SGA Midway (metas on Teyla and Ronon+Teyla and child poll)

[mf_luder_xf]

Very first...Happy, Happy Birthday to let_fate_decide!!! Hope it's a great one.

Second firstly, I loved this ep. Like, individually, not the biggest fan of Ronon and Teal'c. Well, ok, I love Ronon. He's always got the perfect comment (or non comment) and John likes his big gunerr...gun. Teal'c though, I mean, I like him well enough, he's often quite

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[wneleh]

I've got a poll in my LJ that is pretty much orthogonal to yours. In life, I've always found that I've had more opportunities than I could handle; since having a child, it's been the logistics of caring for my children that have been the challenge, with people, in general, wanting me to turn the child off and put it somewhere so I could go back to doing all the stuff they think I should be doing.

So - I have definite ideas about how children should be reared. But I don't think any of these really map onto Teyla's life. I hope Teyla is an involved mom. I hope we see her breastfeed and co-sleep and wear her baby and all that good stuff. But, as one of the great hopes of humanity in her galaxy, maybe this really isn't what she should be doing.

Mostly, I just hope that TPTB don't ruin the show for me by how they handle mother!Teyla.

[mf_luder_xf]

Ok, so let me understand. You're saying most people have wanted or expected you to go back to how it all was before, correct? Sort of like John is intimating Teyla will.

And so has the difficulty for you been not wanting to do this, having to do, or not being able to afford (be it money or otherwise) daycare when you do want to go back to work?

I hope Teyla is an involved mom. I hope we see her breastfeed and co-sleep and wear her baby and all that good stuff. But, as one of the great hopes of humanity in her galaxy, maybe this really isn't what she should be doing.And now that. That raises an EXCELLENT question. There are so many fics that deal with members of Atlantis getting kids and managing to balance. But a bigger moral question is: should they have to? Say John decided to have a kid (not an accident, not forced on him). SHOULD he make that decision when he's Atlantis' military commander and one of the great hopes as well (IMO)? It comes down to the good/wants of one vs the good/need of the many. Could John in such

[wneleh]

You're saying most people have wanted or expected you to go back to how it all was before, correct? Sort of like John is intimating Teyla will.Well, not precisely. I had my first child at 31, 15 months after finishing up a doctorate from a well-known technical university (how's that for vague?) The expectation from faculty, my parents, and my peers was that I'd do a couple of postdocs, then land a teaching job - in fact, as a student a topic of conversation was how 'low' a school we'd settle for a job at

[fififolle]

Enjoyed your commentary, but it was worth popping over here just to see your History Boys header *loves*

=D

[mf_luder_xf]

Hee! Thank you. It was made by the lovely foxestacado. I just adore that movie to pieces.

[fififolle]

And in case you are interested (and in the right country?!), Russell Tovey is on BBC Three at 9pm tonight (23 minutes) in "Being Human"!

[mf_luder_xf]

Oh, thank you!! I only wish I was in the right country to catch that. Maybe it's something I'll have to find onlineat the video store...

[mf_luder_xf]

I hear about that a lot. And have never understood it. I mean, I do think a boss shouldn't have to hold a job for two years for the mother. It sucks, but that's business. However, two weeks is just ridiculous.

And now, you're right, I don't think John is being an ass. I too believe he's clueless. My problem is, as I said, that he doesn't seem to be listening. He loves Teyla, so he's worried about her. But he wants her back, too. So he's closing himself off to her comments that might allude to her not coming back. In a sense, he only has himself to blame. While I don't mean to suggest Teyla would disregard her child, I think until John made it a point to say she shouldn't have been out in the field while pregnant and about her worry of being the last of her people, she WAS planning on going right back on active duty. But his comments alerted a worry within her.

[mf_luder_xf]

I don't think John knows how to deal with Teyla. He's a guy and career military. Right or wrong, character flaw or not, it makes sense. Yeah, John knows that Teyla is female, but she's a soldier first. Her being pregnant is probably confusing for him.

Oh, I agree. I don't feel it's OOC at all. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

[bitter_crimson]

I'm pretty sure that yeah, the plural of "Wraith" is just "Wraith" again.

I prefer to just completely ignore the way John's been treating Teyla's pregnancy. But then, I ignore probably about half the crap the writers come up with in SGA. Heh. ^__^

I miss Elizabeth. *sniff* AND ALSO! I was sad that they had some other IOA guy in this and not Woolsey. Woolsey's still alive, right? I can never keep these things straight. Haha, anyway, I love him to death, pretty much only b/c he's played by Robert Picardo. XD XD

[mf_luder_xf]

See, I like Carter and Weir. So I didn't mind the change, though I do wish Torri had decided to come back next season. Ah, well.

And yes, Woolsey's alive. I take it you don't read spoilers?