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Posted By: ZimNova Feb 14, 2003 - 12:50 pm

Synopsis from TV Guide Online.

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A tabloid TV show attempts to expose Crichton's alien comrades as menaces to Earth in a tense episode peppered with riotous satire.

Looking for clues to Aeryn's disappearance, Crichton (Ben Browder) spends the trip back to the Uncharted Territories watching Alien Visitation. The sensationalistic program juxtaposes offbeat footage of Moya's crew shot by Crichton's nephew with obnoxious sound bites from spiritual, military and scientific talking heads. After screening it, Rygel (voice of Jonathan Hardy) concludes that Earth “is full of superstitious, xenophobic morons.” Crichton hates the show too, but it may be his only lead in the search for Aeryn (Claudia Black).

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Posted By: ZimNova Feb 14, 2003 - 07:17 pm

Another arc frelling rippin' episode.
Again, there was way to much going on here to make sense of it on one viewing. I will have to watch all of the "segments" of the interviews again to catch the half of it.
Everyone of those, in and of themselves, had something to add but it was the hidden clues about Aeryn that were the point.
That point still escapes me.
One thing was clear though. At the last Crichton was willing to make a deal with his devil, that being Scorpius, to trade the wormhole tech. for Aeryn. Giving it all away for his one true love. Fitting Valentines massage to all the "shippers" out there.
I can only assume he [Crichton] has reached the conclusion that Scropius knows the location of "Katratski"[sp] where as Sikozu was unable to locate it using Moya's resources.
As I was watching Crichton watching the vids I could not help but feel he was evaluating all the different angles, but being distracted by the other characters, was having a hard time of it?

The "media" scenes remined me of the Babylon episode "Intersections in Real Time" where the newscasters "spin" history to prove their points.
That was done here too with John & Chiana watching the video together and how the programs producers "edited" the Chiana interview segments.

I have to say, for me, the biggest "statement" from DK as the writer was Noranti answering a question about religion.
Paraphasing; "All religions are good, it's the followers who are dangerous".
That sums up how I feel.
Far to many millions have died over the centuries fighting in the name of their various "Gods".
We have the same problem today in RL.
Thanks DK. All wars suck and religious wars suck most of all.

Posted By: Nomad Feb 15, 2003 - 07:01 am

Concidering I missed 1/2 if the thast 2 eps before this one, it kinda filled me in a little. This time I DID record it! Man I feel bad for Chrighton. Lost Aeryn (the real one) and his planet debates his friends. Well, I figure, Chrighton may have had the same attitudes 3 years ago.
Ill have to watch it again.
So, Chrighton is probably going to go into another reality through the wormhole and ask Stark where this ploace is. Not that it was really Stark. It was Sikuzu as a Stark. She/he told him the same word.

Posted By: Iznardi Feb 18, 2003 - 05:03 am

Hey there. Not ignoring this section on purpose. Tried to record Friday's episode and the tape in the VCR jammed. Stopped recording after two minutes. Missed the Friday before, too. Did they find Aeryn?

Posted By: Sindatur Feb 18, 2003 - 06:12 am

Hi Zim,

I actually was kinda thinking the same thing with regards to Babylon 5 episodes, but I saw it as a combination of "Deconstruction of Falling Stars" (The 4th season finale with the 100 years to 1 million years looks ahead) and "And now for a Word". Didn't really see a connection to "Intersections in Real Time" where Sheridan was being Tortured for the entire hour.

Nommy and Iz, I know what you mean about missing episodes, I've only actually had the opportunity to sit and actually watch about 6 or 7 episodes in the past 3 seasons. I catch bits and pieces, and have even tried watching when I had a few beers in me. So, I've been able to keep up with the plots (to some degree) but certainly cannot recite what happened in which episode. No the real Aeryn has not been found yet. In this episode they had an "Aeryn' with them, but it wasn't the real thing. Looks like next week, we may get to see the real one though.

Posted By: ZimNova Feb 18, 2003 - 08:03 am

Actually Sindatur I was thinking of "The Illusion of Truth", the ep. with ISN reporter Dan Randell where the producers "spin" and edit the interviews to fit the Night Watch and Pres. Clark's political agenda. My mistake.

There is a general theory going around that Crichton frelled the time line just as "Einstein" ["At every point of entry a wormhole branchs into multiple paths" & "Never return to a familiar place prior to the last time you were there"] warned him would happen [UR] should he return to Earth. Have you got ACoD on tape? Watch carefully as there are a ton of clues that there are "many" unrealized realities playing out.

Bobby was a "cousin" now he's a "nephew". In some scenes he's blonde, in others black haired. Aeryn has her "natural" hair in some scenes and the "long hair" in others from the same AV TV show and in Bobby's vid. Then there's Caroline being a different character, here a Dr. but that's the point. There is nothing in a scene done by chance and the writers know full well serious fans will recognize the same actress playing the two different roles...different realities.

There's also all the references to "Katratzi". John's heard the name before but so have we in UR. John's TV is also quite interesting. He hears Aeryn mention Katratzi but that was, imho, not part of the original interview some how. It just appears plus as he and Sikozu were watching a playback of some scenes of her as shot by Bobby, John has the flashback to UR where Sikozu/Stark cries out the name Katratzi but that too could not have been on the tape...thing is, Sikozu saw it as well. In that unrealized reality where John shoots Sikozu/Stark he's left handed but John is right handed. Clues, too frelling many clues to make sense of it. That's why I love Farscape, keeps me thinking days after an episode airs.

I think ACoD was one of the best episodes of Farscape because even after watching the tape 3 times, once with the CC on to catch all the dialogue then once with the sound off to just watch the images there is so much going on. The characterizations of the Human reactions to the Alien Visitation plus Noranti's differentiating between religious teachings and religious followers were all first rate. This is SF television at it's absolute best without equal.

I got the impression that the writer, David Kemper, wants we viewers to analyze this episode the same way some of the characters are analyzing the "aliens" in the tabloid TV show and that's why there are subtle clues in the form of small seemingly inconsistent continuity errors that are in fact placed there for us to find.
I cannot believe that Farscape has become "lazy" or "sloppy" to the point they would make these kind of mistakes without caring what the viewers think.
Quite the contrary. DK is playing not only with Crichton's perception of reality but ours as well.

Posted By: Nomad Feb 18, 2003 - 04:02 pm

Holy Crap batman!

Yo Zim ... that whole critique of the show made my head spin. The fact of the matter is, everthing you mentioned took me by surprise. I was only touching on why Chrighton needs to go back to the worm hole. I didn't take into account that he frelled the reality somehow. Great catch on so many of those hints. I simply wasn't watching that hard and haven't re-watched it (Yet). Everything you just said makes sense. But which time through the wormhole did the mistake happen?

Posted By: ZimNova Feb 18, 2003 - 07:46 pm

That's the thing Nomad...a mystery that keeps us tuning in every week. Guessing, always guessing. If it were obvious it would be Enterprise or Andromeda but this is Farscape.

Posted By: Nomad Feb 19, 2003 - 09:47 am

Amen, Zim! Amen to that. I will definately be paying more attention this week.