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Posted By: Nomad Aug 17, 2002 - 08:40 am

"Coup by Clam"

Captain's Log ... frell this. Crichton's full of dren.

This is Ka D'Argo, Captain of Moya.

The jumble of electrostatic impulses in Tormented Space was driving Moya mad. She needed additional zyntian filtration to muffle this "noise," and Khurtanan's mechanics could install it. But Khurtanan was a planet of misogynist hypochondriacs, and they wouldn't help us until one of their doctors, Tumii, declared us healthy. This took time.

Meanwhile, the food Tumii offered us was sickening — as in deadly. If a Qatal Mollusk's two halves are eaten by two different people, the halves form a sensory link between those beings — and cause fatal food poisoning. We learned this because, after Doctor Tumii fed us the Mollusks, he explained our danger and announced that only he knew the cure. In exchange for a quarter-million currency pledges per poisoned crewmember, he'd save our lives. The scheming frellnik had us by the mivonks.

Crichton and Sikozu had eaten one Mollusk, so they were sharing physical and emotional sensations. Same for me and Noranti; same for Aeryn and Rygel. Never mind the pain and embarrassment — without a cure, we'd soon become paralyzed and die.

Since Chiana hadn't eaten a Mollusk, she supervised the mechanic who'd be fixing Moya. Noranti began researching a cure, while Crichton, Aeryn and I went planetside to visit Tumii's office.

There, the doctor lectured us on how the Mollusks worked, which was almost more nauseating than the sickness itself. We agreed to pay him. Crichton offered Tumii double if he'd spare us the lecture. Then Tumii announced that he required additional Mollusks to cure us; he only had enough on premises to heal me and Noranti. Great news, if I could endure both the medicine's "special" ingredients and holding hands with Noranti for arns while the Mollusk's bacteria left our bodies. I returned to Moya to begin the waiting.

As Tumii, Aeryn and Crichton waited for the delivery of more Mollusks, the doctor received another visitor — who shot him. (That made me very angry — I was looking forward to shooting him myself.) Though he survived, the assassination attempt opened our eyes to a new problem.

Khurtanan's repression of females had spawned a resistance movement. These women imported the Qatal Mollusks to use as discreet murder weapons against the male government, who mistook the symptoms of poisoning for those of Space Madness. Tumii had discovered their plot and demanded that the women supply him with Mollusks for his extortion schemes in exchange for his silence. Their shooter was trying to end the blackmail.

So the Mollusks we needed were in the hands of dangerous revolutionaries. Our luck never changes.

While Rygel joined Crichton guarding the doctor, Aeryn and Sikozu visited a gentlemen's club. The women working there seemed submissive, but were actually the core rebel group. Their leader, Selva, didn't dare trust Aeryn and Sikozu. Instead, she ordered them captured. Knowing that the girls had eaten Mollusks, Selva hoped to lure their linked partners into coming to the club as well.

Naturally, Crichton and Rygel did exactly that. To infiltrate the club, they dressed as females — which I really, really wish I'd gotten to see. Unfortunately, I was on Moya rubbing fingers with the old woman — I even missed the good stuff that happened onboard. For instance, Chiana realized that our mechanic was really a woman in disguise....

Anyway, suspecting that Crichton and Rygel were in the club, Selva told her henchwoman to cut off Aeryn's finger — guessing that whoever was linked to Aeryn would also feel the pain and scream, betraying himself. That would have been Rygel, who was searching the club's storage rooms for Mollusks. But Sikozu volunteered for the torture instead — so Crichton shared her pain. And Crichton happened to be dancing just then with some frisky pervert, right under Selva's watchful eyes.

This all would obviously have been a really great joke if he and the others hadn't been microts from certain death....

Posted By: ZimNova Aug 17, 2002 - 07:51 pm

Well I'm gonna say, there ain't no middle ground with CBC, you either like this type of episode or you don't. I include myself in the latter category. Fans are spilt as never before at the shows official BBs.
In the interest of fair play I'm going to watch this episode again to see if I can find any redeeming value what-so-ever.
What the hell was the point of the "previously on Farscape* intro? as none of that had anything to do with this.
OK, one thing, Sikozu only eats a few times a cycle, great way to stay thin.
OK, techno-babble sets our heros off to find a cure for Moya's ill effects traveling in Tormented Space.
Qatal Mollusks??? Give me a break, we've been there done that before. Bugs [A bug's life], was way better plus in OOTM we had a far superior episode where the characters play off each others differences, drad.
Granny again...you can still flush her down the nearest wormhole ASAP.
These following *bodily function* jokes were lame, that's the humor that fuels movies like *Silent Bob and Jay Strike Back* or *Goldmember*, worthless dren made for mindless drones.
Has Farscape surcome to the lowest common dominator where piss jokes and drinking such, et al are funny?
Enjoy the show as you will.
I thought CBD was dren, the worst of the worst.
*Beware of Dog* was my former worst episode, no more.

Posted By: Lyta Aug 18, 2002 - 03:59 pm

After reading your post Zim, I'm not upset anymore for forgetting to tape Farscape this week.

Hopefully next week's episode will be better.

Posted By: Nomad Aug 18, 2002 - 05:16 pm

Well, I gotta admit, I laughed my @ss off on many scenes. Especially when Dargo was expeiencing the old womans orgasm buildup. OK, aside from this episodes childish laugh value, of which I do tend to subscribe , I would really like to get back to the more serious scifi arc of this show. I do have thoughts on this also. I suppose if the writers try to push to far into the supposed ARC of the show, then we will lose steam later on. We can't have all the shows pumping the ARC story without a whole bunch of character building and quardrant building episodes. I expect theyshould be gearing up for a new push into the ARC storyline, but only time will tell. After all, even JMS had B5 episodes that were standalone, but then again, JMS was a master at manipulating is story around the arc. This show is starting to almost have the feel of...(gulp)...dare say it...LEXX.

Posted By: Bmat Aug 18, 2002 - 05:41 pm

LEXX- That thought crossed my mind while I was watching the episode, that it could have been done by the same people who did LEXX- it had the same look and feel.

Posted By: ZimNova Aug 18, 2002 - 09:22 pm

Lyta, don't pay me no never mind. I was a little bit toasty when I wrote that last night. Since then I watched CBC again with a more open mind and found lots of typically twisted Farscape type situations to like as well as the attention to detail in make-up, costumes, sets etc.
I have to admit I was being a little harsh with my former opinion.
Crichton & Rygel in drag was weird especially when that leather dude was hitting on Crichton. The first time I watched that scene I didn't like it because I'm not a fan of watching men in drag, on my second viewing I thought it was funny.
Woman's lib on a planet where they are treated like they were in Afhganistan set up the plot and everything to do with the mollusks. Again I'm finding that just one viewing of an ep. don't cut it anymore. If the writers intent was to shock and disgust me into anger on the first viewing it worked.

Scorpius saves the day but I still have to think the only reason he helps out Moya's crew at all is because he has run out of anything close to being called friends or allies to aid in his holy cause to stop the Scarrans from over running the UT's. He sees Crichton's wormhole knowledge, and thus Crichton's safety as an issue only because it holds the clues to creating a weapon to use in his cause.

BTW, starting this week because of my situation here in Boise I'll be going back over the road in my profession as a truck driver. As a result I'll be away from my 'putter a lot of the time so just so ya know that's the reason I won't be joining in the discussion as much as usual [stop cheering would ya]. After a while I'll get a laptop to stay connected as most large truck stops have data ports for drivers to use these days just like at the airport.

Posted By: Iznardi Aug 19, 2002 - 03:57 am

Fell asleep. Just for the record, this is the third Farscape episode this season that was so dull it put me to sleep. That means it is currently in a tie with Voyager.

Posted By: Bmat Aug 19, 2002 - 04:07 am

Zim, happy trails to you! Keep in touch when you can.

Posted By: Sindatur Aug 19, 2002 - 06:07 am

I haven't had the opportunity to watch more than 3 or 4 episodes the past two seasons, but I've kinda been keeping up reading your posts.

The previews for next week said Season Finale? Didn't someone comment that it was only about halfway through the season just a couple episodes ago? Is that why so many stand alone episodes and so much missing info after last Season's finale? Did they skip a bunch of episodes?

Posted By: Iznardi Aug 19, 2002 - 11:56 am

Hey Zim, you can always check out those internet cafes! Hope we'll be seeing a fair amount of you.

Posted By: ZimNova Aug 19, 2002 - 03:46 pm

Thanks Bmat.
You too Iznardi. Thing is parking a 242" wheelbase tractor with a 53' trailer ain't that easy in most cities and we need to stay close to the interstates when not doing deliveries because the company is paying for the fuel.

Sindatur, Those freknik's [some suit no doubt] at the SFC caused a huge fracas over on their site by posting that dren. Seems somebody thought it would be a neat trick to bring in more viewers by wording the ad that way.
This season will have 22 episodes as usual, 11 though this Friday's, then a 4 1/2 month hiatus followed by the remaining 11 starting in January thru [?].
A regular poster at the SFC BBoard who lives in OZ was on the Farscape set 3 weeks ago and said they were working on ep. 4.19 at the time. Idiots shot themselves in the foot again.

Posted By: Gizmo_Goddard Aug 20, 2002 - 11:10 am

I'm not so sure that they did shoot themselves in the foot. The firestorm of protest and concern of the part of the fans of both "Farscape" and "Stargate SG-1" has reached a fever pitch on every related BBOARD and website on the 'Net. You can't buy publicity like that.

__!_!__
Gizmo

Posted By: fanuilh Aug 20, 2002 - 06:18 pm

Well, anyway... Am I the only person (I couldn't be) who knew the tech was female from the beginning? I didn't understand the "shocking discovery" because I knew she was female the whole time. Guess I missed the suppression of females thing to the point that that was revealed, 'cause.... she was female. It wasn't a surprise to me, anyway. Jeez, her boss must have been blind.

Was it really necessary to have us watch Granny pee in a cup? Ick.

And people puke on this show more than on any other show I have ever seen in my life. Do the producers, et al, just like having people throw up? I'm getting a little tired of it myself.

Couldn't we get back to the arc? Weird's okay in small enough doses, but too much of a good thing, and I may be switching over to Showtime to catch all of Jeremiah rather than missing the first few minutes every Friday night.

Posted By: Bmat Aug 20, 2002 - 08:21 pm

I agree, it was obvious she was female.

I must have dozed through the granny scene- blech!

Also agreeing about the throwing up, enough!!

Posted By: Nomad Aug 22, 2002 - 09:25 am

I hate to say this, but Granny is growing on me a bit. She adds hewr own strange value to theshow.(Nomad ducks)

Posted By: Iznardi Aug 22, 2002 - 12:16 pm

(But doesn't duck quickly enough, as izzy bops him with a large sign reading "Grits to Granny" and "Just say no to wrinkly exhibitionists."