I figured it was a hallucination, too, but it was still creepy. I couldn't shrug off the AI's "sorry" at the end, either--what she did to Sheppard was very, very, very icky torture. The episode I kept thinking of, once Rodney figured out the device, was Scorched Earth, and I was a little surprised the IOA didn't have some sort of guideline for the situation. The silicon people's situation pretty much == the Gadmeer's, except even better because they weren't trying to not!terraform an inhabited planet.
As far as John and women, I know TPTB were trying to say John was hitting on a young scientist chick, but I totally read it as he and Rodney had had a little tiff that John was taking harder, and he took annoying!scientist taxi duty just to get away and cool off for a while. (Loved the Lorne/Parish shoutout, too. :-)
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Date: 2008-11-16 03:58 pm (UTC)As far as John and women, I know TPTB were trying to say John was hitting on a young scientist chick, but I totally read it as he and Rodney had had a little tiff that John was taking harder, and he took annoying!scientist taxi duty just to get away and cool off for a while. (Loved the Lorne/Parish shoutout, too. :-)