They need a nice Fordy episode. He's cute, he's pretty, his arms are nice, I like it when gets snippy. He doesn't echo the sound of vacuum the way Teyla does -- just seems underused.

But my love for Sheppard is huge and terrible. Damn.

And I love that he's no Jack. Surface similarities, but no Jack. Still nummy, even if he can't be my #1 TV boyfriend.

But it's so weird (and an odd sort of betrayal from SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW) to be bopping along totally in the groove, and lo! She doesn't hate on Teyla when it's the only right thinking thing to do.

This is how I felt after discovering that Yahtzee had glowingly recommended an Angel/Cordelia fic as one of her favorites. It's a real "Whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis?" moment.

Underused for sure. My suspicions about why that is--still settling in to the whole acting thing, hasn't had The Chemistry with the others much--ring hollow when I think too long about it though, because, hello Teyla. Well, halfway into the first season. Tweaking a-plenty ahead, I'm sure.

Sheppard is surprisingly endearing. I say surprisingly, because my first read on him was that he might end up playing too self-satisfied, smarmy for me. Or that they were going for Jack, Jr.

I was wrong. I can admit it.

She sees Sheppard/Weir.

I kind of see it. It wasn't glaringly obvious or anything, but they had interesting power dynamic in "Hot Zone" that made me go, ooooh, that could be mined for fic in cool ways. I certainly find Shep/Weir a lot more viable & interesting than Shep/Teyla, which is sort of the officially sanctioned UST pairing.

This is how I felt after discovering that Yahtzee had glowingly recommended an Angel/Cordelia fic as one of her favorites.

Well, Yahtzee *wrote* several A/C fic, so no, that wasn't much of a surprise. I find reading her LJ fascinating, because while she's hella funny and smart and writes like a dream, her take on a given character/episode, etc. is often radically different from mine.

Shep/Teyla? Oh, GOD. But that's my standard Teyla response.

As for Shep/Weird -- I was kinda refreshed to read no unplatonic chemistry in Hot Zone. It was just like they were arguing. Respect, intense disagreement, and unresolved conflict. It was kinda like real life. Maybe it's because their differences seemed like they could have major impact, whereas bickering seems much more shippy.

Well, halfway into the first season.

My standards are too high. I look at Firefly and think, halfway through the first season, we had a solid handle on every single character, and if we didn't know all their backstories, we at least knew pretty well how they would react under most circumstances. We also knew what they all sounded like and how they differed from one another.

SG: Atlantis? NSM. We know Weir, Sheppard, and McKay. The rest are pretty much blank slates.

I think we know Teyla too, as well as we're going to get to.

I didn't like the first half of the Atlantis season. They were just a dumb bunch of clucks running around space. I'm really liking this half, though -- sure, I don't love episode 15, but eh.

They're damned lucky they spun off SG1, and are on the Sci Fi channel. Those are the only reasons I still watched.

My standards are too high. I look at Firefly

Well, yeah. But my expectations of Atlantis are so not anywhere near what my expectations were for Firefly. Have you no zen to spare for Aquarium?

They're damned lucky they spun off SG1

Sure. Though, I will say, I think they've got some gems in terms of characters and chemistry. That's been enough to keep me watching (might not have ever started had there never been an SG-1, but then there never would've been an Aquarium. So.) And, of course, if the second half is getting better story-wise (have I mentioned that I can't watch it yet? Yes? Sorry.), then yay.

Have you no zen to spare for Aquarium?

Hee. Oh, some, in the sense where I don't much care about them, and I'm only watching to keep up here and with my flist. My flist is all squee squee McShep, Rodney the Woobie, yada yada. t yawn

I just don't share the enthusiasm, really. If it ended tomorrow I'd be... t examines self carefully nah, I really wouldn't care much. I mean, Sheppard's kinda cute, and Weir is growing on me, and McKay and the Czech scientist are fun, but... t shrugs Of course I wouldn't be too upset if SG-1 were cancelled, either, because it had a good run and I'm worried about S9.

Rodney the Woobie

Yech.

Yeah, it's... well, I do like SG-1, and I figured Atlantis would be like methadone when S8 was over. Only, S9? Huh. Even though I don't know the what and wherefore, I do worry. I suppose there's always the option to just quit watching, only I know I won't.