Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | 1 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Next Time, Just Count To Ten
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 07.29.1999
Outside, Rokon is sourly observing Crichton's and Kato-Re's chumminess. He's with a woman we'll soon learn is his mother. We quickly find that she's some sort of power-hungry high priestess who wants Rokon to be the next chief, and as such eggs him on to make sure that no one stands between his marriage to Lisala. He stomps off in a huff. For an episode about an idyllic society, that's been happening an awful lot.
Rygel and D'Argo have landed on the surface, although not smoothly, according to D'Argo's exposition that they lost power and Rygel's accompanying bitchery. Rygel's in his Thronesled, which I love and also covet, and D'Argo communicates their status to Pilot. However, the comm quickly loses power, followed closely by D'Argo's Qualta blade and, most amusingly, Rygel's Thronesled, which sends him tumbling to the ground in an amusingly twitchy heap. D'Argo stalks off, and Rygel tries his best to follow. Aw. Of course, Rygel being part of the away team is so contrived it defies belief, for a number of reasons, but someone must have been slipping me some Kool-Aid, because it doesn't really bother me.
On Moya, Zhaan and Aeryn are arguing over the best course of action. They exposit that D'Argo found Crichton's module, but Aeryn wants to gather more data so as to avoid whatever happened to D'Argo and Rygel, while Zhaan wants to investigate immediately in case the landing party is hurt. I'm sure Crichton will be just thrilled to know how quickly you were willing to speed off to rescue D'Argo and Rygel, sister. After Aeryn deduces the power drain by the absence of any energy signature from the landing module, they rather incongruously have an argument about Zhaan not being a priest anymore, something that Crichton just as oddly brought up in an earlier scene. Zhaan cautions Aeryn that she doesn't want to get into this area of discussion, and honey, we all saw (well, Aeryn didn't see it, but I'd wager she's heard about it by now) you kill your lover with your bare hands, so to speak, among other scary things in which you've been involved. We know you're mad, bad, and dangerous to know -- do we have to belabor the point? Anyway, the girls agree that they should attempt to discover what's behind the power drain.