I literally just got passed Epiphany and Teer in my rewatch yesterday and I still don't buy them. There's not a lot of settling in from John, more a constant tone of 'how the hell do I get out.' And honestly, looking at the scene with John and Teer directly after, there conversation definitely doesn't sound like people who had wild crazy sex last night.
SHEPPARD: Well, it is scary, but it's also very cool. (Hedda smiles and nods.) It's OK to be scared, it's part of life. You know, when I was a kid, we used to have storms that shook the house. Scared me half to death.
TEER: When we are ascended, we will experience such things.
SHEPPARD: Hell, if you're ascended, you can make thunderstorms! I'm talking about actually experiencing life.
AVRID: We contemplate on the experience that is life each day.
SHEPPARD: I'm talking about living it. (He looks round at everyone.) Haven't any of you got things you wanna do as flesh and blood human beings first? I mean, you-you talk about moving on to a plane of existence beyond your own mortality, but you haven't even really lived. (*thank you GateWorld)
So, to me at least, either Sheppard doesn't really count sex as part of the human experience or they didn't get up to much that night. (And honestly, trapped, cut off, no real hope of return, that sounds a hell of a lot like where they were all of season one.)
I'll refrain from commenting on Mara in depth because I'm not there in my rewatch yet. I will say that I have been in a similar situation though. Interested or not, when there are suddenly boobs in front of you, you stare at the boobs a little. I'm honestly not sure where else you're supposed to look.
[ha! I love discussions like this. Different people see different characters looking at the same text. It never stops being cool.]
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26/8/13 21:48 (UTC)SHEPPARD: Well, it is scary, but it's also very cool. (Hedda smiles and nods.) It's OK to be scared, it's part of life. You know, when I was a kid, we used to have storms that shook the house. Scared me half to death.
TEER: When we are ascended, we will experience such things.
SHEPPARD: Hell, if you're ascended, you can make thunderstorms! I'm talking about actually experiencing life.
AVRID: We contemplate on the experience that is life each day.
SHEPPARD: I'm talking about living it. (He looks round at everyone.) Haven't any of you got things you wanna do as flesh and blood human beings first? I mean, you-you talk about moving on to a plane of existence beyond your own mortality, but you haven't even really lived. (*thank you GateWorld)
So, to me at least, either Sheppard doesn't really count sex as part of the human experience or they didn't get up to much that night. (And honestly, trapped, cut off, no real hope of return, that sounds a hell of a lot like where they were all of season one.)
I'll refrain from commenting on Mara in depth because I'm not there in my rewatch yet. I will say that I have been in a similar situation though. Interested or not, when there are suddenly boobs in front of you, you stare at the boobs a little. I'm honestly not sure where else you're supposed to look.
[ha! I love discussions like this. Different people see different characters looking at the same text. It never stops being cool.]