I've read Chasing Sheppard and enjoyed it, while having some of the same reservations you did--re: Teyla, I had the 'because she's black' moment, too, and I cringed.
It didn't hit me as 'because she's black'. (But then I don't tend to think of Teyla or Ronon as 'black', either.) It hit me as the only place the author found to stick a character with Teyla's name. I did find the character very jarring, though, and not at all like Teyla.
I did like "Chasing Sheppard" as a good read, but not as a really good SGA AU. I felt that it tried too hard to shoehorn the SGA characters into the movie roles without allowing them to be "themselves".
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Date: 2006-01-28 06:11 am (UTC)It didn't hit me as 'because she's black'. (But then I don't tend to think of Teyla or Ronon as 'black', either.) It hit me as the only place the author found to stick a character with Teyla's name. I did find the character very jarring, though, and not at all like Teyla.
I did like "Chasing Sheppard" as a good read, but not as a really good SGA AU. I felt that it tried too hard to shoehorn the SGA characters into the movie roles without allowing them to be "themselves".