But what I like about the Teyla/Kanaan vs. Teyla/John dynamics is that they show us a lot more about Teyla herself and who she sees herself to be. Her life has been a balance between the ordinary and the conflictual: living peacefully vs. the chaos of culling, her people's agrarian ways vs. Atlantis' technology, and most importantly, her desire to be with her people and her desire to be doing something bigger.
I agree. Although I love JT as a couple, I love Teyla more. It confuses me that all I heard during the first 2 seasons of SGA was about how aloof and reserved Teyla was. Now we get to see the *woman* Teyla...not just *warrior* and *leader*, but a woman that has had to deal with a LOT of changes in a very short span of time and people don't like it. Fans screamed for a man in Teyla's life, maybe John would finally get it and now Teyla's being bashed for leading John on. *Sigh*
The divide between the two sides of her life is what the Teyla/Kanaan and Teyla/John relationships represent to me. And both of them give insight into the kind of woman Teyla is: one who wants to make a difference to the universe herself, but knows that she has a life reliant on her; one who enjoys being 'at rest', but who also yearns for a challenge; one who feels the weight of balancing a child against a dangerous career and being unwilling to sacrifice either herself for her child's needs or her child for her own needs.
Again, I agree. Being the mother of two it is a constant challenge between as the old commerical used to say,"bringing home the bacon and frying it up in the pan." You have to be so much to so many and it is difficult and sometimes with a sense of guilt that woman/mother's make a choice for *self*. Men don't face those choices, their choices have been set by society and their own natures. In a changing world it is not so for us. Teyla's world is definitely changing so I can understand were she is.
As for Kanaan, I liked getting a little more insight into him. I could see some of what Teyla saw in him. As for the physical aspects of their relationship, the closest he came was when he put both hands to her shoulder and told her to follow her heart. I would have thought a headtouch would have been a nice followup...so that can be telling. Also, maybe I'm making more out of this than I should, but when Kanaan was giving his prep talk, he said *your* son, NOT *our* son...again, too much out of too little? I will be interested to see how the ep the Prodigal plays out.
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I agree. Although I love JT as a couple, I love Teyla more. It confuses me that all I heard during the first 2 seasons of SGA was about how aloof and reserved Teyla was. Now we get to see the *woman* Teyla...not just *warrior* and *leader*, but a woman that has had to deal with a LOT of changes in a very short span of time and people don't like it. Fans screamed for a man in Teyla's life, maybe John would finally get it and now Teyla's being bashed for leading John on. *Sigh*
Again, I agree. Being the mother of two it is a constant challenge between as the old commerical used to say,"bringing home the bacon and frying it up in the pan." You have to be so much to so many and it is difficult and sometimes with a sense of guilt that woman/mother's make a choice for *self*. Men don't face those choices, their choices have been set by society and their own natures. In a changing world it is not so for us. Teyla's world is definitely changing so I can understand were she is.
As for Kanaan, I liked getting a little more insight into him. I could see some of what Teyla saw in him. As for the physical aspects of their relationship, the closest he came was when he put both hands to her shoulder and told her to follow her heart. I would have thought a headtouch would have been a nice followup...so that can be telling. Also, maybe I'm making more out of this than I should, but when Kanaan was giving his prep talk, he said *your* son, NOT *our* son...again, too much out of too little? I will be interested to see how the ep the Prodigal plays out.