Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Do Not Go Gentle
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 01.06.2000
... and then we cut to him being practically carried into a cell. Another dude, light behind him so all we really see is his silhouette, comes rushing up complaining that he doesn't want a roommate. If it's any consolation, dude, I don't think your roommate is going to make much trouble for you at the moment. The guards leave, and the guy screeches at Crichton to move to the other side of the cell. Crichton wearily obliges, and we see that the guy is wearing a metal mask that covers almost the entire right side of his face... oh my God, you guys, it's Stark! I get to recap his historic entrance into the series that he will forever change! This... yeah, I'm not quite selling this one, am I? We get the infamous "my side, your side" chatter from Stark, and then, more calmly, he asks Crichton if he wasn't just in "his" chair as well. Stark goes on that "Scorpy" puts him in the chair over and over and over, and then there's more crazy babbling from Stark as Crichton collapses to the deck and intones, "Danger, Will Robinson. Beware of the chair. Beware of the chair." To quote my beloved Oz from Buffy, that pretty much sums it up.
Aeryn is unconscious as Zhaan, while ministering to her, informs D'Argo that the treatment is succeeding in preventing Aeryn from deteriorating further, but no more. She asks D'Argo why he didn't want Aeryn to know that the treatment was his idea. D'Argo relays Aeryn's earlier wish to die alone. "As a warrior, I should respect her wishes and not interfere." Zhaan tells him that he did a good thing, and that Aeryn doesn't really want to die. D'Argo: "I do not even believe that she wants to die alone." Man, this show is so good. It may sound strange to talk about loss of innocence in characters that have perpetrated some terrible, terrible things, but these three share so much regarding their disillusionment with their respective cultures. At this particular point, Zhaan's made her peace with it more than the other two, but still: They're a mess. Add to that what Crichton will go through for the rest of the series, not to mention Moya, and it starts to make more sense that Chiana is single-handedly holding this bunch together at the moment.
Okay, back to the scene: More bad news, as Moya starts having muscular contractions, which have a deleterious effect on Aeryn, forcing Zhaan and D'Argo to halt the treatment. D'Argo lovingly strokes Aeryn's hair as Zhaan expresses her wish that Crichton return soon. Again: If she only knew.