I liked the ep, didn't love it, put it probably somewhere in the middle.
The Teyla pregnancy thing didn't bother me that much, but that's because I was expecting it. (the thing is, some of it is the writers dropping the ball, but some of it is, hmm, the constraints of the genre? Teyla's baby has to be special and significant somehow, or else there's no reason for it. TV scifi is not generally about 'slice of life' stories (though I wish there were a couple shows that were) and SGA is not particularly a story about family or child-rearing - those can be occasional themes, but not major arcs. There's very few significant events in the chars' in-show lives which are actually normal (the Katie Brown/Rodney relationship comes about the closest, and even that was only occasional and rather awkward and stiltedly unconvincing. Also 'normal' still means their first kiss was when Rodney was possessed by another consciousness. So, yes, case in point) because (broadly speaking) - this is scifi, and in scifi the normal/expected/realistic is boring! Main chars in scifi don't die of cancer (unless it's radiation or alien-induced) or car accidents (unless they're engineered by conspiracies), don't get married unless it's a set-up for life-altering tragedy/revenge arcs, and don't have kids unless they're spectacularly significant in some way. So I never expected Teyla's pregnancy to be ordinary, and this is about as close to normal as I could've expected.)
Woobie!Rodney was great. And while Carter didn't get a chance to sympathize with them about the qualms of friends returning from the grave, I loved the scene when she was arguing caution (wisely, I thought, since Carson could've been a trap, I wasn't convinced myself until the end that he was on the level and not a plant of Michael's somehow) and Sheppard was all pouty and clearly thinking, "But I've read the reports and you got Daniel Jackson back like a million times, can't we just have this one?"
I am still very sleep deprived, please forgive any incoherent manifestoing!
The Teyla pregnancy thing didn't bother me that much, but that's because I was expecting it. (the thing is, some of it is the writers dropping the ball, but some of it is, hmm, the constraints of the genre? Teyla's baby has to be special and significant somehow, or else there's no reason for it. TV scifi is not generally about 'slice of life' stories (though I wish there were a couple shows that were) and SGA is not particularly a story about family or child-rearing - those can be occasional themes, but not major arcs. There's very few significant events in the chars' in-show lives which are actually normal (the Katie Brown/Rodney relationship comes about the closest, and even that was only occasional and rather awkward and stiltedly unconvincing. Also 'normal' still means their first kiss was when Rodney was possessed by another consciousness. So, yes, case in point) because (broadly speaking) - this is scifi, and in scifi the normal/expected/realistic is boring! Main chars in scifi don't die of cancer (unless it's radiation or alien-induced) or car accidents (unless they're engineered by conspiracies), don't get married unless it's a set-up for life-altering tragedy/revenge arcs, and don't have kids unless they're spectacularly significant in some way. So I never expected Teyla's pregnancy to be ordinary, and this is about as close to normal as I could've expected.)
Woobie!Rodney was great. And while Carter didn't get a chance to sympathize with them about the qualms of friends returning from the grave, I loved the scene when she was arguing caution (wisely, I thought, since Carson could've been a trap, I wasn't convinced myself until the end that he was on the level and not a plant of Michael's somehow) and Sheppard was all pouty and clearly thinking, "But I've read the reports and you got Daniel Jackson back like a million times, can't we just have this one?"