I always love it when the show makes Stark the antagonist, because he does it so well. And, really, he's an extremely unbalanced necromancer with a pretty much unlimited power, he's tailor made to be a villain. I could totally imagine a season 7, say, where they went the Dark WIllow route with him.

Mega late to this, but I have to say how much I really love these recaps - I have a real problem in never noticing repeated music cues and the like, and it's great to hae such a detailed review and recap of the episode. I remember watching this one and really feeling for Crixcus for the first time - everyone in this…

I'm so late seeing this, but yeah, Unrealized Reality is a great, great episode. And Nerve wins just for the amazingly poor accent choices alone! The bank robbing two parter with Zhaan as a pirate, too, that's a great one.

I'd never spotted the two trios mirroring each other like that - good call. But I really came down here because I couldn't read the review without saying Bob. Bob. Bob.

And his parents Lucius and Narcissa didn't set a great example on understated names either!

I feel like neither of these episodes quite hits the mark it's going for - Relativity was bogged down with a lot of confusing stuff with the skin changers, and Incubator does feel like it drags at times. They're both really ambitious, which is a good thing, and I like the various settings of it all - it's nice to get…

I would also be interested in people's lists, and Alasdair's! I'm not sure what mine would be, but Crackers don't Matter and the hot to Katratzi trilogy would definitely be on it. Also

It is strange to think that Scorpius would pick that name for himself - presumably the translation microbes mean that it references something poisonous in every language? I like the sound of the human pig - a long time back, I remember my glee that Draco Malfoy chose to call his son Scorpius, because it's so overly…

I like this idea a lot, and I'd love to have seen the Nebari reaction idea in the show. But as it's played out they do just, to me, feel creepy, and a bit of a cop out for a show that's always celebrated people's rights to make their own descisions, as dumb as they may be. Maybe if they'd had a longer time they could…

Yes, truly we are living in a golden age.

Thanks! He's still a hero to me. A moment of silence for DRD Pike.

I was sad to see Peacekeeper wars, too. And I should probably save this for the eventual review, but I'd love to know exactly what makes the Eidelons so different from the Nebari, in that they both seem to be enforcing peace through mind control, although only one pulls people's eyes out I guess.

Chiana's imminent physic ability is something that would play out so well in today's world of TV obsession and AV club reviews and tumblr gifs. I can imagine it being this niche theory that people collect evidence for and then are totally thrilled to be proved right on. Farscape was so ahead of it's time, sniff.

Oh, that's an interesting catch. It works brilliantly in the story, but I wonder if there's a meta reason too - with fewer characters to deal with per episode, is there now time for the ships to come into their own?

Wow, this is a review and a half!

You're right, it's a rare show that gives it's characters a problem with really no right solution.

Motion carried!

I like to think of Eat Me as Farscape's haunted house episode. There's a familiar set dressed in a spoooooky way, there's scary people wandering round for no readily discernible plot reason, there's a lot of running and screaming. It's brilliant in exactly the same way those hazy haunted houses are.

The songs on Hate Song are getting much more hateworthy, this is excellent. That being said, wow, was this interview recorded in 2004 as well?

I'm really pleased you're going to be covering this show - the opening 20 minutes of the first episode, and the whole of Taystee's, were so brilliant. I love the new character of Vee, she seems so dangerous exactly because she puts it all out there.