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Is there a single scene in Season Five of SGA after the first episode that suggests that anyone other than Ronon feels friendship or affection or care for Teyla?
I think the thing that bothered me most about Prodigal was that neither John nor Rodney seemed to particularly care that Teyla was at her wits end with her son in the opening scene. In the closing scene, they just carry on with their play without more than a comment to her. She and her son and what she's just done don't matter, they're playing! That's important!
In the same way, it bothers me that in Enemy At The Gates, they talk a lot about being a team, and people are all "oh, it was a nice team episode" but the actual signs of them being a team - the things that make a team or a family - were completely absent.
I think that's the thing that frustrates me about TPTB and fandom - the hypocrisy of talking about "the team" when Teyla was emotionally excised from the show - present in body, but not one character seemed to care if she was there or not.
I don't imagine this bothers anyone other than me and the handful of fans of Teyla in this fandom. But it's disturbing me a lot - as much because it says some very negative things about the characters of John, Rodney, Carson, Keller, and Woolsey, as well as the fans who simply don't see the issue, as because Teyla was not only functionally ignored but also emotionally ignored.
At least in Season Four, other characters showed concern over her state. But once she had the child, nobody - character, PTB, or fan - gave a shit about whether she was there or not.
And this is why I'm trying not to think about the show.
I think the thing that bothered me most about Prodigal was that neither John nor Rodney seemed to particularly care that Teyla was at her wits end with her son in the opening scene. In the closing scene, they just carry on with their play without more than a comment to her. She and her son and what she's just done don't matter, they're playing! That's important!
In the same way, it bothers me that in Enemy At The Gates, they talk a lot about being a team, and people are all "oh, it was a nice team episode" but the actual signs of them being a team - the things that make a team or a family - were completely absent.
I think that's the thing that frustrates me about TPTB and fandom - the hypocrisy of talking about "the team" when Teyla was emotionally excised from the show - present in body, but not one character seemed to care if she was there or not.
I don't imagine this bothers anyone other than me and the handful of fans of Teyla in this fandom. But it's disturbing me a lot - as much because it says some very negative things about the characters of John, Rodney, Carson, Keller, and Woolsey, as well as the fans who simply don't see the issue, as because Teyla was not only functionally ignored but also emotionally ignored.
At least in Season Four, other characters showed concern over her state. But once she had the child, nobody - character, PTB, or fan - gave a shit about whether she was there or not.
And this is why I'm trying not to think about the show.
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