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Posted By: Nomad Jun 15, 2002 - 08:51 am

The following is Chrightons Journey Logs -- Possible Spoilers for discussion

If Moya survived her trip down the wormhole ("Dog With Two Bones", Chiana, Rygel, and I hoped she'd fly to her original destination: Arnessk, a planet where Jool's people had an archeological dig. Elack ("Crichton Kicks" agreed to take us there.

Raise a glass — the long shot paid off. We found D'Argo, Jool, and the Old Woman with the Interion archeologists. Jool couldn't remember what happened in the wormhole, just said Pilot would explain when Moya returned. No one had heard from Aeryn.

Instead, everybody'd gone ga-ga over the site's dusty history. Once upon a time, Arnesskan Priests built a temple there that somehow ensured peace between the Scarrans and Peacekeepers. Five hundred generations later, party poopers fired three Darnaz Probes onto Arnessk, creating the Darnaz Triangle. This screwed up the planet's magnetics. Eden vanished, the peace was shattered, and the planet became an inhospitable rock. During certain periods, people can still survive there — that's when the Interions schedule their digs. When the deadly magnetics intensify again, everyone has to leave.

The dig leader, Instructor Vella, was the site's Nutty Professor, minus the sense of humor. She'd already located two Darnaz Probes. If she found the third, she believed she could free the planet from its magnetic prison. Whatever. I just wanted to rejoin Moya and find Aeryn.

Sadly, up in orbit, old Elack was entering termination shutdown. While Rygel urged the ship to hang on, Sikozu meddled with my Module. Can't protest (much), 'cause she got it flying again and even rigged it to pick up Peacekeeper transmissions.

I just wish she'd been faster to intercept the news that Grayza, Braca and muchos PK commandos were planning a surprise visit to Arnessk.

Down below, oblivious to that particular threat, The Old Woman was all freaked out over some cryptic apocalypse or something. Instead of giving me a straight answer about Moya or Aeryn, she taught me how to turn on and drop out by snorting bug guts, then raved about the dangers of the Darnaz Triangle. Tagging along behind her was Oo-nii, who looked like a cross between a Brady Bunch Tiki idol and a Martian Aqua-Dude. Still don't know what his deal is.

I also don't know the deal with D'Argo and Jool. Turns out, D'Argo enjoys playing Indiana Jones almost as much as Jool does. He and Jool seem close, but I wonder if they're truly compatible. After all, Jool worshipped Vella, who didn't think Luxans were the brightest crayons in the galactic box. Color me unsurprised.

The day grew more confusing when Grandma declared that the planet's Interion "defilers" must die. To persuade me, she hit me with a faceful of herbs, inducing my biggest Technicolor vision yet: the Arnessk glory days. Temple. Priests. Probes — I even saw where the missing one landed. And a golden tile....

I woke up in the water, with Oo-nii Hasselhoff dragging me to shore. By the time I dried out, I realized Grandma'd scampered off with my pulse pistol and learned Vella'd been turned to stone by a Serax carver — a slick excavation tool and an even slicker murder weapon. D'Argo was drunk, grouchy, clutching said carver, and standing over Vella's remains. Call me crazy, but I still suspected Grandma.

Looking for her, I discovered the golden tile from my vision. Gave me goosebumps, chills, the works — because I'm sure one of the markings on it was ancient Egyptian. As in, from Earth.

At this point, Sikozu finally came planetside to warn us about the Peacekeepers' arrival, but Miss Fashionably Late only reached D'Argo in time. The rest of us found out the hard way: Grayza captured us. Then....

...then things got weird. Grayza'd brought Scorpius along — on a leash. She claimed he was a peace offering. Claimed she wanted to be friends with me. And I — don't get me wrong, I felt dirty, sick — but I wanted her. Needed her. I can't explain it. Then....

I kissed her.

And that was just the beginning.



Tammy Macintosh . . . . . . Jool
Raelee Hill . . . . . . Sikozu
Melissa Jaffer . . . . . . The Old Woman
Rebecca Riggs . . . . . . Commandant Mele-On Grayza
David Franklin . . . . . . Captain Braca
Steve Le Marquand . . . . . . Oo-Nii
Elizabeth Alexander . . . . . . Vella
Kim De Lury . . . . . . Tarnat

Writer . . . . . . Justin Monjo
Director . . . . . . Rowan Woods

Posted By: ZimNova Jun 16, 2002 - 10:48 am

Well I don't know if I liked this episode or should take it out behind the barn and put it out of it's misery?

Right off the bat they frell with our minds with the "previously on Farscape" never seen scenes. Like just when did Lt. Braca, whom I must assume survived the destruction of the command carrier, make Captain and get his own ship? Word on the street is this ep. was supposed to air after some other ep. which we have yet to see. Something is fishy here and not just Oo-nii. John is correct in the above journey log statement as well as not alone in not "getting the deal" with that character? That's the worst alien creature (well the make-up was great and the growl was kinda nice) except maybe the Vork from *Beware of Dog* imho.

I definitely do not like the Old Woman (btw, Braca called her race *Traskin*). We don't know where she really came from, what she was doing on Moya and everytime she does anything it frells everything up. That magic dust in the face trick has for me already grown stale. I am weary of where the writers may be taking us with her character.
Good to see Jool again but brother does her make-up look bad in natural light or what? Ouch!

Things I liked.
The whole "peace" between the PK and Scarrans story line is interesting up to a point as well as to what use will the Darnez Triangle play.
I really liked the all to short scene with the Amesskan priests and the goat, that was wierd and I likes wierd.
The new mystery of how an Egyptian symbol ended up on a tile, 60 cycles away from Earth at light speed, on Amesska? It has got to do something with wormholes I'll wager or maybe even the Pathfinders. I know, I know...ask Pilot.
What happened to Moya and why is nobody talking about it.
The ocean around Oz is so beautiful they could show it every week without any complaint from me.
Sikozu is pretty handy around a space dock eh? Able to whip up some go juice for John's module and jury rig the com. system too.


Things I didn't like.
Now let me say, Rebecca Riggs is a good looking woman playing Grayza but the whole concept of the love potion sweat leaves me wondering what are they trying to pull here? She can bend men to her will with sex...that's a new idea!
Am I the only one hoping the show gets back to the story telling from the first 3 seasons? I mean new characters are all well and good but they seem to be sliping away from the formula that makes the show work for me.
I also don't understand why Chiana remains so hostile towards Jool other than the fact she might be jealous because Ka D'argo & Jool are beginning to get closer.
And Scorpius lickin' boots??? I want to know how he went from toughest dog on the block to lap-dog leather bitch so fast?
Under the "give me a break" catagory. The Old Woman needs to use the loo so the same ruthless PK who shot the Interion dude down cold lets her out of the cell...no frelling way! More likely it should have been; "P*** in the corner witch".
And at the last Crichton jumping off the cliff into the sea was a about as suspenseful as watching a box of corn flakes. Maybe fish-boy will swim out to fetch him again?

Posted By: Iznardi Jun 17, 2002 - 04:50 am

What was Lost.

I was lost. Completely. I'll have to wait til next week to comment, when I know what the frell is going on.

Posted By: fanuilh Jun 17, 2002 - 07:09 am

Is anybody else having trouble hearing some of the dialog? Every once in awhile a character or two will rip something out so fast or so quietly, or both, that I cannot make out what they're saying. I don't have any interest in staying up until 1 a.m. to watch it again so I can try to figure out what they said, so I can only hope it wasn't anything important.

Yeah, I wondered about the "previously on Farscape" scenes that I'd never seen before, too. That they're airing the episodes out of order actually is a relief, I thought I was experiencing some sort of weird memory loss. Or had fallen asleep while watching earlier episodes without realizing it.

Scorpius was reduced to boot-licking (and drooling, yuck) because of the cylinder they put into that whirling device thingy in his head. I'll bet he's pissed about that. I'll bet he gets even later, too. That might be interesting....

No suspense at all as to whether John drowned. I mean, for cryin' out loud. Maybe Wrinkles was actually trying to save him by making him jump off the cliff to get away from the PKs.

I assumed Grayza was using some sort of pheromone to enthrall Braca and John. I wonder if it's something she had implanted, or if all female PKs have the capability but not all use it.

I do hope a few things get explained next week. I understand the arc concept and not answering everybody's questions all at once and having twists to the story making things interesting, etc. etc. etc. But confusing us for the sake of confusing us... well, that's probably too harsh. Oh, well. *sigh* Nothing to do but wait.

Posted By: Iznardi Jun 18, 2002 - 12:13 pm

Well, I feel liberated know that Zim has raised objections.

I haven't enjoyed the new season much. Like fan, I find it is difficult to follow dialog, and like zim I an getting tired of getting chaos instead of story. Too much of a caffeine buzz, not enough of simple escapism. I hope this is just a phase, and not the direction of the whole next season.

Posted By: AspZelazny Jul 07, 2002 - 09:53 pm

I agree wholeheartedly with the problems with understanding the dialogue ... I thought I was losing more of my hearing in my old age. I've taken to taping the Farscape eps, watching during the taping, and then immediately replaying it with the Captions option on. Amazing how much that helps! -- and for my money, that's better than spending the time with Stargate; just can't get into that one.