The Things We Cannot Change

Season 2, Episode 17, Aired

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Dylan wakes up to find a wife and a kid, but he doesn't accept that it is real. Meanwhile, Dylan's body is slowly dying from lack of oxygen, as he spins around in a space suit.
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    Unfortunately, this is just a filler episode. Yes, there are scenes with Dylan and his imaginary wife and son, but the clip show format is what you do when you\\\'re short on ideas. They do allude to the fact that Dylan has effected life forms that exist within the black hole, so that may be the only interesting part. If you\\\'re watching the series for the first time like I am, this one will be painful to get through. The wide angle special effect of the black hole is great, however the CGI of Tyr and Dylan in their EVA suits does leave something to be desired. They could have made this idea for an episde much better had they actually revealed the aliens within the black hole, or linked it to the Magog god.moreless
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    • Beka: Why is it that the most beautiful things are always the most dangerous? Tyr: They do it on purpose. Rommie: Black holes give me goosebumps. Dylan: Haha, do androids get goosebumps? Rommie: (defensively) This one does. Dylan It's probably just gamma rays. Rommie: And x-rays and high energy electrons, it's a spinning singularity Dylan. The regular ones are bad enough. Dylan: Tell me about it. I'm the one who spent three hundred years behind an event horizon. Rommie: (pouting) I was there too. Beka: Tell me again how my poor Eureka Maru can hang its butt out there but the big strong Andromeda Ascendant can't even get close? Rommie: (proudly) Because I am so big. Tyr: (softly) That would be... what, the product of the two masses divided by the square of the distance be... (notices Beka glaring at him) ...tween them. Beka: Yeah... Thanks Tyr.

    • Tyr: It's like scanning mud.
      Rommie: No, it's not. Mud I can see through, gamma radiation I can't.

    • Tyr: Unfortunately, I don't always share the little professor's unswerving confidence in his own engineering ability.

    • Harper: We played hide and go teleport with one of Trance's fish in hydroponics. Beka: And? Trance: Tuna tartare.

    • (when Tyr decides to get into a space suit, leave Andromeda and grab Dylan from the edge of a black hole)
      Beka: Are you nuts? You'll both be sucked into the black hole!
      Tyr: That's what the cable's for.
      Beka: If you're doing all this to impress chicks Tyr... (kisses his helmet where his mouth is) ...I'm impressed.
      (she walks away, leaving a stunned Tyr)

    • Beka: Tyr, you don't have to come. I know how hard it is for you to beat that Nietzschean self-preservation gene.
      Tyr: You know that 'Nietzschean self-preservation gene', as you call it, can't be passed down unless a breeding partner makes herself available. Proving one's worth as a husband and father requires taking risks.
      Beka: So, all these dangerous macho things you do... it's to impress the chicks?

    • Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill fragment of Ancient Earth Text, c. CY 6800.

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    • Excerpts Directed by Allan Eastman, Brad Turner, David Winning, Michael Robison, T.J. Scott, David Warry-Smith, Jorge Montesi, Geoge Mendeluk, and Brenton Spencer.

    • Excerpts Written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ethlie Ann Vare, Erik Oleson, Matt Kiene, Joe Reinkemeyer, Ashley Edward Miller, and Zack Stentz.

    • International Airdates: -This episode aired in Canada on April 6, 2002 on Mystery. -This episode aired in the UK on July 15, 2002 on Sky One. -This episode aired in the Australia on May 3, 2003 on Fox 8.

    • This episode is in a clip-show format, containing clips from: Season One: "An Affirming Flame" "To Loose the Fateful Lightning" "D Minus Zero" "The Banks of Lethe" (3x) "The Devil Take the Hindmost" "Star-Crossed" "Its Hour Come Round at Last" (3x) Season Two: "The Widening Gyre" "Exit Strategies" "Home Fires" "The Prince" "Bunker Hill" "Ouroboros"

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    • Home is the sailor, home is the sea And the hunter home from the hill. This is the last line of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem Requiem. It was first published in 1887. It also appears on Stevenson's tombstone.