Reading the comments from the original post was very illuminating—lots of possible issues with this design.

Fellow husband of a pregnant wife here, seconding this observation: do not watch this episode with your pregnant wife

If you thought RP1 was bad, you clearly never checked out his follow-up, Armada, which was literally a layer cake of cliche, from words, sentences, dialogue, character...all the way to concept. It was one of the worst chapters I ever read, and should have put it down after the first page.