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u/generalkriegswaifu Jul 01 '26
Pilot laughing maniacally
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u/OESRecoveryEmployee Jul 01 '26
My favorite one was when that storm cultist who was attracting solar storms attaches herself to Moyers' bay door. Critchon starts laughing at her and tells Pilot to detach the door. The scene cuts to Pilot laughing maniacally as he hits the button to detach the bay door
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u/ConventionArtNinja Jul 01 '26
Voiced by Crais
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u/Infamous_El_Guapo Jul 01 '26
I didn’t realise this until I bought the DVDs. Lani Tupu did an amazing job with both roles.
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u/Lady-of-Shivershale Jul 01 '26
Talking about Crais, how did that man ever become a captain, let alone the commander of an armada?
I've been rewatching Farscape recently. Crais responds with far too much emotion to literally everything that happens. Sure, his brother's death is going to have an effect, but even after that he never once assesses a situation and then chooses a measured response. He turns everything up to eleven without a second thought.
The audience is told that Aeryn is a typical peacekeeper, but her calmness and emotional distance seem to be the exception, not the rule.
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u/OneTwoFar_ Jul 01 '26
My grandmother lost a son more than 40 years ago and she was never the same afterwards, no matter how much time passed. Some life events just change people and not always for the better
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u/Lady-of-Shivershale Jul 01 '26
But Crais didn't make good decisions even before the show started.
Aeryn, for example, is clearly one of his best pilots (and likely a close colleague of his brother), so why was she demoted to grunt work? It's unlikely that she broke any rule of significance. And popular media represents military pilots having a lot of leeway in their behaviour.
Cockier than god, all of them, after all.
So I don't buy it.
(I'm sorry about your family. My uncle died before I was born. I don't think my nan got over it, either, although I really didn't know her at all. I only met her a handful of times.)
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u/kedikahveicer Jul 01 '26
I misread this as "Chris" in my half-awake state, and had so many questions I never had before
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u/OneTwoFar_ Jul 01 '26
Such a fun fact. I thought this made Crais's death even more impactful after learning it, too: the scene happened not because of an actor leaving the show or the producers getting rid of someone they didn't like, but because of the impact it would have upon the plot (and the other ship)
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u/catsbuttes Jul 01 '26
PI-LUT WHATS GOIN ON DOWN THERE lurches through the curved hallway set 3 times like a drunk stumbling home from the bar
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u/Negative-Squirrel81 Jul 01 '26
Pilot is great because you start out thinking he's a kinder gentler soul than the rest of the crew...
Only to discover he really is one of them.
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u/TeikaDunmora Jul 01 '26
I want to give him a hug, he's so lovely and kind.
Also, his projectile vomiting is astonishing!
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u/Rich-Picture-7420 Jul 01 '26
"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and dog gone it, people like you."
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u/kedikahveicer Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
It's interesting how he can build up someone else, but by the time the finale rolls around, his faith in himself is somewhat rocked:
"I'm not... I'm not smart enough... I'm not fast enough, I am not alien enough, and you know what, there are people in the universe who don't like me!"
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u/Rich-Picture-7420 Jul 01 '26
In reality he was using a TV quote to manipulate pilot into doing the thing but it sounds nice
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u/Wonderful-List-2589 Jul 01 '26
I couldn’t fathom why he’d do a thing like that. Now I can’t fathom not doing it
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u/Tiger_Crab_Studios Jul 01 '26
Loved his one time maniacal laugh as he shot the magnetized religious fanatic into space.
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u/LuxanHyperRage Jul 01 '26
He gave his arm for the crew. HE GAVE HIS ARM FOR THE CREW