Elizabeth Weir/John Sheppard Appreciation/Ship/Discussion Thread

[Scary Kitty]

I wrote a fic for the sga_lfws tourney....it got second place for this round...it's not shippy but I'm excited to finally place in a round. you can find it here if you're interested (it's a team fic, prompt was man vs. nature)

Oooh, team whump!

Thanks homie for you story. Excellent one.

Hi everyone.

OT

Spoiler:

I saw my aunt today. She will have surgery on the 7th. Triple bypass.

*hugs Probie*

Spoiler:

Heart surgery is a scary prospect, but they're really good with it now. I'll be thinking of you and your family. *more hugs*

[drewandian]

*hugs probie* I'll keep you and your family in my prayers

[Probie]

Thanks!

Spoiler:

I'm optimist. I know she will be fine but the most painful is to see her devastated for the moment. She's the incarnation of "Joie de vivre". Always laughing. But now she doesn't want to talk. It's hard for her because it's not the first time she has a big health problem. The first time, she tooks it with humor. Now that she knows the name of her surgery, she's devastated. But we try to make her laugh and she starts to see things differently but it's complicated.

[Southern Red]

You guys,

I feel awfully sad and lonely. Does anyone have a spare hug for me?

(((big huge hugs)))

I wrote a fic for the sga_lfws tourney....it got second place for this round...it's not shippy but I'm excited to finally place in a round. you can find it here if you're interested (it's a team fic, prompt was man vs. nature)

*runs to read*

Thanks homie for you story. Excellent one.

Hi everyone.

OT

Spoiler:

I saw my aunt today. She will have surgery on the 7th. Triple bypass.

Prayers and hugs for you and your whole family.

[SMB_BOOKS]

*BIG MEGAGIHUGIC HUGS* to Probie, Anuna, and anyone else in the Sparky thread who needs one.

*HIGH-FIVES to SR for the awesome con squeeness that you are experiencing and to PK for that hilarious ficlet.

[nephtys59]

*huggles Anuna* what's up sweetie? need to talk?

*hugs*
And if you wanna chat, I'm on MSN as well

[Probie]

Why everyone is on MSN and I don't know it? Is there a parallel Sparky life?

Request: Is it possible to have a link of a fic when you see the past of Elizabeth as a negotiator?

[nephtys59]

Why everyone is on MSN and I don't know it? Is there a parallel Sparky life?

You just have to look to the left if there's a MSN small icon under every poster's avatar. I have mine
You're welcome to chat, if you like, everybody here's welcomed

[Short Angel]

*big hugs to Anuna and Probie*

[Scary Kitty]

Request: Is it possible to have a link of a fic when you see the past of Elizabeth as a negotiator?

Stay tuned, and I'll see what I can come up with!

[Probie]

Thank you SMB and Angel.

SK:YEAH! I hope you will find one.

[Scary Kitty]

Probie, I found a couple of fics that might fit your request... There doesn't seem to be much in the way of pre-Atlantis fic for Elizabeth. These two are AU, and both by the same author, melyanna, who has a real gift for political-oriented stories.

International Relations.
Summary: At the end of a diplomatic mission to the Balkans, a mechanical problem keeps Elizabeth Weir stuck at an American military base in Kosovo, where she meets an Air Force pilot by the name of John Sheppard.

The West Gate series.
AU crossover between Stargate and The West Wing. I recommend starting with the stories The Pacific Rim followed by Revelation, which flesh out a lot of Elizabeth's pre-Atlantis background.

Hope you enjoy them!

[Probie]

Thanks you SK.
Time to read.

[Scary Kitty]

Today's rerun on SyFy is Common Ground! Ooodles of Sparky!angst for us to feast on. And, of course, cursing Kolya, the rat b*st*rd.

[Scary Kitty]

I have an SS6 question: Before 'What Dreams May Come,' what does everyone else in Atlantis know about what happened to Elizabeth while she was a prisoner of the Replicators, and when are they going to know it? I'd kind of like for the command staff to have at least a basic idea of what happened to her before we get to WDMC.

In 'Primum Movens,' they're going to find Elizabeth in a secret location where she was hidden before Asuras went kaboom in BAMSR... could that location also hold information about what was done to her? Computers with files that Atlantis will need to decode before they can read them? McKay and Zelenka start breaking the codes on the files, and they turn out to be Oberoth's records of the experiments that were done on Elizabeth, using her nanites to create her duplicates, the mental connection between the duplicates and the original Elizabeth, etc.

We won't actually reveal any of that information to the audience until WDMC, we'll just show the team's reactions to the information. They're horrified and afraid to say anything to Elizabeth. Perhaps they're still working on decoding some files so they don't have a complete picture that they can give her. Kate could have concerns that Elizabeth may have blocked the memories because it was too traumatic, and that telling her instead of letting her remember on her own might damage Elizabeth's recovery. So there's some tension among Sheppard and the others that Elizabeth will start to pick up on, with her sensing that there's something they're not telling her, something bad. This would help feed the feelings of mistrust in the others that we want to have growing in her leading up to WDMC.

We're currently discussing 'Found in Translation,' and that's probably too early to have a mention of the files actually being cracked, though there might be a mention of McKay and Zelenka working on the files. I'd like for it to be closer to WDMC so that they're not keeping secrets from her for too long, but just long enough that they're starting to regret not saying something to Elizabeth right away. Maybe somewhere around Episodes 15-17?

Showrunners and fellow writers, what say you?