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Hello! Thank you for the feedback - agree the episode isn't completely without merit, but I just can't get into it. My first time through the series I unknowingly skipped it (well, the person who was scaping me skipped it on purpose) and in rewatches I have so little patience for it. Part of that is knowing Chiana will FINALLY be there in the next episode, but part of it is that JC is just really poorly executed.

Oh - and I love DALD. Prime Chi, Zhaan, Ryge. What a coincidence that it got the least inspired plot in the whole series. But Chi, Zhaan and Ryge are still awesome in it. So I love it dearly.

I've written impassioned defenses of DALD in the past and am not one of those people who see it as abjectly terrible, but again, it's the execution that fails for me. John inadvertently abandoned on a planet? Chi, Ryg, Zhaan, and Pilot having to save themselves with the others believed dead? Both terrific premises. But I have so much trouble with the details.

Probably moreso with DALD, since I love Chi & Rygel together so much and feel like they deserved a much better spotlight episode. I'd love to write a fic someday that takes the basic idea behind DALD and gives it a Film Noir spin, instead of Law & Order.

Thanks for stopping by!