Farscape: Prayer Rewatch

June 7, 2016 3:34 PM - Season 4, Episode 18

Crichton and Scorpius travel to the Bizzaro Moya from "Unrealized Reality" in order to find the location of Katratzi, where they believe Aeryn is being taken. Meanwhile, Aeryn is repeatedly tortured when the Scarrans realize that her baby may be Crichton's.[via]
posted by cshenk (3 comments total)

What I noticed when I watched this episode is that Aeryn’s prayer *is* being answered, she just doesn’t know it, which is shown by juxtaposing scenes of her torture with scenes of John and Scorpius going to an alternate reality to get the information they need to save her.
posted by cshenk at 3:36 PM on June 7, 2016

Sometimes, in the despair of a crisis, I find myself saying "To anyone who might be listening, I am open to offers."
posted by Mogur at 11:39 AM on June 8, 2016

This is one of those episodes where the fact that Aeryn is one of the biggest badasses of sci-fi is firmly established. She survives torture and interrogation in a weakened state, accurately determines that the other prisoner is a plant, and is just tough as heck. I loved her in this episode.

I also loved the kind of "Oh, damn!" kind of moment when Bizarro Rygel is shot and Bizarro Stark is all, "Different rules!!!!"

This is also the John Crichton on a mission, and it's always best to simply stay out of his way.
posted by Atreides at 8:02 AM on June 9, 2016