At long last, I finally
made time to watch the Rewatch episode!!
I remember that I did not particularly like this episode the first time I watched it. I've come to enjoy it more and more each time I go through it. There's so much to like about it. It's the first black-T episode, as John begins his transition from who he was into who he is eventually going to become.
His relationship with D'Argo takes a step forward, when he learns that there is more to D'Argo's history than he (D'Argo) will admit. The filmography during the time shifts is great. And I love the first use of the PK-design carpet and the symbolism of how Aeryn winds up lying on the red chevron. (I just wish I had figured that out myself, instead of having to read about it when they got to The Way We Weren't.
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I don't usually like time travel story lines, precisely because there is usually a huge logic hole in them somewhere. What I like about BBBTF is that they did NOT attempt to tie up all the loose, straggly ends ... and by leaving things a bit vague and unresolved, they do not drive the episode headlong into a time paradox that cannot be explained or sufficiently resolved in a single episode.
I loathe unaddressed time paradoxes. If the writers/producers (of any show) are going to tackle time travel, then either do what Farscape has done here (leave it wide open because no one on board Moya has the answers) or commit to getting it all worked out.
I'm happy with the highly Farscapian method of just tossing out a fast explanation -- "temporal dislocation" -- and then getting back to the storytelling. They're only 5 episodes into the process, and they've already established that they'll toss this stuff at the audience and let the viewers figure it out for themselves, assuming that each individual member of the audience is intelligent enough to work out the answers for him/herself.
