Wherein I go gaga for scifi

[dangermousie]

(I apologize to those who have friended me for dramas, which is probably most of you at this point, but I am on a scifi kick for bit).

I have decided to resume my rewatch of Farscape, starting with the ep I stopped at last time - Season 3 finale, Dog With Two Bones. Oddly, this was the very first FS ep I saw and it hooked me. Five minutes and I am set to be a blubbery mess.



GUHGUHGUH. This is such an encapsulation of John's worst nightmare (that he will be responsible for the deaths of everyone he loves, and Aeryn above all) but also, I think, the guilt he does feel for what everyone already had to suffer because of him and Scorpius' fixation, above all his fear of causing Aeryn to die (such a mirror fear to Aeryn's fear of having him die - even if in her case she isn't afraid it will be her fault).

Ginormous picspam to come.

We also continued our Firefly rewatch with Our Mrs Reynolds, Jaynetown and Out of Gas (those last two eps are my number two and number one eps, respectively).

Oh, how good it is. And I am not just referring to the kissing in OMR, either :)



In OoG, when Inara doesn't want Mal to die alone - eeeee. But the thing that gets me the most is his asking whether everyone will still be there when he wakes up, at the end. That is the most vulnerable we've seen him.



I kinda wince through the whole ep, at the h/c. (They are good at foreshadowing too - the compression coil that went bust is something Kaylee mentioned as a problem as early as the Pilot).

ETA: And now we finished Ariel and Out of Gas. So much love!

Btw, did I mention my mad love for Simon/Kaylee?

Comments

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

Wow, DWTB was your first ep? Dude, I would have gone ballistic. Hell, I DID go ballistic when I saw it for the first time, knowing I'd have to wait months before the cliffie was resolved. That bit with the coin - just. KILLS. me.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That bit with the coin is heart-breaking (I love the callback to it in S4 though). I had no idea what was going on in DWTB or who those people were but I knew I must have more!

[syrenstar.livejournal.com]

Hey I friended you because of the dramas but I'm loving this scifi kick you've been on lately. Although it does make me jealous that I only have the first episode of Farscape and Dog With Two Bones is such a great ep, when John asked her if she loved him I was sobbing like a little girl.

To make up for it I've been watching trashier scifi shows like Vampire High and Andromeda. Fun shows but in a completely different way.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you need dl links for Farscape. Oh, when he asked her if she loved him? Ouch! And his "beyond hope" gets me every time.

Now, hold on! There is a show called Vampire High?????? lead me to it! :)

[syrenstar.livejournal.com]

I've only ever been able to find it on youtube so the quality isn't great but it's watchable. Eps 1-15 are http://www.youtube.com/user/AmyJade -here.

WARNING-When I say it's trashy I ain't kidding but as you're looking forward to the Vampire Dairies I think you'll be okay ^_^

OMG Farscape links GIMME!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Join dramatic_eps, they have the eps.

[miss-magrat.livejournal.com]

Gah, Dog with Two Bones has to be the saddest Farscape episode ever, and that's saying quite a lot. I was such a sobbing mess at this point when I watched the series for the first time (it was from the very beginning, so for a bit of season 1 it was an exercise in holding out for the goodness I was promised would come). Can't wait for the picspam, the episode's completely gorgeous as well.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wonder how I would have viewed FS if I came to it from the start. I started with DWTB, watched s4 as it aired and then went back. I find the first half of S1 is entertaining scifi, a little untraditional already, but largely a known quantity - no indication of brilliance and craziness that would come. And then with A Human Reaction it just takes off and never comes back.

I do think it's amazing how much they all change in the course of the show but especially Crichton - once I ended up watching the We're so screwed S4 three-parter in close conjunction with the Pilot ep and it was shocking to see the change!

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Hey, I friended you for Bollywood but I've gotten so used to you discussing/picspamming whatever you're into at the moment, I love it. I'll probably never watch Farscape - despite my occasional liking of a sci-fi thing, I think Farscape may bee to "legit" a sci-fi show for me - but I've been tingling to rewatch Firefly for ages and your posts about it may have pushed me over the edge. I liked Buffy but Firefly was always *the* Joss Whedon show for me, I remember thinking I must be the only person in Finland who follows it because the show was on at obscure hours of Wednesday night or something. I used to ship Simon/Kaylee as well, again thinking I must be the only one. Was veeery glad the more canon they became. :)

Now the big question, do I buy the DVD's or just rent them...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Farscape can be very very scifi - OTOH its off-kilter humor might be your thing - lecherous puppets, body-swapping, villains who like to quote Shakespeare.

I dunno. You might like. OTOH you don't like angst and Farscape can get incredibly angsty - the lead spends a decent chunk of one of the seasons actively suicidal, for one.

[cranberrysheep.livejournal.com]

I adore Out of Gas. That was some excellent storytelling.

I've always meant to watch Farscape. Someday I'll get around to it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am a bit irrational baout Farscape. Except for Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, Farscape is my favorite fictional thing in any medium.

I really loved Out of Gas' loopy, non-linear structure. And your icon reminds me - Wash had a pornstache in the ep :)

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

I do love Mal/Inara, but something about Simon/Kaylee makes me melt. ;D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

For me it's just because they are both such sweet, selfless souls.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

I remember my very first Farscape episode was the one where Crais 'kills' Xalax, and thinking that Harvey must be like the little gren alien that talked to Fred Flinstone. I was vaguely amused to find out I was sort of right.

Dog with Two Bones is such a sad episode. I like the exploration of the more realistic problems that John and Aeryn had besides madmen chasing them through space. And the part where Aeryn leaves him? Ouch. I think that may be the most painful scene they've ever had, even worse than "Die Me Dichotomy".

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

My firend kept raving about Farscape but it sounded so odd to me - I mean, puppets! Clones! And then they had a marathon on TV, I saw DWTB and was hooked - I had no earthly idea what was going on (I think the only 'worse' eps to come to as a newbie would have been John Quixote in S4 and Won't Get Fooled Again is S4) but I knew I was hooked and watched S4 'live'.

And when I brought it up to Mr Mousie it turned out he loved Farscape too! We had fun times with me catching up on FS (one of my most fun memories is being on a vacation in Seattle and watching the We're so screwed eps on TV in a hotel, all the way back in 2002, I think)

I too loved that look at John and Aeryn's problems - John might be paranoid entirely too often about things but he was right there - if they ever ended up on earth, she could not have coped, whatever the shiny dreams she and Talyn-John were spinning out. The only way he could have kept her is by giving up earth - maybe that is why he needed to go back in Terra Firma - he was willing to give it up even earlier in DWTB but through going back he actually realized he himself didn't belong there either.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

I too loved that look at John and Aeryn's problems - John might be paranoid entirely too often about things but he was right there - if they ever ended up on earth, she could not have coped, whatever the shiny dreams she and Talyn-John were spinning out.

Yeah - at least they couldn't've had lived in a cute house in the 'burbs, which is probably what John wanted for a while. Aeryn may have thought that they were going to settle down and become superspies on Earth. :)