Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Last Tanga In The Paris Commune
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.22.1999
Aeryn and Pilot are wigging out because there are now explosions happening on Moya. Somewhere. Aeryn runs all over the place and Rygel screams for help and Aeryn and Pilot have a little meeting about how it's coming from Rygel's quarters. She enters and Rygel's in the corner shrieking and scared and shooting fire out of...somewhere. I cannot handle seeing Rygel's penis right now, or ever, so again my respect for Officer Sun grows. She creeps close and tells him to hold still. Hilariously and dead-seriously. Claudia Black, and I totally mean this as a compliment no matter how it sounds, has really good chemistry with Muppets. She scrapes some mucus off his Muppet face and flings it; it explodes. Rygel's motherfucking functions.
From one crotch to another. In the Murphy bed, Zhaan rolls over in her sleep and her hand lands slap-bang on John's batch. He gingerly lifts it off. Anybody else, I'd call bullshit, because it's John, but Zhaan's fully hot in her own right, bald and blue or not, and would probably think of it as chimp sex anyhow. Aeryn calls John on comms, and he cutely climbs over Zhaan and whispers, like somehow Aeryn will see him in bed with Zhaan through the phone. She tells him there's a "situation" on Moya, and he says it could not possibly be "any more interesting" that the one down on the planet. "Well," she says archly, "remember Rygel's assassination attempt? He caused it himself. His body fluids have turned explosive." John stands corrected. Rygel whines at Aeryn, who whips around and points at him, awesomely. "You want to live?" She tells him that he needs to calm down or else his sweat is going to blow him up. John calmly tells her to run some tests. "Use the scanner thing in the maintenance bay." She shakes her head, scared all over again. "No. I am not the scientist." This is the first time you see how the war v. science thing plays out for Aeryn: it's more intense for her than anybody. Sebaceans have a class system; she's not a tech, she's infantry. We've talked about it before, but this is the first time you see how deep it goes. "I know that. Look, just have Pilot help you." He tells her to isolate Rygel, "no fluids, no food" -- which earns the expected groan, which earns in turn another hilarious hardcore look from Aeryn. John tells her to call back when she's got some results, and they'll figure it out.
"Good morning, citizens. A new day begins. Remember, rejoice in your work and keep feeding those 'personal accounts,' because after all, Social Security is in jeopardy..."