Vitas Mortis
Teleplay by Grant McAloon
Directed by Tony Tilse


DID YOU NOTICE?
The little improvements here and there to effects and costumes for the second season continue with Aeryn's rifle which blasted some rather gorgeous special effects at Nilaam. True, she did rather leap too quickly to the conclusion that killing Nilaam would save the world: deeply suspicious as Aeryn was, she should have assumed Nilaam knew what had happened. So even if you're going to kill her over it, ask nicely first in case you shoot her before she can tell you the solution.

Not to dwell on those effects, but all the slow motion did look like Farscape as directed by John Woo after a screening of The Matrix.

Chiana says that Rygel's backside must be made of some pretty tough stuff. But she isn't kidding: expose an elephant's bum to space and it'd plummet to absolute zero before you could notice the veins bursting. Or can Rygel survive in space the way D'Argo can? That's lucky, isn't it?

Chiana continues her slide from nicely unpleasant criminal to a domestic servant. Previously she's rustled up a hearty meal for the gang on a moment's notice and here she's washing D'Argo's smalls. Well, quite D'Argo's quite larges anyway. Perhaps its against Luxan honour for warriors to get out their Ariel Automatic.

One of the reasons for D'Argo being so keen to visit Nilaam – according to Farscape story documents if oddly not said in dialogue here – is that she might have maps that could lead the gang out of the Uncharted Territories. She does, too: she mentions so. But there's no move to take them.

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