Heh. I suspect we see a lot of the show differently, which, y'know, mileage varies. :)
I saw a lot of John/Teyla in the show, though not in Conversion; that ep is all about the body horror and loss of control, which I don't see either of them finding sexy. (In fact, the thing I really love about the John-Teyla dynamic is how full of respect and deliberate choices it is. They are kindred spirit control freaks who don't like to show their negative emotions to anyone! It is awesome.)
SGA had this weird habit of having characters kiss in ways that weren't kisses at all - mind control, bodyswapping, dubcon or noncon, etc. There were no consensual, sexy kisses! They were all creepy as hell.
I love the beginning episodes too; one of my favorite characters in the show is the city itself, and probably the most vivid image in my head from any episode in any season is the spires of Atlantis breaking the surface in Rising. There's that spirit of gleeful, terrified discovery in the early eps, the "holy shit! we're in an ancient alien city we don't understand!" feeling. I loved that.
I'm very fond of the genre of fic where contact with Earth was reestablished later, or not at all, creating more of an adapt-or-die situation for the expedition. That was a consistent problem with the writing on SGA, actually: awesome ideas with no follow-through. Which may be part of why it was so rich for fanfic.
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I saw a lot of John/Teyla in the show, though not in Conversion; that ep is all about the body horror and loss of control, which I don't see either of them finding sexy. (In fact, the thing I really love about the John-Teyla dynamic is how full of respect and deliberate choices it is. They are kindred spirit control freaks who don't like to show their negative emotions to anyone! It is awesome.)
SGA had this weird habit of having characters kiss in ways that weren't kisses at all - mind control, bodyswapping, dubcon or noncon, etc. There were no consensual, sexy kisses! They were all creepy as hell.
I love the beginning episodes too; one of my favorite characters in the show is the city itself, and probably the most vivid image in my head from any episode in any season is the spires of Atlantis breaking the surface in Rising. There's that spirit of gleeful, terrified discovery in the early eps, the "holy shit! we're in an ancient alien city we don't understand!" feeling. I loved that.
I'm very fond of the genre of fic where contact with Earth was reestablished later, or not at all, creating more of an adapt-or-die situation for the expedition. That was a consistent problem with the writing on SGA, actually: awesome ideas with no follow-through. Which may be part of why it was so rich for fanfic.