Did you read JoeM's version of the original "Teyla and Ronon walking in the forest" scene on his blog. It's SO much better and it actually lets Teyla deal with her sorrow for Elizabeth -- I'm starting to think I'm better off not knowing about the cut scenes because I really, really want them in the show itself!
I'm starting to feel so bad for Rachel Luttrell when there's a group scene and she basically gets "wallpapered" into the background. There were several scenes like that in this episode.
The one thing I think they did right with Teyla in this episode is that, once again, they subtly implied that she's pretty knowledgable about science and technology. She and John didn't even discuss it before she just went over and started operating the medical scanner while he lay down. Presumably this means that she's better at such things than he is, and he knows it. And she's the one who realized that the different stars would have tipped them off that they weren't on the real Lantea (which is very astute; I certainly hadn't thought of that).
The emotional and team stuff was really well done, though -- I keep thinking of little moments that I really liked (including that bit at the end with John coming to check up on Rodney and patting his back ... awwww!). It's really nice to see that they're drawing closer together as the stakes get higher and people keep dying; you could so easily see someone like Rodney or John pulling back, closing themselves off, after losing not one but two close friends in rapid succession, but instead they're going out of their way to look out for each other and show how much they mean to each other. They're still a sweet and adorable little family-of-circumstance, and I'm happy for that.
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I'm starting to feel so bad for Rachel Luttrell when there's a group scene and she basically gets "wallpapered" into the background. There were several scenes like that in this episode.
The one thing I think they did right with Teyla in this episode is that, once again, they subtly implied that she's pretty knowledgable about science and technology. She and John didn't even discuss it before she just went over and started operating the medical scanner while he lay down. Presumably this means that she's better at such things than he is, and he knows it. And she's the one who realized that the different stars would have tipped them off that they weren't on the real Lantea (which is very astute; I certainly hadn't thought of that).
The emotional and team stuff was really well done, though -- I keep thinking of little moments that I really liked (including that bit at the end with John coming to check up on Rodney and patting his back ... awwww!). It's really nice to see that they're drawing closer together as the stakes get higher and people keep dying; you could so easily see someone like Rodney or John pulling back, closing themselves off, after losing not one but two close friends in rapid succession, but instead they're going out of their way to look out for each other and show how much they mean to each other. They're still a sweet and adorable little family-of-circumstance, and I'm happy for that.