Farscape thoughts...
(Thoughts aren't really about Chiana but the image is too pretty to pass up)
Mr Mousie and I finished Dog with two bones and Crichton Kicks rewatch.
Every other time I've watched the DWTB ep, I always assumed the title refers to Crichton - and it does, even if for him, it's not about the decision of what he wants more, Aeryn or Earth, that is at issue (it's been pretty clear to everyone, Crichton included, that he'd pick Aeryn over Earth, for some time) but his having to realize that he HAS to choose - despite what Aeryn might have talked about with Talyn-John, she would not fit on earth at all - even if he gets the chance to go home and she agrees to go with him, it won't work out.
But this time it hits me that the dog with two bones is also Aeryn - she also wants two entirely incompatible things - to not be hurt and to stay with Crichton. But she can't have both - if they are together there is every chance he might die - caring is opening oneself to hurt in any event but with the lives they lead...
I think that is why she finally agrees to a coin toss - that takes agency out of it, frees her from a choice it hurts her to make (and which on some level she still refuses to make, leaving but refusing to say good-bye and make it final).
As to Crichton Kicks, it demonstrates yet again that without Aeryn and without the Moyans, Crichton descends into something pretty close to obsessive insanity. Oddly, while I still don't like Sikozu (my least favorite Moyan ever), I don't viscerally loathe her this time...