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Ben Browder
Claudia Black
Anthony Simcoe
Gigi Edgley
Wayne Pygram
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Commander John Crichton
Officer Aeryn Sun
Ka D'Argo
Chiana
Scorpius
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Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Raelee Hill
Melissa Jaffer
John Adam
Jack Finsterer
Alan Flower
Ross Newton, Teo Gebert, and Mick Roughan
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Sikozu
Noranti
Raa'Keel
Gleeg
Frool
Sloggard, Weldon and Airek [Whom I can't tell from Adam here, so they'll be randomly noted as 'Frick' (Frool's buddy), Four Brows, and Stooge 1 in the tranny. Sorry guys.]
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Guest Stars Reappearing:
Raelee Hill Can a single show have too many redheads? Apparently. Reappearing for the fourth consecutive episode as the gravity defying Sikozu Shanu, Jack of all Trades for Hire. Previous appearances in Season 4's "Crichton Kicks", "What Was Lost, Part 1: Sacrifice", and "What Was Lost, Part 2: Resurrection".
Melissa Jaffer Well, gee. We must have a blind spot here 'cause we've skipped Ms. Jaffer in previous appearances in the last three tranny's at least. Okay then, a frequent visitor, Melissa previously appeared on Farscape in Season 2 as 'Old Nilaam' in the S2 ep 'Vitas Mortis', and as the voice of the female Pilot in 'The Way We Weren't'. Ms. Jaffer returns in a recurring role as the withered Traskan, Noranti in the S3 finale, 'Dog With Two Bones', and in the first three episodes of S4, 'Crichton Kicks' and the two parter, 'What Was Lost, Parts 1 & 2: Sacrifice & Resurrection'.
John Adam Oh, welcome back John. Mr. Adam previously appeared on Farscape as the helmeted and practically blind Tavloid, or Tavlek to be precise, Bekhesh, from Season 1's 'Throne For A Loss' and Season 2's triple-threat, 'Liars, Guns & Money, Parts 2 and 3: With Friends Like These and Plan B'. Returning again as the nearly blind rebel Tarnak, Raa'Keel. Cool.
Written by:
Michael Miller
Who also wrote:
Um. Nothin' Farscape. Hey, Mike.
Directed by:
Michael Pattinson
Who also directed:
Uh, okay. Um, nothing else Farscape. Another newcomer. Hope they had fun. But how confusing on the set, eh? Mike and Mike.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS:
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Created by:
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Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Directed by:
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Michael Pattinson
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Written by:
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Michael Miller
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Line Producer:
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Anne Bruning
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Supervising Producer:
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Mark Saraceni
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Co-Executive Producer:
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Justin Monjo
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Executive Producer:
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Richard Manning
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Producers: |
Sue Milliken
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Andrew Prowse
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Executive Producer:
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David Kemper
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Executive Producers:
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Juliet Blake
Robert Halmi, Jr.
Brian Henson
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Executive Consultant:
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Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Executive Consultant:
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Emily Skopov
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Director of Photography:
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Russell Bacon
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Production Designer:
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Tim Ferrier
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Music by:
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Guy Gross
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Editor:
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Neil Thumpston
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Costume Designer:
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Terry Ryan
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Creature Designer:
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Dave Elsey
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Associate Producer:
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Lily Taylor
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Post Production Supervisor:
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Deborah Peart
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Script Editor:
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Michael Miller
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Script Consultant:
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Chris Wheeler
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Story Consultant:
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Sophie Hawkins
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Production Executive:
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Robert E. Wozniak
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Voice of Rygel
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Jonathan Hardy
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Voice of Pilot:
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Lani Tupu
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Puppeteers:
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Sean Masterson
Tim Mieville
Mat McCoy
Mario Halouvvas
Fiona Gentle
Peter Jagger
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Prosthetics and Creature Effects
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop
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Makeup/Hair Supervisor:
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Annie Singer
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Construction Manager:
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Alan Fleming
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Costume Supervisor:
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Lyn Askew
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Second Unit DOP:
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Bruce Young
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VFX Supervisor
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Benita Carey
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Post Production Co-ordinator
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Brett McManus
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VFX Production Manager
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Kath Seward
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Assistant Editors
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Toby Royce
Iva Persan Carmody
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VFX Assistant
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Honor Northam
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Supervising Sound Editor
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David White
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Sound Mixer
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Peter Purcell
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Sound Editors
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Nicholas Breslin
Ella Bairbairn
Damian Candusso
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Visual Effects by
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Animal Logic
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VFX Art Director
3D ANIMATORS:
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Dominic Bean
Craig Brown
Chris Debney
Sunit Parekh
Nigel Waddington
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Editing Facilities
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Spectrum Films
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Laboratory
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Atlab, Australia
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Sound Facilities
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SoundFirm
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VRSA Diamond/Editbox
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Frame, Set & Match
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Filmed with Panavision cameras & lenses
Farscape theme composed and produced by Guy Gross
Adapted from the original Farscape theme by Subvision
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Episode Transcript: "Lava's A Many Splendored Thing"
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BBQ'd 'scape
Lava's A Many Splendored Thing
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'scape links
ep discussion
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Okay, this one's easy. Simply Fluff.
On their way to rendevous with Moya who is still who knows where, the crew of the good ship Lo'La must take a brief respite on a planet which is still mainly molten rock. A rest stop of the Uncharted Territories-- so that Rygel can void his bowels and D'Argo, Crichton and Chiana can have a nice purge.
Before you can say "Ali Baba and the Fourty Thieves", Rygel gets everyone in hot water with a local band of, well, thieves. And the rest is, "how the hell do we get out of this?"
While this ep is darker than the previous eps in Season 4, it makes up for it by being a comedic episode, full of guilty snickering at random rampant bathroom humor. Enjoy!
New to 'scape
Aliens & Critters
- Tarkan Freedom Fighters - Philanthropic agents with only a few bad apples mixed it. Look sorta like bipedal flies.
Words
- Schlock - Hynerian for, uh, relieving oneself.
Big Deals, Nicknames and Crichtonisms
- Shield Belts - some enterprising inventor is makin' a mint off these babies, able to block a pulse blast from a Qualta Rifle, and once engaged, protect a body from the dibilitating effects of lava. Mama Crichton's baby boy needs a few of these suckers.
- Jilnak - A cleansing restorative concoction of Noranti's devising.
- Armarak - an amberlike substance useful against heat penetration.
- A euphamism for taking a crap: "Drop some friends off at the pool." And this one is just jammed with bathroom humor.
- Okay, we probably knew this already, but now proof incontrovertible, D'Argo's tongue can be used for more than just lashing people unconscious.
- John calls Noranti, 'white girl'; likely an illusion to her dancing skills, or lack thereof. And in a potential more correct variation, Judith passes on the following: "John's reference to Noranti... I suspect you'll find its origins in a very politically uncorrect old joke. The joke can be quite a shaggy dog story but, basically, the short version, told unPC, goes that the Lone Ranger and Tonto are trapped by attacking Indians and it's become clear that there's no escape. The Lone Ranger turns to Tonto to offer him thanks and a final farewell, admitting that "we won't be getting out of this one". To which Tonto replies, "What 'we', White Man?" It's a pretty lame joke, amusing mostly to kids, I think -- I hope." [Yeah, but, since when is Farscape influenced by PCness? *g* Thanks, Judi.]
- John calls the armored Raa'Keel "Tin Man", for yet another OZ reference, refers to a couple of his flunkys as "Moe" and "Curly" of the Stooges fame, and the final flunky he dubs "Mr. Redshirt", a Trek fan reference describing the mostly expendable red shirted security guard who gets aced, normally in the opening. Also another one for Rygel, "Whoopie Cushion" - reference to the constant farting throughout the ep.
- Mikey. This in from Kerry [BBQ must'a blinked]: John refers to Rygel as Mikey, when Noranti offers the jilnak. This probably refers back to the old cereal commercial where the two boys are discussing the suspicious healthy cereal, wondering if it tastes good. They say "Let's get Mikey. He doesn't like anything!" And when Mikey tastes it and dives in for more, the other two sit there stunned. "He likes it! Hey, Mikey!" [ Most likely. :) - Thanks, Kerry! ]
Casualties and 'Frell! That's gonna leave a mark!':
- Ultimately the bad apple Tarkan and every single one of his flunkies; although John and Co. can only be credited with the bad apple himself and four of the flunkies.
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