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Navel-baring pants and the Athosians who wear them
It's times like this that I suspect I spend WAY too much time obsessing on the finer points of TV canon and not nearly enough time thinking about other things, like where I put my passport for the trip I'm taking in two days...
But still.
Back when Return aired, I remember that someone's episode commentary (can't remember whose) pointed out that when Teyla is wearing Athosian-style clothes, her pants come all the way up to the bottom of her blouse; the infamous midriff-baring shirt actually ... isn't.
And I was watching Suspicion yesterday with that in the back of my brain, and darned if it doesn't go all the way back to the beginning of the show. The traditional Athosian style that she wears is very chaste, especially with that long coat on top of it; it's only when she starts mixing Athosian clothes with Earth clothes that she ends up, accidentally, with a look that's sort of unintentionally "hot alien babe"-ish, because Earth pants are cut too damn low for all of her shirts.
It's so very intentional-looking that it makes me think someone in the production department was actually thinking about this. Which is very cool, actually. For all the show's flaws, every once in a while you run into a nifty little detail like that, where you start to think about the "why" of something they do and it actually makes *sense*.
But still.
Back when Return aired, I remember that someone's episode commentary (can't remember whose) pointed out that when Teyla is wearing Athosian-style clothes, her pants come all the way up to the bottom of her blouse; the infamous midriff-baring shirt actually ... isn't.
And I was watching Suspicion yesterday with that in the back of my brain, and darned if it doesn't go all the way back to the beginning of the show. The traditional Athosian style that she wears is very chaste, especially with that long coat on top of it; it's only when she starts mixing Athosian clothes with Earth clothes that she ends up, accidentally, with a look that's sort of unintentionally "hot alien babe"-ish, because Earth pants are cut too damn low for all of her shirts.
It's so very intentional-looking that it makes me think someone in the production department was actually thinking about this. Which is very cool, actually. For all the show's flaws, every once in a while you run into a nifty little detail like that, where you start to think about the "why" of something they do and it actually makes *sense*.