It's something about their idea about the characters as symbols, I think. (and I know I shouldn't generalize a "they", because there are some better (Gero), some worse (Cooper) about this). (The Hive was written by Carl Binder who isn't generally one to diminish McKay.)
Still, it's a general aspect of the show that Rodney's pain is seen as exaggerated, unimportant, self-serving, even when it's obviously real. I don't mind them poking general fun -- I mean there *is* something intrinsically funny about being shot in the ass with an arrow and then getting stoned on morphine and that *was* an appropriate time to play for laughs. But the withdrawal was clearly awful and I'm glad DH played it mostly straight. (I'm still sort of pissed with Elizabeth for being pissed with him for not mentioning Ford, Sheppard and the others as, had she been listening, she would have heard that he clearly said "Ford's planet"... but I TOTALLY digress. *g* Anyway I'm not sure what it is that makes it necessary to frame Rodney's pain as ridiculous and Ronon's pain as meaningful, but it's the same thing that allows them to categorize Rodney as unnatractive -- that is, whether the actor is pretty is immaterial, the character he's playing is meant to be plain.
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It's something about their idea about the characters as symbols, I think. (and I know I shouldn't generalize a "they", because there are some better (Gero), some worse (Cooper) about this). (The Hive was written by Carl Binder who isn't generally one to diminish McKay.)
Still, it's a general aspect of the show that Rodney's pain is seen as exaggerated, unimportant, self-serving, even when it's obviously real. I don't mind them poking general fun -- I mean there *is* something intrinsically funny about being shot in the ass with an arrow and then getting stoned on morphine and that *was* an appropriate time to play for laughs. But the withdrawal was clearly awful and I'm glad DH played it mostly straight. (I'm still sort of pissed with Elizabeth for being pissed with him for not mentioning Ford, Sheppard and the others as, had she been listening, she would have heard that he clearly said "Ford's planet"... but I TOTALLY digress. *g* Anyway I'm not sure what it is that makes it necessary to frame Rodney's pain as ridiculous and Ronon's pain as meaningful, but it's the same thing that allows them to categorize Rodney as unnatractive -- that is, whether the actor is pretty is immaterial, the character he's playing is meant to be plain.