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
Up on Moya, Kyr sets down his fork-object and yawns, and protests to Zhaan that he's not tired in any way. As she's offering to take him to his "quarters" (note), Pilot requests her presence on command. Kyr says he knows his way back, and for some reason, Zhaan's anarchism chooses this moment -- as she's been joyfully smothering him up to this point -- to reassert itself. "Total junkie with a hostile regiment with whom we're currently in a shooting battle which has perhaps fatally injured one of my crew? And he's got the shakes from withdrawal? And the drug of which he is a total junkie is rage itself? Have fun! No unscheduled detours, though, okay? Honor system!" Big blue idiot arrives on command, where they have a pointless conversation about how John needs to know where the shuttle went so they can find Rygel, which they could have had any fucking place, and this is a stupid way to get Kyr loose. Which complication also means nothing to the story whatsoever, making it doubly irritating. Down planetside, there's a cute callback to last week, as Aeryn draws out the coordinates Zhaan gave them in the dirt and explains what they mean. Kyr tries to bust into a lockbox in the maintenance bay, ripping a tool off a poor DRD, which causes Pilot to go all Butterfly McQueen, and Zhaan goes down to maintenance to get him.
Tavlekistan. Aeryn finishes up the directional vector lesson, which I imagine took not so long considering John is an astronaut and there are translator microbes and there's only so many ways to describe three-dimensional space. But it's cute with all the sharing of knowledge, so whatever. John says that between the comedown and the black blood, neither Aeryn nor D'Argo is up for a sprint, which is what it's going to take to get to the camp before the shuttle...takes off, or arrives, or something. Where there's Rygel and a small window to find him. I'm only here for Zhaan this week, I don't really care why this is happening, because the whole point is that John's going to have to put on the...yep. Here we go. He picks up the gauntlet and asks them how it works. D'Argo's noncommittal answer is translated by John's crazyness microbes as comparable to the Green Lantern's ring, meaning willpower and no yellow stuff, and the needles dig in and he grunts, and I gotta say that the only thing worse than giving it to D'Argo is giving it to Aeryn, right, but the only thing worse than that? Is happening. "That's funny. I don't feel anything. In fact, I feel pretty good. Feel real good..." Face goes crazy and kinda...never mind. You can tell it's working, is the point. So can he. He takes off.
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