I would say that there was always the possibility of more, but they never codified it between themselves, and so it was at a standstill when Kanaan made his move.
That's exactly the way I see it. Depending on how you read the conversation in Sunday, Teyla may or may not have explicitly acknowledged feelings for John (though not to John himself); John, on the other hand, while he may have feelings for Teyla, certainly isn't acknowledging them to anyone else, and maybe not even to himself. And even if they're both aware of the other's feelings ... I can see John believing they have some sort of understanding, because he's all repression-don't-talk-about-it guy, but I can't see Teyla believing herself to be in a relationship (or pre-relationship, or having an "understanding") with someone unless they'd, y'know, actually talked about it. John never made his move, and even if she did have feelings for him and/or believed that he had feelings for her, I'm hardly going to fault a girl for not sitting around pining after someone emotionally unavailable instead of actually going out and trying to be happy.
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That's exactly the way I see it. Depending on how you read the conversation in Sunday, Teyla may or may not have explicitly acknowledged feelings for John (though not to John himself); John, on the other hand, while he may have feelings for Teyla, certainly isn't acknowledging them to anyone else, and maybe not even to himself. And even if they're both aware of the other's feelings ... I can see John believing they have some sort of understanding, because he's all repression-don't-talk-about-it guy, but I can't see Teyla believing herself to be in a relationship (or pre-relationship, or having an "understanding") with someone unless they'd, y'know, actually talked about it. John never made his move, and even if she did have feelings for him and/or believed that he had feelings for her, I'm hardly going to fault a girl for not sitting around pining after someone emotionally unavailable instead of actually going out and trying to be happy.