Well, IMO, the PTB are incompetant when it comes to ship, so either intentionally or not, they have a real mix of relationship type stuff going on in Atlantis, which leads to sniping and ship wars.
How people play in fandom? Well it puts me off 'shipping just about anyone in Atlantis sadly and I find myself not really caring that much these days who Sheppard ends up with. I've come to the conclusion that the character of Sheppard is bordering on the puerile these days with little in the way of emotional maturity (hence the repeated Kirking), so I don't think he deserves either Weir or Teyla. I find I only like Sheppard with Weir in well-written fanfic when the character is given more maturity. On the show, I'm afraid it does look one-sided Weir which pisses me off because I think it does her character no favours at all. To me, on the show, Sheppard and Teyla hardly look interested in each other at all, and I find myself thinking that of course he'd find her attractive, she's very lovely (both Weir and Teyla are lovely in my opinion), so that's a given, however, I don't see anything past that at all. My fear is that PTB will treat S/T like Sam and Jack. Periods of looong drought, with scenes only the most adamant shippers can see, punctuated with the occasional "shippy moment". Which isn't going to convince me and a host of other folks.
I like to see different points of view (there's an interesting conversation going on below about Teyla which is a view I hadnt really considered before). Unfortunately, doing that I've had to read some really terrible things (particularly) said about Weir and Ronon by some S/T shippers (calling Weir "The Old Lady" repeatedly is a common one) where as the worst I've read for Teyla on "the other side" is that her clothes should cover her up and she should play less to the male demographic. This isn't about labelling particular fans it's just about observation, and my observations at that it has to be said.
To go back to your original post - I cannot for the life of me see, how if the Sheppard/Liz kiss was totally under alien influence and therefore not them, how the comment to Teyla could be construed as being different. Both are under alien influence, both are ambigious, both could be construed as being shippy. I think you'd find that most S/W fans were pleased they got a kiss between the two characters (whoever they were) so it could be used on artwork/on icons and stuff.
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How people play in fandom? Well it puts me off 'shipping just about anyone in Atlantis sadly and I find myself not really caring that much these days who Sheppard ends up with. I've come to the conclusion that the character of Sheppard is bordering on the puerile these days with little in the way of emotional maturity (hence the repeated Kirking), so I don't think he deserves either Weir or Teyla. I find I only like Sheppard with Weir in well-written fanfic when the character is given more maturity. On the show, I'm afraid it does look one-sided Weir which pisses me off because I think it does her character no favours at all. To me, on the show, Sheppard and Teyla hardly look interested in each other at all, and I find myself thinking that of course he'd find her attractive, she's very lovely (both Weir and Teyla are lovely in my opinion), so that's a given, however, I don't see anything past that at all. My fear is that PTB will treat S/T like Sam and Jack. Periods of looong drought, with scenes only the most adamant shippers can see, punctuated with the occasional "shippy moment". Which isn't going to convince me and a host of other folks.
I like to see different points of view (there's an interesting conversation going on below about Teyla which is a view I hadnt really considered before). Unfortunately, doing that I've had to read some really terrible things (particularly) said about Weir and Ronon by some S/T shippers (calling Weir "The Old Lady" repeatedly is a common one) where as the worst I've read for Teyla on "the other side" is that her clothes should cover her up and she should play less to the male demographic. This isn't about labelling particular fans it's just about observation, and my observations at that it has to be said.
To go back to your original post - I cannot for the life of me see, how if the Sheppard/Liz kiss was totally under alien influence and therefore not them, how the comment to Teyla could be construed as being different. Both are under alien influence, both are ambigious, both could be construed as being shippy. I think you'd find that most S/W fans were pleased they got a kiss between the two characters (whoever they were) so it could be used on artwork/on icons and stuff.
Sorry this ended up a bit longer than I meant.