Originally posted by Southern Red
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Will add that to the "shows to check out when I have time" list. Hulu has episodes ... Hopefully they will play at a somewhat decent rate on this picky laptop! Do you have to watch them in order though? Can I just hop on bored and get the basic gist of the episode without seeing others?
Originally posted by Scary Kitty
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TPTB never seemed interested in writing female/female relationships anyways. Yeah, we had Teyla/Kate in Kate's episodes, a bit of Elizabeth/Teyla in season 3 and one-shot relationships throughout (Teyla and the girl from Sunday), but nothing really consistent. When Laura was on the show, she was with the boys. Katie Brown only interacted with Rodney and Carson, IIRC. They seemed to try to build Teyla/Keller in "Missing" but it came off more as mentor-student than friend-friend.
In one way, I don't blame them. They're guys; they're probably less comfortable writing a female/female friendship with confidence, perhaps because they lack personal experience. Thus, we only get small glimpses -- it's no coincidence that the most neglected relationship in the main casts of Stargate is between the women. Close male-male friendships and female-male friendships (of the nonromantic sort, since we're not talking ship here) I enjoy, but you're seriously ignoring another class of relationships here guys, and it's obvious!
Wow, that was off-topic.
Originally posted by Scary Kitty
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And yes, nerds rule. I don't think there should be a problem with being "nerdy" by being into sci-fi, fantasy etc. It still carries a stigma though. Sad.
Originally posted by Scary Kitty
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Interesting that we can draw up connections between Sparky and other relationships in stories. Maybe they share some common element with Sparky in how they act toward each other or parallels in the stories.
Though, personally, I think out of many ships I've shipped Sparky is the one that has it all: an equal balance of angst, tension, joy, and friendship. (So, ironically, one of the things the show did get right was not something TPTB were aiming for. )
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