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Well, I'd read the spoilers, or at least the hints at spoilers, despite my best efforts at ignoring them, or trying to forget them, but in the end, I was still like, Jesus, this really sucks.
I think Teyla said it best: I feel a great sadness.
Okay, mourning (and many shots of David Hewlett's Best Woobie Tear-Filled Eyes) aside, what the hell was with this episode? I spent half the episode going, "wait, who the hell are you? What? Who the hell is that? What? WHAT? Katie Brown? What? Who the hell are YOU? WHAT? WHAT? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? IS RODNEY SEEING GHOSTS? IS HE CRAZY? IS HE ASCENDED? HOW IS HE--? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!?!" (that last bit is said in Xandir from Drawn Together's voice)
So, I don't know what to make of this episode. There were some great character moments, and I kind of rolled my eyes so hard they got stuck when everybody started hooking up, and WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN MARRIED, JOHN? And Carson/Paul leaving just makes me emo sad. And just - WHAT? WHAT THE HELL, MAN? I dunno. But we got lots of David Hewlett's Best Woobie Tear-Filled Eyes! I kind of felt like it was nice that David got to "mourn" Paul's leaving via Rodney :(. I've been shipping them since even before ADB, but especially hard since a recent interview in which he goes on at some length about how happy he is when Paul is on set, and I'm kind of like, *SMOOSHES YOU TOGETHER OMG BFF!!!* and now that era of glee must end.
But otherwise, you know. Whatever. *handwave* Seriously, what the hell? I'm so confused.
Also, I'm sad because