Potential season three finale spoilers, here, so go away if you don't want to be spoiled on the season three final four.
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It just occured to me that the titles of the last three episodes of season three are from fables. Lambs to the Slaughter, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, and Dog With Two Bones are morals to stories we all should have learned when we were kids.
What's the significance of this (if any)? There is usually some kind of method to this naming madness of those zany Farscape creators, so what could this be?
Now, I don't think that it means anything like, none of this is real, it's all just a story. Not at all. I think this actually happened to John, but I don't know if some of it may have been created in his mind (by himself or Harvey) to protect him. There is at least one element of the last eppy that I have trouble believing, because the only evidence is in John's mind, so we have no way of knowing if it's real.
I think the titles were meant to remind us of things Crichton should remember. He's not safe in this universe, even with his friends nearby. He needs to remember lessons he learned as a youth to keep him safe at home, to temper his actions, to make him think. He's lost a lot of what he used to have since finding himself here... his ability to think first, then act; his ability to reason or negotiate with others calmly; his scientific curiosity. He can't lose everything.
Fables are meant to be tools to teach. Do the powers that be want us to remember these lessons, too? Are they only meant to show us what Crichton needs to remember? Or do TPTB want us to think about all morality lessons? Are they going to throw another one at us later and ask, "Didn't you see that coming?"
Don't dismiss this one lightly. I looked up Daedelus when Infinite Possibilities first aired and knew that Crichton was going to die in the next eppy because of the definition I found. This thing with the titles is a clue and a thorn in my mind. I need help figuring this out. The discussion could help you, too.
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It just occured to me that the titles of the last three episodes of season three are from fables. Lambs to the Slaughter, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, and Dog With Two Bones are morals to stories we all should have learned when we were kids.
What's the significance of this (if any)? There is usually some kind of method to this naming madness of those zany Farscape creators, so what could this be?
Now, I don't think that it means anything like, none of this is real, it's all just a story. Not at all. I think this actually happened to John, but I don't know if some of it may have been created in his mind (by himself or Harvey) to protect him. There is at least one element of the last eppy that I have trouble believing, because the only evidence is in John's mind, so we have no way of knowing if it's real.
I think the titles were meant to remind us of things Crichton should remember. He's not safe in this universe, even with his friends nearby. He needs to remember lessons he learned as a youth to keep him safe at home, to temper his actions, to make him think. He's lost a lot of what he used to have since finding himself here... his ability to think first, then act; his ability to reason or negotiate with others calmly; his scientific curiosity. He can't lose everything.
Fables are meant to be tools to teach. Do the powers that be want us to remember these lessons, too? Are they only meant to show us what Crichton needs to remember? Or do TPTB want us to think about all morality lessons? Are they going to throw another one at us later and ask, "Didn't you see that coming?"
Don't dismiss this one lightly. I looked up Daedelus when Infinite Possibilities first aired and knew that Crichton was going to die in the next eppy because of the definition I found. This thing with the titles is a clue and a thorn in my mind. I need help figuring this out. The discussion could help you, too.
