Wooo hooo, a discussion!!! And an intelligent one! Can't tell you how happy I am now.
I love your detailed responses. You always try to explain yourself and you do it so carefully - and I love it. Thank you.
Let's start with Teyla. You said it perfectly, she does emotions by the numbers. I remember first seeing the cave scene in The Rising. I was like 'ooookay, this is where director/writers are trying to tell me something. Why don't I buy it? Oh! She doesn't really like him.' I don't care how many references this bad joke for a ship gets. It doesn't work. Those two people don't have the necessary vibe to do it properly, period. They work okay as friends, and I even like when Teyla acts like Shep's big sister and tells him he'd done something wrong, like in HZ. But she is so much better with Ronon, there is a natural chemistry there - although I'm not much of Spanky shipper you can't deny they are cute. Heck even Teyla/Rodney is better than sheyla.
Yes I know the situation in Letter was risky, but I can't help myself. John was so stubborn there and I got that feeling he didn't even try to understand her. Gosh that ep is really bothering me. I think I'll rewatch it, because I have *cough*smut*cough* fic idea for it.
Suspicion. Don't forget about Athosians cultorological point of view. They don't understand behavior of expedition members because of their culture and the very way they look at the world. In their society things like friendship or keeping your word is a sacred thing (that's at least my opinion and my impression) and you can't really say that for our own culture. So I think it's still too early for them to understand us earthlings and the importance of Elizabeth's decisions. But don't get me wrong, Athosians annoy me to no end actually. The noble local culture of brave, proud and strong people has been done to death... *shakes head* I was happy when they left Atlantis.
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Date: 2007-11-01 07:03 am (UTC)I love your detailed responses. You always try to explain yourself and you do it so carefully - and I love it. Thank you.
Let's start with Teyla. You said it perfectly, she does emotions by the numbers. I remember first seeing the cave scene in The Rising. I was like 'ooookay, this is where director/writers are trying to tell me something. Why don't I buy it? Oh! She doesn't really like him.' I don't care how many references this bad joke for a ship gets. It doesn't work. Those two people don't have the necessary vibe to do it properly, period. They work okay as friends, and I even like when Teyla acts like Shep's big sister and tells him he'd done something wrong, like in HZ. But she is so much better with Ronon, there is a natural chemistry there - although I'm not much of Spanky shipper you can't deny they are cute. Heck even Teyla/Rodney is better than sheyla.
Yes I know the situation in Letter was risky, but I can't help myself. John was so stubborn there and I got that feeling he didn't even try to understand her. Gosh that ep is really bothering me. I think I'll rewatch it, because I have *cough*smut*cough* fic idea for it.
Suspicion. Don't forget about Athosians cultorological point of view. They don't understand behavior of expedition members because of their culture and the very way they look at the world. In their society things like friendship or keeping your word is a sacred thing (that's at least my opinion and my impression) and you can't really say that for our own culture. So I think it's still too early for them to understand us earthlings and the importance of Elizabeth's decisions. But don't get me wrong, Athosians annoy me to no end actually. The noble local culture of brave, proud and strong people has been done to death... *shakes head* I was happy when they left Atlantis.