Hmm true enough, that's a good point, and I would agree if Sheppard was taken out of the interaction completely and it was just Thalen who was doing the manipulating...
However, that's all conjecture. The fact that the line was written in there to start with, meant that the writer had wanted to explore something with respect to Sheppard and Teyla. The fact it was explicitly "He cares more about you than you know" suggests that romance was being touched upon. The writer could have found other ways to explore S/T I'm sure (although I could be attributing more talent to him than he deserves to have). So, IMO, the mere presence of that line was S/T shippy in some way.
My main fear is that they'll do S/T like they did Sam and Jack, periods of drought with scenes that only the most dedicated S/T shipper can see anything in, followed by "bashed over the head" clunky S/T moments that will annoy/send into a coma non S/T fans. It would be far better if they just admitted defeat with the shippy thing and just got on with better stories. All in IMO of course.
Finally, I hate badly behaved shippers most of all, no matter who they ship for. I hate it when they get militant and call other shippers names, I hate it when they get militant and want to write to the PTB to push their ship, or they vilify an actor because he doesn't share their point of view, and I hate it when they just can't ship for their pairing and let others see what they want to see. It starts to put me off the show. Luckily, most shippers I know seem to be fairly sensible people, certainly all the ones on my flist are.
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However, that's all conjecture. The fact that the line was written in there to start with, meant that the writer had wanted to explore something with respect to Sheppard and Teyla. The fact it was explicitly "He cares more about you than you know" suggests that romance was being touched upon. The writer could have found other ways to explore S/T I'm sure (although I could be attributing more talent to him than he deserves to have). So, IMO, the mere presence of that line was S/T shippy in some way.
My main fear is that they'll do S/T like they did Sam and Jack, periods of drought with scenes that only the most dedicated S/T shipper can see anything in, followed by "bashed over the head" clunky S/T moments that will annoy/send into a coma non S/T fans. It would be far better if they just admitted defeat with the shippy thing and just got on with better stories. All in IMO of course.
Finally, I hate badly behaved shippers most of all, no matter who they ship for. I hate it when they get militant and call other shippers names, I hate it when they get militant and want to write to the PTB to push their ship, or they vilify an actor because he doesn't share their point of view, and I hate it when they just can't ship for their pairing and let others see what they want to see. It starts to put me off the show. Luckily, most shippers I know seem to be fairly sensible people, certainly all the ones on my flist are.