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Chopping broccoli...chopping broccoli...
So apparently there's this "Broccoli Test" going around where you can put it to your pairing to see if they pass. Basically, it's, in essence, wandering into a grocery store and being able to non-verbally communicate "we need broccoli" to the other person without actually pointing at broccoli.
See, Jack and Sam of SG-1? I'd think they've got this nailed and would actually be quite scary when it comes to this. Probably a lot of it would be from all those years in the field where you *couldn't* talk to communicate some of the time.
The Doctor and Rose, on the other hand? While there was quite a bit of non-verbal stuff going on between them in S2, you still had miscommunication. Even during the *verbal* moments. :D Of course, they would then amusingly proceed to bitch at each other about the failure, even in front of a monster. "YOU SAID BLUE!" "I SAID NOT BLUE!" This is really part of what amuses me about them - some of the time they're completely in sync and other times on opposite wavelengths where they blink at each other. :D
"Carrots? Bleh. Rose, where's the broccoli?"
"Broccoli? You never said anything about broccoli."
"Well, you were all the way across the market and since I'm not allowed to do the telepathy thing with you..."
"Right. Stay out of my head, thanks."
"...I gave you that 'we're out of broccoli' sign."
"Doctor, you raised an eyebrow. That could mean anything from 'I'd like some broccoli' to 'I get the odd feeling the universe will implode in thirty seconds.'"
"Yeah, but this time it was the broccoli instead of impending doom."
See, Jack and Sam of SG-1? I'd think they've got this nailed and would actually be quite scary when it comes to this. Probably a lot of it would be from all those years in the field where you *couldn't* talk to communicate some of the time.
The Doctor and Rose, on the other hand? While there was quite a bit of non-verbal stuff going on between them in S2, you still had miscommunication. Even during the *verbal* moments. :D Of course, they would then amusingly proceed to bitch at each other about the failure, even in front of a monster. "YOU SAID BLUE!" "I SAID NOT BLUE!" This is really part of what amuses me about them - some of the time they're completely in sync and other times on opposite wavelengths where they blink at each other. :D
"Carrots? Bleh. Rose, where's the broccoli?"
"Broccoli? You never said anything about broccoli."
"Well, you were all the way across the market and since I'm not allowed to do the telepathy thing with you..."
"Right. Stay out of my head, thanks."
"...I gave you that 'we're out of broccoli' sign."
"Doctor, you raised an eyebrow. That could mean anything from 'I'd like some broccoli' to 'I get the odd feeling the universe will implode in thirty seconds.'"
"Yeah, but this time it was the broccoli instead of impending doom."
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Cake's better, anyway. :)
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And Jack and Daniel would pass with flying colors? :D
Actually, I wonder which pair (even in a non-ship context) would be the best at the non-verbal communication. Sam and Daniel often seem on a similar wavelength. And I think Teal'c gets Jack most the time, but doesn't want to admit it. Heh heh.
Cake's better, anyway. :)
Cake is good.
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*snickers*
And yeah, towards the end of their team run, they could have all done that. :D
They probably even had down the 452 different *kinds* of Teal'c eyebrow raises...
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AND what all the many variations of his "indeed"s mean. *nods sagely*
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;-)
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:: dies ::
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A Menage a broccoli!!!!
I can just see the non-verbal communication of what to do with the broccoli.
**visions dancing in my head**
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You know, I completely forgot about this when I forwarded that to you, mostly because that episode gripes me because it was one of the last episodes we had with Rose, and it was Rose-lite! *cough* But yeah. Sometimes they were totally in sync, and sometimes, the Doctor would think something was totally, completely obviously obvious, and Rose would very much disagree. They're so cute. *smushes them*
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Totally. Plus if you're only doing 13 episodes in a season, you do NOT need a main-character-lite episode in the first place. I have enough problems with feeling the need to pad out a 22 episode season with a clips show.
But yeah. Sometimes they were totally in sync, and sometimes, the Doctor would think something was totally, completely obviously obvious, and Rose would very much disagree. They're so cute. *smushes them*
Uh huh! :D Think I've sent you the fic snip of the Doctor and Rose getting into it about time theory. They start out the scene utterly in sync and doing the non-verbal. But by the end... *snorts*
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New SG-1 would probably have more problems -- Vala would buy oysters instead, for their aphrodisiac properties; while Cameron would buy way too much broccoli, in an attempt to fit in.
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all of sg1 would.
the Doctor and Rose might now, but they'd be adorable while failing and that's better than passing.
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And you're right - it's really almost more adorable when they fail and start flailing at each other. Mwah!