The first post was written by an Irish fan. So, I am going to chalk up the parallel universe feel to just...weirdly and incredibly vast cultural differences.

What killed me in the comments to that first post are the *Americans* who were like, "I didn't notice! I thought Teyla and Ronon were white!" And for them I just sort of go, "...REALLY?" and don't know what to do.

People are just tan, I guess.