Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lewis Carroll Never Imagined This
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 09.09.1999
Crichton arrives at the maintenance bay, which is where Pilot told him Aeryn was. I'll shorten up the recap by a lot if I just say that if you're into lots of dialogue-free shots of Crichton running around by himself, you'll like this episode a lot. You'll also find it a lot easier to recap, and that may not be all that relevant to you, but what the hell, I'm in a sharing mood. Anyway, Crichton gets sucked into a red vortex...
...and when he lands, we quickly gather that the light is hurting his eyes something fierce. He staggers around for a while with one hand over his eyes, and eventually falls to his knees and vomits. It's a good thing he's from the South, because he's got enough new experiences to deal with at the moment as it is. We get lots of double-exposure and shaky camera work to emphasize the point, which is all very artsy, but the dude just booted, you know? We get it.
Sometime later, Crichton has found something to tie around his eyes. I am saddened to have to report that said something is not his shirt. He's at Pilot's chamber, but Pilot is nowhere to be found.
Sometime later, in the same dimension, D'Argo is staggering around, similarly affected. The point is driven home again by the camerawork and visual effects, and if you really want to see someone with lots of facial hair and tentacles, a double-exposed D'Argo should fit the bill quite nicely. Crichton staggers into the frame behind D'Argo, and D'Argo calls his name, but Crichton appears not to hear him and disappears the other way again. D'Argo, now just about incapacitated due, presumably, to the greater amount of time he's been in this dimension, falls to the floor murmuring Crichton's name again. Isn't that more enjoyable that him calling for Jothee?
Crichton's now made it to Command. He hears an alien-sounding wailing coming from above him, so he hoists himself up for a look...
...and now he's in the blue dimension, which boasts an ongoing shrill noise that causes Crichton to cover his ears in pain. This is what can happen if you don't perform regular tests of the emergency broadcast system. After running around for awhile, Crichton finds Aeryn. He demonstrates his unconscious desire to make the Darwin awards by tapping the Peacekeeper on the shoulder, but luckily for all of us, Aeryn's reflexes are equal to the task of not shooting him in his pretty, pretty face. They try to talk, but that proves impossible over the din, so they have a charades conversation that's far more amusing that it has any right to be. Crichton's Rygel is particularly hilarious, and it makes me wonder how much money would be saved in the entertainment industry each year if there were no takes ruined by actors cracking each other up. Anyway, Crichton leads Aeryn to the spot through which he left the last dimension, but it doesn't happen to be a portal here, so he's left looking flummoxed as Aeryn has no trouble giving a wordless "That was interesting, genius" through a sarcastic thumbs-up. They decide to go look for D'Argo and Rygel...