John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan Appreciation/Ship/Discussion Thread

[Spectrum]

So wow, can't believe the final Atlantis eppy airs 2nite for all you lot in the US. Here in the UK, it airs on Tuesday.

I feel sad already. I feel like I'm losing a best friend with the end of this show.

I can't believe it either! I'll miss my Atlantis.

[Rockhound]

Nope not just you, I'm very confused!



Thanks hun!


So wow, can't believe the final Atlantis eppy airs 2nite for all you lot in the US. Here in the UK, it airs on Tuesday.

I feel sad already. I feel like I'm losing a best friend with the end of this show.

I know. To me, it feels like a friend is dying. I just really can't believe that they did this to us. I just don't know what I'll watch now since Atlantis was my favorite show and I really don't watch much else except SG1 reruns. I have to go out tonight so I'll watch it on DVR later.

..wiping tears off keyboard..

[CazzBlade]

Spec! Good to see ya

[Spectrum]

Spec! Good to see ya

You too! It's good to be back in my JT home.

[Princess Awinita]

LINDA!! Why am I not on your fave autothrs list on ff.net dear?!

Also... ~~OT

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Just freaking great, where I have half a dozen fanfics to try and finish before the month is out and BAM my mind is hit with a Rush Hour three fanfic, fully AU and such though, but also totally funny. Why me?!?! My mind is not very stable me thinks.... *shifts to Yip Yip form and floats about the thread muttering in Yipinese about her mind being unstable*

[CazzBlade]

GW is back up 2:15am

EatG

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Awesome!!!

I'll be back with something more productive after sleep

[planet_tv]

So Far in Ememy at the Gate:

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Teyla and Ronan have been it and no Keller but I know Keller will be in it from the pictures Gateworld has. The Apollo has been damaged and Gen. O'Neill wants Shepopard in the Wepaons platform on Earth. Beckett is flying Atlantis to Earth.

[planet_tv]

Some more of Ememy at the Gate:

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There is no longer a weapons platform as it was destroyed. Ronan is out on the Hive Ship, which has a stargate, but Teyla and McKay think he is dead. Sheppard is on the Hive Ship ready to talk it out but McKay and the others now know he is there. A wraith just saved Ronan's life and right now Atalntis just made it to Earth.

[Everlovin]

So, I took some ideas you guys were throwing out a few weeks ago about Inquisition and how it could have been better. Anyway, I ficced.

Inquisition Tag -

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Inquisition Tag

Disclaimer - I don’t own SGA. Teyla and Ronon would be getting a lot more screen time if I did.

Spoilers - Inquisition (512), Sateda (304), Rising (101, 102), Missing (407), Kindred 1 (420), The Seed (502). That’s all I can think of.

A/N - I’m just trying to fill in one of the many places tptb fell short. Especially during season 5. As a refresher, Shiana - council member who was definitely going to vote guilty; Dimas - was willing to listen to reason; Kelore - was the one Woolsey talked into voting for the Lanteans. I got the names of the council members off the Gateworld transcripts. They’re great over there.


“You know, the wraith were out there culling and devastating cultures before we even got here. We’ve heard stories about that happening everywhere we go. It’s not as if they were all asleep and letting the galaxy repopulate itself.” John was looking for a way, any way to make the council see reason.

“Of what do you speak?” Dimas asked.

“Well for instance, one of my teammates is from a planet called Sateda. Ten years ago, the wraith came and culled his planet. Look, it’s not my story to tell. And really, I don’t know all of it. But you could ask him,” John promised.

John stumbled back into their holding cell. “Well, that went well.”

“What is happening up there?” Teyla asked.

“Oh, they’re putting us on trial. Apparently, Atlantis is responsible for all of the woes in the galaxy.” John was disgusted with the whole process. There were times he didn’t know why he bothered to risk his ass for the people of this galaxy.

“That is not true, John. Things are difficult out there. More so than ever before. But there is hope now when there was none before.”

“Yeah, well, I’d like Ronon to come with me one of these times we’re called up there. Testify about what happened on Sateda and your years running And now that I’m thinking if it, it’d be a good idea to tell your story too, Teyla.”

Ronon merely grunted at that. Teyla nodded.

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Woolsey was shoved back into the cell. “Ronon. Teyla. I think the time has come for your testimony. I miscalculated one of the members of the council in there.”

“Shiana. Yeah, she’ll twist anything so it’s our fault.” John absently mentioned.

“Yes, well. I think that while she may not be move by my story of loss. Or yours. She might be moved by Ronon’s. And Teyla’s story.”

Teyla spoke up. “What did you tell her of your loss?”

“Well the question of the replicators came up. I mentioned how we lost Dr. Weir. She gave an impassioned speech of how there are people who have witnessed the deaths of thousands because of the replicators. How she saw her village, her husband and children murdered.”

“I can see why you need us to talk,” Ronon rumbled.

“I think they want me in there at least one more time. They did mention other charges. I think that will be when best to present our side of the story and not to simply answer their ‘charges.’”

“We will be ready.” Teyla assured him.

The trio entered the court room with a surface assurance. “Before we get started, I would like for two of the people you have accused to tell their stories. I believe that you might hear echoes of what you have gone through,” Woolsey opened.

Ronon straightened. “I’m from a planet called Sateda. Many of you might know of it. We traded with many planets. We were a proud society of millions of people. There were great cities, academies of learning, arts, and more. It was because of this that we caught the attention of the wraith.”

“I was a simple soldier. A good one, but still. My wife was a doctor. We had warning that the wraith were coming. The chieftain was on the daily announcements with rhetoric about how Sateda had to fight. If we just stood up to the wraith, they would deem us too big a hassle and leave us alone. The taskmasters all knew that we stood no chance. It was merely rhetoric so the people wouldn’t be so hopeless.”

“I got my wife a place on my taskmaster’s staff so she could evacuate off world. I underestimated, in my fear, how much she wanted to stay and help.”

Ronon swollowed. Where before, he was looking at his memories, he raised his eyes and looked at each council member. “My unit died in the first wave. I went to find Melena at the hospital. Try one last time to get her off world to safety. There were people in the halls. Walking wounded everywhere. I found her in a children’s ward. Fighting to save the children. I was ready to drag her to the Ring of the Ancestors. She pled for a little girl’s life. And another’s. She wouldn’t leave them. I saw the explosion that took her life and the lives of those children.”

“The wraith captured me. Kept me in one of their cocoons. When it finally came to feed on me, a small part of me was looking forward to death. I’d be with Melena again. But the wraith stopped feeding on me. I still don’t know why. Planted a tracking device in my back and turned me into a runner.”

“For the next seven years I ran. I tried not to stay in any one place for more than a few hours. Once, I was sick. The people of a village helped me out. Gave me shelter for a night. The next day, the wraith came and decimated the village. I never let that happen again.”

“Finally, I was on an uninhabited planet and came across Sheppard and Teyla. It was them and the other Lanteans who let me stop running. Who gave me a home. Who have helped me in my mission to kill every wraith that stink up the galaxy.”

Today, there are about three hundred of my people left. They have become refugees, when once we took them in.”

“So yes, I know your pain. I know your anger and your desire to blame somebody. Anybody and make them pay. But the Lanteans have the best means to be out from under the thumb of the wraith.”

Teyla stepped forward. “I am Teyla Emmagan. Leader of the Athosians. We have the privilege of being the first people the Lanteans met in this galaxy. On that occasion, Colonel Sheppard unknowingly activated a piece of technology that caught the interest of the wraith. They came as was described to you before. The Lanteans, however, rescued us. They gave the Athosians hope that people can escape the wraith. They then gave my people safe harbor from the wraith.”

“Then a year ago, Michael came to our home on New Athos. He took all of my people intending to perform his experiments on them. He held them captive for almost a year. He changed many of them. Made them so they were uncaring of who they once were. They tortured their own friends and family.”

“Through it all, the Lanteans helped me search for them. They continued to encourage me. They gave me resources to search for them. It was through their efforts that my people are again restored to their homes and their former selves. Among them, the father of my child.”

“These people have offered hope to many people in this galaxy. Where before, we were little more than cattle to the wraith, we now have the ability to fight the wraith. To end the threat to our children and their children. Are we so afraid for ourselves that we would leave this problem to our children’s children? I would prefer to fight now to save them later.”

The council sat back. Shiana was silent was silent for once. Dimas and Kelore were thoughtful. It was Dimas who broke the silence. “You have given us much to think about. We will take a break from these proceedings to ponder them. We will expect Mr. Woolsey back to answer the final charge in one hour.” And with that, the council members rose and left the room.

Back in the cell, Woolsey turned to Teyla. “Thank you. Your testimony may have made a difference. You, Specialist Dex were surprisingly eloquent. For someone who is usually so laconic, I never knew you had it in you.”

[Mayra]

Well guys, the finale tonight. A bittersweet ending to this show and it's just hitting me now that it wont be here next season. But also i'm sad and angry that it had to end this way. Lets just say, the ending wasn't bad, but since it was the last episode ever!...they so could have added so much more

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team moments. And wow, hardly any JT at all. Talk about pulling of the bandaid quick!. Ah well, i'd say lets hope for the movies but something tells me i better not hold my breath on that one lol.

One good thing came out of all this though, i got to meet such great and wonderful people like yourselves, for that i'm truly happy .

[WitchBlade007]

EatG:

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After watching it tonight, I think I've finally come to terms with it being over. I had watched the pre-air releases, but tonight it really had that finality to it. I'm even a little bit still hopeful for Sheppard and Teyla. Even thought we didn't have any quality scenes, I reverted to wearing my shippy glasses, during one or two moments when they glanced each others way.
I still wished they could have extended this into the last two episodes, as I really would have liked to seen more development.

[WitchBlade007]

Well guys, the finale tonight. A bittersweet ending to this show and it's just hitting me now that it wont be here next season. But also i'm sad and angry that it had to end this way. Lets just say, the ending wasn't bad, but since it was the last episode ever!...they so could have added so much more

Spoiler:

team moments. And wow, hardly any JT at all. Talk about pulling of the bandaid quick!. Ah well, i'd say lets hope for the movies but something tells me i better not hold my breath on that one lol.

One good thing came out of all this though, i got to meet such great and wonderful people like yourselves, for that i'm truly happy .

I AGREE!!!..

Though I think that had been a problem throughout the season. It really deserved a season or two I think to really tell the story of Atlantis (team and city) and PG.

There's always fanfic.......TPTB can't destroy that for us...

[bluealien]

I AGREE!!!..

Though I think that had been a problem throughout the season. It really deserved a season or two I think to really tell the story of Atlantis (team and city) and PG.

There's always fanfic.......TPTB can't destroy that for us...

Eatg..

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The pic on the balcony just summed up the season.. no team feel whatsover and it just hightlighted how fragmented the team have become... season 5 was all about McKays love and the final scene even had to give a nod to that.. but nothing to a team who had been together for 5 years....

Eatg felt like a bunch of random folks thrown together to save the day and no friendship or warm moments between any of them.. at times it just felt sterile and robotic.

Eatg is so chocker block full of action that I found it entertaining on my first viewing several weeks ago but I get more disappointed with it the more I watch it... so many glaring plot holes don't help and really all it boiled down to was 45 minutes of crammed action with no character moments at all.

Too many plot devices like Carson flying the city.. since when did he accquire such piloting skills.. sigh !! Atlantis landing in the ocean near SFO bay would have caused a tsunami and nobody even notices... but I could have overlooked these glaring plot holes if the episode had done justice to every character and given all of them a good send off and not just hightlight McKay and Keller constantly..

.. the ptb keep saying they didn't know the show was ending and couldn't change things.. but if this was the case why were they so intent of giving Rodney his happy ever after.... I'm convinced they knew all about the cancellation long before the announcement.. they wanted their new show to start and that meant the ending of SGA so they could have least given each character the screentime and attention they gave to McKay... but instead we got subjected to a season full of McKeller and a finale that didn't do justice to the characters we have come to know and love.

It should have been a two parter instead of having BS crammed down our throats.... Eatg was crammed with action but it lacked any heart or soul, but alas that was what the writers had turned most of season 5 into anyway..

[CazzBlade]

EatG

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I loved it!! Really did I don't think we could have asked for a better series finale after this season (other than getting some JT but the chances of that were slim to none ). It took to the final ep of the series for them to remember how integral Shep is to everything! I loved the scene in Woolsey's office when he talks to Ronon and Teyla (btw, was Kanaan on Atlantis of or with the Athosians?? hmm... Also love the bit at the end where Shep talks to Ronon and Ronon says he is home, nice throw back to earlier in the season

And when they think Ronon is dead Both Teyla and Shep... *sniff*

I think them ending up back on earth was a fabulous idea, kind of rounds things off, it really felt like a worthy ending to me But what are they going to do for the movie?? Will it be in the Milky Way or will they go back to Pegasus??

[YappiChick]

EatG

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I loved it!! Really did I don't think we could have asked for a better series finale after this season (other than getting some JT but the chances of that were slim to none ). It took to the final ep of the series for them to remember how integral Shep is to everything! I loved the scene in Woolsey's office when he talks to Ronon and Teyla (btw, was Kanaan on Atlantis of or with the Athosians?? hmm... Also love the bit at the end where Shep talks to Ronon and Ronon says he is home, nice throw back to earlier in the season

And when they think Ronon is dead Both Teyla and Shep... *sniff*

I think them ending up back on earth was a fabulous idea, kind of rounds things off, it really felt like a worthy ending to me But what are they going to do for the movie?? Will it be in the Milky Way or will they go back to Pegasus??

I think...

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Kanaan and Torren are with the Athosians. Or else, I would at leats picture Torren in the last scene. I already have a fic rolling around in my head from Teyla's POV, but you know I write slower than cold molasses.

It was great for a season five episode. I enjoyed it just fine. I loved the Woolsey/Teyla/Ronon scene and Teyla's reaction to Ronon's "death". And as always, Todd is awesome. But I can't remember, with him being healed, does that mean he does or doesn't have to feed?

It would have been great for a two parter finale. (I would have loved to see more Carson and Lorne, but oh well. And a goodbye scene with Teyla and Torren would have been nice. Shoot, CH could have respised his role as Halling if they couldn't get the same actor who played Kanaan back.)

And yes, no more plausible deniability when it comes to aliens. ROFL