Farscape Rewind: Episode 1.01

[Mr. Infamous]

I would liked to have known what they had planned as the larger arc for her. It seemed early on when she first appeared that she basically just wanted to squash Scorpius because his plans for how to handle the Scarrans ran politically opposite to hers.

Later on though, especially in PK wars, it seems like she's actually mostly fed up with the incompetence and weakness that she thinks has infected PK high command.

It's sort of weird to go from "we should make peace with them" to "we will choke the streets with our dead before we ever surrender". You know she means it to though because she tried to do the same thing at the end of the actual series herself. Once Crichton told the Scarrans the PKs didn't have wormhole weapons and she knew they'd invade she was ready to throw herself at Katratzi to try and presumably kill Staleek and friends.

I'd also like to know how that situation resolved itself without either her or Braca ending up dead as well. Did she forgive him? Doesn't seem very likely. We know she retained her position though, or even got promoted again, so it's not like anyone bought into the idea of her going crazy either.

Maybe Scorpius saved Braca's ass somehow, Grayza's not exactly a fan of his either though but maybe the grand chancellor was?

[Rustydogz]

I agree with the general thrust of the comments. It was a bit ragged, but entertaining. I think Aeryn and D'Argo were suitably hostile, given the circumstances. It was part of the charm of the first season or so that the characters avoided the cliche of quickly becoming a 'family'. They disliked each other, and cooperated only from necessity.

Crais was too over the top. He did not work as series villain, which is likely why Scorpius was introduced. Also, can we imagine a U.S. Aircraft carrier or Battleship commander witnessing his brother's death, then ordering his ship to race off across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic, in pursuit of revenge against the killer? Of course not. It is stupid.

Hephaestus has some good points. Though I would not compare Crais to Napoleon or those others, an unstable military commander is a possibility, and he could unravel even more after a brother was killed. But Crais went so over the top it made the character look as stupid as it did crazy. They could have reworked the story to make the Crais angle work. For example, make his character less overtly nutz, at least at first, and have Crighton actually kill the brother, and give crais a reason to truely believe it was murder, then set up the scenario so that Crais is a 'frontier' commander, whose job is to hunt down pirates and the like.

I think by the slingshot stuff they meant that theory of using gravity to 'power' starships. It made for an exciting scene but as science it was weak.

The best scene was, perhaps, when Crighton had to choose who to unshackle, D'Argo or Aeryn. He could not trust either but had to pick one. A good moment, and a funny reaction from D'Argo.