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SPOILERS TOTAL.  You've been warned.

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301: Season of Death 2001 March 16

(First watched 2010-07-20)  Big stuff.  Aeryn was of course mostly dead.  Jothee and Chiana consumate their relationship.  Scorpius fakes death again.  John gets his brain fixed with the full-death of one of the frozen people.

The simplicity of people going into and out of freezing reminded me of Futurama.

Then there's the all-new opening sequence with a new theme song and the addition of Stark, Crais, and Scorpius to the main cast.  That's big.

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302: Suns and Lovers 2001 March 23

(First watched 2010-07-28)  So the shit hits the fan.  I'm starting to see that the whole D'Argo/Chiana thing only came into being so D'Argo could be crushed by Jothee/Chiana.

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303: Self-Inflicted Wounds Part I: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a 2001 March 30

(First watched 2010-08-11)

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304: Self-Inflicted Wounds Part II: Wait for the Wheel 2001 April 6

(First watched 2010-08-11)  I know these episodes were a big deal with Zhaan going and all, but... maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind; I didn't follow a lot of what was going on.  So this other ship crashes literally INTO Moya in the wall of a wormhole, got it.  So once they separate only one ship will survive, got it.  Different people have different opinions on which ship should attempt to exit safely, got it.  But then all the members of the other ship started allowing themselves to die for... some reason?

A lot of people shat on John as being obsessed with wormhole technology, but I didn't see it that way.  It wasn't so different from what happened at the end of the episode.  It was like...

John: Only one ship can survive.  Moya and Pilot are already in awful shape, and the flight of my module proved Moya's parts would get fried anyway.  There's no chance, so unfortunately we should look for alternatives.

Others: YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH WORMHOLES AND HATE YOUR FRIENDS, ASSHOLE.  WE SHOULD TAKE THE INFINITESIMAL CHANCE OF SUCCESS!

Then later it's basically the reverse situation.

Zhaan: I'm dying, but there's no reason everyone else should need to die with me.  So let me do the dangerous thing while you guys stick where it's safe.

Others: You know we were like an arn from a planet that might be good to save you, right?

Zhaan: SHUT UP, NOT LISTENING, LET ME DIE HEROICALLY AND IN THE GOOD GRACES OF GODDESS.

I can't say I'm too sorry to see Zhaan go.  If I was stuck on Moya she seems like she'd be the easiest to get along with--and really that's the problem.  The show gets so much from the other characters being in conflict with each other, but whenever she got into that it seemed a stretch.  Like the whole ripping off of Pilot's arm.  Then there was that so often they just left her on the ship while the other people went off adventuring anyway; she really wasn't being used for much.

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305: ...Different Destinations 2001 April 13

(First watched 2010-08-12)  So the first Zhaan-less title sequence.

Heeey, finally some time travel that wasn't just a reset button.  After screwing things up horribly they set things back to as they were... mostly.

Interesting that Peacekeeper accounts of the event were so screwed up when there is literally a way to watch the past.  I suppose they just had their legend going on and never bothered to come around and visit to verify.

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306: Eat Me 2001 April 20

(First watched 2010-08-13)  What a creepy situation.  Repeatedly eating a Pilot's regrowing arms.  I totally didn't believe it when D'Argo appeared to die.  After the way Zhaan's exist was built up, no way was he going to go out unexpectedly in the first half of an episode.  The doubling thing... ethically troublesome.  Chiana just left "herself" to die.  It is pretty typical of episodic sci-fi that only one of Chiana and D'Argo survived so the status quo remains--the surprise is that we've ended up with two Johns.

Also, what's the deal with Jool?  She's not playing very important roles in the episodes, so it's not like it's an arc concentrated on her.  She's not in the main credits, so she's not intended as a full replacement for Zhaan--at least not yet.  It's like she's a junior cast member?

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307: Thanks for Sharing 2001 June 15

(First watched 2010-08-13)  The surprise at the end of the last episode was that there were two Johns.  The surprise at the end of this episode is that there are STILL two Johns.  I thought they'd dispense of one pretty quickly, but this odd situation will last at least a few episodes.  I like that they've established there's no noticeable difference between the two of them--it helps it remain unobvious which one will be the regular remaining John in the end.

Also of note, they make clear Jool can do medical stuff--so perhaps more a replacement for Zhaan than I previously realized.

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308: Green Eyed Monster 2001 June 22

(First watched 2010-08-16)  Green Eyed Monster... that's almost TOO good an episode title.

"That's no moon."  Nice.

The double Crichton thing does add an element of danger to the show.  Since there's a "spare" around, when one of these Crichtons gets in a deadly situation I actually believe for a change that he might not get out of it.

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309: Losing Time 2001 June 29

(First watched 2010-08-17)  They... really went a bit crazy with that fast-forward spasm effect.

I like the humanizing of DRD Pike.

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310: Relativity 2001 July 6

(First watched 2010-08-17)  So many episodes with just one half of the cast or the other.  It's like some of them wanted some vacation time, but Ben Browder and Lani Tupu couldn't quite wrangle it.

So Aeryn is sleeping with one of the Crichtons.  That's sure to make things awkward when everyone reunites.

So much for Aeryn's mom.

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311: Incubator 2001 July 13

(First watched )

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312: Meltdown 2001 July 14

(First watched )

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313: Scratch 'n Sniff 2001 July 20

(First watched )

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314: Infinite Possibilities Part I: Daedalus Demands 2001 July 27

(First watched )

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315: Infinite Possibilities Part II: Icarus Abides 2001 August 3

(First watched )

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316: Revenging Angel 2001 August 10

(First watched )

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317: The Choice 2001 August 17

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318: Fractures 2001 August 24

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319: I-Yensch, You-Yensch 2002 April 5

(First watched )

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320: Into the Lion's Den Part I: Lambs to the Slaughter 2002 April 12

(First watched )

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321: Into the Lion's Den Part II: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 2002 April 19

(First watched )

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322: Dog With Two Bones 2002 April 26

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