For some reason I couldn't remember anything about this episode, so tonight's viewing was almost as if I was watching it for the first time. I got the sense that "Mind the Baby" was partly tying loose plot threads off from the end of the first season, and partly (re)setting things up for the second. Yes, we already knew by the end of the first season that Crais had been ousted from Peacekeepers and had stolen Talyn and that Scorpy had taken over as the new Big Bad. However to me it looked like this episode was restating these things for the benefit of those who had just started watching or those who had forgotten the details of "Family Ties".
Talking of the Big Bad... this is the first time we see Scorpius's cooling rod! Though its function isn't made clear here, and it comes off primarily as a neat, though somewhat gross, special effect. Braca is still settling into his Smithers role, and he appears at once fascinated and repulsed by Scorpius. I don't envy his leviathan expert, though!
For the rest, I see they were still continuing the theme of the Moyans as a "Jerry Springer kind of family", particularly as the crew were reunited. I loved Rygel's "slight case of the introns" when he saw Crichton and D'Argo again. It's hard to believe he was prepared to sell them out only a short time before.
When I first watched this, I felt as disoriented as the characters, not least because I couldn't quite get the hang on how much or little time had passed since the s1 finale.
That one does my head in too. How long was D'Argo unconscious? How long can a Luxan remain unconscious without suffering brain damage? It was clear from the intro that the crew on Moya had time to have a few adventures before they were reunited with their lost comrades (though we have to wait a while before we learn what they were). I thought the episode could have done with a throwaway line or two to indicate time passing. As it was, it looked like D'Argo woke up and things started happening within an arn or two afterwards.
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Date: 2020-08-09 11:58 am (UTC)Talking of the Big Bad... this is the first time we see Scorpius's cooling rod! Though its function isn't made clear here, and it comes off primarily as a neat, though somewhat gross, special effect. Braca is still settling into his Smithers role, and he appears at once fascinated and repulsed by Scorpius. I don't envy his leviathan expert, though!
For the rest, I see they were still continuing the theme of the Moyans as a "Jerry Springer kind of family", particularly as the crew were reunited. I loved Rygel's "slight case of the introns" when he saw Crichton and D'Argo again. It's hard to believe he was prepared to sell them out only a short time before.
That one does my head in too. How long was D'Argo unconscious? How long can a Luxan remain unconscious without suffering brain damage? It was clear from the intro that the crew on Moya had time to have a few adventures before they were reunited with their lost comrades (though we have to wait a while before we learn what they were). I thought the episode could have done with a throwaway line or two to indicate time passing. As it was, it looked like D'Argo woke up and things started happening within an arn or two afterwards.