sga! what's this episode called?

[tsuki_no_bara]

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[bleedtoblue]

I didn't catch the name of the episode, but the whole black and decker surgery moment....no. And didn't the parasite look a lot like the evil space alien from the last Batman movie?

[tsuki_no_bara]

you do not operate on someone with a hand-held power drill! you just don't! even under sterile conditions! not that this show ever had any medical or scientific credibility, but if it did before, it sure as hell doesn't now.

[theodosia]

It turned out that Keller merely had to do the equivalent of a trepanation (which we know for a fact could be carried out with stone tools). I suppose she expected to open the skull, see that the parasite was still too entrenched to dig out and close it up again.

The whole opening-the-skull is the easy part, it's not hurting the brain more than necessary part that's the tricky bit, brain tumors and aneurysms being well imbedded or deep within. But this imaginary parasite was right on the surface, so....

This is historically one of the few times that I'm actually NOT complaining loudly about the rubber science on this show. :-)

[tsuki_no_bara]

if all you're going to do is make a hole in the skull to let the parasite out, sure, a hand drill will do it. but i thought keller was expecting to be able to extract the thing because it had shrunk enough that she could do it without killing rodney, and you don't do that in a cave with common power tools!

and also i was really grossed out when the parasite crawled out of the hole in rodney's head. ewww. altho i did think it was a neat way of getting out of surgery, and it actually made sense in context.

[bleedtoblue]

Shrine.

[tsuki_no_bara]

aha! that makes sense.