Incubator

Tonight on Farscape: When good Froonium goes bad (And silly me, I thought that stuff had a half-life, not a shelf-life)! Anyway, welcome to the review of Incubator! Or, "I Was a Teenaged Scorpy!" Or, "Sympathy for the Devil!" Or, *thwack* OW! Okay, I'll stop! Boy, you know it's a bad Friday Prime when both I-man and Farscape are blah... leaving Lexx to be the most entertaining show on. (And for the record, I LIKE LEXX. So bite me.)

Anyway. Getting on with it...

This ep is brought to you by Jello! Now in Gooey PK cherry flavor!

-Look, more jello-fied Pilot. Are they now just sending PKs to their death in hopes that it might just turn out right one of these tries?

-Look! Look! It's Help Hank! (K, you won't get that reference unless you've seen Drop Dead Gorgeous. "Are we on cops? Are we on cops again?" *runs into a plate glass window).

-Linfer has Natira-blue gums. Oh, wait, she wants to pilot the next prowler test? Oh, she is SO dead.

-HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NURSE! *drool*

-Hey, Scorpypants. That's Crichton to you. You don't get the priveledge to call him John.

-"He screwed up? I kicked it on the table?! I AM IN HELL!" *snerk*

-"You're not John Crichton." No, of course not, Scorpy. He's Clarence.

-Holodeck Crichton? I want one! Please? Can I have one? C'mon! *begs*

-"My earliest memory -" "Oh GOD." ... lol. Okay, I guess John's been subjected to viewing his Aunt Ruth's vacation slides.

-Well, there we go. Now we know what a Scarran female looks like.

-Chibi Scorpy needs to cut his nails, man. Ew.

-HEY! Long distance Crichton-buttshot! WOO!

-Yeah. That wormhole obsession is really getting to him. He's pissing off the entire crew, and not getting any sleep.

-"Mr. Lets-go-find-my-son". Yeah, it's about time someone pointed that out. When D'Argo wanted to find Jothee, the rest of the crew went along with him and helped. It seems to work that way with everyone except Crichton - when he tries to pursue his original goal - getting home, he gets bitched at and ridiculed.

-"Yer the man!" *snerk* I'm sorry, this just reminded me of that bit in Evolution. "You the man!" "No, yer the man!"

-Okay. So, it sounds as if Scarrans have a way to defeat Living Death. Hmm. I mean, they said Scorpy was born in the heat delirium, and they saved him.

-I WANT TAUZA'S KICK ASS BOOTS.

-Oooh. Prowler. Don't grab it.

-"What, as opposed to us?" Really, Pilot. You're going to snag the PK prowler out of space and NOT trust the people you've been with for 2 years?

-Remember that skit on SNL? "Old French Whore"? Jool looks like she could be on that show with her hair the way it was in this ep. "Excuse me, I think my whore's dead!"

-Hmm. When we see the DRDs all crawling over the Prowler, I was reminded of Crichton's Module in Moya in the premiere.

-Okay, how does this chickie know it's Moya? It doesn't sound like need-to-know info that she would *have* to know for working on Scorpy's project.

-I want to do Nurse Froy. BADLY.

-Scorpy can see energy signiatures. Okay, this explains how he knew Crichton wasn't Sebacean in Nerve and how he knew Rygel was lying in FT.

-Chibi Scorpy looks like a burn victim.

-dreadnought. Hmm. That's a fun word. dreadnoughtdreadnoughtdreadnought. DREAD NOT, FOR LYME IS HERE!

-Grand Scorpy Fake-out. Yeah, that's a pretty accurate term.

-Linfer has funky-ass hair. And weird makeup.

-Aw! Return of Snarky Pilot. Yeah, it's bad if even Pilot is getting bitchy about Crichton's constant searching for wormholes.

-Crichton's getting a... suspicious look. And you better not trade Moya, k? It's not allowed.

-"I don't and I'm the one with the gun!" Bitchy Crichton.

-OOOOOOOOOOO! He did an eyebrow thingie! <THUD> *drool* DO THAT AGAIN!

-Okay. This Captain Molayne reminds me of Holly from Red Dwarf. It's just something in the face.

-Sebacean pioneers look like they've been raiding ST:TOS's wardrobe department.

-Aw, Scorpy's mom was pretty. And she looks a LOT like Gilina!

-Scorpy's got a baddass biker jacket and a funky backpack. And what's a bird of paradise doing out in the UTs?

-Oh my GODS I want Tauza's boots.

-Okay, I'm missing something here. They're torturing Scorpy by shining a bright light in his eyes? His eyes must be more light sensitive than *mine*

-Speakin o Eyes. Nurse Froy looks like she's been indulging in too much Spice. But I'd still do her.

-Heh. That one PK chick by Help Hank has Sims Hair.

-Chi's prolly right - Linfer just wants to starburst the HELL outta there.

-'We're ALL guests here'. Damn straight, and don't you forget it.

-That was a LOW BLOW, D'Argo! BAD LUXAN! NO SPANKING! Do NOT take Zhaan's name in vain! Jerk.

-Moya's crew = My family. I swear. They're acting like us. The only one who's talking sense tonight is Chiana.

-Heeeeey. Linfer's leaking chocolate sauce.

-"Taka hi, taka ho!" And the rest of this line, which was cut went something like "Taka hi, Taka ho, taka hienie ho!" Froon, lay off the PeeWee's funhouse.

-"Truth is *never* crap." Indeed, Jool.

-Oh, look, that Scarran looks exactly like the Funky Red Triangle Scarran from SOD. OH, that's lovely. Now we get Scarran porn. Ew.

-Tauza looks kinda like those guys from the 5th element at this angle...

-Stabbed her in the eyes..? Okay, this whole fight scene had me snerking. It's cheesy and OBVIOUSLY choreographed. And talk about chewing Scenery... Tauza looks like she should be dancing in Cats or something... Oy, what an overly dramatic death.

-Anyone else think that Scorpy got off that dreadnought way too easily?

-You forget, Scorpy. To Clarence, Aeryn is still dead. He's got no motivation whatsoever to help you.

-Oh, right, try to play the 'Erp is in danger' card. Bleah.

-Okay. Here comes the coolest scene in the ep. The whole part where Scorpy and Clarence are looking at the equations is great. The cgi and the score are just perfect.

-"Scorpy, I'm OFF THE CLOCK!" Wow. Crichton's channelling me. What's next, Dante? "I'm not even supposed to BE HERE today!"

-Best line in the whole ep: "Do you think that neural clones go to heaven?" I dunno. Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do hermaphrodites dream of screwing themselves?

-*sigh* Scorpy even gets his ass whupped in his own head! MAN that's gotta be bad for the self-confidence!

-Ooo... Clarence blew away like dust...

-Poor Braca, he's gotta change the rod.

-Heh. Braca just popped a rod. (Out of the CASE you perverts! GOD!)

-Unmated flibisk. Heh. Oh, yeah, I bet MC really feels like that now. "You prevent it from mating it gets VERY disagreeable." "Hell, who doesn't?"

Random Stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere else:

-K, we really didn't learn too much that was new about Scorpy. I think his story would've been better told NOT in a flashback, and certainly not requiring a whole ep.

-What? Scorpy's history with *no* sign of Natira? I wanted to see more Natira! Phooey.

-Lyme's Speculation Corner: I think that MC is gonna hook up with Scorpy so he can go home - and think about it... ppl are going, 'No, he wouldn't do that, cause then Earth would be in danger.' Well, what if he got Scorpy to agree that Earth would *not* come under PK power? I mean, right now, the PKs are more concerned with fighting the Scarran Menace than conquering our little blue muddball. And Think on this: MC's lost the girl. He's alienating his friends. And TC's even took his gun! He's very much so in the position of "nothing to lose, much to gain."

-All in all, this ep didn't really impress me. I'm sorry, Scorpy is a character that really doesn't grab my attention - no offense to Wayne Pygram meant. I mean, he does the char good, but I enjoy Harvey much more *eg*

-And now, since this ep marks halfway thru Season 3, let me do this... thang here... where I rank the eps, like:
GEM
DD
SOD
SIW1
Relativity
TFS
SIW2
SAL
LT
Incubator
EM

Yeah, as you can see, EM is at the VERY BOTTOM OF MY LIST. And in my review of Meltdown, there will be more Matt Ford bashing. And, btw, that review should be up in a few days... TOOOOOODLES! *twitch* Oh yeah. My website is www.lymophilia.com. Small shameless plug this week.


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