Prayer

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Farscape: Season Four: Prayer
Captive at a Scarran base, Aeryn is tortured for information as to the whereabouts of Crichton. When the Scarrans learn that she’s pregnant and that the child may be John’s, the torture gets a whole lot worse.
Synopsis by Callie Sullivan.
By Callie on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 2:44 pm:

In view of the fact that the Sebaceans gave up believing in a god a long long time ago, it seemed strange that Aeryn even knew about Djancaz-Bru, let alone considered praying to her.

Where was the alt-universe’s Crichton?

The make-up on the alt-Chiana (played by Claudia) was so superb that when we first saw her I was about to start writing, “Hey! They’ve wrongly got Gigi playing Chiana in this universe!”

I’m prepared to be reminded that we already knew this but I was surprised to learn that a Leviathan has better sensors than a Peacekeeper Command Carrier.

Aeryn really reverted to her old Peacekeeper ways with her calm statement, “Then I orphan no-one,” as she killed Morrock.

I hope all the Brits caught the message at the end that Farscape will be on Monday AND Tuesday next week.


By cstadulis on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 7:19 pm:

Well, this was a fun episode. Torture, murder and mayhem. I feel so uplifted.

On a serious note, I'm now very interested to see what happens next. It's going to be one wild ride, that's for sure. Of course, it's nice to finally know who is the father of Aeryn's baby.

That nurse was straight from the Nurse Cratchett School (One Flew Over the Cookoo's (sp?) Nest). And there's a case of AAA (Aliens with Australian Accents): Aeryn's pal in the holding area (the one who got a broken neck for all her pains).

My confidence in the future of Farscape is not bouyed by the way the next episodes are being billed: "The Countdown to Their Final Journey." And what are the brilliant execs at Sci-Fi bringing in to replace it? Tremors: The Series. Like I really want to watch man-eating worms.


By Obi-Juan on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 7:57 pm:

I’m prepared to be reminded that we already knew this but I was surprised to learn that a Leviathan has better sensors than a Peacekeeper Command Carrier.
You already knew this, Callie. ;)
Interesting question of Leviathan biology v. Peacekeeper technology. What is more likely to be superior, a whale's sense of hearing resulting from thousands of years of evolution, or the sonar technology of a US Navy sub?

Like I really want to watch man-eating worms.
I enjoy the original Tremors quite a bit. But I can't believe this is going to replace Farscape!


By Harvey Kitzman on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 8:38 pm:

Now the Sci-Fi boneheads are advertising "the countdown to their final adventure."

I say we should all boycott the Sci Fi channel when they cancel Farscape!


By Scott McClenny on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 10:39 am:

I can't think of what an entire series of man eating worms would be like.I mean how will they
think up new ideas?

On the bright side we still got Stargate SG1 on
Fridays to look forward to and also the new Shannen Doherty reality/hidden camera series
Scare Tactics looks to be a hoot.:)

Now on to our regularly scheduled Farscape nitpicking:

The Bizzaro(to use Crichton's wording)Chianna looks and acts so much like the regular Chianna that it's hard to believe it isn't Gigi instead of
Claudia.

On "our" Farscape Crichton is the only one to refer to Chianna as "Pip",but on the Bizarro Farscape Bizarro Jool/D'Argo refers to her as
"Pip".

Aeryn doesn't seem to buy the alien's story at all,even when the captain of the Skarren ship tortures her.

Hopefully Crichton doesn't need to go back to
Bizarro Moya again,after killing half the crew
he wouldn't be very welcomed.


By Callie on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 11:14 am:

Having watched Unrealised Reality again, I withdraw my question about where the alternate Crichton was on Bizarro Moya. Einstein said that, by going down various tunnels in a wormhole, Crichton was effectively creating these new realities, so there isn’t an alternate John.

However, the whole point of Einstein ‘kidnapping’ John in the first place was to emphasise to him how extremely important it is that he never EVER goes back to a place BEFORE he left it. Yet as soon as Aeryn’s in trouble, all those warnings go out the window and John happily goes back to Bizarro Moya before he left it last time, and the hell with the consequences.
Or is it that as soon as he leaves Bizarro Moya, she ceases to exist, so it doesn’t matter?

Did ‘our’ Stark get memories of strange hidden locations when he moved people over to the other side? And why would the death of a Nebari bring back memories of a Scarran place?


By cstadulis on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 11:24 am:

I have to admit I like the original Tremors as well, but then they had to ruin it with two sequels (one where the worms developed into little, doggie-like man-eaters and one where they grew wings!). I'm just very skeptical about how they can turn it into a series. After all, how many people need to be eaten before everyone just gets the heck out of there? Would you want to live where there's a good chance a man-eating worm will burst through your basement wall and chomp on you?

Back to Farscape:

I did reflect on the whole "returning to a place before you left," but I chalked it up to John just not caring what happened to that reality. Indeed, as he keeps saying, they all die anyway in that reality.


By Obi-Juan on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 2:46 pm:

Oh, we'll have a grand time nitpicking the new "Tremors" show! Let me get some out of the way right now:
- why the heck don't you fools move to another state?
- why isn't your house on stilts, like beachfront property?
- how did you get permits for those automatic weapons you use to shoot the critters?
- what time does the tour bus come through?
- why doesn't the military have a great big base in this town? Imagine the tactical implications of having these critters in your arsenal!
- if "Reba" flops, will she join this cast?

OK, enough of that. On to some quality programming:

Aeryn said that she'd dreamed that her child would "change the world", shortly before she broke the spy's neck. The line should have been "change the galaxy", or some grander image. Worlds are nothing to these folk.

I wonder why John didn't just tell the alt-Stark that he has traveled back (from the future, to keep it simpler) and knows that this crew will be killed by the Peacekeepers very soon, and that Stark could help John to save lives by crossing someone over and giving him info on the Scarran base. OK, Stark was a freak, and alt-Stark was a freak, too, but being honest about the situation was worth a shot. alt-Stark might have even considered it a good deed, to cross his/her friends before the Peacekeepers attacked.


By Callie on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 4:20 pm:

John and Scorpius have few qualms about killing Jool, Rygel and Chiana on Bizarro Moya, saying that it doesn’t matter because they’ll all die anyway when Crais arrives shortly. However, John seems to have conveniently forgotten Einstein’s warning that returning to a place before you left it will change the course of events. Perhaps by returning early to Bizarro Moya, Crais will no longer turn up and so everyone would have lived if John and Scorpy hadn’t run riot and killed most of them off!


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