Farscape Addendum (STILL COMPLETELY SPOILER-LADEN!)

OK, I went back and rewound the tape a little ways and watched the end of the episode again, because I wanted to review what the final tally of the voting was. (I'm a little bit curious as to who cast the vote for Aeryn. I'm inclined to suspect it was Pilot, but it might have been D'Argo.)

Anyway, I also ended up watching the final scene again, and, of course, it's perfectly clear why Aeryn doesn't appear to be pregnant. It's because the fetus isn't growing -- and won't, unless she does something about it. Which suddenly makes a lot of things make a lot more sense, and turns out to be a very neat little not-exactly-a-resolution to the whole looming "baby problem." The only thing I can figure for why I missed that teeny little plot point the first time is that in a rather emotionally intense scene like that one I sometimes (rather stupidly) find myself paying more attention to how the characters are saying things than to what they're actually saying.

I still have a number of questions, including a timing issue that's still kind of bugging me (namely the fact that, whatever the opening credits say, it seems to me that it must be more than three years since Crichton fell down the rabbit hole). But six or seven things just very neatly went "click." See, I said this was the Season of Episodes You Have to Watch Twice. At least, it is if you're as oblivious as I am, apparently...