I heard the news and hate to say, " I should of saw it coming", but I've been in denial. It would seem Scifi's run time for original series is 5 years. They picked up SG-1 in it's 5th year if I'm correct to cancel it within 5 years w/their network. I was never into SG-1, like I am into SGA, but I'm getting there.
Farscape was my first real jump into fandom and where I learned what *shipping* means. I was nuts over John & Aeryn. Read all the fanfic and watched all the vids I could see! I even jumped on the save Farscape bandwagon and was the first to order PKwars. It was SciFi Fridays Farscape w/the gates that I was introduced to SGA. I was really interested in watching at first since I had not gotten into SG-1, but watched a rerun of Rising 1. I saw Teyla and fell in love with the character, then when John put that necklace on her I knew I had found my new *ship*. When FS folded I was already knee deep into SGA.
However, unlike FS I didn't stop at reading fanfic and watching vids, I became a participant. This couple inspired me...Teyla inspired me. Granted I was and can never be the writer that you, GS, PC, Wedq & AH are, or the vidder that LC is...but the lot of you made me want to be a part of that bigger picture, to be an *active* fan!
As a woman of color Rachel's protrayal of Teyla was special in that she made Teyla a woman that was strong without being loud or showy. Physical, but with grace. Spiritual and the voice of reason in a world that had so little. Like many in fandom I would have liked to see Teyla explored more fully. S5 had promise of doing so, I was hoping S6 would do more...again denial is my friend *G* Teyla was one of the few strong female characters of color that really stood out for me. Zoe of Firefly was another strong female of color that was also under used and had so much potential.
I would also liked to have seen John explored more fully other than seeing him as the *hero*, it would have been good to learn more about the *man*.
Issues surrounding the JT ship are many. Can SciFi protray main characters as a couple without making it come across as a *soap*?? I say YES. FS was an example many cite, but then again there was no question of whether J/A where cannon. The controversy of the *ship* of cannon was something that literally SHOCKED me. I had never heard of ship wars until this fandom. Granted as I meantioned I was only really involved in the one and was never actively involved as I was/am with SGA, but if FS had one I was never aware. In any case, J/A relationship even in its height was never really over the top. It also good to note, that SciFi had all but granted a go on S5 when they pulled the plug in S4 leaving the fans hanging. Didn't I say that already??
Moving on, an example I like to point to is the romance and marriage of John Sheridan & Delenn of Babylon 5. Here was a couple that was strong, connected on many levels but the relationship was not such that it gave the show a soap opera feel (like BSG does for me). I think TPTB could have learned a lot from B5 in this respect and some of the back and forth over what's cannon and the ship or not to crap, or the could've, should've, would've avoided.
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Farscape was my first real jump into fandom and where I learned what *shipping* means. I was nuts over John & Aeryn. Read all the fanfic and watched all the vids I could see! I even jumped on the save Farscape bandwagon and was the first to order PKwars. It was SciFi Fridays Farscape w/the gates that I was introduced to SGA. I was really interested in watching at first since I had not gotten into SG-1, but watched a rerun of Rising 1. I saw Teyla and fell in love with the character, then when John put that necklace on her I knew I had found my new *ship*. When FS folded I was already knee deep into SGA.
However, unlike FS I didn't stop at reading fanfic and watching vids, I became a participant. This couple inspired me...Teyla inspired me. Granted I was and can never be the writer that you, GS, PC, Wedq & AH are, or the vidder that LC is...but the lot of you made me want to be a part of that bigger picture, to be an *active* fan!
As a woman of color Rachel's protrayal of Teyla was special in that she made Teyla a woman that was strong without being loud or showy. Physical, but with grace. Spiritual and the voice of reason in a world that had so little. Like many in fandom I would have liked to see Teyla explored more fully. S5 had promise of doing so, I was hoping S6 would do more...again denial is my friend *G* Teyla was one of the few strong female characters of color that really stood out for me. Zoe of Firefly was another strong female of color that was also under used and had so much potential.
I would also liked to have seen John explored more fully other than seeing him as the *hero*, it would have been good to learn more about the *man*.
Issues surrounding the JT ship are many. Can SciFi protray main characters as a couple without making it come across as a *soap*?? I say YES. FS was an example many cite, but then again there was no question of whether J/A where cannon. The controversy of the *ship* of cannon was something that literally SHOCKED me. I had never heard of ship wars until this fandom. Granted as I meantioned I was only really involved in the one and was never actively involved as I was/am with SGA, but if FS had one I was never aware. In any case, J/A relationship even in its height was never really over the top. It also good to note, that SciFi had all but granted a go on S5 when they pulled the plug in S4 leaving the fans hanging. Didn't I say that already??
Moving on, an example I like to point to is the romance and marriage of John Sheridan & Delenn of Babylon 5. Here was a couple that was strong, connected on many levels but the relationship was not such that it gave the show a soap opera feel (like BSG does for me). I think TPTB could have learned a lot from B5 in this respect and some of the back and forth over what's cannon and the ship or not to crap, or the could've, should've, would've avoided.
JMO...but you asked.