I'm kinda on John's side with this--or more that I don't see why Teyla wasn't on John's side with this. She's not going to be as balls to the wall as before, and they're all going to treat her as more delicate, and the baddies will treat her as a more valuable hostage, and they'll be right.

It's like the false reason not to have women on the team--I don't believe a woman is more delicate or more valuable a hostage, but the "two lives and one is an infant" thing? Kinda persuasive.

As for the fetal boost, I figured it was two Wraith-enhanced Athosians working in synchronicity which made things easier for her.

I get that if we're talking another set of wraithy genes making the Hive ship respond to her more easily, as it would to a real Wraith. I just don't buy a 3-month-old mind (if there's any consciousness at all at that point) making her psychic abilities that much more powerful. The last time Teyla was the one helplessly taken over by a queen, and even when the latter was sedated and wounded she could barely preserve the integrity of her own mind against it.

Note also that the queen would have had at least one male and many, many drones around her in the hive mind, theoretically giving her a lot more psychic support than Teyla had available.

Yeah, point. Piloting the ship and piloting the queen are different magnitudes.

I find Teyla a mess at the best of times--I was kinda happy to get the two minds thing, even for a second.

It could have been saved for me if she'd taken over the frowny majordomo Wraith instead, as he struck me as more of a toadying follower type than the queen (or Todd, for that matter), and the males have been shown to be less psychically powerful than the females.

Am I ready for The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Oh yes I am.

Squinting past the SGA comments because I haven't watched yet. I did watch last week's last night. Enjoyed the action and tension. It was like real SciFi stuff.

Totally ready for it, too, Laura. I should probably check to find out what time it's on, eh?

We've been watching football on Fox, so the commercials have been taunting me for hours. 8pm EST. After the game.

Thanks! I just got back in and am watching a Mark Destillcan'tspellitcascos movie on Sci-fi - really, I'm watching because I came in mid-movie, and the sky is on fire, but I don't know WHY. Very frustrating.

And also, Mark D is very pretty.

Which movie, Jen? I can't believe I didn't know one was coming. I blame it on not finishing setting up the new TiVo.

It is, according to the Sci-fi schedule, called Solar Attack!

OK, the exclamation point is mine. But I think that title deserves one. I cannot tell from what I've seen so far why the sun is attacking us, though I could think of a few good reasons.

Mark is playing a military pilot (Lucas Foster), who is currently saving the world with a Russian sub captain, while an American sub is trying to torpedo them out of the water. Communications are problematic, so Amerisub is in the dark and not believing the missile-firing Russian sub captain at the moment.

And also, the acting is largely problematic, too. Wow. But not Mark. He's all good.