Aeryn starts to bond with Pilot here, which given their relationship has some great episodes to come made me practically coo while rewatching.

Something that struck me about these early episodes that I didn't notice the first time: Pilot is already more comfortable with Aeryn than he is with the rest of the crew. Which seems weird until you reflect that he's probably far more used to interacting with Peacekeepers than the prison population, let alone weird aliens who fell through wormholes and don't make any sense at all.

Meanwhile, D'Argo may be drugged into the agrarian life, but as his last scene with Zhaan points out, there really is a part of him who wants to settle down and wants a committed relationship to go with it.

Something I hadn't expected about this rewatch is that every scene where Zhaan and D'Argo have a meaningful conversation becomes poignant when you know what's going to happen to them both. That ending where she tells him that there's plenty of time is painful now, because there really isn't, for either of them.