The Locker room!!!! They have a locker room! Oh, there are shiny batleths and Ronon is dragging a clueless Rodney away
I loved Rodney's look in that scene. All wide-eyed, innocent and curious. Okay, maybe not innocent but still...CUTE!

# ilu John. You still are the bestest. And you still hug so awkwardly. I wonder what will happen the first time you actually initiate a hug. The universe might collide.
The first real hug will be a John/Rodney hug. And then they kiss. Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

Rodney was like..huh huh? What's going on?

My first John hug would be a John and Rodney hug as well... only they'd be clinging while aliens drag John away and Rodney would be all.. we have to save him thus realizing that Katie is a not the right fit for him and it was John he wanted all along!

Rodney was like..huh huh? What's going on?
I'd say it was more like...ooh, gossip. That's gonna be interesting. Btw, Rodney knows. JM or MG said so.

And then they kiss.

mmmm.... really? I just thought he was completely oblivious!!

Well, I felt a bit cheated because I still have no answer!!!

My guess is that she was afraid she'd no longer be part of the team anymore...

Yeah? But wouldn't they have adressed that? Didnd't it imply it was because she *knew* John would tell her to stay in atlantis and that the chances of finding out what happened to her people would diminish?

To me she sounded quite surprised when John told her she was still on the team even though she couldn't come to all the mission. Like that's what she was afraid of.

Shouldn't she know that being unable to come on a mission doesn't mean she isn't part of the team anymore?

and I still think it's more a thirst for knowing what happened to her people and the father of her child than anything else.

mmm

That, too...I thought that maybe it was a mixture of both, but I didn't feel they left it unanswered...

mabe it's just me.... it just feels so jumbled to me.... or maybe it's just because last weeks reviews all disagreed with my assessment and that unsettled me.

Huh? Why? What was the general opinion then?

That John was way to harsh and unreasonable with telling Teyla not to go on missions anymore whereas I totally agreed with him.

Huh? I adored him for that. Only shows that he cares about his team members AND is a good military man.

Exacly!!

Except that she (starts to say/says it) herself, Athosian women stay active until late in their pregnancies. John chose to ignore Teyla's societal more in favor of his own -- to protect pregnant women and take them out of the field. It's possible she's even observed, in accordance with U.S. military standards, a soldier on Atlantis get pregnant and immediately be sent back to Earth since Atlantis is classified a war zone and thus unacceptable to have pregnant soldiers in.

Either way, to her, from what John cut her off in saying (as she says, "We haven't had this conversation yet"), the reaction is not only a complete overreaction but one that significantly reduces what she can do for her people and the people of the Pegasus galaxy. She has never made it a secret that she remains on Atlantis, separated from her people and, recently, her lover, in order to use the resources of Atlantis to better protect the galaxy and thus make the galaxy a safer place to live. If John takes that away from her, he might view her as part of the team still but she wouldn't be. Especially when you consider that Teyla was once a leader of her people, who went out, negotiated, dealt with things that a leader of a culture in a violent universe must. And she says that her people wouldn't have viewed the pregnancy as a reason for her to stop that so, yeah, John's reaction seems especially harsh, if predictable.

And if she'd let others know directly -- Rodney, who would tell John, or Ronon, who would be as uncomfortable as she was keeping the secret -- then she's just causing complications that we've seen her desire to avoid. Or telling John directy -- well, we've seen how well that panned out and it may even be something that isn't talked about directly (in the same sense that some cultures view it as bad luck to know the sex of the baby, to make up nurseries, or to pick out names before the child is born) in Athosian culture.

John didn't even have a hint that she was seeing anyone, something Ronon says he picked up, so it's not really surprising he'd miss subtle hints about her being pregnant. As for why they didn't show it, maybe because they didn't really need to since they mention it in a dramatically strong scene.

RONON'S HOTNESS KILLED ME DEAD! THE END

hehehehe..... fnl is good again toooo!!! omgomg

I KNOW. I JUST POSTED ABOUT IT. OH!!! COACH TAYLOR TEACHING BABY GRACIE ABOUT THE REMOTE CONTROL. AWWWW. BEST LESSON EVER! :)

omg yes... and gracie is so cute!!!!

I took the reason she didn't tell them was because she maybe did once, in the heat of something and couldn't manage it, based on what she said in the previous ep and then afterwards she realised this baby could be the last of her people and she needed to know for certain, for herself rather than having the info relayed to her by John or Ronon or someone else. I'm actually loving the pregnancy storyline because I figured they'd really badly screw it up and at the moment I don't think they have.

You mean because she said she tried? Because that is where my frustration started. I mean, if such a conversation took place, why didn't they show it?

And I DO like the storyline... I just wish some things were clearer. Because there are some discrepancies with what Teylas motivation is and such.

I just take it as, well they can't show everything but I don't (in my head/fanon anyway) take it as a huge convo, like no one but Teyla would have known it was going to be a big convo, she may have just tapped his arm and said 'John' and then maybe touched her tummy, but everyone else will have been so involved with something that no-one realised. I think maybe I need to fic this.

God yes please!!!!!! *g*