Well. See, this is where I get a little--conflicted.

I can see the value of creating the political alliance, as well as the fact that the symbolism aspect was brought up earlier in regards to the army (and implied by the thing in the marketplace) but I honestly wasn't sure--I think I needed more context. I would have *loved* the scene where Ronon introduced it, just to see the arguments pro and con, adn everyone's initial reaction, and the reaons it needed to be done so quickly (this was like, only a few months after secession?). So that kind of confused me. I just wasn't entirely sure of the context of that choice.

(I'd also like to know when Dex and Teyla broke up; I thought it was after the diplomats were thrown out, but the historical stuff implied that she was involved with her second command *before* they left, so I wasn't sure what was with that one. And the dogtags; I originally thought they were talking about Rodney wearing John's, except the timeline was wrong for that, too, but argh. I am so overthinking.)

I read the sex as not so much John/Teyla, but more John/Atlantis using Teyla's body, but that could be just me.