I loved how we found out about shep's past. He was special ops by the look of it as fanon has theorized and i liked learning how his father had apparently planned his life out for him so he took a different path and decided to join the Air Force. Also, the wealth of John's family totally fits when you think about it. John totally is from money!! ha!

I liked his moments with his brother,(although i was sure he was called graham to start??? when the intial spoilers came out!) and him going to the coffin and Ronon leaving him be.

Perhaps i should do this in order;
- the start with r and r being together and sam telling him and his face!!
-rodney trying to comfort him........
-the gate scene
-everything at the house........"I told you i had an ex wife right?" and him deliberatly not remembering her other halfs name and Ronon's little knowing smile
-the running around hawtnes with the gun and those little earpiece thingies that go on the neck...hubba hubba.......
-the suit??? even on the apollo????weird!
-him and nancy and theur awkward/caring relationship. He seems comfortable with her. I like.
-the whump......not enough but good what we had.
-the science fixing ideas! the VR world was genius
-ronon and John...when he takes the shotgun and r asks him if he's okay...

and im sure there is more but i cant think right now. I think if there hadn't been the start scenes with sam/rodeny/and the gate and tonon i might have thought this ep felt flat...but it was nicely tied up at the end when John went to visit his big brother. I thought that was sweet