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John namedrops Jenny Craig, which is another cultural allusion from before my time.
How does a plant starve. Reverse hanahaki?
"This is not a commerce planet." But you just shut down the economy, dude. Don't you ever trade with passing ships? I guess in the "Thank God It's Friday" planet people were always working "one more day" but I feel as if he would want to trade here.
Here's the board game Rygel played (and tried to throw!) before.
The rock star guy (with the sunglasses) has like three different accents and they're all terrible.
If the mines are closed...everyone starves because they have no money? Safety is important, but like, don't starve the whole planet.
I understand that Chiana likes sex but I have a hard time believing that she cares about Zhaan enough to have transactional sex with the miner guy.
Why was the light setup not here for the evil crackers guy.
How are John (and D'Argo and Rygel) able to just sneak into the mines? Like, they're supposed to be closed.
The mysterious whistler draws the monster off to save both John and D'Argo! Something similar happens in "The Lost Steersman" but it turns out that our rescuer in this case is not that altruistic.
Does D'Argo need to bleed out some more? ...Oh he just mentioned that the color changed.
Run the corpse back up to the ship! Altana doesn't need it!
The characters are having some closure discussions after the last commercial break. Rygel and John were recently killing each other in the mines but we're not going to talk about it because Rygel is the jester, sigh.
And then D'Argo kisses Chiana! Well then.
I feel like the idea of "abandoned space corpse" crossed with "dangerous mining complex" could have been a cool setting, but this setup felt implausible. Like, if the whole world revolves around mining, and you've just shut down the mines so you can embezzle the good stuff...obviously something is going to come to a head.

The tagline for this episode on Prime is "Zhaan, Chiana, and Rygel find themselves embroiled in a criminal conspiracy as they try to come to grips with the apparent deaths of Crichton, Aeryn, and Rygel." So obviously the two Rygels can't be right and one of them is really D'Argo. But I didn't know that would actually be a flashback to the mid-season break! Like, this was the kind of stuff I wanted to see in the first episode!
John and D'Argo were gone for 20 days.
This planet's aesthetic is neat, it's a super-city like Coruscant.
Zhaan literally gets booked for arson murder and jaywalking, hahahaha.
Oh, this is why Zhaan was like "of course I love you" to the others when they returned, she's cracked and seeing them in her spirit.
Chiana tries to help, Rygel just sits there.
"Litigara" is a good name, with context.
Just read the constitution!
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" - attributed to Oscar Wilde, used as a quote for one of the tech advances in Civilization IV. And alluded to here, if indirected.
Zhaan blames herself for Aeryn and John's deaths (talking to the hallucinations), which leads her to try to fall on her sword for Chiana and Rygel.
"We're in court, so sue me" - Rygel after a helium incident.
"It is not a lawyer's way to be long-winded" - the boss
D'Argo and Zhaan are *hearteyes*. The fake kiss!
Zhaan's face when she sees what Pilot and the kids pulled, d'aww.

"Have we sent the 'don't shoot us, we're pathetic' message yet?" - John
I watch with subtitles, and the captions list the "mind" characters, not the body they're currently inhabiting...Haha and the Amazon "X-Ray" feature that pops up when I pause does too! The voices are kind of a weird tip-off, I feel like they could have just done it by having the voices that match the bodies.
Pilot being in Chiana means we get to hear a lot more from him as an individual! D'Argo experiences kind of synesthesia when interfacing with Moya.
The name tags are cute
Rygel in John experiments with picking his nose, valid choice. (The weather where I am has been extremely dry this past week or so, so my nose is even more bloody and congested than usual, fun times.)
The body humor of "how do I go to the bathroom in this."
Pilot doesn't think anything he's experienced qualifies as love or friendship :(
Crais and Talyn didn't shoot first! Reverse Han Solo character evolution.
John is like "now that I'm in Aeryn's body I'm going to play with boobs." That is...definitely an established trope. (See also: Kimi no Na wa.)
Rygel on the bird's red vomit: Go ahead, let it out, we do this all the time on Moya. I just peed in the maintenance bay!
Also Rygel: My eyebrows are normally my erogenous zone.
...And I stay alive just for revenge on my cousin. Really?
"Clamshell" is their nickname for Pilot's hologram thingy.
Aeryn mimics John by doing a thumbs up and ok sign :D
Rygel: Back to being me, back to being ignored.
Pilot: I must "go" back inside Moya and tell her everything. So maybe when he's physically present he's often "inside" interfacing with Moya privately?
D'Argo: I really enjoyed being inside your body...not like that though.