Rodney Should Have died.

[Cautious Explorer]

I can just picture the writers' room if there was no more Rodney to write. They'd all be curled in fetal positions under the table.

Actually, I'd love to see it. It would force TPTB to pay a little attention to all the other characters for once.

[Klenotka]

No, he shouldn´t have died. That´s all

[Linda06]

I can just picture the writers' room if there was no more Rodney to write. They'd all be curled in fetal positions under the table.

Actually, I'd love to see it. It would force TPTB to pay a little attention to all the other characters for once.

I don't think that would work either....They'd all be standing around scratching their heads thinking "um what do we do now."

[ph30nix]

i would have seriously cried if they had killed him, and im a guy lol, (alzhimers has always been a big sore button for me)

the acting of all the chars and just the thought of losing your mind like that and be given just a day to remember what your losing

[lissad27]

If the decision had been left to his "doctor", he would have died.

At the very least: he should have the need for massive therapy sessions to regain some motor skills. SOME not all...because, as has been pointed out, damaged or dead brain cells do not regrow - but there are cases where other portions of the brain compensate for the losses. It would really depend on how pervasive the organism was - and what the doctor did to try to get rid of it.

Bottom line: he wouldn't have been the same. And yes, logically, he should have died.

[Zamboni]

Turn McKay into a replicator... Then he'll cyber with Fran-Weir-whatever...

Then Keller gets angry and sleeps with Ronan, John, and Teyla.


... At the same time.

[Klenotka]

Well, to see some therapy, it would have to be more than a stand-alone episode or make from it one of story-arcs. And we know how SG works.

[Nobody0x00]

Turn McKay into a replicator... Then he'll cyber with Fran-Weir-whatever...

Then Keller gets angry and sleeps with Ronan, John, and Teyla.


... At the same time.

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I support this idea.

[Zamboni]

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I support this idea.

What happens in Atlantis, stays in Atlantis...

[janiecat]

well what do you expect from an average IQ person. Too bad sga is stargate rodney instead of a TEAM show.

btw...your brain cells do not come back after being damaged...so Rodney should have remained a mentally handicapped man and sent to a home in all retrospects.

Well, you're right... and wrong. Your brain (as an organ) does not have the ability to regenerate. What it *does* have, however, is the ability to rewire itself and create new neural pathways around the damaged areas. That's why doctors can never predict with any degree of accuracy exactly how long, or to what an extent any person's brain injury will affect them *individually*.

I should know, I've suffered brain injury and I'm back. Pretty much whole and functioning.

[ph30nix]

actualy it never said the cells were dead or damaged, just rendered dormant

[Infinite-Possibilities]

His Braincells were dormant. Not damaged. But this isn't the biggest logical issue in the show. If you really want to harp on logic all of a sudden how about the fact that everyone in another galaxy speaks perfect English.

[ToasterOnFire]

Turn McKay into a replicator... Then he'll cyber with Fran-Weir-whatever...

Then Keller gets angry and sleeps with Ronan, John, and Teyla.


... At the same time.

...
I support this idea.

Thirded!

[Cory Holmes]

Thirded!

Fourth-ed. Any pron involving McKay and Weir gets my vote

[Wolf O'Donnell]

It would have been kinda cool to see him die and have his sister take his place until the last episode when he would return in the last minute setting up a story for the movie.