Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aeryn Wide Awake In the Garden
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.25.1999
Commercial, and then John's like, "Where's Zhaan?" Raisin Arizona is like, "She's my voice, and then I'm going to kill her." John finally processes the Genesis thing: the eggs and the nest. "This is some sort of spawning. And you're the Queen?" He stutters because he's never right and it tastes weird. "Life must continue." John continues to explain everything to us, about how the Drak live in space, but need warmth to lay their eggs, and then when she's done, they'll leave. Raisin Cain goes, "Right, so why are you being dicks?" John figures out that it was hunky-dory (except for making Aeryn even bitchier on the way to frying up her paraphoral nerve like a samosa) until he gave that poor bug a blanket party in their quarters. "We started this damn war!" D'Argo: "It's, um, still a war." John begs her to chill out, and apologizes, and asks how long this is going to take. I think Aeryn should be in this meeting, dude. "Time?" John's like, "Right. Alien shit again." She admits that she's currently about halfway through the birth, and John's like, "Excellent," but he checks out Aeryn's meltdown and is like, "Cool, but is the heat really necessary?" Of course it is. "Warmth propels the emergence." Heard It Through The Grapevine's all, "Oh by the way, how come Moya's not cranking it?" So John has to explain about Moya being alive and a nice lady, and how they're all going to die. D'Argo uselessly repeats how they need to kill everything ever before the Raisins attack, and Ruth Younger goes, "You are our enemy!" The Fauxdrenaline Triplets step forward in lockstep, and John explains that they're going to kill Moya, and then all of her kids will die of the cold. There's a faceoff and she thinks, then moves the clones back with her eyes.
Lacuna! John, D'Argo, Zhaan and Aeryn are now locked in a room while Raisin the Roof remembers her breathing and gets her Pure Moods on. That's such a John plan: "We're just going to hide in here, is that okay?" D'Argo removes the stinger from Zhaan's clavicle while Aeryn takes up a whole bed looking a mess. John sits beside her, worried. I wonder how much is love at first sight, and how much is just the fact that she looks human? It's interesting. Rygel comms that they are all fahrbot for going forward with a plan like that. "Yet another reason I should handle all negotiations!" And I mean, credit where it's due. The little bitch can handle that stuff for real. John unconvincingly tells him not to worry. "It's only a couple more hours." Rygel squeals that he's not into sticking around inside Moya's walls for a couple hours: "I think this thing is salivating! And my body has functions!" Dude, we know. If you only remembered one thing about this entire show, I guarantee it would be his motherfucking functions. He's got your DNA. John fills us in on how they have to stay put and Laura Raisin'll keep the heat down as much as possible, and quit with the creepy clones. Zhaan, re: Aeryn, is still quite upset but getting calmer. "I think we caught it in time. Any longer at that level and she would have suffered permanent damage. Let her rest, John. She needs to recover some strength before she's aggravated again." Heh. I love that, like Aeryn's a pet bunny at a birthday party and John's just going to keep picking her up and putting her down and strapping a bonnet on her, because he doesn't know what to do with himself. "Jesus, let the bunny take a nap." It's so, so true, and all three of them are so cute in that moment, because they all know it's true, and they all know why.
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