Teyla fen and Sam fans

[tielan]

Is there anyone reading this LJ, incidentally, who is both a fan of Teyla and a fan of Sam?

Anyone for whom the two characters (not the men they're associated with) are the focal interest of the two shows? I can't be the only person in SG1 and SGA fandom to prefer Sam to Daniel as well as Teyla to Elizabeth. And yet...

And yet.

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[ladyjax.livejournal.com]

I like them both bunches (but I think you knew that). As it so happens my very first story for SGA was Sam/Teyla (lite on the shippiness and more of an explanation about why Sam would even go to Atlantis): Rubicon (http://wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=2633)

Anyway, here's something that a lot of people don't consider: that the writers don't know how to let the women characters they created live and work in the same space with each other.

I was rewatching the SG-1 ep, Rite of Passage, recently. It's so obvious that Sam, Janet, and Cassie are their own type of family. The scenes with the three of them together are very effecting and in their own way powerful. The obvious friendship and love (however people want to interpret that) between Sam and Janet is definitely the result of years of experience in and around each other. There's a comfort level there that doesn't always show through when Sam is off with her teammates.

Plus watching Janet play mama bear (threatening to shoot Nirrti) just made my day.

I would have liked Elizabeth and Teyla to have those moments too, especially since Elizabeth is aware from the very beginning how much she doesn't know about Teyla's people or Teyla herself. We get glimmers of it in Intruder in season two at the end of the ep. Teyla asks Elizabeth about what happened on Earth and just as Elizabeth is about to say something, poof, one of the guys show up and it gets shelved. Teyla even looks annoyed for a hot minute.

I guess my point is, I should be able to see those other relationships on screen just like I get the ones between John and Rodney or Jack and Daniel to the point of nausea. If they make these women and yet don't use them fully, it's much easier for cranky fans to rush around saying, "Oh, they don't *do* anything like the boys do so they're less important," or "they're shallow, one-dimensional."

To which I reply, "why do you have so much invested in male characters in the first place?" and "What's so hard about having women interacting with each other across a broad spectrum of experiences and emotions?" followed up by, "y'all know these are women written by men, right?"