This sort of reminds me of an episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Buzz and his crew were stranded on a planet inhabited by green Greys called Roswell.
I will always admire Ben Browder's ability to look like he's going crazy from the madness around him and either barely keeping it together or embracing it to keep from breaking. I don't actually remember much of this episode.
Farscape got off to an amazing start. Star Trek has done 'cultural contamination' episodes from time to time and mentally I'm lumping in several types of episodes within that. It is interesting to see this from the other side and especially on such a personal level. Farscape always held onto this in some way with the diverse characters, for every problem each of them has a solution ranging from kick it, dismantle it, block it. Episodes like this really drove home that Moya was truly alive , not just a grown thing. Something that I can't help but think about is the X-files episode 'Mulder and Scully meet the Were-monster' Different premise but still flipping the script.
I think it was an extraordinarily bad idea to put this episode second in the series. The last thing I want from a show like Farscape with it's fish-out-of-water premise is to immediately go back to (basically) earth. Plus, if the audience is more used to the world the show is normally set in, an adventure like this could show how far Crichton has come. But no. He gets flung across the universe and almost immediately lands exactly at home.
Translator microbes only work for the person who was infected with them, as when critchton first boreded moya he couldn't understand them but they could understand him.
My nitpick for this episode is that the show just established translator microbes for communication, yet everyone on this planet speaks perfect English.
My impression is that Translator Microbes translate like Babel Fish, upon receipt in the person they're injected to, and allow that person to communicate back... wait... okay that doesn't make sense. Maybe these aliens were actually a lost colony and speak the equivalent of Galactic Standard?
The UA-cam equivalent of a holiday marathon ^_^ 🙂
. . . The 12 days on Christmas 😉
This sort of reminds me of an episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Buzz and his crew were stranded on a planet inhabited by green Greys called Roswell.
Honestly that show and the original buzz lightyear movie were 1,000 times better than the new lightyear movie
I will always admire Ben Browder's ability to look like he's going crazy from the madness around him and either barely keeping it together or embracing it to keep from breaking.
I don't actually remember much of this episode.
Farscape got off to an amazing start. Star Trek has done 'cultural contamination' episodes from time to time and mentally I'm lumping in several types of episodes within that. It is interesting to see this from the other side and especially on such a personal level. Farscape always held onto this in some way with the diverse characters, for every problem each of them has a solution ranging from kick it, dismantle it, block it. Episodes like this really drove home that Moya was truly alive , not just a grown thing.
Something that I can't help but think about is the X-files episode 'Mulder and Scully meet the Were-monster' Different premise but still flipping the script.
Ooh, liking this 12 Days of Farscapemas idea.
This is an odd one. I both consider it to be a sign of Farscape's early weaknesses in writing, but I still view it very fondly.
John Crichton is easily the best Everyman thrust into fantastic circumstances.
Somehow, a NASA Astronaut is also an everyman.
That's why we love Farscape!
@ I meant that more as a trope than as an actuality. But yeah, still applies.
I think it was an extraordinarily bad idea to put this episode second in the series. The last thing I want from a show like Farscape with it's fish-out-of-water premise is to immediately go back to (basically) earth. Plus, if the audience is more used to the world the show is normally set in, an adventure like this could show how far Crichton has come. But no. He gets flung across the universe and almost immediately lands exactly at home.
Translator microbes only work for the person who was infected with them, as when critchton first boreded moya he couldn't understand them but they could understand him.
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My nitpick for this episode is that the show just established translator microbes for communication, yet everyone on this planet speaks perfect English.
My impression is that Translator Microbes translate like Babel Fish, upon receipt in the person they're injected to, and allow that person to communicate back... wait... okay that doesn't make sense.
Maybe these aliens were actually a lost colony and speak the equivalent of Galactic Standard?
Farscape is doing a marathon: ua-cam.com/video/zquyg8P5174/v-deo.html