Is this one from the fourth season or the part two of 'Unrealized Reality?' I am thinking it is part two of UR that we will have to wait until Jan 03 to see.

It’s the title given for the 12th episode on Farscape World which is usually fairly reliable. I’m assuming, therefore, that it’s the sequel episode to ‘Unrealized Reality’, but will keep an eye out in case it changes.

SciFi.com now confirm this as the title of the episode following 'Unrealized Reality'. And you will indeed have to wait until January to see it.

I wonder what the chances are of us Brits catching up (and even overtaking?) in the meantime ...?

Callie, thank you for the information. I hope you get to see episodes and catch up.

SPOILER!!!!!!

According to TV Guide, Crichton ends up on Earth in 1985. (Maybe he'll meet up with Kirk and Spock and help them save the whales.)

See ya later
TUE

Except Kirk and Spock were in '86 San Francisco, not Kansas.

No kidding? I thought for sure it was '85. Oh well.

See ya later
TUE

I just hope that they show the episode.

Nope, sorry. Not only are we not ordering anymore new episodes, but we're having the prints of all remaining unseen episodes destroyed as well. Catbert told me to.

Back in 1985, eh? Maybe Doc Brown and Marty MacFly can help John Crichton get 'Back to the Future' or where ever he may desire to go. Hey, I can see John coming back to Moya in a DeLoran.

John: "Got a new toy. It comes with a flux, or is it flush, capaitor (?). Some funny looking guy hit his head on a toliet seat and came up with this."

(Pick your favorite character), "Sounds like he was using his head."

I'm sure that Crichton will make at least one Back to the Future reference.

The thing that I'm most anxious to see is how the writers will get Crichton out of orbit without it seeming contrived. I really hope they don't just start on Earth with some passing comment about how the Discovery or Mir picked him up. Space is big.

Please bear in mind that I've not yet seen Unrealized Reality and so this may be a dumb question, but was Crichton in Farscape 1? If so, we've seen the module land at least twice.

SPOILER:

This Space Has Text So This Won't Show Up In Last Day


Nope, just John in his suit in space

SPOILERS FROM FARSCAPEWORLD.COM:


"Kansas"

Season Four continues as the Moya crew finally gets to Earth, 1985. Unfortunately, Crichton discovers that he has somehow disastrously changed the course of time - his father Jack is now slated to fly the doomed Challenger mission. Lying low in Crichton's hometown, the "aliens" use the timely Halloween celebrations to remain (almost) anonymous, while Crichton tries to revert the timeline - in the process putting his younger self in mortal danger.

See ya later
TUE

This episode airs on Friday, January 10, 2003 at 8:00pm in the US on the SciFi channel.

TUE

Yes, I am happy to see that. I wonder if Firefly will be still around as Farscape and Firefly are in the same time slots. I will have my VCR recording one of them (Firefly).

MON 30th DECEMBER!!!!!! We Brits get to see this episode on Monday 30th December!!!! *does a triumphant little dance*

A question to the Americans (apart from “How jealous are you?!”): Do you want me to try and do a full in-depth blow-by-blow account of what happens, or will a brief summary do and you can go over to Farscape World for the detailed account? I make no promises anyway – there would have been no way, for instance, that I could have done a detailed analysis of what took place in Unrealized Reality as it was way too complicated an episode.

Either one would be fine with me. I won't read either one until Jan 10. I don't want to know the specifics until I see it.

And I'm VERY jealous. ARGH!

See ya later
TUE

I've just seen it.
Pretty cool but I won't giv nething neway for u guys in the US.
Just on little nit tho:
After Dargo picks Crichton up in his ship, they listen to a broadcast and dicover it's in the 80's coz Reagan is President. However, if they had arrived in the present, wouldn't Crichton assume the President was the George Bush of the 90's?

I hav others but mentioning them would giv plot details away!

Oh man, this episode absolutely stank. There were so many errors in it that it just wasn’t true – by the end of it I was throwing up my hands and yelling, “Oh, come on!” at the screen on regular occasions. What were the writers thinking? How could they be so careless?

Previous episodes have indicated that there’s some – as yet – unknown reason why John doesn’t liquify when he flies through wormholes. Yet five different species go through this wormhole – and not in Farscape 1 which may be the reason for non-liquification – and none of them liquify?

John insisting on them landing was surely the worst thing he could have done – it could well have been him landing that triggered off the changes to the timeline. Shouldn’t he at least have considered flying straight back through the wormhole in an attempt to minimise the changes?

Aeryn is sent out to speak to the policeman because she’s the only one who can speak a little English. Yet shortly afterwards Noranti speaks fluent English to him.

Why would the cop see Aeryn’s ‘brother’ as black?

When D’Argo initially thought he could control the policecar by simply talking to it, how did he then manage to oh-so-conveniently put it into reverse and then into drive?

Braca says to Scorpius that he thought that Scorpy was dead, then says that he’s been acting as Scorpius’ spy. Why would he spy for a dead man?

Why didn’t Johnny ask what had happened to his girlfriend after Chiana knocked her out? Instead, he goes off with an almost stranger and has sex with her? Sure …

When Johnny died, why did John fade out visibly but was still able to speak?

Why does semi-invisible John cast a shadow?

And what the heck went on at the end? Suddenly wormholes can transport you in time and not in space?! And why did they tell Pilot to pick them up at Earth instead of them flying back through the wormhole to get to Moya?

Messy, messy, messy. I have to say with some sadness that this and some of the previous episodes leave me unsurprised that the series was cancelled.

Oh, and Linus - the Americans who don’t want to know what happens before they see the episode won’t come and read this page yet, so feel free to post any other comments you have!

Hrrmmss, I actually quite liked this one myself..granted I was pretty distracted by other things at the time so wasn't really watching it properly (dangit!). Rygel on a sugar high was quite funny though. =^_^=

"How legal is this?" -- Rygel on candy

I enjoyed this a lot. Maybe it was my Farscape withdrawl that I've had for 4 months, but I thought it was very entertaining.

If Grayza scanned the memory files, wouldn't she know that Crichton and the others went through a wormhole?

I can't believe we didn't get a "Back to the Future" reference.

What is it that caused the change in the timeline? Did the change occur spontaneously the instant Crichton came out of the wormhole?

Crichton steals a bottle of milk from someone's doorstep. I didn't think that they sold milk like that in 1986.

Why would there still be power in an abandoned house?

I liked how Crichton told Rygel to make the pumpkin scary so he carved it to look like Scorpius.

We may learn this in the next episode, but how did Moya get to Earth in 2003? Did Pilot just try to navigate the wormhole on his own? If he had followed Crichton's signal, he would have ended up in 1986 as well. Perhaps it was just an incredible fluke.

Great to have Farscape back.

TUE

Good Episode. I enjoyed it.

Two quick things:

Where did Granny get the ingredients to make her knockout potion?

As someone who grew up in South Florida during the 70's and 80's, I can tell you that a) Milkmen went out with the Carter Administration, and b) nobody would leave milk out in Florida in October, when the temperature could still be in the 80 degree range.

Also, having lived in Gainesville, I enjoyed the references.

What is it that caused the change in the timeline? Did the change occur spontaneously the instant Crichton came out of the wormhole?

I figured that the unaltered timeline was the one in which dad dies in the challenger disaster and that it was due to John and Co.'s intervention that he didn't. I seem to recall John mentioning how he lost his virginity with Karen Whateverherlastnamewas in a previous episode. This would seem to support my hypothesis if you think about it.

Not something I caught when it aired, but I've seen it posted about elsewhere online. John mentions NASA.

http://www.farscapeworld.com/episodes/reviews/10412.shtml

Whether this is a mistake or meant to indicate between the Challenger incident and 2003 that NASA changed to IASA on John's Earth, is hard to tell.

****** Why didn’t Johnny ask what had happened to his girlfriend after Chiana knocked her out? Instead, he goes off with an almost stranger and has sex with her? Sure … *****

Well, remember, he is a young man. I thought most young guys were just walking hormones... What young guy wouldn't pass up having sex with an unknown hot-chick? (isn't that the major theme of most young adult movies these days, having sex.....)

All in all, I liked this episode. There were some wierd spots, like the whole shadow/see-through John part, and there is no way compaines were dropping off milk on doorstoops in the 1980s, but overall, it was good to see the gang again.

Buckwheat was definately funny on his sugar high.

I am confused with how everyone survived the wormhole without becoming chutney. And how did all those guys get on Moya? Just took the local shuttle up? (I know, I know, it will all be explained in the next episode...)

One other thing. It was very funny that Aeryn and the gang were watching Sesame Street to learn the alphabet, considering that Rygel is a muppet!

Ooooooookaaaaaaay...

First off, how many times is Farscape going to flip Sci-Fi channel the bird, on camera?

How DID Moya get through the wormhole? What happened to Grayzan (sp?) and her goon squad? Would they have just LEFT?!? Do we trust Scorpius on the far side of that wormhole?

And let's not get into the time conflicts: does John now remember doing the horizontal bop with "Karen Shaw" in the back of Betty? Does Jack Crichton now remember seeing Aeryn and John at the time he was saving Johnny's life? What will this do to 2003?

Does this have to be the last four episodes, ever? Too many loose bits...

John has always remembered Karen Shaw; he just hasn’t ever remembered that she looked remarkably like Chiana. In the third season episode Losing Time one of the crew had been possessed by an energy rider: the only way to find out who was that the possessed person would have few memories of their past. John and D’Argo then told each other their life stories, during which John said, “I lost my virginity to Karen Shaw in the back of a four-by.” Presumably Noranti’s drug and instruction to “forget everything” caused him not to recall her face properly.
Trust Farscape to keep their continuity right – most of the time.

I was wondering why John didn't remember that Karen Shaw looked a lot like Chiana when he first met her in Durka Returns, but I had forgotten that Noranti used the powder on him. That's good.

Rygel on a sugar rush, good stuff. As was Rygel scaring the kids and stealing the candy!

And I couldn't help but laugh when Aeryn commented on the toddler being slow at picking up english on Sesame Street.

So, he goes back to 1986 and we get no Back to the Future or Star Trek: IV referances. Oh well. Crichton drinking milk and seeing and wearing jeans again were good enough.

Didn't Crichton lose his memories of politics in the '80s in Die Me, Dichotomy? Shouldn't he not know who Reagan is?

Callie: John insisting on them landing was surely the worst thing he could have done – it could well have been him landing that triggered off the changes to the timeline. Shouldn’t he at least have considered flying straight back through the wormhole in an attempt to minimise the changes?
John went back in time. He learned in Unrealized Reality that if he did this, he had to look for the first thing (the first ripple) that was wrong and correct it. That's what he did.

Callie: Why would the cop see Aeryn’s ‘brother’ as black?
Noranti's powder does some strange stuff.

Callie: And what the heck went on at the end? Suddenly wormholes can transport you in time and not in space?!
The dialogue in Unrealized Reality stated that wormholes lead to many many exits. Some lead to different times, some to different places, and some to both.

TUE: What is it that caused the change in the timeline? Did the change occur spontaneously the instant Crichton came out of the wormhole?
I don't know how well they explained this in UR but if John went back in time it seemed to automatically alter the timeline. His action of going back was the pebble and since he landed "close" to the pebble, there were not many ripples. The first change he saw, he could fix and put the timeline back on track.

cstadulis: Well, remember, he is a young man. I thought most young guys were just walking hormones... What young guy wouldn't pass up having sex with an unknown hot-chick?
Sure, that's nice and all, but he would still probably wonder where his girlfriend went. It's odd that he didn't even mention her or show any concern whatsoever. No wonder she dumps him.

And I'm surprised there was so much flipping off on camera, esp. considering that channels like MTV won't even do it without censoring.

Callie: And what the heck went on at the end? Suddenly wormholes can transport you in time and not in space?!
Josh M:The dialogue in Unrealized Reality stated that wormholes lead to many many exits. Some lead to different times, some to different places, and some to both.

Actually, this makes sense in an Einsteinian kind of way. If once considers a wormhole to have "interval" rather than "length", then that interval could be space-like (distance) or time-like (time), or both. It's simply a matter of orientation of the wormhole in the 4-D space-time continuum.

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Previous episodes have indicated that there’s some – as yet – unknown reason why John doesn’t liquify when he flies through wormholes. Yet five different species go through this wormhole – and not in Farscape 1 which may be the reason for non-liquification – and none of them liquify?
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Everytime someone's liquified, they've been in a prowler IIRC. Maybe there's something in the makeup of a prowler that causes it.
The alternative is that Lo'Laan can automatically compensate for whatever it is that is in Farscape 1, and Moya has the same thing in her makeup.