Ben Browder's real life "Aeryn", Francesca Buller, was brilliant in this show. We first met her as the Bone-chompin "M'Lee" in season 1's "Bone to be wild". Then a slightly different role as "ro-Na" in season 2's "look at the princess" trilogy.
As the "Rexil-Thing" here (as John describes her), it's hard to tell whether she is better here or as the Skarran war minister Ahkna in season 4. I vote for the Rexil-Thing.
All of these characters, are brilliant. This is an actress that has quite the range, and we never would have seen her ever if not for Farscape. She had one very small role in 1992's "Chaplin" with Robert Downey Jr, and not much else over the years.
It is hard for me to identify the dialect she is using in this episode, as a British actress she obviously grew up with various dialects. She uses a kind of cockney here minus the English rhyming slang (which John Crichton used on occasion).
As far as this episode, there is always one extremely funny episode in each Farscape season. This is season three's entry, and I have to say this is probably the funniest episode of Farscape.
Look for "Kabaah", another muppet-alien, this one has detachable eyeballs which he uses to spy on the LoMo Bar where Crichton/D'Argo/Chiana/Jool were hanging in. His eyeball was also at one time in Fe'Tor's (the bad guys) Freskin Milking Room. And because of this, when both Chricton and D'Argo use Kabaah's eye at the same time- D'Argo is finally able to actually see "Harvey"- Scorpy's Neural Clone within Crichton's brain. A very minor, but nonetheless important thing that happened.
It's like... I am sure many of us have fond memories of being rolled by an attractive woman, waking up in a store front window and all of our braandar tiles stolen.
The funniest part is when Raxil sprays Ka D'Argo with the "special Freslin", changing his appearance and she claims that "she made him very handsome"- actually I can almost agree with that statement, at least the females in this episode agreed with it.
But then he has to spoil it by going into a hyperrage.
There are lots of good points to this episode, the music is almost as good as some of the Subvision music of the first season, but mostly it is the psychedelic editing. Speaking of which, during the part where D'Argo has his big FreslinReveal, we see a cut to an image of a "Boolite's" eye. Wait, Whaat??!? Why is this being shown, seeing as we had not even been introduced to a Boolite yet!? Pretty good PropheticEditing.
Very well done it gives us the impression of things just being slightly off kilter.
And then Pilot being driven crazy by Crichton's delivery of the story puts a lid on the entire thing.
