So, they picked up some ticks that caused hallucinations. Interesting.

Greer's hallucination was understandible, considering his distrust of Camille. He needed very little provocation to go after her.

Rush had a hallucination of the aliens that kidnapped him boarding the ship.

Scott has hallucinations of his son.

James had one of her having sex with, and then killing Scott in a jealous rage. She still has the hots for him, it seems.

Chloe misses her father, so she sees him. Even though she knows he isn't real, she still wants to spend time with him.

Of course, the ticks were all dealt with in the end. Squish!

I liked this episode. For some reason, we won't see the next one in Canada for two weeks!

Tim – there will be an episode on Syfy next week, but then they will have a week’s break, I believe, so hopefully you’ll only be behind for a week in Canada and will catch up again a week later.

I loved Volker’s “I am so going to kill him” look as Riley walked into his room and closed the doors on the both of them!

However, it’s a very specific kind of hallucination that Volker has: he hallucinates pushing the door button several times and it not working, but then really does thump on the door to get a response from Riley. Unless, I suppose, he hallucinated the entire scene.

I originally assumed, from the fact that James ‘killed’ Scott with a lamp, and then all the close-ups of similar lamps in Volker’s quarters and at Dunning’s table in the Mess, that they were going to be the cause of the hallucinations. Presumably the director did this intentionally as a red herring, and it left me thinking that perhaps Franklin had been absorbed into the ship and the two of them were trying to find a way to communicate with the passengers and were not managing it very well. So the realisation that it was just ticks was a bit of a disappointment!

From the awkward way that Rush seemed reluctant to talk to Camille when he went to her quarters, I’m guessing he was going to tell her what happened between him and her body when Amanda was in it. But I wonder why the heck he would want to burden her with that knowledge. Is he afraid that T.J. will tell her what she saw – which was, after all, no more than a cuddle?

They must film some of the scenes while filming other episodes. I can’t believe that Peter Kelamis had to come into work to deliver just one line as Brody!

I don’t think the writers have the faintest idea of how to calculate the passage of time. Scott took a team off the ship to what Young refers to as “the last planet” and Chloe says, “Welcome to our new galaxy,” which must mean that Destiny has made the journey across the galactic void. However, T.J. is no bigger than she was in the last episode, so either Destiny did the journey in about five minutes flat, or so much time has passed that T.J. has given birth to her first child and is pregnant with her second. Amanda’s recalibration of the engines only increased Destiny’s speed a little, enough to get across the void – it didn’t give her hyperdrives!

Also, they must have arrived in the new galaxy some time ago and found lots of nice food that fattened them up after the rationing, cos once again nobody’s looking any thinner! [I know – it’s a nit that can’t be resolved in real life, but it’s a shame the writers can’t find some way of resolving the not-getting-thinner issue.]

I note that Young refers to a team leaving the ship as “going offworld.” I suppose it’s the automatic phrase to use, and “going offship” sounds odd.

For anyone wondering, “Where have I seen Corporal Barnes before?” she was Lia the human Replicator in Atlantis’ season 5 episode “Ghost in the Machine”. She was the one who first followed FRAN/Elizabeth through the Stargate at the end, only to find that FRAN had led them through a space Gate.

Nobody ever asks Greer to go to the Infirmary, so presumably he wasn’t on the Away Team with Scott. That’s a first.

Why do all the ticks attach themselves in exactly the same place on the head? What’s so especially tasty about that specific part of a human head (particularly bearing in mind that the ticks have never met a human before)?

Knowing how afraid Nick and Chloe are of the aliens returning, I’m surprised that Nick didn’t hear the alien growl coming from behind him when he turned and accused Greer of following him just before he found himself in the water tank.

Oh, the viewers will not be happy at the scene where Rush sees the aliens coming through the Gate. That was shown as part of the “Season 1.5” trailer and got people really excited about the potential invasion that would probably happen in the last two episodes. Now we find out it was just in someone’s head! It’s as bad as the time Sam Carter saw a seer-induced prophetic vision of Atlantis’ central tower falling, only for it eventually to turn out to be a Replicator city.

Why do people stop hallucinating the second the ticks are removed? Surely the toxin shouldn’t dissipate that instantly?

What was Camille doing creeping around the storage room while Greer was hunting for Rush? If she wasn’t hallucinating, she should have known how dangerous it was to be tiptoeing around in the dark when someone as volatile as Greer is on the warpath, and if she was hallucinating, how come we didn’t see what she was seeing?

The crew is rounded up to be examined for ticks. There are about 80 people on the ship, yet only T.J. appears to be doing the examination. I know the ticks are small, and they may only have one magnifying glass, but surely there are a few people on board with good eyesight who’d be able to spot the ticks without help (once they’ve been checked themselves)? T.J.’s gonna be up all night at this rate!

Before going off to join the search for Greer, Young has a quick conversation with T.J. At the end of it there’s a long shot of the two of them with Lisa Park in the foreground, who is pulling a really weird face and apparently didn’t realise that she was on camera at the time!

When Scott reports from outside the locked storage room, there’s a brief scene of Young walking along looking like he’s geared up for all-out war and surrounded by stormtroopers, but he never makes it to the storage room and we don’t see him in that gear again. It was either the most useless shot ever, or we’ll see him dressed like that again in a future episode and the editor of this one borrowed a bit because he needed some extra footage.

I couldn’t help it: when Rush – having just saved Camille from certain death by thumping Greer with a metal pipe – then thumped Scott as well, I cracked up laughing!

I wasn’t immediately sure what Rush was so pensive about in the final montage, then I realised that he was probably thinking about the conversation he now needs to have with Camille: “A little while ago I almost shagged you; and today I stabbed you. Apart from that, how’s your week been?”!

A bit of a clichéd sci-fi story, but well executed, especially by Carlyle who – as usual – acted the pants off the rest of the cast and still managed to be convincing while screaming like a girl. And if last week’s was the smiley happy episode, this week’s was the “fighting off the tears” one. But I do wish they’d get rid of those literally-worded musical montages. They really are very lame.

Also, they must have arrived in the new galaxy some time ago and found lots of nice food that fattened them up after the rationing, cos once again nobody’s looking any thinner! [I know – it’s a nit that can’t be resolved in real life, but it’s a shame the writers can’t find some way of resolving the not-getting-thinner issue.

Unless they've been eating the red shirts

Callie - Why do people stop hallucinating the second the ticks are removed? Surely the toxin shouldn’t dissipate that instantly?
Maybe it wasn't the toxin, maybe the ticks were telepathic! 8-o ;-)