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#LOVE these opening shots #sga #atlantis

#oof....this scene #mckay's 'people I may never see again'..... he misses his team!! :((#and Sheppard deflecting with a cheeky 'me?' in the 4th gif bc he can tell what Rodney is leading up to #and he's in no way ready to talk about missing Teyla and Ronon #just. sometimes I think about verbal processor Rodney in this bit of the episode. desperately needing to talk to someone who /gets/ it #and Sheppard desperately needing to Not talk about it #because talking about it makes it real and permanent and like something he might not recover from #sga #rodney mckay #john sheppard

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STARGATE ATLANTIS || “Vengeance” 3.19

#sga #ronon dex #john sheppard

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John Sheppard out of context.

#fluffy and grumpy #sga #john sheppard

esteefee

Roads Untraveled

Music by Linkin Park Vid by esteefee Research, kibitzing by @em-kellesvig Beta by @laurashapiro-noreally Summary: John Sheppard lives in the best of all possible universes.

for Chester, in memoriam.

Weep not for roads untraveled Weep not for paths left alone ‘Cause beyond every bend is a long blinding end It’s the worst kind of pain I’ve known

Give up your heart left broken And let that mistake pass on ‘Cause the love that you lost wasn’t worth what it cost And in time you’ll be glad it’s gone

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa

Weep not for roads untraveled Weep not for sights unseen May your love never end and if you need a friend, There’s a seat here alongside me

download hi-res at Vimeo.

#one of my very favorite sga vids!!#sga #videos

dedkake

do you ever think about how season 4 hits john repeatedly in his abandonment issues and he tries so hard to hang on and hang on and hang on but the hits keep coming.

elizabeth sacrifices herself to save them and john isn't allowed to look for her and he's angry but he'll respect it.

ronon gets ready to leave the team and john tries his best to respect that too. but it's hurting him.

rodney wants to sacrifice himself for his sister and john quietly doesn't let it happen.

teyla tells him she's pregnant (something that invariably changes a parent's life in some ways are predictable and some ways that aren't) and john gets nasty about it.

the hits keep coming and john's doing his best but there are Limits. and this happens all in the span of 10 episodes ???

(and let's not forget carson just a bit earlier and teyla getting kidnapped a few episodes later GOSH and the weight of last man holo rodney's faith in him)

idk i just think about it All The Time.

#:((#sga #john sheppard

teylae

#impeccable dynamic. I love them both dearly #sga #teyla emmagan #john sheppard

dedkake

#sga #john sheppard

seefaofthemist-deactivated20250

So I'm currently in Season 3 of Sg1 and I have been hit with another difference between Sg1 and Atlantis.

The SGC is a job. Atlantis is home.

Don't get me wrong, the sg1 team is pack bonded and absolutely feral about each other. They are family. They are friends. They are also coworkers. They commute to the sgc. They have houses and apartments and lives outside of the stargate program. (Well, some of them do.) They get paid, go on vacations, and get benefits. In the end, this is a job. A job you love, with people you would die for, at a place that could be a second home, but a job.

Atlantis is a home first and a job second. They live there. They fall asleep to the sound of waves lapping against the piers of Atlantis. They go for runs in the catwalks. There's a chess club, a mensa chapter, an outdoors club, they go fishing and play volleyball together. They go for dates in the cafeteria, have Atlantis movie nights, and meet up for breakfast. They're a tight knit community.

The SGC is also a military base and it shows, it's barren and impersonal, there are a few exceptions to this, like Daniel having a picture of Sha're on his desk, but for the most part there's little to no personalization. Even the lighting is often very sterile and military. Again, there's exceptions, like the often warm and yellow lighting used in Daniel's office, but the hallways are all extremely sterile. (There's something to be said for the way that Daniel is most often the one breaking up the uniform and military vibes of the base, but that's another post)

Atlantis, on the other hand, is heavily personalized. They hang posters on their walls, they have golf clubs, art supplies, and remote control cars. There's dirty clothes on the floor of their quarters, a mini fridge tucked into the corner, and books left open on their beds. There's something so familiar and comfortable about Atlantis. A sense of belonging that doesn't come across as much as in Sg1.

Honestly, I think it comes back to how militarized the SGC is and how civilian Atlantis is. The vibe is less found family military heroes and more Atlantis is a home to the lost and the broken.

#yes!!#eventually I'll get around to finishing sg1 #because I am genuinely enjoying it!#but I fell hard for the Atlantis Is Home vibes when I first watched SGA <3 #sga #sg1

dedkake

i would love to hear your thinky thoughts about john in Letters from Pegasus (because i always forget about that episode and only remember it as a clipshow)

hi! hello!

i think i've always liked letters from pegasus--because it's an ep that doesn't really have a bad guy, and those are my favorites lol. and, while being partially a clip episode, it also gives so much backstory and even fleshes out some side characters.

but also, the theme of the episode seems to be: family.

all the characters are talking to their families. they have the opportunity for the first time since leaving earth to connect with Family. even teyla is trying to save people she describes as family.

and then there's john sheppard.

john sheppard who basically becomes a different person in this episode. not entirely, but definitely not quite the same man he is for the previous episodes.

as soon as they mention getting in contact with earth--as soon as it is possible that earth has any sway over them at all, or that they have any duty towards earth, as soon as everyone else is thinking of their families--john just . changes. he shuts down.

he loses that john sheppard spark. he becomes this flat military kind of guy who's all about defense and saving the expedition and no one else. and that's just not who he's shown himself to be since arriving on atlantis!!!

earth is like an anchor--in a bad way. it's weighing him down. that man was free for the first time in his life and even a hint of earth locks him all up again.

john didn't fit in on earth. he's got no one left on earth---no family. his whole family is on atlantis--which is about to be wiped out. and being reconnected to earth likely means he'll be forced to go back to earth. he might not be allowed to come back.

the fact that throughout the episode we get the clips of rodney, who eventually, on his own, comes to the conclusion that his family on atlantis! is the most important thing!!! while john is stuck in his own head and teyla is hitting him repeatedly with family family we can save people who are our family!!! we should save people who are family!!!

ugh. rodney gets it. being reconnected to earth makes rodney get it. and admit it. while it shuts john down. reconnecting with earth means reconnecting with family for everyone, but for john it means losing his family.

just losing my mind a little bit.

#oof :(#I recently rewatched this episode (a fave!) and this feels spot-on #I am once again emotional about Sheppard #sga #john sheppard