This episode always seemed a little over the top to me- like they're doing everything short of actually breaking the fourth wall to make sure you get the joke.  That said, the Teddy Bomber was a fun bad guy, and an interesting nod to the Unibomber, who was in the headlines around the time this first came out.

Yeah, the Jet-centered episodes in general just never clicked the way they should have- I think in part that Jet lacked the kind of checkered path of Spike and Faye and the general weirdness of Ed.  He works much better as a supporting character than as the main focus.

"(“Unlike SOMEONE I know, I always pay back what I owe.”). That “someone” is Spike…"  Ummm… maybe I'm mistaken, but wasn't he speaking to Faye, she-of-the-perpetual-debt? Just saying.

Delving into the past was always a big theme for the show, but never quite so literal.

Whenever someone tells me that they don't like Ed as a character, I always point to this episode- it's the perfect showcase for the character.

At least here it's reasonably clear what happened, compared to the story of Spike's eye.

A little cheesy dialogue in an action show is no biggie- I need to re-watch this episode, though, since this is likely to be one of those cases where it makes a difference if you watch the sub or the dub- I find the latter is usually much better for this show.  That aside, this is an excellent episode- definitely…

Ummm…not that meaningful?  I thought the point of this was to say this is how Faye became who she is- that when she awoke she was naive and adrift, and now she's cynical (though not as cynical as she pretends) and capable (though, again, not as much as she pretends).  I'd say that's highly siginificant for her.  Not…

Of course, Jet pursues the past just as much as anyone else on this series- just because he's smart enough to see that doing so is a bad idea doesn't mean he's smart enough to avoid that pitfall.

Handling boredom
Spike may handle boredom better than Faye or Jet, but I don't think Ed every gets bored- she simply decided (spoilers) to take a nap and casually ate the mystery space creature when it wandered by.

Well said- still, that's just a passing reference to the main theme, and apart from that this is a very different episode in its sense of claustrophobia, and only "Pierrot le Fou" can match its suspenseful tone.

Jet and Alisa
I think Jet's decision to go after Rhint makes perfect sense, especially in light of her later rejection. He obviously still cared about her, and wanted to make sure he was taken in personally. Spike clearly got that, and was perfectly happy to let him deal with it. On the whole, this is not a strong…

As I recall…
The Cordelia in Heaven thing does have a payoff in the end, but they take their sweet time getting there.

Drawing some friends
It's worth noting that the carvings that MPU reproduces are the Nazca lines of Peru, which have been a source of fascination to archaeologists and UFO nuts alike for decades.

Spot on. Although…
I really agree with Simon on this one- it's always been my least favorite episode, and your sense that everything felt "over-or under-done" sums up why. Stella is just a bit too honest, the whole gray ash macguffin feels like something out of a bad Star Trek episode and Roco just isn't as…

And all of this goes back to one of the show's great strengths- it has something for everyone, and can do it all well.

A sorbet
To cleanse the pallet- that's what this episode was. The last few episodes were all fairly weighty, so I personally like the lighter tone of this week's show, which reinforced the roles our main characters have already taken on, while broadening the overall world in which they operate. This would actually…

Cedric's Death
The scene in the movie where Amos Diggory mourns Cedric is the definition of heart-wrenching.

Sympathy for the Devil
In most of the episodes, Spike and Jet (and sometimes Faye) often develop a relationship of sorts with the object of their hunt, if not always the person their tracking for the bounty. In this case, I think they fixate on Wen who, as far as we can tell, really hasn't done anything so terrible…

That's a fair point, but Vicious might in fact see himself as, if not heroic, then at least justified in his actions and Spike as a traitor. Given what we learn of Vicious later in the series, however, that self-justification probably becomes difficult to sustain.