In regard to "Sunday", I'm still in convulsions. The "explosive tumor" I'd heard of wasn't a joke. I'd thought Carson had fallen ill with some kind of cancer, had a tumor grow somewhere in his chest that burst open and flooded his system with cancerous cells, and died as a result.

I'd never thought it'd turn out to be another person's tumor that literally exploded, killing the attending physician in the process. Argh.

Badfic! Help! Badfic!

:::falls down laughing hysterically:::

As for episode 3x15 "The Game", I was surprised to discover that someone seems to have pulled Major Lorne from the pocket of subspace he's been trapped in for the last half season. Instead, we were faced with two other soldiers assuming leadership roles in episodes 3x04 "Sateda" and 3x09 "Phantoms". In "Sateda", McKay was questioned by a RMPiPoA (= random military person in position of authority) as to his team's whereabouts with no Major Lorne anywhere in the vicinity. As Sheppard's 2IC, one would assume that a situation like that required his presence. In "Phantoms", we were introduced to a Major Leonard, but barely managed to learn the good Major's name before he fell victim to the Redshirt Syndrome.

Equally surprising was a certain Lieutenant Miller's presence in episode 1x19 "Siege", when he appeared out of nowhere to fly McKay and Grodin to the Lagrangian satellite. He looked older than Aiden Ford, and if he actually had seniority over Ford, he should have been Sheppard's 2IC prior to the influx of new personnel with the re-establishment of contact with Earth, not Ford. Whatever.

I wonder even more where Sergeant Bates disappeared to.

I know I shouldn't. There's no logical explanation when TPTB prefer other/new/cheaper actors over faithfulness in things as unimportant as minor characters' roles. At least Dr. Biro and Dr. Heightmeyer only changed their respective hair color and didn't drop off the face of... heck, they still haven't named the planet Atlantis is currently on, have they?

Plus, evidently Lorne now has a canon-approved first name. Goodbye, Nick. Hey, Evan.

/random rambling