I think "Bug's Life" is the one where Moya gets boarded by a bunch of asshat (but hot!) Peacekeepers with some cargo that turns out to be a paranoia parasite or some such. Aeryn gets seriously wounded at the end of that, I think, and then in "Nerve" Crichton gets to don Peacekeeper leather fetish gear and for some cracked reason starts speaking in a bad British accent, which makes no goddamned sense because hello? Translator microbes? But Crichton looks smokin' hot in leather for which I can forgive a lot.

Well, they definitely showed an episode (which I only watched part of -- I may have fallen asleep -- head cold, you know) yesterday where Crichton put on a faux-Brit accent.

Today they have Nerve and now they're having the follow-up to Nerve immediately afterwards. (Thank goodness!)

Well, yes, with the illogic and the leather pants. Point being, ABL sets up both Crichton's motivation for sneaking into the base, and the means for him to do so (Chiana had stolen Dead Psycho Guy's ident chip). Nerve without ABL makes about as much sense as Hidden Memory without Nerve. Which is, not much.

Nerve without ABL makes about as much sense as Hidden Memory without Nerve. Which is, not much

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. All you really need to know from ABL for Nerve is (a) Aeryn got stabbed; (b) Chiana stole the ident key; (c) there's a PK base nearby.

Everything else is gravy. Whereas The Hidden Memory is very much part 2 of Nerve.

And I haven't checked SciFi's schedulebot, but I heard they were running the entire 88 episodes, 8 eps a day, for 11 days. So I doubt they skipped any.

Thanks for the link, Mickie! t right-clicks

Well, there's the part of "Who thought Crichton should try leather pants, and why?" and "How do they know to look for that base?" and "How does Crichton have any idea how to act like a PK specialist, much less what kinds of protocols to follow?" and, most importantly for the characters, I should think, "Why do both Crichton and Aeryn blame themselves for Aeryn's injury?"

I suppose, if you really had to, you could squeeze an episode in between them, but they are sequential and not freestanding of each other. (Though you're right that it makes even less sense for Nerve and HM to be broken up. They're pretty explicitly a pair.)

"Why do both Crichton and Aeryn blame themselves for Aeryn's injury?"

I don't see a lot of blame going around, actually. I see Crichton taking action, because he cares about her and can't come up with another way to save her. In part because she has saved his life in the past. I don't really see much in the way of guilt, and if there were any it should be laid at Rygel and Chiana's door.

Aeryn has no guilt. She's dying, she's weak, and she wants to go hide from the pain, the way an injured animal does.

On the upside, I discovered this when channel surfing by clicking right into an interview with Michael Rosenbaum. Mmmmm, that man has a lovely voice.

I think my favorite part of the Smallville Backstage Special (on the set of The Talon, and I didn't think that it was possible for it to look more garish, but somehow . . .) was when MR clowned Brooke Burke's tan. She acted as if it were a compliment (and she might have been stupid enough to realize that "interesting/facinating" is rarely a compliment). She was ORANGE, yo.

Brooke Burke seemed to have trouble telling the actors and their characters apart. So I pretty much ignored everything she said and watched and listened to the pretty (ie MR and TW) instead.

Brooke Burke seemed to have trouble telling the actors and their characters apart.

That didn't bother me so much because it seemed like the point of the special was to introduce new viewers to the show (even if it wasn't promoted that way). But her tan?! Yikes! MR almost made me believe he was serious.

Brooke Burke seemed to have trouble telling the actors and their characters apart.

that drove me nuts. Asking 'how did you feel when Chloe . . ." made me crazy. Actors. Characters. Get it straight. And it was clear that she didn't watch the show. She was more engaging on the Gilmore Girls special.