Sheppard was talking about Ford. Perhaps it was too obscure, sorry. (He mentions that the smiley young man who was eager to please his neighbour always wore a black cap with a brim to shade his eyes from the sun.) See, Sheppard's worse nightmare is his own people going nuts in this galaxy, or getting hurt.
Ah! And there's where my confusion lay--to me, Sheppard's greatest fear is failure, in that people get hurt because of something he wasn't able to prevent. Kind of a sister-worst fear to McKay, whose greatest fear seemed (yes) perfect to me. :) It never occured to me that the young man could be Ford (though I did wonder at the significance of the black cap), because I wasn't looking for that particular similarity. In fact, until McKay's reaction, I was just reading it as the Pegasus-version of the urban legend I remembered. So when I realized that the team members were also talking about their own fears, that added a really interesting layer, too. Very cool stuff.
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My, uh, perfect pleasure!
Sheppard was talking about Ford. Perhaps it was too obscure, sorry. (He mentions that the smiley young man who was eager to please his neighbour always wore a black cap with a brim to shade his eyes from the sun.) See, Sheppard's worse nightmare is his own people going nuts in this galaxy, or getting hurt.
Ah! And there's where my confusion lay--to me, Sheppard's greatest fear is failure, in that people get hurt because of something he wasn't able to prevent. Kind of a sister-worst fear to McKay, whose greatest fear seemed (yes) perfect to me. :) It never occured to me that the young man could be Ford (though I did wonder at the significance of the black cap), because I wasn't looking for that particular similarity. In fact, until McKay's reaction, I was just reading it as the Pegasus-version of the urban legend I remembered. So when I realized that the team members were also talking about their own fears, that added a really interesting layer, too. Very cool stuff.