More Farscape...

[coalescent]

See now, this was a filler episode.

And as filler episodes go, it wasn't bad, I suppose; a lot of the humour was a little too broad for my tastes (I've never been a fan of Rygel's wacky body chemistry, for instance), but there were some nice touches. The most interesting thing from my point of view is comparing the characters to their S1 states, since I'm watching the two seasons in parallel. Crichton in S4 is a brash, swaggering bucaneer of a man. He's just cool. And, OK, so he's hardly a timid mouse in S1, but there's a definite sense that he feels out of his depth, and is struggling to get a handle on things. It's an interesting change. One slightly disappointing thing is that he doesn't seem to have picked up any alien traits; where D'Argo, especially, seems to be absorbing Crichton's cultural references, I'm not sure I can ever recall Crichton saying 'Frell' (for instance). I may be wrong, however. If anything, though, he seems to be making even more pop-culture references than he did in S1; I suppose you could argue it's something that goes along with keeping his confidence high.

Other than that, not a lot else to say. Nice to see John using his brains to solve a couple of problems ("ergo, rocks will work"), Noranti is still great, the villain of the week was wearing a cycle helmet...probably the best thing about it was the message from Moya at the end. If it had all finished and been wrapped up as 'just another adventure', I think I'd be disappointed; as it is, I'm eager to sit down and watch the next episode.