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wildernessguru and I just watched "Sunday." This was bad timing given yesterday's news about WG's mom's cancer. I'm looking for anything to cheer him up. Online silliness. What have you. He just called The Puppy.

SGA just jumped the shark.

I was looking forward to this episode, because I knew it would give us some cool behind the scenes insights into the characters. The moment the episode closed

wildernessguru said, "This is the beginning of the end."

It wasn't so much that Carson died. Elizabeth's speech at the end was off, a strange combination of overblown and insincere. The bomb-in-the-body is a retread from an early SG-1 episode, right down to reassembling the minerals from the body.

The floaty ending with Rodney and Carson feels like it was pasted in as an afterthought. It takes up a lot of screen time and doesn't have the same pacing or look of the rest of the episode.

WG's points out that he didn't like how Rodney instantly figured it all out. No theories, no back and forth. "I hopes that's not a sign of things to come."

The jeopardy was artificial and forced. A random bomb? I love Martin Gero, but he should have run with his original plan and not felt he had to put in some kind of jeopardy. This episode should have been light-hearted and fun. This was leaden, the fun overburdened with the weight of killing Carson. Maybe if they'd killed someone less important and well-loved it would have worked.

Nah.

20/20 hindsight, it would have played better if it had been a false alarm that pulled everyone out of their day, making the point that they never have a day off. But Gero did say while he was writing it that he was obligated to put in jeopardy because it's an adventure show, so, hey, I was one of the ones on the boards trying to come up with ways to make it work. I didn't come up with anything better given the constraints of having to have some jeopardy. Now I have a good idea.

Okay. Now for the good news:

- John Sheppard in his uniform. Tzzzzt. I've so been waiting for this. (Psst. Aside to Joe Flanigan: learn to stand at attention. They do that in the military. Even in the Air Force. Rick Anderson learned. Look at stills from season one of SG-1 where Rick slouches like he's wearing a suit, and then compare them to season five, where Rick got that military stiffness right.)

- John asking if Ronon was seeing a woman... or man. And the John/Ronon shippers go wild!

- I enjoyed the scene with Elizabeth and her boyfriend. Ah, Elizabeth, you're fooling no one.

- Even though it broke my little slasher's heart, I liked the scene with Katie and Rodney. Watching him put his foot in his mouth time and time again was priceless. "I want to get married." What? "Oh, nonono, not to you!" Oops. "I mean, I mean-- not right now."

- Rodney dressing down the two scientists. Oh, he's the boss from hell, isn't he? I'm surprised no one's pulling brilliantly cruel pranks on him.

- Zelenka! I love my Zelenka, utterly confident in his chess talent without being overtly egotistical. "The sky's blue, there's water on Atlantis, and I'm a great chess player, yes, now pay up." Point me to the Zelenka fic.

- John's divorced! Color me unsurprised. And not good at being married. Translation: "I was married, and the divorce was my fault." Ha. He so slept with someone else.

I'm taking bets now. How long was John married? How many other women did he sleep with?

And what exactly happened?

Theories? Thoughts? Scenarios? Answer in comments. ;)