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"Terra Firma"

The crew returns to Moya - in orbit around modern-day Earth - to find Jack and a contingent of Earth dignitaries waiting for them. The aliens are introduced to an amazed and aprehensive public, but soon find life in the public eye difficult. As Crichton tries to readjust to life on Earth, his relationships become strained, especially with Aeryn. Meanwhile, a monstrous assassin is sent by Grayza to hunt for Crichton.

Friday, 17th January 2003 @ 8pm - New Episode!

That's the air date in the US, folks. All being well and snooker not getting in the way (!), the UK should hopefully see this four days earlier - or maybe (if we're very lucky) even a week and four days earlier!

*grumbles* If them pesky Yanks get ahead of us again ...

Jack - "I don't want you to go. I fear I may never see you again"
Ohhh, how those words sound now. *sniff*

Again, I quite liked this ep actually. In true Farscape fashion they do the unexpected...Bring the Hero home halfway through the story. =^_^= And there wasn't any dramatic reason to leave either other than John's own morality.

Some may question mentioning the decision to put in the 9/11 thing but I think it showed exactly how things have changed since John left, it was a defining turning point that he wasn't there to see...it quite literally /isn't/ his Earth anymore.

They also at least mentioned in a throw away line that John himself doesn’t know why they haven’t all been liquefied…I wonder if we ever do learn why.

I’d have thought the Scientists would have been pressing John a little more on how things work…generally you need to know a little about how things work otherwise I’d have thought it impossible to integrate it with Earth technology.

Not much more I remember atm…again, I’ve been kinda distracted while watching it which is getting annoying now.

Tape it, Kitty, then you can watch again when you’re not being distracted!


Wasn’t it nice that this time they really were on Earth and not in yet another fantasy or alternative universe?

John’s usual spiel during the opening credits – “I’m in a distant part of the universe” – was hardly appropriate this time!

Would aliens be allowed to breathe over humans without myriad tests first? I guess it’s possible that such tests were run – it would have been nice to have known how much time passed between Moya being spotted above Earth and John’s ‘diary’ entry.

Hilarious moment of the episode: Noranti singing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”!

Why did Scorpius stay behind? If Moya hadn’t been able to get back through the wormhole, would he have enough fuel and air to get to a planet?

The death of DK and his wife was a shock, though it’s good to know that Farscape isn’t afraid to kill off semi-regular characters on occasion.

Aeryn’s pulse pistol does surprisingly little damage to the house as she fires at Skeech, especially in view of the carnage it caused earlier in the episode in a more ‘controlled’ situation.

Presumably Braca is playing the innocent in order to stay in Grayza’s good books but if I was her I’d be suspicious that he was being so ‘yes-ma’am’ all the time.

Oh man, I cried buckets at the end as John, Olivia and Jack said goodbye.

I wonder if next week’s opening credits will have a new voice-over now that John’s no longer trying to get home.

>Tape it, Kitty, then you can watch again when you’re not being distracted!

I would do, but I'm usually too lazy to muck about with the myrad of cables that hang from the back of my desk..and anyways my VCRs atm are more likely to eat the tape than record something on them.

Excellent episode! I can't believe that the frelling idiots at Sci Fi want to cancel this show.

Please refresh my memory, why exactly is John mad at Aeryn? Dargo mentioned that he hadn't forgiven her yet.

I wouldn't have to ask this question if the above mentioned idiots hadn't made me wait 5 months to get new episodes without repeating the older ones.

Also, is it just me or is Sci Fi really not going out of their way to promote the new Episodes? Is seems that Farscape is being sacrificed on the altar of SG-1 (I have never seen SG-1 so I don't know how the show is. Sci Fi seems to be in love with it, though). They are also promoting dren like Crossing Over and this new Dream Team, but can't promote their best show.

Am I ranting too much?

Harvey, John is mostly mad at Aeryn for not telling him she was pregnant before she left Moya at the end of the last series. He feels betrayed by her lack of trust in him.

There are other reasons too but we don't find out about them until later in this season.

And I don't think anyone can rant too much about the series being cancelled, especially as it will end in mid-plot!

Thank you Callie. That's what I thought, but I wanted to be sure.

Has anyone heard what the latest is regarding the cancellation? Any chance of reversal?

Finally got to see this one.

Good over all, though I'm a bit cheesed about the killing of DK and his wife. It seemed like a throw-away kind of thing, like they said, "Oh, let's kill John's best friend for the heck of it." I was also a little put-off by the change in Jack. His attitude was so militant that part of me couldn't believe he'd have changed that much in four years. And the change of heart at the end seemed sort of corny....

I thought that in one episode, John mentioned his "sisters." Does he have another sister somewhere, or is it just Olivia? (That was her name, right?)

I'm very interested to see where Farscape goes from here.

Oh, and on an unrelated note, I would NEVER, EVER want to tell that Annabelle lady anything about my dreams. She was a host of "Dinner and a Movie" for God's sake! Now she's qualified to analyze dreams? What a crock of ****! Sci-Fi really thinks this is what we want to watch?

RE: Jack's change of attitude
Farscape was the first show, at least as far as I know, to admit to or address the September 11th attacks in the United States...and I have to commend them for integrating a real-world horror (that apparently no one in the world of fictional television really knew how to deal with) in a subtle way without all the self-congratulating, self-promoting junk that usually goes along with this sort of thing ("This week, on a very special Farscape, Crichton's father admits he's changed since 9-11.").

I am glad that Crichton was able to get home before the (premature) end of the series; and I wondered "What now?" as Crichton heads back to Tormented Space...but Sci-Fi Channel's Farscape site had something I saw yesterday (wish I could remember where, to quote it or give everyone a URL) that indicated Crichton's return to Tormented Space was because he had some sort of very special role to play in the conflict between the Scarrans and the Peacekeepers/Sebacians.

RE: that Annabelle woman
I don't know whether to laugh at the fact that alledged "reality" shows like "Crossing Over" and "The Dream Team" are airing on a network with the word fiction in its name, or to cry because said network would rather spend their money on faked tripe like John Edwards (how many times do The Amazing Randi and Penn & Teller have to debunk that fraud?!?), "The Dream Team" (please, like I want someone who hosted "Not Necessarily the News" to know about my sex dreams...) and the tragically moronic "Tremors: The Series". (Note I don't even italicize the show names, like I do for shows I actually have RESPECT for!)

Oh, and don't even get me started on "Tracker"! Phfah! A rip-off of The Hidden with Kyle MacLachlan or Something Is Out There with Joe Cortese, Maryam D'Abo and Kim Delaney, both of which were humorously/painfully cheesy in their day, let alone recycling the concept with recycled actors from Highlander and Forever Knight/Airwolf.

"There is nothing new under the sun", or at least, after these final episodes air, there won't be anything new in the glow of my TV. Arguably the finest hour of science fiction on television, and one of the smartest, most well-written hours on TV in general, is being cast away.

ok I missed the beginning of this episode and a few leading up to it (I did see Kansas though).

Does anyone know how most of Moya's crew learned English? this is their first time interacting with humans and yet Cheyanna and Grandma seem to speak English just Fine in "Kansas" and it looked like Dargo now speaks it in this episode. this is very weird because in the past they went out of their way to show that John and Crew can understand any language but those without translator microbes will only hear alien gibberish.

I remember John giving Aeryn Crash courses in English but when did everyone else learn?

on the subject of speaking English. wouldn't it be impossible for any of them to learn to speak anything other then their native tongue? because of the microbes, they can never truly hear a foreign language, it would always be translated automatically, similar Questions have been raised on Star trek TNG with the universal translator and how Worf would periodically spit out klingon phrases. anyone have any info on this? Maybe they showed John buying an English-Sabastien Dictionary and I just missed it

oh and by the way.. is John Ever going to remember that Cheyanna was the first woman he ever had sex with? I would think she is kinda hard to forget.

I liked this three parter. It was nice to get back to Earth. And to see that Earth doesn't freak out at the concept of alien lifeforms (don't they know we watch Farscape? And Star Trek? and...)

Well, I guess that the cop in Kansas can finally mock everyone that didn't believe him.

Poor Braca. So manipulated. I don't know who has the upper hand in this, the mind controller or the spy.

I was surprised at John's lack of enthusiasm at returning. I mean, it made some sense, but this guy seems to have been dreaming of getting back there since day one. He achieves his goal and it's like, "meh" for him. I guess the things he's seen and done in the last few months really have changed him a lot.