Occasional Randomness
Farscape
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
We're back after a little extended absence due to hurricanes, power outages and vacations! This time we recap and discuss Farscape season 3, episode 17 - The Choice. Aeryn is on a planet full of seers... yes, really... a whole planet. She's trying to contact the spirit of Crichton and also her dead father. Who's not quite as dead as she was led to believe. Or is he? And in keeping with not-so-dead parents, Xhalax Sun, her mother is back as well. What's a woman got to do to have some alone time and grieve the loss of her one true love?
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Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Welcome to the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
Season One is getting closer and closer to being over. In our first episode, "Through the Looking Glass", Crichton does a lot of running around, through four different Moyas in multiple dimensions due to Moya getting stuck in Starburst. And apparently they are not alone as something really wants them to leave. On top of that, each dimension has a different negative effect on the crew. Can they overcome these strange environments and the lurking presence and get back to normal space? And what’s with all the food at dinner? Both times!
Finally, we review "A Bug’s Life". No, not the 1998 Pixar movie — the 1999 Farscape episode with the same name. Moya welcomes a Peacekeeper Special Ops unit on board whose ship is damaged. They’re taking their top secret cargo to an also top secret Peacekeeper base hidden in the Uncharted Territories. So of course, Rygel and Chiana open up the cargo and release the deadly body-possessing, body-hopping virus inside. It’s a race against time to find out who’s got the virus and neutralize it before it can escape the ship and infect whole worlds!
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Welcome to the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
Eric and Jason cover two really great episodes. First up, "Durka Returns", where — you guessed it — the Peacekeeper Durka who imprisoned and tortured Rygel for 130 years returns seemingly from the dead. But now he’s a kinder, gentler Durka courtesy of the Nebari and their "mental cleansing". Or is he? Let’s see how Rygel reacts to this. The Nebari also have a prisoner, Chiana, who doesn’t wish to be cleansed and wants asylum on Moya. Will the crew let her stay?
Finally we review "A Human Reaction". Crichton finds a wormhole back to Earth! But after being gone for seven months, and having translator microbes in his head, and strange technology on his spaceship, he’s not exactly welcomed back with open arms. Things get even worse when the rest of the crew show up unannounced. Can they get away before they’re poked, prodded and dissected by the military? Why does Crichton think everyone he sees in Australia is someone he knows from his past? Is there some unseen force behind all this?
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Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Welcome to the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
Eric and Jason continue their rewatch of every episode of Farscape. This means that sometimes you watch some that are good and sometimes some that are not so good. First up, the mostly not good "The Flax". Where Aeryn and John finally reveal their true feelings for one another (the good) and the rest of the crew do things we don’t really care about (the not-so-good).
We wrap it up with "Jeremiah Crichton". We didn’t dislike it as much as the cast and crew apparently did. It’s a mostly good episode where Crichton goes native and where Rygel finally appears to care about other people instead of just looking out for himself.
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Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Welcome to the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
In "Till the Blood Runs Clear", Crichton finally manages to recreate a wormhole, but it isn’t stable. Crichton and Aeryn meet a new friend who can repair his ship — for a steep price, while D’Argo meets some not so friendly, and not so bright, bounty hunters.
Finally, "Rhapsody in Blue", where the crew are summoned to a planet with some other Delvian priests like Zhaan. We learn some of Zhaan’s darkest secrets and what some of her people will try to do to throw off Peacekeeper rule. And our crew has to struggle with what’s real… and what’s not.
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Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Due to Hurricane Idalia just about going over Jason's house (don't worry, he and his family are all safe), we might be delayed a couple weeks with new episodes. So in the meantime, enjoy the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
A little bit of a mixed review this time around. First up, "DNA Mad Scientist", where we like the plotline about the villain and Aeryn and John, but not so much the one with the rest of the crew acting way out of character.
But they redeem themselves with the next episode, "They’ve Got a Secret". Where we learn what D’Argo really was imprisoned for. Plus what a pregnant Leviathan will do to protect her developing baby from any potential threat… meaning Moya’s crew.
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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Welcome to the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
We’re a third of the way through season one and already Farscape has hit its stride. We review two great episodes this time. First up, "PK Tech Girl". Earth tech boy meets Sebacean tech girl on a derelict Peacekeeper ship. Romance ensues despite being interrupted by some scavenging explosive reptiles.
And we wrap up with "That Old Black Magic". Thanks to some evil being’s magicks, Crichton gets the chance to finally explain in person that it was an accident that Captain Crais’ brother died way back in episode 1. Things don’t go so well. Can the rest of Moya’s crew save John before it’s too late? And what will it cost some of them?
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Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Farscape throws us a curveball this time around with season 3, episode 16 - Revenging Angel. We get to learn all about D'Argo's new ship they picked up way back at the start of season 3. But not before D'Argo gets a little upset and knocks Crichton into a coma... oops. And then things get weird, with Crichton in an animated dreamscape doing his own version of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons being chased by D'Argo. And all the while Harvey is there, telling Crichton he needs to take his revenge on D'Argo for what he did to him. Let the hijinks ensue! Oh and in the real world, D'Argo's new ship has decided to self destruct in less than an arn unless they can stop it.
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Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Welcome to the next episode of Farscape Flashbacks! Our reposting of our Farscape season one and two podcasts that we did on another podcasting network so you can more easily listen to them here.
Here's our "original" show notes for this episode. Enjoy!
Next up in our Farscape rewatch — "Back and Back and Back to the Future". Surprisingly not all three movies about a kid and his time travelling DeLorean. More like Groundhog Day, where Crichton relives the same day over and over until he gets it right and saves Moya and her crew.
We conclude with "Thank God It’s Friday, Again". Surprisingly not another Groundhog Day episode given the title. Who’s forcing an entire population to farm Tannot root for them? And what’s someone got to do to have a day off? And which "bug in the navel" idea came first — this episode or the Matrix?
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Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
We conclude the next epic Farscape multipart story with season 3 episode 15, Infinite Possibilities, Part 2: Icarus Abides. This one has it all -- action, explosions, dune buggy chases, and plot twists galore! We finally have our first look at what a wormhole weapon is capable of and it more than lives up to the hype. Unfortunately things do not go so well for Jack and Crichton while dealing with it. We discuss all that and the aftermath for Aeryn when they finally get back to Moya and have to deal with the other Crichton.
Then after that exciting episode of Farscape, we cover another exciting episode of Secret Invasion, episode 5 - Harvest, and then we cover the (not so) exiciting finale, episode 6 - Home. Things shape up for an epic finale and then they kind of disappoint us and fail to bring it all to a satisfactory conclusion. But maybe that was their plan all along. See where we think the MCU might go next.
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