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I loved the episode - loved the birthing scene! Rodney was so perfect! I normally hate birth scenes, they are embarrassing to me (I feel embarrassed for the actors involved - that they have to pretend it all). This was not embarrassing - it was hilarious!! I would have acted just like Rodney "am I allowed to touch you down there?" LOLOL! "can you do it underhand? I was never good at baseball..." LOLOL!
The quick birth didn't bother me - Teyla is in excellent physical condition, and all the time on the news we hear of first/second/third births that come so fast the woman has no time to get to the hospital. It does happen. They also had a short time to work with, the episode was more about saving the team than the childbirth scene.
I like Sheppard. I think he did just fine. He was injured on his right side, if I remember correctly. That's just a gut wound, maybe his gallbladder, or intestines, damaged, but most likely it was just tissue damage and not organ damage (if it had been the left side, then his spleen would be at risk, which is certainly a more serious injury). Remember, too, that Todd said Sheppard was stronger than any human he'd ever fed upon, which tells us the type of stamina he has. He also has a strong ATA gene, which may mean even more regarding his physical condition. I don't think Sheppard was in 'critical condition' - or he would never have walked out of that infirmary. He was seriously injured, but not to the point where he couldn't function. If the bleeding had been stopped (which - for the most part - it had been, save for a little seepage. He wasn't dripping on the floor or anything), then he could certainly go on and do what he did (we can assume that Keller had given him fluids, etc. to boost his blood volume, and patched him up superficially). Should Keller have prevented him from going, like Bones McCoy would have done? Perhaps - and perhaps that would have made for a better story if it was Ronon and Shep and...who? Nah, they had to have Sheppard because no one else could have saved Teyla - not after it was established in the beginning that Sheppard has issues with leaving people behind. THAT was the theme of the episode, and of his character, and so it had to be done the way it was. I had no problems with it.
As far as wishing there were real Wraith in it - sure, but there was too much already in the episode, adding real Wraith would have just made it all too confusing. Also remember that the PTB still consider Michael & Co. Wraith - Wraith hybrids, but Wraith nonetheless. They use Wraith tech, Wraith tactics. It is annoying because to US they are NOT Wraith. They are an...abomination.
The quick birth didn't bother me - Teyla is in excellent physical condition, and all the time on the news we hear of first/second/third births that come so fast the woman has no time to get to the hospital. It does happen. They also had a short time to work with, the episode was more about saving the team than the childbirth scene.
I like Sheppard. I think he did just fine. He was injured on his right side, if I remember correctly. That's just a gut wound, maybe his gallbladder, or intestines, damaged, but most likely it was just tissue damage and not organ damage (if it had been the left side, then his spleen would be at risk, which is certainly a more serious injury). Remember, too, that Todd said Sheppard was stronger than any human he'd ever fed upon, which tells us the type of stamina he has. He also has a strong ATA gene, which may mean even more regarding his physical condition. I don't think Sheppard was in 'critical condition' - or he would never have walked out of that infirmary. He was seriously injured, but not to the point where he couldn't function. If the bleeding had been stopped (which - for the most part - it had been, save for a little seepage. He wasn't dripping on the floor or anything), then he could certainly go on and do what he did (we can assume that Keller had given him fluids, etc. to boost his blood volume, and patched him up superficially). Should Keller have prevented him from going, like Bones McCoy would have done? Perhaps - and perhaps that would have made for a better story if it was Ronon and Shep and...who? Nah, they had to have Sheppard because no one else could have saved Teyla - not after it was established in the beginning that Sheppard has issues with leaving people behind. THAT was the theme of the episode, and of his character, and so it had to be done the way it was. I had no problems with it.
As far as wishing there were real Wraith in it - sure, but there was too much already in the episode, adding real Wraith would have just made it all too confusing. Also remember that the PTB still consider Michael & Co. Wraith - Wraith hybrids, but Wraith nonetheless. They use Wraith tech, Wraith tactics. It is annoying because to US they are NOT Wraith. They are an...abomination.
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been reading SFX July 2008 HMV have some Stargate Atlantis Season 4 Trivia on Todd on an advert. 
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