Too Clever by Half: Difference between revisions

* Rodney McKay from ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' is one of the smartest humans from earth. Despite everyone in the Stargate program being top in their fields, he's the only one to make such a huge deal out of his intelligence. And on number three... while he regularly makes astounding accomplishments while under threat of imminent death, his biggest failure? Blew up a solar system (well, five-sixths of a solar system), and almost destroyed two universes. His pride is so great that he often refuses to work with other scientists on the team because he's convinced they'd just slow him down. This gets pointed out magnificently in an episode where he's working with Real Life celebrity scientists Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson, or rather, refusing to work with them.<br />This gets taken to a literal level when an Ascension machine rewrites his genome. He creates a new form of math just to keep up with his new discoveries. After being forced to choose between ascending or dying, he [[Take a Third Option|invents a cure for himself]], returning himself back to "normal" genius levels, not realizing he was in spitting distance of [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascending]]. For a kicker, all his notes and his new mathematics are so complex that even ''he'' can't figure out what they meant, making [[Status Quo Is God|virtually everything that happened completely moot]]. Did get a nice [[Deus Ex Machina]] out of it for the next season opener, though.