I love Chiana! Gigi Edgley did such a fantastic job with the character -- especially the way her body moved, it was so different from anyone of the other characters.

Oh yes. She does have some strange...body movements.

"Jeremiah Crichton" gets mentioned a lot due to the badger.

...there was a badger?

On his face.

The beard-thing. shudder

Oh. Yeah. That was unfortunate.

Oh, another thing I thought was funny was when Durka claimed he would hunt Crichton down and kill him, Crichton responded, "Get in line."

I always burst out laughing when characters say what I'm thinking.

Well, I think the previouslies are in part an attempt to make it watchable for new viewers. At some point the exercise becomes supremely futile, but they can have their fun with the Network at this point

Crichton's very good at saying what we're thinking.

Chiana gets more relatable over time. Not less nuts, per se, but a kid of comfortable nuts. Except for when she's kicking you in the sensitive regions.

So, "A Human Reaction" is a really good episode that explores how Crichton would actually be received when he returned to Earth. I was surprised they got him back to Earth so soon, but then I realized they were only doing it so that he could be forced back out into space with no more desire of returning home. And in fact, he would choose to go back to Moya, because, like Rose in Doctor Who, he's seen so much extraordinary that he can't go back to the fish-and-chips life. He doesn't have a whole lot to stay for besides his father, who is willing to let him go now that he's gotten his chance to say goodbye. And Rygel is dead, which was more shocking and sad than I would have anticipated, but no one will really miss him that much for very long.

And then it turns into every sci-fi movie made in the last ten years. It was all fake, made from your memories, blah-di-blah-blah. It was still cool, but less cool. It seemed like a lot of trouble for them to go through when they could have, I don't know, ASKED. Crichton has no reason to lie. And how the hell did they find him anyway? What the hell kind of powers does this species have that they can create fake wormholes and magical physical representations recreated from memories? And why didn't we get to see the hot and wild John/Aeryn sexapalooza?

The show is back to being really good again, though, which is yay.