I think it makes a difference if SGA is your first fandom or not, and how much of a fannish jumper you are. Also, just how attached you are to the canon. The Teyla-fans mostly drifted out during S2 and S3 leaving her to people whose first interest is Elizabeth or McShep.
If we'd met a year earlier, you probably could have convinced me into being the big time producer of J/T stuff you wish someone (besides you) was.
D:
They aren't into Teyla, they're into using her as a stand-in for themselves.
Exactly my problem with a lot of people writing Teyla or John/Teyla stories. The focus tends to be less on Teyla and more of the other characters in the story, all of whom are considered more important than she.
Which, I suppose, is what one would expect considering the way TPTB have treated her.
The irony comes when fans complain that Teyla is mistreated by TPTB and then go on to treat her in exactly the same way in their own stories.
I've read a few of those - some that pretty much involved Teyla being there all through the story, but didn't have her doing anything.
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If we'd met a year earlier, you probably could have convinced me into being the big time producer of J/T stuff you wish someone (besides you) was.
D:
They aren't into Teyla, they're into using her as a stand-in for themselves.
Exactly my problem with a lot of people writing Teyla or John/Teyla stories. The focus tends to be less on Teyla and more of the other characters in the story, all of whom are considered more important than she.
Which, I suppose, is what one would expect considering the way TPTB have treated her.
The irony comes when fans complain that Teyla is mistreated by TPTB and then go on to treat her in exactly the same way in their own stories.
I've read a few of those - some that pretty much involved Teyla being there all through the story, but didn't have her doing anything.