HD Sunday! January 15, 2012

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

Today's selection is Alternate/AU Shep. Shep in other realities (like Epiphany) or even other states of mind (like Phantoms). Or, other incarnations like Doppelganger and Alternate!Shep like in BIS, TMC and of course, Vegas!

Enjoy! :)

Comments

[blackchaps.livejournal.com]

Doppelganger John was SCARY! *ovaries tingle*

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Yeah, he was and so well played by Joe!

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Some gorgeous caps here. I just rewatched Tabula Rasa a little while ago, and I loved the way John went from scary dude holding a gun on Ronon to confused dude looking like he might pass out--with just the smallest change in facial expression! I mention this because in so many of these caps, we see a side of John we don't get to see anywhere else...

Um, okay. I *am* among the other, seriously biased here, right? :-)

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

oh, I kind of forgot TR, sorry!

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Hah, No worries--I didn't mean to imply it should have made this list--only that it reminded me of some of these pix! :-)

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

very much so... and I love that scene. Got some great caps from it. I think I've posted them before... Shep and gun (specifically the 9mil)

:)

[mikes-grrl.livejournal.com]

I suspect it is a very wrong thing for me to have such a hard-on for evil!John...but OMG that LOOK where he is grinning psychotically. *melts*

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

Heh. Joe did such a great job with the whole psychotic thing. Wow... the look just gives me chills its SO good.

Its a little scary how well he can play characters like that ;)

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Though I have much love for John in eps like Phantoms and Doppelganger etc. Vegas!John is my favourite Alt!John.

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

oh yeah. What a great character :)

[stella-pegasi.livejournal.com]

While I love all variations of John...I must say Evil!John was hot and Vegas!John, well...no need to explain...

Nice collection!

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, there was something about Evil!John... sort of like his CSI character. ;)

And Vegas... yeah, no need. I definitely get that!

[ayouas.livejournal.com]

You're so very, very good to us.

Agree that Evil!John's psycho grin is great, but I like the ones two rows up from that even better, that dark, smoldering stare just before Dreaming!John throws him through the wall. That! Look!

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

yep! that's my favorite of the Evil!Shep as well. The look is just... eek! So good!

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

I just love the shots of Detective Sheppard...........such an interesting personality
Like his counterpart, he takes on a Wraith single handed.
You just want him to succeed in so many ways.......
Bless his heart.............

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

oh yes. love Det.Sheppard

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

Did I mention poignant??

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

heh. no, but you're right ;)

[patk.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for repli!John. Because, in all things that matter he *is* John (as well as the others are also "themselves") and can you imagine what a devastating effect that must have on him to learn they can't live in Atlantis because they're not quite who they think they are? To know how his teammates feel and not being able to do anything to make things right for all of them? Secretly I think that played a big part of why he volunteered his team to sacrifice themselves to help the "originals". In a way, it was a dead end situation for them and the situation warranted someone doing an heroic self-sacrificing act for the greater good.

Though watching the last scene with hurt repli!John (last pic) facing the replicators in the downed jumper, I always entertained the secret fantasy that repli!John managed to take down the replicators and the rest of team's nanites were able to heal them and bring them back to live again. We never see the replicators actually killing repli!John, we only hear the shooting. So, a girl can dream, right?

I'm dreaming of a story where the repli!team survives this way and manages to find their own city. Or manages to escape into a different reality where they can make a difference. :-)

The pic of Vegas!John looking at the chair. Watching him eye the control chair I always wondered if he wanted to sit down in it as he did in "Rising". Imagine if he had. Things could have taken a completely different direction. Hey - AU of an AU. ;-)


Then John pushing the button of Atlantis self-destruction, closing his eyes and waiting for the explosion. I love that scene because that's John Sheppard in a nutshell. Heartbreakingly heroic and human at the same time - he doesn't want to die but if it's the only way, he doesn't hesitate. It's one thing to die in a fight or in the middle of the action, but it's the *waiting* for death here that gets me every time.

Thanks for coming up with this wonderful collection.

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

yeah, I always felt for RepliJohn (and the whole team). They really were the team, but weren't. How hard would that be? Still, it was a bittersweet but right ending for John and for them and a fitting one. I could see them doing that, not just the RepliTeam, but the real ones. After all, they were based on the real ones.

Vegas!John, oh yeah. ;)

And I really liked that scene from Progeny, it was very Sheppard. He'd certainly do that without hesitation and as a man that would always fight to live, he'd reconginze the situation for what it was and give his life, if there was o other way. As he said in Childhood's End when Kerus challenged him on whether or not he'd sacrifice his life if it was necessary.

"It'd have to be really necessary."

Glad you enjoyed it :)