do you think john ever got to see his family in earth again after bad timing? his last conversation with his dad always has me bawling.
that’s such a beautiful moment!
i think i lean towards no, at least not to stay. john crichton has always been an analogue for dorothy gale - he’s super excited to go into space/over the rainbow for all of about five minutes but then he accidentally kills the villain’s sibling and immediately wants to go home.
but while dorothy’s journey is about finding that the way home was always inside of her, the show takes john to the realization that he can never go back to the home he once knew, but he can build a new home and a new family on moya with aeryn et al. so to me it’s pretty essential for his arc that he doesn’t end up back on earth.
i also think it’s needed for balance in the john/aeryn relationship. others have made the criticism that it’s contrary to aeryn’s character for her to end up in such a nuclear family when that’s really not even a concept in the culture she grew up in. but i think it works when she consents to that for john, and on the other hand john consents to giving up everything and everyone he ever knew and loved before meeting her.
it’s a nice thought that he could have gone back to visit though! and that jack and olivia could meet their grandson/nephew and any other baby sun-crichtons that come along 😊