I always saw the brain chip as needing the core to work, and the part of the brain that needed replaced was the speech center and surrounding area. This episode was absolutely brutal the first time around, and still is. EDIT: OH YEAH. John speaking in gibberish was also freaky and horrifying. I don't know how they did it, but they got the "people speaking gibberish for various reasons" thing PERFECT.
Still remember how it felt for this one. All the things going right in the prior episode to get them out, only for everything to go wrong now, and a lot of it just because they underestimate Harvey and Crichton both, allowing them to do a lot of things that they would have stopped a lot of others from doing. That and I like that the episode, despite a focus, gives everyone some advancement. That's going to get harder as the cast starts rotating, and then they break the most important rule of any party. The split up. There ARE reasons for it, but it's such a bad idea that what happens while they're split will drive the plot for the rest of the series.
In fairness, the split doesn't actually last that long. It's not like The Walking Dead where they split for seasons at a time. And as you say, it does set up more story which is always a plus.
@@clearspira Yes but the events still wind up driving the plot, because both groups wind up doing something...not stupid exactly, but rather desperate, which causes them to have to adapt. It helps that one of those things is John getting semi-access to the info in his head, allowing us to see just what Wormholes can do as weapons, and why Scorpy wants them so bad. Mind it's not until the finale that we REALLY see their power, something John specifically keeps to himself because, well, Wormhole weapons turn out to be fire and forget. Fire them once, and you can forget about needing to fire any other weapon again.
I love the emotional resonance of this episode, it got pretty intense. Not enough is said about the score of Farscape.
I always saw the brain chip as needing the core to work, and the part of the brain that needed replaced was the speech center and surrounding area.
This episode was absolutely brutal the first time around, and still is.
EDIT: OH YEAH. John speaking in gibberish was also freaky and horrifying. I don't know how they did it, but they got the "people speaking gibberish for various reasons" thing PERFECT.
Still remember how it felt for this one. All the things going right in the prior episode to get them out, only for everything to go wrong now, and a lot of it just because they underestimate Harvey and Crichton both, allowing them to do a lot of things that they would have stopped a lot of others from doing.
That and I like that the episode, despite a focus, gives everyone some advancement. That's going to get harder as the cast starts rotating, and then they break the most important rule of any party. The split up. There ARE reasons for it, but it's such a bad idea that what happens while they're split will drive the plot for the rest of the series.
In fairness, the split doesn't actually last that long. It's not like The Walking Dead where they split for seasons at a time. And as you say, it does set up more story which is always a plus.
@@clearspira Yes but the events still wind up driving the plot, because both groups wind up doing something...not stupid exactly, but rather desperate, which causes them to have to adapt. It helps that one of those things is John getting semi-access to the info in his head, allowing us to see just what Wormholes can do as weapons, and why Scorpy wants them so bad.
Mind it's not until the finale that we REALLY see their power, something John specifically keeps to himself because, well, Wormhole weapons turn out to be fire and forget. Fire them once, and you can forget about needing to fire any other weapon again.
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