@Another Narrator Returns: It might be a bad allegory about immigration and refugees, but if the reviewer thinks it's a bad allegory about Apartheid, then he's still an idiot.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. His absence was very odd. Good to hear he'll be back, although more than his "fair share" sounds a bit ominous.

So what's the deal with the Flash barely being in Season 1 after having been such a stand-out in the original series? Was Michael Rosenbaum not available?

Yeah. Like Abigail, I've always considered D'Argo to be pretty young - not that far out of adolescence for his species. That would fit perfectly with Abigail's fantastic character analysis of him here: self-righteousness and a tendency to see enemies in people who won't let you have your way is a fairly adolescent…

He and Zhaan had already mind-melded, so she could get to him but not the others.

I'm here. *waves*

I wouldn't have minded it so much except that she'd already played that role in Barrel Bear.

I enjoyed this episode, but I'm really not liking the characterization of Mahandra. She knows Jaye has an issue with hurting who she loves, so she helps by harassing her into breaking up with her boyfriend?!

His praise for the bullet train sequence, which has looked absolutely terrible in the clips they've released, indicates the latter, I fear.

Yeah. I flat-out didn't understand what was going on. Why would D'Argo think that Chiana is the only one who knows where Crichton is, even assuming the heat-ray got him to talk?

Alas, poor Crichton…

I have to say I loved the last scene. It was wonderfully done, with the tension, the swelling music, then the quiet hinting that the worst has happened, then Aeryn's smile. Really great stuff.

Oh, yeah. The jokes were fantastic. There's D'Argo's line before Crichton was made into a statue is the best, but the walking in on them was also a lovely running gag. It was an especially painful one for me because a friend of mine did that to me in college once - he was having a crisis and my girlfriend and I had…

I guess I never got the idea that Chiana was looking for stability. Didn't she escape her own race precisely because she hated being locked down? And I can absolutely see why they'd get together as fuckbuddies, to ease the loneliness. But I get the impression that the show wants me to think of them as something more…

Yeah. I noticed that they've been suggesting that they'd get together for a while. There's just not been much explanation of why it makes sense, romantically rather than just sexually.

Notes from a newbie:

Caroline Dhavernas storming out of the bar in those pink pants? Wow…

"So this is the type of fiction where not only the killer is omniscient but everybody and everything are connected?"

VAGUE SPOILER FOR ORIGINAL SERIES AND MAYBE FOR THIS ONE

I don't think the episode itself supports your sympathy for Futuro.