Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT He Said, She Said
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 07.15.1999
Aeryn is yelling at Crichton to come to. Hee. I'm sure I'd be doing the same, although I might be too lazy to be performing the CPR. Her stern exhortations work, though, as Crichton comes to, none the worse for wear aside from the incredible pain he endured from the kill shot, or at least that's his story. Aeryn's thrilled to bits until she has to tell him that she didn't finish the welding job, as his time was running out, so they only have half an arn of breathable atmosphere left. If I hadn't seen this plotline on every single science fiction episode I've ever watched (including Star Trek: Voyager, and I'm only admitting that because I love you) I'd be a lot more worried. I do quite enjoy these two, though, so I can't pretend it doesn't have some emotional resonance.
Kcrackic's ship flies away from Moya. On the Leviathan, Zhaan bitches Rygel out for giving up their secret, but it turns out Rygel pulled a double-cross -- he asked Pilot to change the comm frequency the minute Kcrackic stepped on board. I'd think that was a little unlikely given how stoned Rygel seemed, but then again, anyone who had as many servants as Rygel probably got bored enough to build up quite a tolerance to just about any sort of recreational drug. Pilot chimes in that he doesn't know where Kcrackic is headed, but it's far away. Zhaan cottons on that Rygel threw the game, and Rygel says it wasn't easy, as Kcrackic is an abominable player. At Zhaan's reaction, he notes, "Bluffing is what the game's all about." With this development, I'm just surprised "Rygel" or variants thereof aren't more popular as handles in online poker games. Not that I'd know.
In the pod of Tick Tick Tick, Crichton suggests that they could still be rescued, while Aeryn thinks their shipmates could have tried, failed, and given up already. Neither of them suggests that their plight is in second position to D'Argo's wacky adventures with a questionably gendered alien, which just goes to show you how early in the series we still are. Aeryn shiveringly notes that it's really cold, and that's a nice touch, since we know she's cold-blooded and all. (That comment was physiological, not editorial.) Crichton makes another "Southernism," and Aeryn looks like she's going to ask and then is all, "I don't want this to be the last conversation I ever have."
Staanz babbles about how great it will be for D'Argo to get aboard the Luxan ship, but D'Argo's got a contemplative look on his face, so you get the idea that he might be having a crisis of conscience. The fact that there are only seven minutes left in the episode adds an element of likelihood to that notion. Staanz says D'Argo must be looking forward to seeing his son, but D'Argo rumbles, "Yes. But when I do, I want to be able to look him in the eye." Even if you do save Aeryn and Crichton at this point, I'm not sure you're covering yourself in glory here, not that the swelling Music of Moral Dilemma Resolved agrees with me at all.