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Mind The Baby

Are they going to make Aeryn a cake or a banner?
Please tell me she’s double-crossing Crais, ‘cos he’s bound to be double-crossing her.
I can just see them whooping their way into battle on the back of playground equipment.
I love the thing that goes in and out of Scorpius’ head. It’s like a CD drive.
Braca lets his curiosity overcome his sense of self-preservation as he gawps at Scorpius' coolant system
Trust D’Argo and John to argue about Rock, Paper, Scissors.
That's gorgeous, Moya looks like a luminescent sting ray
There’s no real answer to that.
Love the DRD trying to run over Crais' head
Ungrateful brat.
Moya is deluding herself, he's already fired once
Well done Crais, the Command Carrier was out of range
It’s like Talyn’s gone to university.
Now there’s a loaded question.

Vitas Mortis

They’ve all got their best clothes on.
Is the old woman on fire or is that just incidental background smoke?
Among warrior societies the woman are generally tougher than the men. Nice to see that they remembered this
“When Holy Women Go Bad, Topple Over and Fall Out of Cupboards”.
If she can tell he's a fraud then she should be able to tell why. So this could be a test of character. Holy people are big on this type of thing
Fire? She’s the one smouldering gently a minute ago.
Oh, that’s where the launderette is.
John is wary about the word “ritual”.
John is determined to stick to his point.
John looks like he's stuck his fingers in a power point. What's going on with his hair today?
This woman obviously brings her own fan around with her, like Eghyon and his green backlight.
All of a sudden Moya develops high-speed eczema
And they finally find a use for Rygel. It’s like Pooh stuck in Rabbit’s burrow.
That’s what Chiana is thinking.
It’s like Spinal Tap, I expect one of them to get stuck in their pod thing.
Oh, she’s doing it for love, how convenient.

Taking The Stone

He should talk to her, he’s obviously not doing much to that console.
Euw, hate self mutilation.
I don’t know what a tralk is but I think I can guess.
This looks like a charming place to visit.
Is this 'Lord Of The Flies' planet
No, it’s just the way she’s standing.
Ooh, pretty.
Dominar Rygel the sticky-fingered
Of course it looks familiar, they’ve only got 10ft of corridor set.
Now there’s an understatement.
Yes, she will.
Oh, that’s what a tralk is.
I get why Chiana has to jump but why did the guy who died have to?
Aeryn understands the principle of waking people gently
I always thought I was old but this episode makes me feel ancient.
Cockney rhyming slang doesn’t translate well, obviously.
Ha! It was cursed! Well done Zhaan
"This does not seem wise O'Neill"
“Chiana! You did it!” How they hell are you going to get back up here?

Crackers Don't Matter

One of the things I love about 'Farscape' is that things happen between episodes, sometimes minor events but sometimes important ones. It saves having to set up the direction for the episode during the first act, they just get on with the episode and refer back to previous events to explain why they're doing it
As long as they have enough cheese, it should be bearable.
Why would he want a knife that would cut through shoes?
John does yell a lot.
I love the vent on that guy’s head.
Cunning plan to say it only affects lesser species, no one will admit to being one of those
They’re not crackers, they’re more like Quavers.
Zhaan is about five seconds away from a spanner in the mouth.
"Photogasms"? They didn't show that at 6pm on the BBC
That’s right, give the paranoid PK a gun.
John attempts to think under adverse circumstances
Actually, Ben and Jerry’s Caramel Chew Chew is really nice.
Retreat is a strategic manoeuvre
I don’t think she likes the “Honey”.
And now John won't be messing with anything either
Villains quoting Shakespeare is cliched and shouldn't be allowed
Aeryn’s right about him.
I love how it takes the Hawaiian-shirted figment of his imagination to make a mistake about pizzas and margaritas for John to figure out he’s not really real.
“When I’m old and fat…when I’m old…” I love how Aeryn succumbs to the female thing about not admitting she will ever put on weight.
Love the eye test
You’ve got to love Aeryn’s hand over her eye to really prove her superiority.
John Crichton Super Hero!
Love that pose!
Moya looks so pretty when she glows

The Way We Weren't

Crais really did sound insane there
That was really distressing to watch, actually.
A bit rich from Zhaan, the murderess and mutilator.
Pretty much, yeah.
Quite obviously, the lieutenant can’t be replaced. You just said as much.
He’s either comforting her or putting her in a headlock.
No he didn't seem sadistic to me either, he seemed gentle
Recreated. Nice euphemism.
That's fantastic, I've never seen anyone as angry as Pilot
Oh get off your bloody high horse Zhaan.
Nice work Aeryn, only two days?
Oh that really helped Pilot, thank you very much.
Is this really the time for backstory?
Sadly for Velorek he was completely right about her.
Those DRDs are really crap shots.
"Better off without you," say's who?
All that convenient smoke to hide the puppeteers.
Oh John, there’s hope for you yet.

Picture If You Will

A trader giving something away for free? What’s the catch?
Oh, she’ll find out.
She was a she? I thought it was a man in drag.
Someone was bound to trip over a DRD one day, they seem to be very good at getting in the way. It was a nasty sound effect though.
Phreaky Phortune-telling Photo. Beware, beware
What did she do to him last time?
I’m still not convinced that was a woman.
I never noticed the little ribbons on D’Argo’s plaits before.
Yeah, we all want that to happen for us.
There’s something faintly comic about the little pile of ashes, I think it’s the necklace draped carefully on top of them.
The picture doesn't look terribly flammable
Very helpful Aeryn, just what D’Argo needs.
That’s always an option I suppose.
I’ve just seen a pointy object…I was right.
Follow the yellow plank road
“You’re alive!” Upside down, but alive.
"There's nothing I can tell you." Zhaan's spider-sense is on the blink
John looks like he’s in the middle of a quickening.
John, I think you should wrap yourself in several layers of insulating material and endeavour to stay away from electricity.
Zhaan makes a slight miscalculation
I like the idea that there’s a Super Villain’s handbook, probably endorsed with jacket quotes from past Super Villains.
Maldis is a complete loon, but a cracking villain.
"Frankly no." Pilot decides to go for the honest option
"I call it lunch" Maldis is great
This must be the most ridiculously surreal way to end an episode, you’ve got to love it.
Ah, the exposition epilogue, or the writer’s way of explaining what the hell has happened in the last 45 minutes.

Home On The Remains

Yeah, just like the rest of the ship will die if they don’t eat. Zhaan isn’t so special.
Every so often we have to be reminded that Zhaan is a plant. It's classic 'Farscape' thinking to do it by having her give everyone hayfever
Welcome to my summer, every summer D’Argo.
Oh, that was disgusting.
Those accents are bugging me, as is the crack in that guy’s head.
Can’t they just snap off the bud heads, you know, dead-head the Delvian?
Neeeow, here comes the aeroplane into Zhaan’s hanger.
Ugh, Chiana stuck her finger in that guy’s head?
Oops, Aeryn just exacerbated the situation
Over the last few months, John has learned to check what he's grabbing hold of, but hasn't yet learned to check before he grabs
In the spirit of all the best panto- It's behind you!
Don’t endanger his leather-clad backside!
That was kind of disgusting.
After too much time in the light, Zhaan displays signs of a truly terrible hangover
The large hairy beast doesn't take well to being patronised
That was surprisingly athletic of John.
See, watching 'Return Of The Jedi' is beneficial
Zhaan's a growing plant
However he made her feel, I bet safe wasn't it

Dream A Little Dream

That was uncharacteristically discreet of Chiana
What is Zhaan’s primary organ then?
Well, thanks for sharing Zhaan, thinks John.
Those aliens are lit strangely.
Apparently jay-walking is a big crime here.
Relatives? Do you think that Chiana and Zhaan look alike then?
Ah, I get it, the planet of the lawyers is called Litigara. Litigation. Someone was trying to be clever there.
Zhaan hallucinates the cavalry
You’re not alone Zhaan, you’ve got all your attractive hallucinations.
I would want both, but then I’m funny like that.
Stupid hat! Stupid hat! That judge has a stupid hat!
Oh dear, you just know that this is building up to Chiana and Rygel being Zhaan’s defence lawyers.
Bartenders are always so helpful and knowledgeable, and so useful as exposition devices.
I love Rygel’s hamming it up for the grand finale of their questioning.
I wonder why I bother sometimes, I'm usually post-empted by most of the characters in this show

Out Of Their Minds

I wonder if that is what the transmission actually says?
Is that their standard transmission? Because it would be honest, anyway.
Oops, the downside to telling people that you're helpless is that they often work hard to help you remain that way
Oh I love this episode! It’s the one that looks like the most fun to make as all the cast get to do bad impersonations of each other. Ben Browder does a great Rygel, although he’s more British than Hynerian. Anthony Simcoe looks like he loves pretending to be Chiana.
John is right, it’s just like a Three Stooges episode.
Those ID badges are a good idea, but when did the DRDs get their Polaroid capabilities?
That looks like shaving foam in Chiana’s (Pilot’s) mouth.
Ooh, thinks Chiana, from this viewpoint I can see that I need my roots done.
I am frequently suspicious of my body, and I'm sure it gets suspicious back when I'm about to do something stupid with it
I wondered how long it would take John to do that.
Oh, I bet this scene gave the slash writers a field day.
When D'Argo's being Chiana, he even runs like he has breasts
In the grand tradition of Indiana Jones plans
Oh poor deluded John, you didn’t think that she wouldn’t, did you?

My Three Crichtons

Chiana has a series of very good questions there
Rygel takes timeout to compliment John
Jettison the sphere
Why does more-evolved Crichton have a lisp and a dodgy southern accent?
Our Crichton will be a lot angrier about reaching the same decision

Look At The Princess pt I - A Kiss Is But A Kiss

Adolescent wordgames
John's a slave to his hormones, why shouldn't Aeryn join him?
Chiana really likes John's body doesn't she
"Run, fight, surrender. Pick one!" Just here to say what a top class line that is
Rygel won't ever let them forget
John, you child
Well, Ben Browder had fun filming this episode
'Aeryn on the dating scene' or 'Fear and Loathing on the Royal Planet'
John senses political machinations mere seconds too late
Aeryn would be- playing hard to get
So what happens when the kid is born half human and half poisoned Cebacean. What if IT is incompatible with the rest of the populace?
This 'statue for 80 cycles to learn' thing sounds quite a good idea in theory, if you're not John
"Buffy The Vampire Slayer will be dead" like that's hard, she's popped her clogs twice already

Look At The Princess pt II - I Do, I Think

And John feels married already
He is weak, but his hired muscle is strong
Is it just me or does Moya's builder look like the Penguin from 'Batman Returns'?
Rage is never charitable
Aeryn makes a stand against New Romantic make-up trends
Chiana would have done better to swear after she left the room
John proving how beneficial it is to have a breakdown once in a while
So Aeryn grabs rebound guy and heads for the hills
I know I said the 80 cycles thing was useful, but it would be so dull after about 6 minutes
Definitely line of the season
Love John's manly pose

Look At The Princess pt III - The Maltese Crichton

At this point Tobin has a fit
Rebound guy gets nine out of ten for effort
Crichton's reaction to having his head cut off is much like telling Bitca you have a date
John is more of an irregular boy scout
John may be in love with Aeryn, but he's very polite, he doesn't kick anyone
Yes, so Aeryn tells John she wants him, making him bored and frustrated for 80 cycles

Beware Of Dog

Is John playing chess against himself or against Scorpius?
"The human doesn't want to talk" I think that qualifies as a bad sign
John is reduced to golf fantasy
Don't shoot up your own ship John
Not clear at all apparently
It understood that
Panto again
John and Aeryn are like me with a paintball gun- crap shots
Good answer
It's like Old Yeller in space, she had to shoot her own Vorc
That's encouraging
It's usually too late after the trap has closed
I thought he was playing with Scorpius
John runs through his mental checklist and discovers that they've covered all the obvious bases this time

Won't Get Fooled Again

John does not come out of the game of Questions quite as badly as it would appear. he only drops two points
Those are just the worst shoes I've ever seen
"Always time for beer" "Those who think Australian, drink Australian"
Well, that effectively derailed his train of thought
The gang's all here
Personality clones explains the 'in crowd' in every school
John makes an anti-disco stand
That is a truly bizarre thing she can do with her tongue

The Locket

No, she really is that old, only old people talk like that
Aeryn's granddaughter definitely inherited the attitude
Crichton will be stubborn 'til the day he dies
I love the idea that you have to develop a theory that people are telling the truth
I get the impression that they have this conversation every couple of years or so
Good bluff Aeryn
What part of 'just trust us' did they miss?

The Ugly Truth

I do like the way that the Placavian ship has grappling hooks and not the old cliche of a tractor beam
John has yet to put away childish things
Aeryn is being questioned by the Spanish Inquisition, "Fetch the comfy chair!"
"It was you what done it, own up"
It's quite a leap to think to explain about different points of view, usually we assume that people automatically take this into account
For a moment I believed it

A Clockwork Nebari

D'Argo will care
I can't believe that a) he calls his pulse pistol Winnona, b) that he let other people find out about it and c) that anything called Winnona is reliable
I don't get it either, but I'm not relieved, I'm frightened
The Nebari are like politically correct Nazi hippies, and the fact that you can get all of them in one entity is disturbing all by itself
Chiana develops the ultimate teenage anthem
That's what comes of relying on something called Winnona
Of course he'll thank you, he'll have to
The drugs may not be working but they are clearly still in his system
I'd say I can't believe that John's cover is a surfer dude, but I can
I knew we couldn't repress his dirty mind, or Rygel's for that matter

Liars Guns And Money pt I - A Not So Simple Plan

"This mask talked to me" that'll convince them
Nice catch John, although unique is not always valuable, not when unique=KFC
Stark appears to still be slightly dispersed in the brain area
'Bonnie And Clyde' was bad all the way through, then ending was the best bit because that's where it stopped
Scorpius is the best barterer
Crichton sings The Star Spangled Banner to help fight against the effects of brain washing. Am I the only one who finds this amusing?

Liars Guns And Money pt II - With Friends Like These

But you did stop yourself D'Argo, that's what counts
It's the replicators from 'Stargate'. Now Moya is being eaten by technic lego
John still can't get the Tavlec's name right
It's bad enough when someone runs off with your money, but it's worse when your money runs off by itself
Pilot is keeping the home fires burning
Uh oh, if he let Jothee go, what did he take in return? Let's do a head count and see who's missing
I'll give you three guesses Rabbit

Liars Guns And Money pt III - Plan B

Don't expect it to stay that way
Stark uses his lunacy to good effect
Talon must have heard Moya
Crais is right
No I'm Spartacus!
If you can't move in your head, are you paralysed or brain dead?
And he is still rescued
A leviathan fly-by. Impressive
Talon's decision then
Succinct move Aeryn
Rygel gets his priorities straight
Crichton in the grand tradition of '2001' is apparently losing battery power
Sit it out John, even an hallucinatory clone can only rant for so long

Die Me, Dichotomy

I know he's relieved to be out of the orange boiler suit and into some butt-hugging leather, but this is taking it a step too far
Eeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!!
Useful trick that Luxons have
No, he's telling you you've got spiders in your brain
Fine, you'll be dead anyway John
Great insult Rygel
I hope he can remember what he said in the neural cluster
That is one of the most beautiful proposals I've ever heard
She's not dead, she's frozen (like John Wayne according to Dennis Leary)
"Now replace brain" I know that feeling
I too got the gist of that