Learn English – What does being back to something mean

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What does the phrase "Now it's back to all the brightness, and everything I hate" mean? (Riddicks s dialogue in The Chronicles of Riddicks movie)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick

Is the whole dialogue a famous idiom or a part of it? If it contains such an idiom, please tell me.
Many thanks in advance

Best Answer

There is no idiomatic expression here overall, except for the verb: to be back to something. That said, in regular speech, to describe a situation, a speaker will often say: Now, we're back to [some condition or state]. And the "to be back to" is followed by a condition or state can be said by a person or it can be attributed to a situation. Here, it's for a situation, "Now, it's [the situation] is back to A [condition].

Of course, to be back to something just means to have returned to a place, situation or condition. A paraphrase of the sentence would read: We have now returned to a situation of brightness. And brightness, well, that is a lot of light, or perhaps better said, not darkness....