Your Reviews
You sent us your reviews of Lava's a Many Splendoured Thing. Here's our top three out of the many splendoured reviews we received. Remember, if you've got something to say about a Farscape episode - send us your review.
Take a look at the Farscape fan reviewer Roll of Honour so far.
Graham
Yes! Yes! Yes! After three episodes you wouldn't buy cut-rate at a car boot sale we're back up there with the best. Fast paced, witty, and unpredictable - this episode had all of the Farscape trademarks without looking stale.
The "buddy" scenes with Chrichton and D'argo sparkled - their discussion of whether getting Granny shot was a good idea had me laughing out loud. And the shield mechanisms meant they couldn't just solve it all with a few pulse pistol blasts. The twist at the end where Crichton could only survive by shooting himself had a beautiful ironic feel to it.
We were also treated to a lovely Wayne Pygram cameo as the in-head Scorpius. The heat protection oversuit was a particularly nice touch.
So, we have Chianna and Sputnik building a relationship, and Granny still either completely dodgy or a loose cannon. The group's tensions provide plenty of meat for later episodes. Yes, they're back on track, and heading for Moya. This is one viewer who has forgiven all that has gone before in this series.
Angela Dunn
This took your average teen comedy formula and made it into one of the wackiest episodes of Farscape I have ever seen.
Having a plot based around bodily functions may reek of ideas running out but it was just so funny. The best bits had to be Granny fooling the guards into thinking that she was a blue-haired lovely, and the facial expressions that John and Dargo pulled afterwards.
Some bits didn't quite work, such as D'Argo's tongue. Why hasn't he done that before now? Also, after no food for three days... call me a pedant but certain members of the group would be very weak by that point, such as our friend with three stomachs.
It was a brave episode that worked very well and set up some good plot devices for future episodes. All that was missing was Aeryn's heroics.
Andrew Fisher
This is one of the few episodes of Farscape that betrays its Australian roots, with the Mad-Max style goons. Having said that, it's also a wonderful surreal trip into realms a certain American sci-fi show would never touch.
There is one minor flaw - Chi and Sikozu look down on the cave, then suddenly the yellow shield is vertical.
All in all, a light-hearted episode with some suitably cheesy sets (I was waiting for the styrofoam rock joke, but you can't have everything) and it all ends happily when Pilot contacts them.
