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Farscape Rewatch: Lava's a many splendored thing (4.04)
Wiki summary: Thanks to Noranti, the crew on Lo'La are forced to land on a desolate planet where Rygel finds a cache of valuables owned by a group of freedom fighters. When he's caught in the booty's security system, John Crichton and Ka D'Argo find themselves in the middle of a robbery of the cache and must find a way to save him before the thieves decide to execute him.
Aka the vomit extravaganza. (Even for Farscape.) This upon rewatch struck me as trying to prove they can still do a lighthearted adventure of the week type of episode, now with the remixed ensemble. Although all the previouslies make me wonder whether this episode originally contained scenes with Grayza and/or Scorpius. (Since their scenes in the previouslies have no relevance on this particular episode.) As a zany adventure type of episode, this was okay, neither great nor bad; I hadn't seen it more than once and thus had forgotten all about the plot other than that there was vomit and Noranti danced, so elements like the Sikozu and Chiana having to team up subplot were as good as new to me, and I enjoyed watching. Note that Chiana is actually the one coming up with the solution to the "ship coded to D'Argo's DNA" problem. (I thought that was a neat touch; Sikozu's brand of intelligence relies on her photographic memory and ability to replicate what she's seen/heard, but Chiana has had a life time of having to improvise.) That the episode introduces a whole race of professional do-gooders (the real Tarkins (spelling?), showing up ata the end) and subsequently forgets all about them (wouldn't they've been useful allies for our heroes to have?) is a continuity irritation, but hey, not the first. The menace of the week are none too bright thugs led by a somewhat smarter and hence more dangerous one, so par the course. Since I'm invested in the Rygel & Crichton relationship, I was touched John goes to some considerable length to rescue Rygel here. (Harvey's protests not withstanding.)
Let's see, what else? Noranti hypnotizing the goons into seeing her as a young belly dancer as a distraction, and John's and D'Argo's reaction to her nudity (aged female body = ultimate horror to men?) is a very laddish kind of humor, to put it mildly, but I will say Melissa Jaffar pulls it off with such panache that "I am the woman, you are the men" still made me smile. Oh, and since I nitpicked at the world building re: the professional do-gooders: on the positive side of continuity, the fact that Sikozu doesn't need as much food as the others makes sense given her lesser weight.
Yours truly had much the same reaction as John and the others when Pilot's voice is heard at the end of the episode, despite knowing the reunion with Moya was coming.
The other days
Aka the vomit extravaganza. (Even for Farscape.) This upon rewatch struck me as trying to prove they can still do a lighthearted adventure of the week type of episode, now with the remixed ensemble. Although all the previouslies make me wonder whether this episode originally contained scenes with Grayza and/or Scorpius. (Since their scenes in the previouslies have no relevance on this particular episode.) As a zany adventure type of episode, this was okay, neither great nor bad; I hadn't seen it more than once and thus had forgotten all about the plot other than that there was vomit and Noranti danced, so elements like the Sikozu and Chiana having to team up subplot were as good as new to me, and I enjoyed watching. Note that Chiana is actually the one coming up with the solution to the "ship coded to D'Argo's DNA" problem. (I thought that was a neat touch; Sikozu's brand of intelligence relies on her photographic memory and ability to replicate what she's seen/heard, but Chiana has had a life time of having to improvise.) That the episode introduces a whole race of professional do-gooders (the real Tarkins (spelling?), showing up ata the end) and subsequently forgets all about them (wouldn't they've been useful allies for our heroes to have?) is a continuity irritation, but hey, not the first. The menace of the week are none too bright thugs led by a somewhat smarter and hence more dangerous one, so par the course. Since I'm invested in the Rygel & Crichton relationship, I was touched John goes to some considerable length to rescue Rygel here. (Harvey's protests not withstanding.)
Let's see, what else? Noranti hypnotizing the goons into seeing her as a young belly dancer as a distraction, and John's and D'Argo's reaction to her nudity (aged female body = ultimate horror to men?) is a very laddish kind of humor, to put it mildly, but I will say Melissa Jaffar pulls it off with such panache that "I am the woman, you are the men" still made me smile. Oh, and since I nitpicked at the world building re: the professional do-gooders: on the positive side of continuity, the fact that Sikozu doesn't need as much food as the others makes sense given her lesser weight.
Yours truly had much the same reaction as John and the others when Pilot's voice is heard at the end of the episode, despite knowing the reunion with Moya was coming.
The other days
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