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A Prefect Murder
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In a continuing season 4 theme of making the viewer say things like: "What the frell?"... the one where the BBQ notes for the ninth time around that she's sayin', "What the frell?" an awful damn lot.
Sophmore 'scape director, Geoff Bennett, takes a thin tale of planetary intrigue stripped of detail and generates a hazy work of art. Generous to the mind and the eye.
A Prefect murder, but is it murder by design? A mystery to be solved, an answer to be uncovered, some shameless shippiness to be enjoyed.
New to 'scape
Aliens & Critters
- Sgabba Flies. Green insect species capable of implanting murderous subliminal signals in their victims which can be amplified by psychic powers of certain alien species.
Words
- Ucuz. Native word for a greenish fruit used by native women to feed their infants.
- Etmek. Another food harvested by the natives of the planet. Large, orange, football shaped.
- Stragrats. Chi word so who knows, but implication is... 'men' or maybe 'suckers'. It's... debateable.
Self-Referencing's a Bitch!:
- Insincerity reaching a new low, John apes Max's style, telling Falaak to 'have a nice day'. John Quixote
- Chiana likes that word, 'nixa', and it seems to be getting around. Taking The Stone
- Wondering if it's fair to compare the physical similarities between the natives and their leader in this episode to those of the natives and their leader in Thank God It's Friday, Again.? All that tall pale stuff going on when the rest of the natives are significantly shorter and very dark. Given the small sampling provided in both eps, well, it gives me a grin. Foreshadowing, anyone?
- John sings again, and we're 'never' going to get a happy song. Dream A Little Dream. The Locket. Liars, Guns & Money, Part 1: A Not So Simple Plan
Big Deals, Nicknames and Crichtonisms
- Historic, nixa, Historic...
John chooses to sing a bit from an old song, Loch Lomond. - John Culture
Star Trek. John does a really bad parody of Montgomery Scott for D'Argo, placing him firmly in the role of engineer. Another sign of inherent geekiness. *g* - John calls Paroos, 'crusty'. Pretty certain that refers to the Priests scabrous face and not necessarily anything more. After all, the guy doesn't even 'have' feet as far as we can tell.
- John refers to Chiana as 'Elvis'.
- Oddly, Chiana refers to Sikozu's activity with the native son, Zerbat, as 'shacking-up'. John's lingo is really getting around.
- Paroos gets in the game and affectionately terms Chiana, 'twizzit'. And from the tone I'm gonna guess, 'silly child'.
- Chiana unkindly refers to Jabuka as 'fekk-face', and the natives in general as 'dren-heads'. Heh. Flexible little word, dren.
- Cue The Cool Stuff
Shippiness. Yep. You heard it here. The real thing.
Sikozu would love to leave but can't and we're dying to find out why.
Tormented space is bad for leviathans, but we knew that.
John's off-hand comment to Prefect Falaak, "You should've met her mother.", unleashes a storm of controversy.
Casualties and 'Frell! That's gonna leave a mark!':
- The bad guys bite it, by hook or by crook. Falaak and E'Atel.
- Gaashah and 16 others die by Aeryn's controlled hand, adding significantly to her personal body count.
- Chiana gets stoned by the natives, brutalized by the bad guys, and treated badly by D'Argo.
- John gets stoned. Otherwise coming out reasonably unscathed, but gets bashed in the face, not once, not twice, but three times, and hung out over a lethal drop.
- D'Argo gets shot and loses a friend but gains a surrogate son.
Very Fine Lines
- "I'm getting a really bad bribe."
"Oh, God, she's talkin' English." - "And if she acted on anyone's behalf… we'll catch her… and torture her… until she tells us."
"Damn, how come I didn't think of that before?" - "Talk and move, D'Argo. It's faster."
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