Eat Me

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Farscape: Season Three: Eat Me
"We're going to make babies."
-- Kaarvok

Jool screws them over again. She messes with the controls of a transport pod and Crichton, D'Argo, Chiana, and the Scream Queen are forced to land on some Leviathan with a control collar (Control collar = PKs). They prepare for PKs but they are greeted by a small canibal man. They kill it. D'Argo and Crichton go off to look for stuff to make repairs. Chiana shortly goes off in search of other repair materials. The Scream Queen is left by herself to guard the transport pod. D'Argo and Crichton head for the Pilot of this Leviathan. They see more canibal creatures. Then they see another man. We learn later that his name is Kaarvok. Hey shoots something over D'Argo. Next thing ya know, D'Argo's getting his brains sucked out. He's dead John. (But when has death ever been a setback on Farscape?) They drag D'Argo's body to the Pilot's chambers. The Pilot is really messed up. He asks John to kill him. These canibal creatures are eating his arms as soon as they grow. They're eating the Leviathan as well. Chiana burns D'Argo's body.
Meanwhile, Moya goes into Starburst unexpectedly. They come out of it and there's our friend Talyn. He's been attacked by something. (For those who don't know, Talyn was assumed to be the most powerful ship ever encountered. Anything that could defeat Talyn should be avoided by any sane person). And who on Moya is sane? Only Rygel objects to their continued presence. Aeryn goes over to Talyn to find Crais.
Meanwhile, back on the Leviathan buffet, the Pilot fills them in on what's been going on. They were a prison transport. They were carrying one prisoner. An insane man (That would be Kaarvok). He escaped. Crichton asks what the cannibal creatures are. "They're Peacekeepers" says the Pilot.
Meanwhile, back on Talyn, Crais is unconscious. He is taken back to Moya. Stark says that Crais may survive. Talyn may not.
Back on the All You Can Eat Leviathan, Kaarvok arrives in Pilot's chambers. He shoots that thing that he shot at D'Argo at Chiana. Suddenly there are two Chianas. (Who wants to guess where the replacement D'Argo will come from) He sucks out one of the Chianas' brains.
John doesn't see Chiana getting duplicated. He thinks she and D'Argo and Jool are all dead.
Kaarvok goes to a holding cell. D'Argo is chained up there. Kaarvok reveals that he's been duplicating PK's in order to get some brains to eat. Unfortunately, duplicating PK's so many times makes them go a little screwy. ("Multiplicity" anyone?) He wants fresh brains. He wants D'Argo to reproduce with one of the screwy PKs.
John tries to repair the Pilot. He's not doing so well. Chiana stumbles upon D'Argo's cell. She sees the screwy PK giving D'Argo a.... well.... ahem.... you know. D'Argo asks for help. Chiana seems to be enjoying the sight. She lets the screwy PK have her way with D'Argo for a while before she cuts D'Argo loose.
Kaarvok arrives in Pilot's chambers and kills the Pilot. This does not make Crichton happy. Crichton sets the controls for Starburst. Kaarvok says that the control collar prevents Starburst. Crichton says that it will just make this Leviathan go BOOM very quickly. Some blasting goes on. It's difficult to see what's going on. (This is important). Suddenly the cannibal creatures go after Kaarvok and they eat him. Our Fantastic Four board the transport pod.
"HOLD THE DOOR!" Uh oh! Plot complication. It's Crichton. But we have Cricthon. TWO CRICHTONS! (Hey! Why not?!) They all head back to Moya.
D'Argo and Chiana wonder if they're the genuine article or if they, in fact, are the clones. Cricthon and Crichton play Paper, Rock, Scissors together. They're not getting anywhere. They don't look too happy to be looking at each other either.

COMMENTS:
>> I'm with Chiana. Kill the Scream Queen.
>> Another character dead! Oh wait! He's back! This is getting tiresome.
>> I've got more questions than ever before.
>> Well, if TPTB were trying to keep us waiting impatiently for the next episode, they succeeded with me.

NITS:
>> How did this Kaarvok escape from the PKs' holding cell? You would think they'd have that guy chained up pretty good.
>> If this Leviathan has a control collar, how did it get so far into the Uncharted Territories?
>> If Crichton got duplicated, did the memories of Scorpius get duplicated as well? Might me interesting to see two Scorpies talking to two Johns at once.
>> When Crichton activates the Starburst, isn't he essentially killing the Leviathan. The Pilot was killed. The Leviathan was alive.
>> They never brought back the repair equipment, yet they were able to get the transport pod back to Moya.

Pretty Good episode. It kept my attention. Left a lot of questions unanswered.
By Michael Conlon on Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 9:42 pm:

Didn't we allready do a duplicate Crichton plot?
True one was a cro-magnon, one was a psychotic super-smart guy the last time, but I think it still made it a used plot.


By cstadulis on Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 2:27 pm:

Personally, I would love to have two Crichtons around the house. (yum!) And yes, there already was an ep with other Crichtons ("My Three Crichtons"), but they weren't exact duplicates. I think Moya's crew should contact Voyager. That crew has been duplicated and re-duplicated many, many times over the past seven seasons and could probably offer some advice on adjusting to the idea that there's an exact duplicate of you running around.

It was such a great moment to see Chiana slap Jool (yes! Hit her again!). Too bad the Scream Queen had to miss when she tried to shoot herself with the pulse rifle. Not that I advocate suicide, but her character is just soooo annoying and seems to be so worthless right now.

I also was confused as to how the other Leviathon got that far out into the Uncharted Territories, particularly when it couldn't Starburst. I'll be glad when they have more new episodes to explain what happened to Crais and Talyn and to see if Zhaan will make a return or not.


By Lauren Mag on Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 3:04 pm:

Ew. I just understood that title...

Even though it wasn't exactly a "funny" moment, I thought having Crichton playing rock, paper, scissors with himself and not being able to break the tie was pretty hilarious.


By Duane Parsons on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 6:26 am:

IIRC, the death of the prison Leviathan scene was shown as a preview of future epsiodes of Farscape. Some one ask when they if that sequence had been shown of a Leviathan going up. Was this that scene shown two seasons ago?


By SpottedKitty on Monday, October 01, 2001 - 2:58 pm:

Yet again Farscape never fails to please. Three years on and still holding a breakneck speed.

I really was actually caught by D'Argos apparent death as Farscape is one of the few shows that I don't spoil for myself by reading advance reviews and stuff. I was lying on my bead and thinking "Bloody H*ll. Here we go again. At this rate there is only going to be Moya and Pilot left."

Along with C, I'm still curious as to how Kaarvok took over the ship in the first place? I mean even if he doubled the crew a few times by the way Chiana, D'argo and John were doubled it would seem that the first few clones at least show no sign of these "mental" problems. To me that would just mean he'd have double the crew to deal with or did he just double them and leave them to run out of food?
OK, I could of accepted it if he had had some sort of psychic control by which he could of influenced the crew but as we saw with the guys this doesn't appear to be true.

What the heck IS wrong with the Leviathan? Is this a normal process of it dying or /was/ there some form of biological agent introduced? Curious minds need to know.

Did anyone else see the Door wobble as John hit it after seeing Chiana being dragged to her death? One of the few slipups like that I've seen on Farscape.

I'm beginning to agree with everyone else. Jool is just becoming more and more annoying. However the theme tune is starting to really sounds good.

Nice moment:
I'm not sure if this is my imagination or not it was so brief. But the look that crosses Johns face when we see them all for the first time in the Transport Pod was brilliant. That perfectly produced "I'm really beginning to hate this place. Why does everything happen to me" he gave D'Argo. :)


By Callie Sullivan on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 3:19 am:

I know that the crew have got to do something with her but I personally would never have taken Jool on an away trip until after she’d started showing more of a sense of responsibility. However, regardless of that, would momentarily mucking about with the steering controls really frell up the entire works? The pod must have been in really bad condition to start with.

Moya starbursts to get to Talyn. Now I’ve not seen all the earlier episodes but as far as I’m aware, a starburst is Farscape’s version of warp speed and so even a very short starburst takes her a long way, am I right? And once they’d tethered Moya to Talyn they couldn’t starburst to get back to where they’d just come from. So how come Aeryn was able to confidently predict that she would get all the way to the transport pod and back within an ahn? Even if Moya had conveniently starburst in the same direction that the pod had gone, surely she would have gone waaaaaay past.

Potential plot synopsis error: I thought Stark said that Talyn would probably survive but Crais might not.

When precisely does Jool’s hair go red? I’m beginning to suspect that the answer is: when the budget can handle it or when the director thinks it’ll look particularly cool. The first couple of episodes suggested that her hair goes red when she’s angry; this one establishes that it can also change when she’s terrified – but she was terrified the entire time she was alone and there seemed to be no significant reason for her being even more scared than before at the moment her hair changed colour.

TUE says that they never brought back the repair equipment. I believe they did: Chiana found the narium coils while watching D’Argo with his new ... umm ... friend; and John had picked up threekay wire earlier.

Kaarvok was somehow ... corny. He looked and sounded far too much like the cliched psychotic alien, what with the bulging eyes and the constant smile. He also rather reminded me (facially anyway) of the simulant in the Red Dwarf episode ‘Justice’.

Oh dear. The image of Spotted Kitty lying on his bead is almost as disturbing as flashbacks of D’Argo’s ‘ordeal’!


By Spottedkitty on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 5:28 am:

> The image of Spotted Kitty lying on his bead

OI! =^_^=


By Callie on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 5:31 am:

Well you said it, not me! ;-)


By cstadulis on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 8:23 am:

I always knew there was something different about Spotted Kitty (snicker, snicker). :O


By SpottedKitty on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 2:42 pm:

I get the distinct feeling I'm being laughed at here. ;)


By Josh M on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 2:21 pm:

Okay, so now in less than a year, they've killed off Aeryn, Zhaan, Chiana, and D'Argo. Holy...

I liked this episode. Kind of a horror story. Interesting turn for Farscape


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