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.

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

Edited back in, I think. But don't quote me.

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

Breech (when referring to births).

You can, actually, turn a breech baby around by pushing on the mother's stomach-- my youngest sister was breech, and that's what the doctors did before she was born. Thoug they probably did so with a little more finesse than Chiana did.

they probably did so with a little more finesse than Chiana did.

Well, fitting beginning for a Sun-Crichton -- getting punched in the head before being ungloriously dumped into the middle of a firefight.

It's the Sebacaen genes. handwave, handwave

Hell, maybe by the time a movie gets off the ground they'll just have Anthony Simcoe play the character, sans makeup.

I actually thought we got Aeryn back sometime during "We Are so Screwed"... maybe as early as "Hot to Katrazi" and that was definitely Real!Aeryn in "La Bomba." But nice to see that the pod-ectomy was a lasting one.

Sikozu was so different in appearance, speech, and motivation that I wondered why they didn't just introduce an altogether new character. Did John bring back one of those virtual timeline doppelgangers to replace her in the final episode while I wasn't watching?

Getting a breach baby turned rightside around from the outside is called an external version. It's increadibly painful and doesn't work a lot of the time. I'm guessing Chiana's x-ray vision was supposed to give her an edge.

Oh and Aeryn sliced open her clothes with the knife, so she could deliver. I'm not going to ask where she got the replacements...