Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bass
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.13.2003
Monroe segues to D'Argo -- in his words, the "one alien visitor...who never failed to elicit extreme curiosity" among network staffers. He is good TV, I will give him that. Bobby and D'Argo sit inside Lo'La, which Bobby pronounces "so cool." D'Argo, who is apparently in no mood, gives a grave answers, even as Bobby's whirling around and shooting her from every angle. "It's a weapon. It kills people." Like monsters and stuff? D'Argo chuckles dryly. "Yes, sometimes. But sometimes just, uh...kills those who are in the wrong place at the wrong time." Yeeowch. Get him off the screen! Bobby says D'Argo promised to give him a demo, and he puts Bobby in front of the telemetry controls: "It's a recording captured through my targeting array." Bobby takes one giant step back in his enthusiasm as he watches the video. "Whoa! It just...that...it just...disappeared." D'Argo explains it's a recording of the rogue Leviathan that attacked them (In "Dog With Two Bones"), and how Lo'La was called upon to destroy her. Now might be a good time for a gut check: how far, just hypothetically speaking, would you go to save the one you loved? How far could mourning push you? Rage? Terror? Love? How rogue do you go when your heart destroys the world? Just a question; I'm just curious. No reason. "Could you...I mean, could we stop you if you tried to attack us?" D'Argo answers honestly, as they all seem hell-bent on doing: "With your current defenses? No." It's the message, the "look upward," that's the problem here; he just looks too weird to let it stop there.
Major General Stephen Walcott, USMC, Ret.: "The most frightening aspect of this Pandora's box we've opened is, he may be right. From what I've heard, his ship has our best and brightest utterly perplexed." Old Lady Edith chimes the fuck in: "By indicating that our current defenses could not contain him, General D'Argo is performing an act of psychological terror." We judge others by our own standards, always. If anything, that's a good reason to be inclusive: it's a much better color on you. John fast-forwards; D'Argo approaches and watches with him as Video D'Argo tells Bobby they'll be leaving soon. "There are some people here, some very powerful people, who don't appreciate what we're doing." Not kicking the Moyans out, exactly, but "making it very difficult for us to continue." John fast-forwards: "It might be a bit dramatic for one Luxan, but, uh, I can do enough damage to your world to change it forever."
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