After a visit to a mad scientist "Namtar", The crew of Moya also goes mad.
This totally unusual episode shows our crew at each other's throat's and doing something against another crew member that is unconscionable.
It was as if the evil of Namtar is rubbing off on Zhaan, D'Argo and Rygel- at first we don't realize that this character is pure evil, pure dren... it takes a while for that revelation to come to us.
Aeryn, who feels out of place, approaches Namtar to be included in his experiments.
His soothing voice and calm demeanor (The voice of the actor that played Hephaestus in Xena and Hercules), portray this character as a smart, intelligent scientist.
But that is not exactly what he is.
He is smart, of course, and he is devious. And he has origins that we would never guess. Prepare for a huge reveal at the end of the episode.
As Zhaan, D'Argo and Rygel become more and more antagonistic toward each other, all due to a piece of technology that they think will do one thing but is designed to do something else, Aeryn becomes part of an experiment that she did not agree to be part of. Well, she agreed to become part of an experiment but she did not know what she was asking and she was basically handing Namtar a blank check to do whatever he wanted with.
The music of Subvision in this episode is very different than the other episodes of this season. And it is totally different from Guy Gross' interpretations.
There are musical cues in this episode, but during times when they show Namtar working, The music becomes a lot like the ambient sounds from Forbidden Flanet- which depicted alien Krell scientists performing unimaginable experiments. Experiments which had a dire ending.
So, whenever Namtar is shown twiddling in his (actually 'Cortana's') Laboratory, The musical cues fall away and we start hearing ambient, alien, experimental sounds.
In fact there are long sections where there are no musical cues and it is all ambient sounds.
Namtar is not what he appears to be- which may explain his ability to get 3/5's The crew of Moya start acting like total Frelljeks who need a Fekkik-kicking. I hope those words are not too strong.
This is probably one of the first episodes after the pilot episode where John Crichton proves his usefulness, as that subject had been in question until this episode.
The puppetry work to create Namtar was simply amazing.
Also, Namtar's Lab is based on the remains of some huge creature, but the word "Budong" was not used- even though the creature in this episode, the skeletal remains that is, appear to be about the same size.
Oh yes... take note of the device which Namtar uses to inject or remove eyegoop: and then look for it later on Br'Nee's plant miniaturization machine in "Bone to be wild".
This totally unusual episode shows our crew at each other's throat's and doing something against another crew member that is unconscionable.
It was as if the evil of Namtar is rubbing off on Zhaan, D'Argo and Rygel- at first we don't realize that this character is pure evil, pure dren... it takes a while for that revelation to come to us.
Aeryn, who feels out of place, approaches Namtar to be included in his experiments.
His soothing voice and calm demeanor (The voice of the actor that played Hephaestus in Xena and Hercules), portray this character as a smart, intelligent scientist.
But that is not exactly what he is.
He is smart, of course, and he is devious. And he has origins that we would never guess. Prepare for a huge reveal at the end of the episode.
As Zhaan, D'Argo and Rygel become more and more antagonistic toward each other, all due to a piece of technology that they think will do one thing but is designed to do something else, Aeryn becomes part of an experiment that she did not agree to be part of. Well, she agreed to become part of an experiment but she did not know what she was asking and she was basically handing Namtar a blank check to do whatever he wanted with.
The music of Subvision in this episode is very different than the other episodes of this season. And it is totally different from Guy Gross' interpretations.
There are musical cues in this episode, but during times when they show Namtar working, The music becomes a lot like the ambient sounds from Forbidden Flanet- which depicted alien Krell scientists performing unimaginable experiments. Experiments which had a dire ending.
So, whenever Namtar is shown twiddling in his (actually 'Cortana's') Laboratory, The musical cues fall away and we start hearing ambient, alien, experimental sounds.
In fact there are long sections where there are no musical cues and it is all ambient sounds.
Namtar is not what he appears to be- which may explain his ability to get 3/5's The crew of Moya start acting like total Frelljeks who need a Fekkik-kicking. I hope those words are not too strong.
This is probably one of the first episodes after the pilot episode where John Crichton proves his usefulness, as that subject had been in question until this episode.
The puppetry work to create Namtar was simply amazing.
Also, Namtar's Lab is based on the remains of some huge creature, but the word "Budong" was not used- even though the creature in this episode, the skeletal remains that is, appear to be about the same size.
Oh yes... take note of the device which Namtar uses to inject or remove eyegoop: and then look for it later on Br'Nee's plant miniaturization machine in "Bone to be wild".