John and the gang are on Earth!! For real this time. There was a time early on in the show when Crichton thought he was on Earth but it was all a ruse set up by an ancient species curious to learn more about humans and how they would truly react to the knowledge of alien life. If memory serves it was also a way of assessing wether or not they could entrust John with the wormhole knowledge locked away in his noggin. That may not be exactly right, but it's at least close. Any hoobie-doobies, yeah John made it back to Earth. In the episode prior to this they were on Earth as well but it was sometime in the 1980's. John was just an itty-bitty teeny bopper, angry at Daddy and tooling around in a pick-up truck with his girlfriend. Old John had to make sure his Dad wouldn't get on the Challenger shuttle and get blowned up. (Yes I know blowned isn't a real word, but I think it's a fun one) If Daddy were to die then there would never be a Farscape mission and John never would've ended up "on this living ship full of escaped prisoners" and we wouldn't've been privelged to see all his wacky adventures with bad ass space muppets. Here I am going on about the episode before Terra Firma! But it has some great moments that are worth mentoning. Teenage John loses his virginity to Chiana! Yum-Oh! Aeyrn practices her English by watching Seasame Street! And Rygel gets a major sugar high off Halloween candy.
But anyways, back to Terra Firma. Earth welcomes John and his alien friends with suprisingly open arms. I thought they'd lock em up in cages and try to dissect and study them and stuff and then John would have to rescue them. This wasn't the case. In fact the government didn't even try to keep their existence a secret from the general public. However, the good old US of A were trying to be stingy with all their nifty new technology, not wanting to share it with the rest of the world. John felt this was wrong and eventually convinced his Dad that sharing was the right thing to do. Daddy Crichton was all post 9/11 paranoid at first, feeling that sharing the knowledge was a huge risk to national security, whereas John felt not sharing was more dangerous. Aeryn is feeling a bit jealous about John being reunited with his old Earth flame. And of course now that Aeryn has regained her interest in John, John decides to be all stand-offish. These two just need to fuck already!! Well they did but that was the other John who was killed. If you haven't seen this show maybe you should stop reading. I'm spoiling shit. While all of this is going on the evil Peacekeeper bitch sent an ugly green scary fucker to track John down, get the wormhole knowledge out of his magnificent brain and then kill him. Everyone gets attacked on Christmas eve but D'Argo ends up disintergrating the fucker. After that John bids farewell to his family and heads back through the wormhole, where the gang will now continue with their adventures. They're going to start by heading out into Tormented Space, a place where Peacekeepers don't dare go. Something tells me evil bitch woman with the hypnotizing tit juice will have the balls to follow. We'll see....
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