The crew aboard Moya were given a heck of an opportunity this week when an intelligent scientist by the name of NamTar offered to show them the way home to their individual planets. To obtain such knowledge, the crew was forced to attack one of their own, certainly a very high price to pay.
One couldn’t help but feel some sorrow for Pilot for losing one of his arms in this week’s episode. I know he dismissed the whole thing as simply being part of his duty to serve Moya and the crew, but he didn’t initially like the idea of D’Argo cutting off one of his arms.
Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun
I have to hand it to the production crew in this episode for their work with NamTar and Aeryn. Aeryn went through an extensive number of physical changes and while not every bit of makeup and prosthetics looked great, I thought they did a very good job with it. NamTar looked to be a lot of work to pull off, especially with the stilts and awkward movement. He couldn’t just stand still; there was quite a bit of movement required in the several scenes his character was prominently featured in.
The crew can be frequently described as selfish and this episode showed this quite well as all of them wanted the maps to their home world, though of all of them, John Crichton was the least enthusiastic. I haven’t quite figured out his lack of interest in getting home. Rygel seemed more interested in returning to his home than John and Rygel wouldn’t exactly have an easy go of regaining power once back home.
I liked the scene at the close of the episode when D’Argo played some music for Pilot, as a way to apologize for his cutting off his arm. I not only liked D’Argo’s actions here, but I liked the camera pullout shot of Pilot’s work area. I don’t believe they’ve shown where he works quite like that before. The Farscape camera operators tend to keep pretty tight shots, showing just Pilot. I liked the pullback shot very much.
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