I haven't read all of the responses here because life is a little too short for that. However, I felt the episode was deeply emotional, although not in a team-y sort of way. There was Rodney's desperation to believe in Carson, as well as his having to explain about the real Carson's death and Elizabeth's heroic demise. Then there was the Teyla stuff, which got a bit maudlin and horrid and made me think about just how dark the episode was getting. In fact, the sonogram part was almost unnecessarily gasp-worthy, especially when Michael injected some awful stuff into Teyla's perfect, beautiful child.

Somehow I think they left the heavy emotional Atlantis-based output for Rodney because Sheppard wasn't all that emotive about things and Ronon was downright cagey. Fine. Rodney spilled buckets of pathos all over the set, so at least we got that.