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alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Voting Floater posted:

The body paint also nearly killed Noranti, the drugged-up old lady. What the frell were they sticking in that dren?

Damb...

Also i love how shamelessly they retconned her into the beginning of season 4 (?)

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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




alnilam posted:

Damb...

Also i love how shamelessly they retconned her into the beginning of season 4 (?)

the season four premiere is so goddamn good. it also owned that john yelled at the space whalers in klingon

Agronox
Feb 4, 2005
was that Crichton Kicks? yeah, very good, the show usually does well when it leans into crichton being nuts. and the katharine hepburn pilot is a cruel but funny gag

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

My friends and I used to try to classify the gang into D&D classes

John - bard, occasionally tinkerer
Aeryn - warrior
Dargo - barbarian
Zaan - cleric / alchemist
Chiana - rogue
Stark - paladin
Rygel - NPC??

Later i guess Noranti is the new zaan, except Sikozu is also a scientist type (tinkerer?)

e: pilot is the DM

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




remember how in peacekeeper wars sikozu could throw fireballs

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Oh yeah and wall walking... sorceress i guess

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

Pilot is a roleplaying pacifist monk who does nothing but cast pass without trace when the party needs to get somewhere

Stark is an obvious GMPC.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Pilot is a roleplaying pacifist monk who does nothing but cast pass without trace when the party needs to get somewhere

Stark is an obvious GMPC.

obsessively keeping the other players on their side of the screen

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Squizzle posted:

obsessively keeping the other players on their side of the screen

lol

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Saint Drogo
Dec 26, 2011

it's weird that they made Sikozu an android to justify random powers, when they could just say her species do that. the other species get x-men powers. and that's after they made it a thing that translator microbes didn't work on Sikozus and iirc it never came up again.

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Pilot is a roleplaying pacifist monk who does nothing but cast pass without trace when the party needs to get somewhere

Stark is an obvious GMPC.
Jool is a loving escort quest. if you have those in D&D.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




i like the deleted scenes where shes pissed off that earth isnt a communist utopia even tho it should be w/in our grasp

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pySOQfz-okw

special thanks to: the you tube

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009


Nice i never sawr those

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Saint Drogo posted:

Jool is a loving escort quest. if you have those in D&D.

lmao true

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Eating birds of paradise flowers like a friggin boss

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

alnilam posted:

One time they landed on a graveyard planet (like all space travel shows, every whole planet has one singular biome and purpose) and rygel immediately starts grave robbing and he finds a huge corpse worm of unknown origin and says "Bonus!" and grabs and eats it. This is probably the seminal scene in the entire series

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

An anniversary special, featuring mirror Ben Browder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8w34PSrVs0

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014


Officer Crais: Freeze! You're under arrest. You have the right to the remains of a silent attorney! If you cannot afford one, tough noogies! You can make one phone call! I recommend Trixie: 976-Triple 5-LOVE. Do you understand these rights as I have explained them to you?! Well do you, punk?!
John: ...No.
Officer Crais: Then I can't arrest you!

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Officer Crais: Freeze! You're under arrest. You have the right to the remains of a silent attorney! If you cannot afford one, tough noogies! You can make one phone call! I recommend Trixie: 976-Triple 5-LOVE. Do you understand these rights as I have explained them to you?! Well do you, punk?!
John: ...No.
Officer Crais: Then I can't arrest you!

this was the real introduction to the scarrans and how terrifying they are, plus when harvey became overt. its a pivotal ep for the most serious-scifi-drama arc AND, arguably, the biggest madness/mind-tampering element of the ongoing series

and its a fuckin laff riot!!!

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Squizzle posted:

this was the real introduction to the scarrans and how terrifying they are, plus when harvey became overt. its a pivotal ep for the most serious-scifi-drama arc AND, arguably, the biggest madness/mind-tampering element of the ongoing series

and its a fuckin laff riot!!!

All of this is true

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




the australian accents really help to drive home the idea that the peacekeepers are extremely racist

stramit
Dec 9, 2004
Ask me about making games instead of gains.
I liked how as the series progressed the legend surrounding John got bigger and bigger. Season one was “why do I care who you are John” and season 4 was more “holy poo poo you are John please don’t hurt me or my planet we have heard about all you have done and are beet scared of your presence here”.

I think one of the best scenes is in the princess trilogy when he’s orbiting on the satellite and completely loses it.

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Strumpy posted:

I think one of the best scenes is in the princess trilogy when he’s orbiting on the satellite and completely loses it.

It's really a great example of him using "I've been to hell and back and i do NOT give a gently caress anymore" to his advantage

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Did anyone ever join Moya Cru



ty manifisto

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




möya crüe

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
Man, remember when aliens tricked him into believing he'd gone home, and then in the second season he seemed to be home again and just instantly was over it

Remember when they made a hallucination of the villain to hang out with him who remained there on and off all the way through the series

Remember when he got cloned and they went to great pains to say it was literally impossible to tell which one was the original, and they passed a lie detector by sending in the one who hadn't done the thing the lie detector was testing for, and then both clones separated and had separate adventures through season 3 and one died and we never knew if the one who died was the original or not

Remember how they ended every season with a cliffhanger that had no possible way out, up to and including the main characters being DISINTEGRATED ON SCREEN in the final episode

Farscape was the best drat show ever. Remember Maldis, the literal evil wizard? Remember when everyone switched personalities and the actors imitated each other? Remember the Rashomon episode? My Jesus. Oh remember the episode where everyone was going crazy and it was Crichton's inferior ability to perceive the light that was driving them crazy that led to him saving the day? I gotta watch this thing again

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

it's really good and you're right on every count. also btw though every self respecting series needs a rashomon episode. Even Rugrats has one. If you don't have a rashomon episode just get outta here.

Rockstar Massacre
Mar 2, 2009

i only have a crazy life
because i make risky decisions
from a position of
unreasonable self-confidence
that arc with clone? creighton dying was my least favorite ever, though the episode leadup to it was good.

just hard to invest in the drama when me, the audience, knew he was fine. i'd forgotten all about by the end of the season though, all the season ends were great.

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Utgardaloki posted:

that arc with clone? creighton dying was my least favorite ever, though the episode leadup to it was good.

just hard to invest in the drama when me, the audience, knew he was fine. i'd forgotten all about by the end of the season though, all the season ends were great.

Yeah but the way it hosed with aeryn was pretty real and significant

paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW
Crichton taught me that crackers don't matter.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




alnilam posted:

Yeah but the way it hosed with aeryn was pretty real and significant

everything at the end of season 3 hosed with her. john dies. thinks that her mom, who had been hunting her, died, only to discover that she was alive—before she dies again, right in front of her, after showing what was might have been a vague sorta care for aeryn. also she dies by asking aeryn to drop her off a building. then she gets back together with the moya crew, incl ANOTHER crichton who loves her. then she hangs out with a buncha peacekeepers and finds out poo poo like, old friends fuckin hate her. crais kills himself in a noble/spiteful last stand. talyn, her home for a year that she saw born and named after her own father, joins crais in the act. she leads an evacuation of children from the command carrier they destroy.

bit of a rough few weeks imo

Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

Squizzle posted:

everything at the end of season 3 hosed with her. john dies. thinks that her mom, who had been hunting her, died, only to discover that she was alive—before she dies again, right in front of her, after showing what was might have been a vague sorta care for aeryn. also she dies by asking aeryn to drop her off a building. then she gets back together with the moya crew, incl ANOTHER crichton who loves her. then she hangs out with a buncha peacekeepers and finds out poo poo like, old friends fuckin hate her. crais kills himself in a noble/spiteful last stand. talyn, her home for a year that she saw born and named after her own father, joins crais in the act. she leads an evacuation of children from the command carrier they destroy.

bit of a rough few weeks imo

Isn't she also pregnant with the John who died's child too.

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
I haven't watched it in a while but I think it turned out it was the living one's baby. Not sure how they would know. Also the fact that the Crichton who died was the one who had all the cool adventures was pretty funny, while the one who lived got roofied and Dargo punched him so hard he blacked out

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




at the end of season 3, the only other person who has been on talyn for the past year that is both alive and present for aeryn to talk to is rygel

john, crais, talyn, and stark are all dead, or off maskless and searching for zhaan

no wonder she effed (frelled) off into space

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

What's the deal with the weird video game trap that stark makes, why did he make it and why was he the villain? That episode was weird

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




ben browder wrote that ep. he also wrote the one where theyre inside an alive budong and aeryn asks talyn whether crichton or crais has a bigger *whispers* penis

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alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

lol oh ben

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