I (re)trained in the coffee shop today.
But that's not important. What is important is...
The cafe manager, who is a huge geek in our store the geeks gravitate towards the coffee side instead of books (CONFUSING), was talking about scifi shows with me. Neither of us has seen the entirety of SGA season 5, but he brought up one episode from that season that had puzzled him because it involved an alternate universe in which Sheppard was possibly gay and hinted at Sheppard possibly being gay in the original universe, too? And he was all, confused-face, where-did-that-come-from? I was more like *dies*.
I did not laugh, and I want points for that, okay? Though I did say that I had actually encountered that interpretation of Sheppard before, yes.
I've even seen it presented in a (fictionally) scholarly fashion as in this excerpt from Cesperanza's Written by the Victors.
According to General Carl Wesker, the Air Force had long suspected Sheppard of homosexual proclivities, but hadn't been able to prove anything. As Wesker explained:
"He fit the profile: unsuccessful marriage, low-key personality, a loner. But if he was doing anything, he was discreet about it. It would have been an easy way to get rid of him, but there was never any evidence; Sheppard got himself into plenty of trouble, but never about that. People we asked-his friends, commanding officers-seemed to think he was more asexual than anything else. So if he had those tendencies, he had them pretty well buckled up."
It is worth noting that in the years since the Uprising made John Sheppard's name famous, no one has come forward to claim any prior association with him, sexual or otherwise. This may be due to the highly secretive nature of military culture, or it may be an indication of exactly how solitary a personality John Sheppard was.
-Mark Leredo, The Atlantis Uprising, p. 78
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The cafe manager, who is a huge geek in our store the geeks gravitate towards the coffee side instead of books (CONFUSING), was talking about scifi shows with me. Neither of us has seen the entirety of SGA season 5, but he brought up one episode from that season that had puzzled him because it involved an alternate universe in which Sheppard was possibly gay and hinted at Sheppard possibly being gay in the original universe, too? And he was all, confused-face, where-did-that-come-from? I was more like *dies*.
I did not laugh, and I want points for that, okay? Though I did say that I had actually encountered that interpretation of Sheppard before, yes.
I've even seen it presented in a (fictionally) scholarly fashion as in this excerpt from Cesperanza's Written by the Victors.
According to General Carl Wesker, the Air Force had long suspected Sheppard of homosexual proclivities, but hadn't been able to prove anything. As Wesker explained:
"He fit the profile: unsuccessful marriage, low-key personality, a loner. But if he was doing anything, he was discreet about it. It would have been an easy way to get rid of him, but there was never any evidence; Sheppard got himself into plenty of trouble, but never about that. People we asked-his friends, commanding officers-seemed to think he was more asexual than anything else. So if he had those tendencies, he had them pretty well buckled up."
It is worth noting that in the years since the Uprising made John Sheppard's name famous, no one has come forward to claim any prior association with him, sexual or otherwise. This may be due to the highly secretive nature of military culture, or it may be an indication of exactly how solitary a personality John Sheppard was.
-Mark Leredo, The Atlantis Uprising, p. 78
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comments.