

SG-1 slashers were atrocious too.

sigh they really. i remember smallville slashers was particularly terrible too. 

[onaperduamedee]

contagonist a réagi à votre billet “Dark Matter 3.11 – quick thoughts, spoilers under the cut:[[MOR]...”

Good read! They turned Three into Leading Man this season (see the S3 poster), so his Love Interest stuff got shoved in everywhere!

Oh, thank Grissom, it wasn’t entirely a construct of my imagination (and the unfortunate S3 poster). Sarah and Three did get a mention in every episode, while Five’s sister, Six’s family, Ryo’s everything, Two’s whatever her arc was about and the Android’s quest for heartbreak were given one episode. I think the worst blow for me was “Born, Not Built” where the backstory brought forward was so game-changing that Three/Sarah shouldn’t have come anywhere near it. It’s all the more frustrating that I was so glad they “unfridged” Sarah, but then she was stuck in a computer. I didn’t like it in DW when it affected my favourite character, I won’t like it better in DM. 

goodobservationshirley a réagi à votre billet “Dark Matter 3.11 – quick thoughts, spoilers under the cut:[[MOR]...”

i'm 'glad' i'm not the only one who noticed this season has been focusing on Three even when the episode/plot was about someone else. i tend to be hyper aware of these things because it is an especially annoying trend, so i wasn't sure if it was just me focusing on it too much. it's a shame because there is so much interesting emotional work to do with the android and Two this season

I am hyper aware of this thing as well because it happened with every single sci-fi show I watched and whose lead was a woman. Every. Single. One. I don’t know how to escape it. It always happens. I guess the way to avoid it is to stick to male-led shows? @contagonist​ said it all here in their last paragraph: Rebecca/Shaw should have been given the development Sarah/Three got over S3. Not because Sarah and Three’s story isn’t an interesting one to tell, but because Two is the lead of the show and, apart from meeting her oppressors over and over again, we never got to see her connections to the outside world. 

Ryo, Kal, Marcus, Emily, all had a family before joining the Raza, even if they lost it. Two was alone. She wasn’t even born. She was a project. The only person who had mattered to her was a scientific who fed her and taught her. To discover Two had a life with someone, and friends too, in a safe haven, working for a good cause, even if it didn’t last long (and Shaw/Rebecca is a tad twisted, but that’s another discussion) was huge for the show. For her. She was trusted, she was loved, she was safe.

And the Android finally learning why she was special: she was born out of love, with the purpose of containing a human consciousness, and then born out of love a second time, when Portia awakened her with Emily’s help. We’re talking about a character who had three seasons of “I am flawed”, “someone made me imperfect” and other “I don’t understand what’s happening to me”. Again, this is huge, in terms of character development.

And the show constantly putting them back to back (I giffed a whole series of parallels with the hope it will lead to something), the Android and Two constantly risking their life for each other, whatever the universe, the mirroring shots, the mirroring scenes, etc.

But I guess Three being forced to be less intolerant towards Robots because his girlfriend is now one was a more important arc.

[isagrimorie]

contagonist: 

Guess you feel strongly about this, eh?

Just a little tiny bit!

[stevenrogered]

Speaking of 'subtle', there was also Jemma's line about 'blatant lies and complete disregard for historic and scientific fact.' Hee!

Ah thats a good one! I actually missed that when I watched it lol

[phoebedynevors]

Inching ever closer to Shaw in a USMC uniform...

Aha if only. I remember us talking about this before. Still waiting. :p

[isagrimorie]

contagonist replied to your post “Shaw" is an alias tho so can u imagine this little nerd trying to...”

I only remember that one graphic where Shaw was labelled an alias. Were there others?

I seriously could have sworn there was one other graphic in season 4 where [ALIAS] Sameen Shaw was tagged on.

If they dropped that, though, I’d prefer it more!