john to the city: you're so good you're so sweet i love you baby you're everything i'd never do anything to hurt you i would kill for you i would die for you
john to the ancients: i would shove you through a space gate for a broken corn chip
STARGATE ATLANTIS (2004-2009); created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper. Starring Torri Higginson, David Hewlett, Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell, Jason Momoa, Rainbow Sun Francks, Paul McGillion and Amanda Tapping
for @tvarchive’s television appreciation week, day 4: sci-fi
its been like eighteen years and this scene, this exact moment, sheppard's face as he's faced with the reality that the man he loves will forget him and his refusal because he can't lose rodney has been engraved on my frontal cortex im never getting over this single episode of a tv show ever
I am going to ramble about a topic near and dear to my heart Stargate Atlantis and how the production and writers did the cast so dirty over the years of production.
Social media and little behind the scene tidbits are very common now to increase engagement. However, SGA ran from 2004-2009. Social media engagement was not the norm and the biggest platform at the time was Facebook. This did not stop some writers and producers from the show shoving cameras in the faces of the cast members during down times making them visibly uncomfortable. It got to the point the Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard, ostensibly the lead) to tell the camera persons to stop it and that they were making everyone uncomfortable.
Next! Rachel Luttrell who played Teyla Emmagan (and is one of the most beautiful women in the world) was nearly booted from the show when she became pregnant. Part of Teyla's character was that she was a kick-ass warrior and a diplomat to the Atlantis expedition representing her people and she had spider-sense powers to feel the bad guys (the wraith). Luckily she stayed on the show, but since the writers room was EXCLUSIVELY MEN and did not know how to write a dynamic woman getting pregnant literally put her career in danger because the writers didn't know how to "write a pregnant woman."
Now, for Jason Momoa aka Ronon (yes this was one of his early gigs) they wanted him to remain completely static as a character. He was slightly above a cave man at times with his speech patterns (a good look for a POC) and when they finally let him get lines he was always intimidating or scary (again cool a look for a POC.) Momoa at one point cut his dreads off and he thought that that would be a good character moment for Ronon too, since he was pretty stagnant. Instead they put him in the most rotted obvious wig, because the producers couldn't stand Ronon changing even a little.