Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Right Now I'm A Race Car
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 04.08.1999
Zhaan finishes up the sleep mist, in the form of a water balloon, which of course makes John very happy, because he's a kid. Aeryn immediately holds out her hand, because she has grave doubts -- albeit based in reality -- about his ability to aim anything or do anything worthwhile, ever, and John tells her to shove it, giving Zhaan a beaming thumbs-up. Aeryn shoves Kyr at Zhaan and tells her to lock him up; Zhaan pretends that this is a tragedy and she's only doing it because Aeryn told her to, still good-copping her way through the situation. Notice how well that goes, without even having to discuss it? John and D'Argo have the same easy operational relationship: as long as they don't talk, they work perfectly. They're each the more the other could be, and you can't talk that one out, because their utterly opposed worldviews corrode the signal.
D'Argo's still beating hell out of the controls on command, screaming at Pilot, and Pilot's still getting prissy about it. Aeryn and John walk up quietly behind D'Argo, and John tosses the water balloon just as D'Argo's screaming about how they're all conspiring to undermine his command. He goes down, and John gets all Shakespearean about it ("Goodnight, sweet prince"), but a bit too soon: the pump gets going and injects D'Argo with a second wind. He jumps up and looks scary at them, and they scatter. John drags Aeryn into a side room off the corridor, and Aeryn bitches about how his "suggestions" continue to do great things for their survival, and John comms to Pilot for "all the acceleration Moya's got." Pilot says, "No." Awesomely. He waits a beat -- and a very funny John face -- before continuing: "I can't activate propulsion. Moya has a systems malfunction." That's awesome. John says, aloud: "For real?" For real. Aeryn figures out some kind of Moya-talk about how there's "excess super-coolant" venting or something, whatever, and complains about how they're wasting time. I wish I knew what John's original plan was, though, because the new one is weird. He tells Pilot to close all the vents, and Pilot worries that this would cause some kind of pressure buildup. I am not following this at all, which is embarrassing, because John's giving all indication of knowing what's going on. "Naw, it won't. I've gotta plan," he tells Aeryn. The scariest words he ever orders. And then Moya does it.
Zhaan brings Kyr to a cell, where he yells at her: "I'm not afraid of you! You're soft and weak!" Pilot comms to Zhaan, and when she acknowledges, Kyr tries to rush her. Of course, because she's bad-ass, she totally sidesteps and then tosses him against a wall, and he slides down it really slowly. "Soft, yes. Weak, no." FUCK YEAH, girl! Who's your momma? Zhaan's your momma now! She turns politely to the air again: "What was that, Pilot?" He tells her to hold on for a sudden acceleration, because "...Crichton has an idea." She sighs and rolls her eyes and curses in Delvian, and then locks Kyr in the cell and takes off.
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