Farscape 4.02: What Was Lost pt 1: Sacrifice - not really a review by Hmpf MacSlow
Yeah, I know I should be working on those rings I'm supposed to make for an old teacher of mine, but my 'hand model', the person I need to test the rings on, has gone missing so I'm stuck for now with my Latin textbook and my computer, and of course the computer wins. It always does.
So, while I'm eating, I'm watching 4.02 again, for the third time, and trying to jot down my thoughts while I'm doing it. Not sure whether this will be anything like a real review; the ep is still too confusing, but it's only the first part of a two-parter, so I'll have to reserve judgement till I've seen part two, I think.
Okay. Here we go:
Aha. Some of the confusion just cleared: I just realized they're going to this planet because they suppose Jool is there; apparently it's where she meant to go after the Moya crew split up. I have to say, seeing John interact with the old pilot is heart-warming. He's so sweet with her...
Nice sets, nice locations. That first encounter with the Interion guard is great, btw. 'Who is this peacekeeper? Why is he with this tralk?' -- John/Chiana simultaneously: 'He's not a peacekeeper!'/'She's not a tralk!' Common misconceptions... ;-) Jool is touching in her joy of seeing Chiana again; Chiana is notably less happy of seeing Jool again. D'Argo and John are great... Great use of music and lighting to convey a melancholy atmosphere in the scene that follows, and we see John is still primarily concerned about Aeryn, and D'Argo is trying to comfort him.
Hey, I love that bug!
Jool still enthusing: 'I can't believe we're here and we're alive and nobody is trying to kill us!'
Underwater creature - nice visuals here, nice underwater shots. I still have absolutely no clue what that creature is all about.
Another nice shot: black screen, then the camera pans(?) upward and we see what we've been looking at was the back of John's t-shirt. Jool is pointing a kind of floodlight in the camera's direction. Everybody including Jool is still clueless as to what happened to Moya, so Monjo and co. are clearly not planning to explain it to us anytime soon... The old woman is obviously still around, and our friends obviously still haven't found out her name 'cause Jool's calling her 'Wrinkles'. We're told that Wrinkles will explain everything. Yeah, right. Jool's enthusiastic about the dig - she went to this planet because some groundbreaking archaeological dig is being conducted by her people there. Chiana's still less than impressed.
Next: nice Chiana and D'Argo scene, again utilising one of those floodlights to good effect.
Jool meanwhile filling John in about the history of the planet, some talk about peace and a secret. Enter Instructor Vela, arrogant chief archaeologist, intensely unpleasant. Funny reaction to her by John. She's telling us more about the planet. It all makes absolutely no sense.
Who would have thought D'Argo would enjoy being an archaeologist?
Some talk about Peacekeepers, and D'Argo escaping them thanks to his ship, which he has named after his wife.
Meanwhile, on Elack, Sikozu is frelling around with Crichton's module and Rygel is bitching. I'd really like to know how Sikozu is getting the module started when Crichton, whom we may suppose to know all there is to know about the module, couldn't get it to work with the materials on Elack... Hmm, shouldn't look too closely at the plotholes, I suppose.
And here we have Commandante Cleavage again, torturing Scorpius, and who would have thought Braca could be such a sadistic asshole? Not really something I ever wanted to see.
On the planet, John is still looking for 'Grandma'. When he finds her, he treats her not exactly with the respect her age deserves... some hilarious dialogue here. ('Never bathe, never bathe, washes off the juice.') The underwater creature is hanging around, too. Grandma is evasive about what happened to Moya, telling John to 'ask Pilot. Pilot knows.' Then they're talking about Aeryn and the baby and Grandma suggests to John to push a crushed bug up his nose. Now that's a real helpful proposition... (But maybe it is... I suspect something...)
Jool and D'Argo getting chummy, and Vela turning up, looking supremely silly.(Probably supposed to look menacing) She's turning a bug to rock.
Commandante Cleavage is taking a bath, using her sweat(!) to control Braca. Hm. (Theory: CC is not a Sebacean but a Nebari or a Sebacean-Nebari hybrid, and she's genetically manipulated to be able to control people this way. Makes more sense than her being just a freak mutation, anyway, and fits her skin colour.)
Heh. Just realized how late it is. Have to get back to work. Anyway, wouldn't want to spoil you completely... ;-) What you've read above is less than half the ep. I don't think I'll manage to write about the rest before I've seen 4.03 (which will happen tomorrow evening). Gonna do some Latin now.
So, while I'm eating, I'm watching 4.02 again, for the third time, and trying to jot down my thoughts while I'm doing it. Not sure whether this will be anything like a real review; the ep is still too confusing, but it's only the first part of a two-parter, so I'll have to reserve judgement till I've seen part two, I think.
Okay. Here we go:
Aha. Some of the confusion just cleared: I just realized they're going to this planet because they suppose Jool is there; apparently it's where she meant to go after the Moya crew split up. I have to say, seeing John interact with the old pilot is heart-warming. He's so sweet with her...
Nice sets, nice locations. That first encounter with the Interion guard is great, btw. 'Who is this peacekeeper? Why is he with this tralk?' -- John/Chiana simultaneously: 'He's not a peacekeeper!'/'She's not a tralk!' Common misconceptions... ;-) Jool is touching in her joy of seeing Chiana again; Chiana is notably less happy of seeing Jool again. D'Argo and John are great... Great use of music and lighting to convey a melancholy atmosphere in the scene that follows, and we see John is still primarily concerned about Aeryn, and D'Argo is trying to comfort him.
Hey, I love that bug!
Jool still enthusing: 'I can't believe we're here and we're alive and nobody is trying to kill us!'
Underwater creature - nice visuals here, nice underwater shots. I still have absolutely no clue what that creature is all about.
Another nice shot: black screen, then the camera pans(?) upward and we see what we've been looking at was the back of John's t-shirt. Jool is pointing a kind of floodlight in the camera's direction. Everybody including Jool is still clueless as to what happened to Moya, so Monjo and co. are clearly not planning to explain it to us anytime soon... The old woman is obviously still around, and our friends obviously still haven't found out her name 'cause Jool's calling her 'Wrinkles'. We're told that Wrinkles will explain everything. Yeah, right. Jool's enthusiastic about the dig - she went to this planet because some groundbreaking archaeological dig is being conducted by her people there. Chiana's still less than impressed.
Next: nice Chiana and D'Argo scene, again utilising one of those floodlights to good effect.
Jool meanwhile filling John in about the history of the planet, some talk about peace and a secret. Enter Instructor Vela, arrogant chief archaeologist, intensely unpleasant. Funny reaction to her by John. She's telling us more about the planet. It all makes absolutely no sense.
Who would have thought D'Argo would enjoy being an archaeologist?
Some talk about Peacekeepers, and D'Argo escaping them thanks to his ship, which he has named after his wife.
Meanwhile, on Elack, Sikozu is frelling around with Crichton's module and Rygel is bitching. I'd really like to know how Sikozu is getting the module started when Crichton, whom we may suppose to know all there is to know about the module, couldn't get it to work with the materials on Elack... Hmm, shouldn't look too closely at the plotholes, I suppose.
And here we have Commandante Cleavage again, torturing Scorpius, and who would have thought Braca could be such a sadistic asshole? Not really something I ever wanted to see.
On the planet, John is still looking for 'Grandma'. When he finds her, he treats her not exactly with the respect her age deserves... some hilarious dialogue here. ('Never bathe, never bathe, washes off the juice.') The underwater creature is hanging around, too. Grandma is evasive about what happened to Moya, telling John to 'ask Pilot. Pilot knows.' Then they're talking about Aeryn and the baby and Grandma suggests to John to push a crushed bug up his nose. Now that's a real helpful proposition... (But maybe it is... I suspect something...)
Jool and D'Argo getting chummy, and Vela turning up, looking supremely silly.(Probably supposed to look menacing) She's turning a bug to rock.
Commandante Cleavage is taking a bath, using her sweat(!) to control Braca. Hm. (Theory: CC is not a Sebacean but a Nebari or a Sebacean-Nebari hybrid, and she's genetically manipulated to be able to control people this way. Makes more sense than her being just a freak mutation, anyway, and fits her skin colour.)
Heh. Just realized how late it is. Have to get back to work. Anyway, wouldn't want to spoil you completely... ;-) What you've read above is less than half the ep. I don't think I'll manage to write about the rest before I've seen 4.03 (which will happen tomorrow evening). Gonna do some Latin now.