A lot of the high emotion scenes, especially John's tangential speechifying, failed to hit home with me.

I don't think I got hit where everyone else got hit.

But I sure did get hit.

How long are we whitefonting for?

There was indeed subversion -- Aeryn was multiply redeemed from the nonsense of last season. However, I may always hate the "no! marry us before the birth!" gimmick, no matter where it pops up. Haven't seen it be not annoying yet. And it seemed so very human, like Aeryn was the one making all the cultural compromises.

How long are we whitefonting for?

This is a NAFDA-esque thread, right? Where people generally whitefont during the broadcast out of courtesy for other time zones? Therefore, I think we can blackfont now.

I just kind of like whitefonting at random. But I'll stop . Um, soon. I promise. I think.

Okay, all I needed was the one person to agree with me. In honour of Steph:

Aeryn's pregnancy clothes were beyond dumb, and I have no idea what was done with the knife, although her idea seemed very plausible. How in HELL do you turn a breeched baby, and what do you have to touch to do so? Aeryn pregnant (well, aside from the stiff prosthetic) was a thing of glory, both in acting and in writing. Bless them all. Aeryn and John were pretty marvellous together -- there was passion and intensity and tenderness, and that's worth tuning in for.

Chiana was weird, both in appearance and motion. I don't know if I buy that it signalled her maturing, but I'm willing to consider that.

D'Argo was both dead meat and a namesake the moment Chiana agreed to go to Hyneria with him. Nothing's that happy.

Did John say Ferengi at one point?

Did John say Ferengi at one point?

Yup.

Did John say Ferengi at one point?

Yes, yes he did. I love me some John. "Wavy lines, wavy lines..."

See, in real life you have to reach inside the womb and actually turn the baby. (At least that is what vets do for calves and foals -- I've read Herriot -- it must be true.) Therefore, I don't understand how Chiana was supposed to have done what she did -- can Nebari steer by gesturing emphatically too?

The whole breech thing was kind of stupid -- I think it was written in as an excuse to make Chiana help with the birth (which, okay, she's the least useful in a battle and a girl and all, but as the only one who's actually seen a Sebacean give birth, wouldn't D'Argo have been a slightly better choice?)

[edit: Breech or breach? They both look wrong to me.]

That's what I figured, but Chiana sure looked like her hands were dry, and why wouldn't Aeryn need to be cut out of her clothes for that? I mean, assuming she couldn't just take them off, like normal people.

Either it's icky because of the coochie stuff, or not icky at all. But they acted like it was icky.

What was in that fountain anyway? I mean, what in it that made the corpses and boots and fully dressed people not funk it up for the baby's delivery?

can Nebari steer by gesturing emphatically too?

Snerk. I did see Chiana thump Aeryn once on the belly. I assume John got her to do it because of her special new x-ray vision. Oy.

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I loved John riffing on both Star Trek (Ferengi) and the Muppets (the Electric Mayhem!). As ita said, I loved John and Aeryn together, and Aeryn's response to the pregnancy. The scene in Pilot's den, where she's talking to the fetus about the sounds on Moya? Priceless.

Dying to know whether the extended footage on the dvd will be edited back in, or just kept as extras.

Sci-Fi's spinning the ratings like the spinniest of spinmeisters. 1.7 isn't that great, actually -- although it would have been better if it weren't for the baseball game. Sigh.