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
Kyr sits in his cell, wrapped in a blanket. Zhaan brings him Crichton's orange flight suit from the Farscape One, and that bugs me, because I bet Kyr doesn't smell that awesome, and I wouldn't want him wearing my clothes until after a good hot shower. She hands it to him and we get a good look. He looks a lot like a Scarran, actually, but we don't know what those are yet. I bet they're related. I love how on this show, there's a limited number of base races, and they all have a million different types and offshoots. It lends the show a lot of texture, even though the relationships between all of them are really confusing (like, I'm still not convinced I know what's going on with the Kalish, which is like the ultimate plot thread of the end of the show), which is also more realistic. I guess all the big sci-fi have things like that, like Star Wars has whole books about how the races dress and how they feel about each other, but since none of those characters have personalities or souls it's harder to care. Here, they will strip and show you their junk so you know! Zhaan offers him some food, and he offers for her to go fuck herself. "Are you in discomfort?" she asks calmly, and he gets really frustrated with Crichton's clothes, because they're too hard with all the straps and snaps. (I'm not making a joke about that, because I am sure you and I both could work it out with a quickness, if necessary. Aeryn, it takes a while to get those straps sorted.) Kyr demands his clothes back, and Zhaan says they "had to borrow them," for Aeryn's ridiculous plan. At a loss and feeling vulnerable, Kyr gets very aggressive and pathetic: "Had to? Or did you just wanna strip me? What's the matter? Too prim to sneak a peek? You afraid you might like what you saw? You ever looked at a male before, huh? Huh? Well, here you go!" She's not entirely impressed (I told you about the steroids!) but tells him sweetly that he's "quite respectable for [his] age." Crazy Zhaan music starts, as though to say, "I am Farscape: even with everybody going crazy, we still have time to crack jokes about your dick." He's thrown off. "Did you think you'd shock me?" she asks. "Is nudity a taboo in your culture? Are you ashamed of your bodies?" Her condescension is a weapon more powerful than wormholes. Kyr's like, "We would be, if we looked like you, Beavis!" And she tells him that it's doubtful. She stands before him, drops her gown, and looks him full-on, standing perfectly still. From here, she's got nothing to be worried about. You get more blue ass on this show, I swear. Kyr stutters and stares and is weirded out. She puts her robes back on, wonderfully and with a stately grace, and asks again if he's hungry, and leaves. His mind is kind of blown: she's beaten him twice, now. And he's not got a lot of options left to challenge her with. He's a kid; I love him.
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