Crackers Don't Matter
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections:
Farscape:
Season Two:
Crackers Don't Matter
An alien named Traltixx comes on to Moya offering them technology that will allow them to evade PK detection. In order to install the tech, they must get to Traltixx's home planet that is through five pulsars. These pulsars make "inferior" lifeforms turn weird. They lose their social graces and get really messed up.
Traltixx has an ulterior motive though. He really likes light. I mean A LOT! More so than Zhann. He tricks Pilot into making Moya a giant tanning salon. Meanwhile the crew is going whakko with attempts to kill, sexual assault and plenty of crazy ranting. Crichton seems to have the additional problem of an imaginary Scorpius trying to get him to kill Aeryn.
CLASSIC MOMENT:
Imaginary Scorpius appears wearing a Hawaiian T-Shirt and carrying two margaritas in each hand and he tells Crichton to kill Aeryn so that they can go get some pizza and margarita shooters.
Kinda dark and REALLY WEIRD, but it was funny in a dark and sarcastic sort of way.
By Scott McClenny on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 1:57 pm: Crichton must've gotten a bit of an inferior
complex after this episode as everyone went
around telling him how"Inferior"humans were
all throughout this episode!
Traltixx is able to mesmerize Zhaan after Pilot
tells him she's a plant,and she's spends most of
the episode getting higher than a cat in a meadow
of catnip.
Yeah,Scorpie in the Hawaiian shirt was pretty funny to watch!
Chricton and Aeryn seem to spend a good deal of
time shooting it out in the cargo bay.
What WAS the deal with all those crackers in the
first place?I only turned it on when the first
five or ten minutes were already over so didn't
quite get the part about the crackers.
Except that Aeryn and then Chiana and Rigel seem
to spend a aweful lot of time both before and
after munching on them.
By Merat on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 5:39 am: I seem to recall that thats all the food that they could find?
By Merat on Friday, October 19, 2001 - 5:24 pm: I love how Crichton is able to realize that this isn't real. No one has pizza and maragrita shooters! Scorpius' line about going to the beach cracked me up too. Can you imagine him lounging on a beach?!
By Callie Sullivan on Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 2:22 am:At the end of the episode four of them move a table back to where it should be and Crichton comments that it was really heavy, asking Aeryn how she ever managed to move it on her own. So, if during the wacky period she was even stronger than she already is, then how on earth did John manage to beat her in a fist fight?!
By Merat on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 12:44 pm: Probably because John wasn't exactly Mr. Sane himself, and had "Harvey" egging him on.
By Josh M on Sunday, June 08, 2003 - 1:06 am: I just watched this episode for the first time and i would just like to say that I loved it! There were some utterly hilarious parts and the acting by all of the cast was awesome!
I loved the Pilot/Crichton fight. I had to watch that one again. D'Argo's realization that maybe Crichton and Zhaan weren't working together was good too.
I also liked Crichton's ice cream rant and the 2001: A Space Odyssey homage (whether it was intentional or not) with Pilot taking HAL's line was a great touch. BTW, does this episode contain Harvey's first appearance or was it just the insanity brought on by that blind guy?
I found it interesting that everyone was pointing out how inferior humans are when it seems that it's Crichton who's figuring out a solution to their problems every week.
The the translator microbes translate written language as well? Cricthon wrote T'raltixx's name in english during his "lesson" but none of the alien crew seemed to notice.
By Gordon Lawyer on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 5:16 am: I liked it when Crichton voices what we're all thinking about his improvised radiation protection. "I look ridiculous, don't I?"