By Jonathan Klotz
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Stuffing has always had trouble being noticed alongside his science fiction peers in the late 90s, when Star trek: travel,, Stargate SG-1And X-Files were all on the air, but he finally found a perfect balance and became a classic cult. The fans look back now and point to a specific episode like the turning point where the spatial adventure at a low budget with Muppets discovered its voice thanks to the episode of season 2 “Crackers does not matter”. The episode was written specifically to fill a hole in the production calendar, but transforming the inherent oddity of the series until 11 and completely focusing on the influence of one of the rules of Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek: the Character conflict.
Deficient species
Unlike the company’s crew, the Ragtag Ruffians aboard the Moya were not part of a unit, and there was no big vision bringing them together like the Star Wars rebels, instead, Farscape started with everyone for themselves. At least at the beginning, this is why “the crackers do not matter” was a breath of fresh air, allowing the crew to act on their worst pulses thanks to the subtle influence of T’ALTIXX . THE stranger The engineer blames the nearby pulsars on the behavior of the crew, which can have an impact on the “less species”, but to the surprise of anyone, it is T’altixx which is the problem.
The villain does not matter in “Crackers does not matter” because the real pleasure and the danger come from the crew of Farscape losing their heads and unleashing against each other. In one way or another, the crackers find themselves at the center of the conflict, of Crichton which puts Rygel and Chiana against each other at the disturbing moment of the Crackers of Rygel who feed on Argo , a moment that actually broke one of the Rygel puppets. It is not only the crackers, with Aeryn and Crichton unloading their weapons in an exchange of shooting which only ends when the balls, and the pilot finally triggering the small passive aggressiveness that we all knew just hiding below the surface.
Harvey’s first appearance
Although the pilot insists that humans are deficient, it is Crichton who saves the day, although no one at the time is yet aware, it is thanks to the first appearance of the SCORPIUS Clone living in his head . Finally named Harvey by Crichton, the first appearance of the mental clone is one of the strengths of the whole series of Stuffing When he appears wearing a Hawaiian shirt and holding a Margarita. Led as a punctual appearance to show Crichton’s madness, the moment was a success that it became his own script that took place in the rest of the series with Harvey making several appearances, sometimes as a jiminy cricket helping his Host, and other times to help continue the quest for Scropius for the weapon of the black hole.
Harvey has become one of the best parts of Stuffing And it is normal for it to start in one of the best episodes. “Crackers don’t Impatters” is an episode of “bottle”. The term is used for an episode kept in a single location with a limited cast in order to keep time and money, but instead of staying cheap, it has changed the tone and the tenor of the whole show. Even before the fans started to rent the episode, the casting and the crew knew that they had something special here, and you can say, retrospectively, that it was at this time that the writers decided to Continue to set up the crazy dial and have changed the plots to become more personalized- leads while kissing the oddity of the universe of the show.
Stuffing is not as popular as Star Trek Or even Stargate, but it pushed the envelope in a way that none of these greatest franchises has ever had. “Crackers does not matter” is the perfect example, transforming a unique filling episode into an episode of lasting repercussions. It is not only Harvey, because the crew still had trouble being with each other after trying to kill himself, Rygel, in particular, remaining suspicious of D’Argo for the rest of the season , it is the rare “the cast loses loses episode of their mind which was not immediately forgiven and forgotten at the end of the adventure. It is not a perfect series, but still the supposed jet episodes are better than most modern science fiction Watch, you know it’s something special.
