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Family Ties
Teleplay by David Kemper & Rockne S O'Bannon
Directed by Tony Tilse
DID YOU NOTICE?
- D'Argo threatens Rygel with some unintelligible alien curse – but it should have been intelligible. In a dramatic device, ever since Crichton was injected with translator microbes that mean he can understand all alien languages, we've been able to understand them too.
- Why does D'Argo go on the mission to the Gammak Base? Crichton had to go, he is the one that Scorpius would chase after and leave Moya clear to escape, but D'Argo made no difference.
- If D'Argo had to go, why didn't he take a spacesuit like Crichton did? Probably so that he could play his part in the cliffhanger and fall unconscious before Aeryn could rescue him. But what's the excuse?
- Why is Scorpius so mad keen to capture Crichton? He says he is, over and over, and he's prepared to kill everyone on Moya except Crichton. He even allows Crichton to bomb the Gammak Base and, seemingly, kill everybody on it rather than lose the human. Yet while he repeatedly mentions that he needs Crichton's wormhole technology knowledge, he's surely ripped that out of Crichton already. Or else what good is that Ronco memory-raiding chair of his?
- How did Chiana get the time to cook all of those meals for everyone? Leaving aside that it seems suddenly rather girlie for a hardened, fast-lying criminal, she prepared everyone's favourite meals in no time flat. Everyone bar Crichton's, that is, as she pointed out each favourite and didn't mention him. Perhaps she knew he was going to skip the eating scene.
- In the previous episode we were left with the prospect of a very hungry carnivore, M'Lee, being let loose on the Peacekeeper base. Scorpius makes one just reference that suggests she really is on there and eating her way through the people: he asks where one of his guards has gone.
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