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Graham
Oh dear, oh dear. The best sci-fi programme on the TV finally turns in an episode to rival Battlestar Galactica at its worst.
What Was Lost had an incomprehensible rambling plot over two episodes, poorly written, poorly plotted, poorly directed and poorly acted. It’s no wonder they spent so much time in the sea, the plot itself didn’t hold water.
Plot oversights were similarly more in evidence than usual - like Jool, Chiana and the Old Woman staying locked behind metal bars for two episodes, until they remember Jool can melt metal by screaming. Farscape’s reputation is based upon being better than this.
To top it all off, a superb baddy is dumped in a pit whilst a cross between Servalan from Blakes 7 and an Original Series Star Trek alien (A reference to Elaan from the episode Elaan of Troyius, Ed) hams it up. We can only hope Braca changes his allegiances again and pushes her out through an airlock.
At least it had one great line at the end.
Jool: "I’m sorry I said you weren’t Vella’s intellectual equal."
D'Argo: "I am now, - she’s a rock."
D-. Must try harder. See me after the lesson.
Stephen Hart
The fourth series of Farscape finally hits its stride after a somewhat confusing start. Farscape's hallmarked weirdness and lack of exposition is great, however over the last two episodes it has strayed into almost senseless posturing. Fortunately this episode nicely tied up all the threads whilst setting the scene for future events.
Classic Farscape moments to enjoy in this episode included the quite simply brilliant – "They won't shoot Scorpius," "Oh my God! They've shot Scorpius!" moment - but has he really gone for good? I, for one, doubt it. Then we have Crighton's "Does my bum look good in this" dialogue with a bemused Braca.
There was a rather nice pulse pistol fight for the action freaks in the audience, although whomever trains Peacekeepers really needs sacking, as they didn't even come close to hitting anyone!
Plot wise the episode struggled with having too much to resolve. The whole magnetic field threat, whilst an original idea, seemed rather bolted-on, and frankly what was the whole ancient priests thing about in the first place? And do we care?
What the episode did manage to achieve was to create a nice degree of doubt about the fate of Scorpius and to give the new resident villain, Grayza, a real reason to go after Crighton. Oh, and they finally got rid of Jool!
