Lava's A Many Splendored thing






After a forced landing the crew is divided by an elaborate trap that leaves Crichton, D'Argo, Noranti & Rygel underground in a lava filled system of caves...

:ph43r: Sorry about starting this one but I wanted to put my review up whilst it was still fresh in my mind. :innocent:

Its not a good story but there is some humour in this episode which saves it from being all bad.

Noranti is quite the trouble maker in this one, first giving them all (except Sikozu) some Jilnak to eat that makes them violently sick, then she gives away their presence thinking that they are dealing with righteous Tarkans :rolleyes:

She makes up for it by helping to get them some sheilds with her exotic dancing :lmao:

and also helps D'Argo make the jump by way of her throat :lmao: love that scene, exactly how long is his tongue

Bless little Rygel entombed in Amber :lol: and John's willingness to go into the lava to save him, holding him up as a prize trophy at the end :lol:

The pirates were annoying but I did like the Tarkans, good costume w**k. Maybe it would have worked better with more Tarkens and less of the stupid lackeys.

Loved John saying he could make the jump and using Noranti as an excuse why they couldn't do it and loved D'Argo giving him a boost over :lol:

Ew at Chiana tasting D'Argo's vomit, but nice to see her defending him against Sikozu

I liked the effects of the triggered laser traps and loved John having to shoot his little pinkie to get the shield to w**k so he could go into the Lava.

Its not a hilarious episode but quite funny in places.

Beautiful ending when they find a recorded message from Pilot :)

I love that line :thumbsup:

And

Makes me laugh just thinking about them :D

I remember when I first heard about this episode. It sounded terrible, but when I actually saw it I pretty much thought the same as you Alex. Not the best epsidoe ever but pretty funny in places. 5/10 :thumbsup:

:lol: Yeah it suffers from being after the first three eps which are excellent too.

Got to love John's and D'Argo's reaction to Noranti's dancing too and her finale :lmao:

:lmao:

It is pretty disturbing though ;)

I loved this Ep!

No storyline to speak of, but brilliant comedy throughout. :lmao:

The piles of sick, especially Dargos HUGE pile, Norantis
dance of the 7 veils, and the sick smearing are all classic.

Farscape always manged to do the comedy stuff so much better
than any other straight scfi show :D

And the 'lackeys' acted like a typical bunch of aussie extras,
i.e. badly. I couldn't help thinking of Prisoner Cell Block H for some reason :toomuchtv:

:lol: Exactly :lol:

Farscape does love it's toilet humour :D

This is just about my least favourite episode of season 4. I quite enjoy it on some levels, but most of it is pretty poor.

The interplay between John and D'Argo is very funny at times, but even this tends to be a little forced in places, probably making up for the lack of a decent plot.

Noranti's belly dance is funny, but not as funny as D'Argo and John's reactions to the end of it :lol:

The shields are cool.

The toilet humour in this one I find quite gross. Normally it doesn't bother me, but five minutes of screen time spent on vomiting - no thanks.

Which makes the side plot of Chi and Sikozu trying to operate Lo'La completely off limits for me. I think it's quite poorly written.

I do love the way Gigi moves when she goes down into the pit, very inhuman :thumbsup:

Ra'Keel and the Tarkan freedom fighters look fantastic. The way you can only see their teeth while they've got their helmets on works really well.

The ending, when they get the message from Pilot and Moya, is wonderful.

I thought the vomiting was funny but then I couldn't smell it thank goodness :lol:

They played the jokes to often unfortunately especially with Rygel, overkill.

Yes, definitely overkill. How did D'Argo lose that much bodyweight and not die? :o :lol:

This is one of the few episodes where the toilet humour didn't do anything for me. There are other far funnier ones. :)

It seems to me that if you came upon this episode by accident it would be easy to tell that it came from the beginning of this season, the gang are still willing to eat something that ‘Grandma’ made! Did nobody think to ask her where the ‘restorative’ had come from? Think about it guys, you are starving, haven’t eaten for 3 days because there are no supplies left on board Lo’La and no sign of Moya. Suddenly this mad old lady that appeared from nowhere hands you food? What were you thinking! :no:

Lets get the complaints out of the way first, if that really was larva there is no way that John could get anywhere near it, the heat would be too intense, let alone stick his unshielded finger in it! I’d say the same for the others but they are aliens so what would I know?

I’ll admit that this episode is pretty pants, the story a bit silly and far too much toilet humor, but I also think it has some fantastic dialogue. Here are a few lines that make me giggle…

John: Buckwheat, I thought you came down here to drop some friends off at the pool.

Rygel: I really have to schlock. My bowels hate me. I hate you.

John: D, we may have to stick Granny in a home.
D’Argo: I think we should burn her.
John: You burn your old folks?
D’Argo: No. It just……sounded like a good idea.

John: This is unbelievable! What... can't cook; won't bathe; and now she's narcoleptic. She’s a triple threat.

John: Bad news. Somebody’s doin’ the Pompeii thing.

D’Argo: Same dren, different planet. :lmao: :lmao:

And I love this whole conversation between D’Argo and John…..

John: All right, here's the thing. I think that we ambush the escort, we hit 'em with a rock and take his belt.
D’Argo: That is your plan?
John: Yeah
D’Argo: To hit him with a rock, when they have these, like, shield things?
John: The shields w**k against pulse energy, they don't w**k against other things. We saw the guy get burned.
D’Argo: Yeah, but not by a rock.
John: All right, let me lay this out for you. Fire is thermal energy.
D’Argo: Okay.
John: Thermal energy is like kinetic energy. A rock has kinetic energy. Ergo, a rock will w**k.
D’Argo: Uh, okay, okay, I'm with you. I just have, uh, one small little question. Who is... Lou Costello?

There are a few other nice bits as well, where john goes all supernova on Raa’Keel for calling Winona a ‘pathetic little weapon’, or in the same scene as John gets distracted by Gleeg’s head popping out of the lift (Whoa. Is that a head?). And the looks of joy and relief on their faces as they listen to the message from Pilot and Moya! :tear:

:lol: Symptomatic of their whole existence, charge in, ask questions later :lol:

:lol: I think you may have hit the nail on the head there!