Home on the Remains
Teleplay by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman Jr
Directed by Rowan Woods
REVIEW
The idea of Chiana as property that might be bartered was a bit sticky but perhaps a smart shorthand for conveying how raw and unpleasant life on the Budong is. And the story was rather contrived to keep Aeryn on the ship with Moya.
But otherwise this was top form Farscape: a good, imperative plot that the tale raced through dizzyingly with barely a pause for a smart gag along the way.
That plot did smack of Star Trek every now and again – and it knew it did, hence Crichton's crack about "No more Captain Kirk chitchat" – but it presented problems that seemed satisfyingly insurmountable.
True, they were surmounted and the idea of B'Soog killing anyone and everyone had just a twinge of 'Murder, She Wrote' about it, but if the ending wasn't great, the journey was.
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