The subtitle is Sacrifice.

I think we (I?) need to seriously re-think the perceived structure of the Peacekeepers. I always thought that they seemed speciest, what with "irreversible contamination" and the scorn heaped on anything not Sebacean.

But, with current revelations about Grayza I must ask: "Are any of the Peacekeeper commanders Sebacean?"

So far I do not believe we have seen anyone above the rank of captain who was Sebacean, and the two persons we have seen who exert higher command influence are not Sebacean. The Commandant obviously uses her charm - she just oozes sex appeal - but how would a non-Sebacean officer corps control the obviously purist foot soldiers?

So an alien planet contains ancient Egyptian writing. Shades of Stargate anyone?

I hate that old woman. She just confuses everything. She seems to be more foe than friend.

Scorpius on a leash. Very disturbing.

If one could shift one's gravity center, is it possible to do the things that Sikozu does?

I missed a lot of the bits and pieces of this episode. I'll have to catch it in reruns.

I did not much care for this episode. But I have faith in the writers. I would definitely like to see where this is going.

See ya later
TUE

TUE:
Sikozu was effectively hovering, if I recall correctly. So, I don't believe she'd be able to do that by "shifting her gravity center" (but I'm not even sure I'm clear on what "shifting one's gravity center" means). In any event, it wouldn't really matter where your "gravity center" is (provided it is still somewhere on you), you'd still be pulled down to the ground.

Hmmss, I have to disagree with TUE here. I think this is a return to form after the first ep.

I also like the old woman. Adds an unstable element to the mix...she gets some good lines as well:
"That's it! Hit him again!...Like this!" *whollop*

I guess this ep is going toward proving that, like Stargate and ST:TNG before that, all the sort of Human like aliens are connected somehow and share a common ancestry.

I can't remember if this has been said before or not but Grayza (If that's the name of the new woman on the Sebacean team) reminds me allot of Servalan from Blake's 7

Who the heck is that seas monster like being and what's the point of him? Hoping that'll be explained in the next ep.

>Scorpius on a leash. Very disturbing.

Agreed. =^_^=

Prolly have a bit more to add once I've had a chance to digest what I've seen and watch it again.

Perhapse Sputnik changes the direction in which gravity pulls her?

Well, I just don’t know what to make of this season. Kitty – you’ve got the Sci-Fi version: did you see the BBC version and were there massive cuts? I commented last week that there seemed to be some cut footage before we first saw Chiana and Rygel – in this week’s ‘Previously’ bit there was a shot of Chiana jumping into John’s arms and giving him a kiss which was not shown last week! So I’m beginning to believe that the scene where Sikozu named herself last week must also have been cut. And I’m fairly convinced there were cuts this week too, as some of the scenes just didn’t make sense. One moment John’s on the cliff with Serva...Grayza, the next he’s wandering around on his own but hasn’t told her what she needs to know about the third thingmy.

It doesn’t make sense. It’s not for time: these episodes usually last 42/43 minutes without commercials, don’t they? And the BBC has 45 minutes allocated. So why are they cutting bits? Is there a lot of swearing? Frightening imagery?

I was so bewildered by the apparent cuts that I couldn’t take the episode in, so will need to watch it another time or two before I can decide whether this episode was really as bitty as it seemed on first viewing.

> One moment John’s on the cliff with Serva...Grayza, the next he’s wandering around on his own but hasn’t told her what she needs to know about the third thingmy.

Actually, that's one bit I'm positive they didn't cut. I'll need to watch the copy I have of it but the scene where John initally sees the priests whad a rather large chunk taken out of it...I'm just glad they actually /had/ the "goat" in the scene otherwise what John said after the vision would have made as much sense as the bit you mention Callie. In the full uncut version we get to see the "goat" being sacrificed (the priest raises his knife to the goats throat then it cuts away)....thats all I remember being different at the moment.

Even after a couple of viewings that bit with Granny at the clifftop punching whatshisface always makes me snigger. ^_^

I’ve watched it again and although it makes a bit more sense on second viewing, I still feel that this episode was ‘bitty’, and some of the jumps between scenes were downright clumsy.

Why was Jool’s hair bright red when she wasn’t in danger (e.g. during her reunion with John and Chiana)?

I’m sure I’ve read this somewhere else but I noticed on my own that the monks were singing the theme to Farscape!

I’ll give Sikozu the benefit of the doubt for the time being (Jool seemed a waste of space to start with and got more tolerable as time went on) but I can’t see the point of her at the moment. And the scene with her standing horizontally over D’argo seemed to only be there to look clever.

Jool’s confession that she’d been on the run before she was captured and put into stasis seemed clumsy – it was almost as if the writers felt it important to be able to include her as one of the ‘escaped prisoners’ from the introduction. Maybe this will have relevance later.

The symbols on the child’s tile mostly seem to signify peace. Does the Eye of Ra also usually signify peace? I didn’t think it did, or have I just been watching too much Stargate?!

What was the Old Woman burying? After she (presumably) killed Vella she was kneeling over a small cairn, making it look as if she’d buried Vella but Vella was stuck in the wall.

The two scenes in the ‘Previously on Farscape’ bit showing Braca getting his promotion from Grayza and telling Scorpius that he doesn’t have a ship to command any more have not actually been shown before.
A promotion from Lieutenant to Captain is rather a big jump, isn’t it? What did Braca do to merit this, or is Grayza just after his devoted loyalty?

D’Argo says that Lo’La can only cloak herself “for a short time”. So why’s she hidden when there’s no immediate danger? She might run out of time just before she really needs to be hidden.

John comms to Rygel, “D’Argo’s got his ship back.” Had he ever lost her?

In Crichton Kicks, John said that there was nothing on Elack that could be synthesised into fuel for Farscape 1. So how come Sikozu manages to make some fuel?

Why would shooting someone with a carver push them into the wall? When Vella shot the little squiggly beastie earlier, it didn’t move.

How did John know how to use the cutter? He’d never seen it demonstrated.

How did Wrinkles get away from the guards? Did they stupidly let her go to the loo on her own, or did she blow some of her magic dust at them?

The only organization that I've heard of that has a promotion from Lieutenant to Captain are the police forces here in the States. I have no idea how rankings go in any police outside of the U.S. or in the military.

As for why she did it, I'd probably sat that it's for his loyalty

I was wondering about that Braca/Scorpy scene shown in the previews. I just assumed that it was from Two Bones.

I don't think we heard Sizoku's name mentioned in Crichton Kicks until Crichton himself called her by it but I'm probably wrong.

In the Army, Captain is the rank immediately above Lieutenant.

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The two scenes in the ‘Previously on Farscape’ bit showing Braca getting his promotion from Grayza and telling Scorpius that he doesn’t have a ship to command any more have not actually been shown before.
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They explain that on the DVD in the extras. They filmed the scenes, didn't have time for them in Crichton Kicks and opted to put them in to eliminate confusion with Scorpius.

Didn't work that way for me either.