(argh, stupid thing posted before I was ready, my apologies)
Gah, actually, I'd rather not have the alien love interest of the week. And I've never been a fan of "Kirking" Shep, it's just too much of a bad cliche. Rodney throwing that accusation around always made me wonder if he was jealous that Shep was getting the attention from the hot alien chicks. :P Then again, look at Rodney's own history... there's his whacked-out love-hate thing with Carter (complete with an undersea head-trauma delusion!), he's dating Katie Brown, there was that flirty thing going on with that scientist (another blonde!) in Inferno... Methinks McKay is the pot calling the kettle black. :P
As for the shipping in general and Shep/Weir and Shep/Teyla in particular, I have to agree that there's no way it would ever happen in canon. There are far too many potential complications to their professional relationships for them to allow for more personal entanglements, and they know it. The potential for a Shep/Teyla alignment to disrupt the team dynamic has already been covered, and in Shep/Weir's case, there may also be those pesky non-fraternization regulations keeping things from going any further. Yeah, Weir's not military, but she is still technically Shep's boss, and that's probably close enough as far as the regs go.
My personal viewpoint is that Shep does care about both of them... Probably had an initial attraction to Teyla though it settled down into a siblings-in-arms relationship once the team dynamic finally got established, and Weir has been more of a chivalric attraction to someone he considers to be unattainable (both from the perspective of the regs, as well as that he thinks she's too classy for him).
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Gah, actually, I'd rather not have the alien love interest of the week. And I've never been a fan of "Kirking" Shep, it's just too much of a bad cliche. Rodney throwing that accusation around always made me wonder if he was jealous that Shep was getting the attention from the hot alien chicks. :P Then again, look at Rodney's own history... there's his whacked-out love-hate thing with Carter (complete with an undersea head-trauma delusion!), he's dating Katie Brown, there was that flirty thing going on with that scientist (another blonde!) in Inferno... Methinks McKay is the pot calling the kettle black. :P
As for the shipping in general and Shep/Weir and Shep/Teyla in particular, I have to agree that there's no way it would ever happen in canon. There are far too many potential complications to their professional relationships for them to allow for more personal entanglements, and they know it. The potential for a Shep/Teyla alignment to disrupt the team dynamic has already been covered, and in Shep/Weir's case, there may also be those pesky non-fraternization regulations keeping things from going any further. Yeah, Weir's not military, but she is still technically Shep's boss, and that's probably close enough as far as the regs go.
My personal viewpoint is that Shep does care about both of them... Probably had an initial attraction to Teyla though it settled down into a siblings-in-arms relationship once the team dynamic finally got established, and Weir has been more of a chivalric attraction to someone he considers to be unattainable (both from the perspective of the regs, as well as that he thinks she's too classy for him).