Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT He Said, She Said
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 07.15.1999
Aeryn welds away, nervously hearing from the onboard computer that she has under sixty microts left. Those things never bear good news.
Staanz tells D'Argo about the air coming from the pod. He grins that maybe this means they don't have to rush. Hey, dude, just because D'Argo's going off to find some map fibers instead of saving his dying friends doesn't mean... hmm. It's not too late to change my mind on that thought, is it?
Aeryn's down to her last ten microts. She finishes up and starts to walk across the room, but gets smacked out of consciousness by another flying thing dropping from the ceiling. I guess Crichton diving on top of her wasn't as gratuitous as it seemed. The ensuing breast-rest still seems a little overplayed, though.
Back from the break, Aeryn's still unconscious, and no word on the number of microts she's over the limit. The bright side is that Crichton's brain cells don't seem to utilize oxygen to the fullest at the best of times.
On Moya, Rygel makes a move that causes a holographic tower to appear over the board. He's all gloaty until Kcrackic makes a move that produces an entire city. At least getting one-upped can't be an uncommon experience for Rygel, given that he's two feet tall. Under the threat of death, Rygel gives up that Staanz is now with one of his shipmates, and they can locate him by following that shipmate's comm signal, the frequency of which is in the ship's database. If Kcrackic is wary of accessing a pregnant Leviathan's database, he doesn't say so, but maybe the henchZenetan does more around here than we realize.
On the pod, Aeryn finally comes to, and horrifiedly realizes that the vial containing the nerve shot has shattered. She wastes little time in hauling Crichton to the floor and performing CPR, causing a large part of the audience to curse the fact that fifteen pumps of his chest are necessary before it makes sense for her to put his lips on his.
The Shiphole finally reaches the Luxan wreck as D'Argo breathes that Aeryn and Crichton have a second reserve tank of oxygen, and as such could still be alive. Well, at least next time you see some air coming from their direction, you'll know for sure that they're toast. Dick. As they get closer, Staanz compliments their timing, as the ship is next in line for the melt, and I'd wonder who has the lovely job of keeping track of the order in this crapyard out in the middle of nowhere if I weren't kind of sick of this episode already. Up close, D'Argo identifies the ship as a "Luxan Assault Piercer," and says he dreamt of serving on one as a boy. Presumably one that was in considerably fewer pieces than the one before us. D'Argo seems to have a moment of indecision, seemingly brought on by thoughts of Aeryn and Crichton, but Staanz points out that this is D'Argo's chance to reunite with his real family, causing D'Argo to say, "My son," in a plaintive rumble. (If you want that name for your band, it's yours.)