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Again, order may vary slightly.

Another fairly rushed intro.
Aeryn's heat sensitivity gets brought up again, yay continuity!
"It's only people who know you who want to kill you" -Aeryn to Rygel. On one hand, lol, on the other, still worried that Rygel is just the team punching bag.
There was only one bed!
Ohhh now the title makes sense in context, and sounds ominous!
D'Argo the cargo shipper, nice rhyme
Aeryn deals with impostor syndrome, d'awww.
More of that weird modern art style (that we saw in Moya's sparring room) in Volmae's lair, was that just really "in" when they were filming?
Ohhh it's Peacekeeper tech, that makes more sense!
Aeryn the nerd! The conversation with Pilot is the kind of thing they would have had me do in this "women in math" study, haha.
The colonists versus locals tension is good, and the way that Moya's crew sort of interacts with that. Many kinds of agency.
Starburst count plus one
"Shintock sonnets," I am intrigued.
I liked this episode. It's the kind of thing that could have been easy to just play for laughs, "oh no these people are so dumb they're stuck in a time loop," but Aeryn's scientist-versus-warrior tensions and the way the planet tries to fight back against the Peacekeepers on their own terms (rather than being just the tools in the Leviathan-versus-Peacekeeper war) were done well and gave it more emotional depth. If all the episodes are this well-considered then I'm very hopeful about the series!

John gets Havana Syndrome, lol.
It's like "ET" but from the alien's POV, nice.
"We had no choice but to slaughter the civilians" - D'Argo, before getting it turned on him.
"Fossil fuel burning ground vehicles, those primitives" too real!
I'm assuming what we're supposed to conclude is "John got the chlorium there just in time to help Moya recover and take off safely," but I feel like you could interpret it as "turns out with Zhaan's help, Moya didn't actually need the chlorium, and John and D'Argo almost got captured for nothing." ??
I feel like the entire planet is going to see the liftoff and capture it on their video cameras, heh. Maybe just that area.

This all starts with Rygel getting sick. Again, I feel like he's more of a burden than an asset overall, or at least the team treats him that way...?
The jester's "woohoo, teleportation" and the "wizard's" playfulness is a big genre swap. Galavant-level silliness here.
Why doesn't John immediately start by trying to talk to Crais?
Zhaan is going to practice on the two-headed bird :(
Crais and his brother are like Kaladin and Tien from the Stormlight Archives, I guess.
Of course Zhaan is trying to wait to see if a third option emerges so they don't need to resort to violence. Classic Zhaan!
John sciences his way out of the situation by deducing what Maldis is up to, nice.
Zhaan: "oh you want me to practice my pain-inflicting skills on Rygel instead? ...yeah, sure, screw Rygel." Guy cannot catch a break.
"My oath as a Peacekeeper"--immediately shown to mean nothing. Is that just a case of "Crais will say anything to try to kill John," or does his role as a Peacekeeper specifically mean nothing to him? Maybe since he was drafted and he failed his brother he isn't exactly as loyal as he seems?
"Get your own Hallowed Realm, also dibs on your stuff." Okay, if Rygel is going to be the punching bag, at least give him some amusing lines.
Maldis: "I give you my word!" John: "lol I've heard that one before."
John doesn't actually have a plan here? "Crais is an animal" just means "I won't feel bad killing him?"
Oh but Maldis does. Okay, the ship-stealing plot makes sense, after "Thank God It's Friday" I'm expecting more motivation/fleshed-out goals from these minor villains! We'll take it.
Crais kills the one person who had basically proven herself to be on his side to make sure his secret is ultra-safe, oof. Vader-level leadership.
And now Zhaan has to deal with "I can't just switch my violence powers on and off as useful for the plot, once I've used them it's hard to go back." (Shades of Erek King from Animorphs.) Hopefully this will be an ongoing struggle and not just a convenient plot device.
I was complaining before this episode that we still didn't even know Crais' brother's name or have basically any weaknesses from Zhaan beyond magic empathy powers, so it's nice to see both of those get addressed ;)