Character development

[xfkirsten]

You know I noticed today, watching "Home" that Shepphard seems to be fairly well off, possibly wealthy. His house very large and expensively furnished, he took Teyla shopping... I don't know if this was an intentional effort on the part of the writers but maybe its something they'll explore later on. It would be unusual for a wealthy person to joined the armed forces.

Ah, but I think that was the point - it wasn't his home - they did say he had an incredible ability to control and direct his own hallucinations, and Sheppard noted that home before Atlantis was Antartica. He just made that home up as a fantasy.

[gooner_diva]

You know I noticed today, watching "Home" that Shepphard seems to be fairly well off, possibly wealthy. His house very large and expensively furnished, he took Teyla shopping... I don't know if this was an intentional effort on the part of the writers but maybe its something they'll explore later on. It would be unusual for a wealthy person to joined the armed forces.

Er, no. The shopping, the bachelor pad and everything else that happened on "Earth" was an illusion. That's how Sheppard noticed something was wrong in the first place.

[gooner_diva]

Ah, but I think that was the point - it wasn't his home - they did say he had an incredible ability to control and direct his own hallucinations, and Sheppard noted that home before Atlantis was Antartica. He just made that home up as a fantasy.

LOL, you beat me to it.

[xfkirsten]

LOL, you beat me to it.

I'm just quick on the keyboard!

[MarshAngel]

Er, no. The shopping, the bachelor pad and everything else that happened on "Earth" was an illusion. That's how Sheppard noticed something was wrong in the first place.

An illusion that was based on reality as he knew it and remembered it. Just because the reality turned out to be false doesn't mean that everything in it was. Everything in the reality was taken from his memory, whether or not he controlled some of it or not I don't think he manufactured everything in it.

[gooner_diva]

An illusion that was based on reality as he knew it and remembered it. Just because the reality turned out to be false doesn't mean that everything in it was. Everything in the reality was taken from his memory, whether or not he controlled some of it or not I don't think he manufactured everything in it.

Maybe not everything but he made a specific comment on how he'd "dreamt about a bachelor pad like that" and that his "home for the past 11 months had been a research base in Antarctica".

[MarshAngel]

Maybe not everything but he made a specific comment on how he'd "dreamt about a bachelor pad like that" and that his "home for the past 11 months had been a research base in Antarctica".

oops... guess I missed that. That's what happens when you multitask.

[gooner_diva]

oops... guess I missed that. That's what happens when you multitask.

LOL, no problem.

[alfirin_kirinki]

An illusion that was based on reality as he knew it and remembered it. Just because the reality turned out to be false doesn't mean that everything in it was. Everything in the reality was taken from his memory, whether or not he controlled some of it or not I don't think he manufactured everything in it.

No no, he says that "home for the past eleven (?) months was a research base in Antarctica" but he adds that he did dream about a place just like it, though.

It's taken from the memory of a dream, not his true memory.