Farscape and First Wave
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dangermousieThey’ve Got a Secret.
It’s not an ep I am super fond of (though it’s not bad) so only brief observations behind the cut.
This is a very D’Argo centric ep, and poor boy does have plenty of angst, but what I find interesting is that this ep is about hybrids: D’Argo’s hybrid son, Moya’s (future) hybrid offspring. Etc. And how rigid purity doesn’t work (ironically, PKs are against hybrid offspring between themselves and others, but would love to have a hybrid Leviathan, e.g.).
I loved the tag with Aeryn and D’Argo where she tells him his child (in hologram) is beautiful and she’d never tell. She has come incredibly far.
On John/Aeryn front, I loved the bit in the beginning where she is fixing something and is using him as a ladder, sitting on he shoulders. I really wanted to suggest for him to turn around :P
Their banter and chemistry are great. I especially love the scene in the hallway where he is using the solvent to dissolve the gunk that is gluing her hand to the floor. So funny and cute and light and perfect. And also, in the scene he is talking to her when she is washing her hand? When he doesn’t see it, she is totally checking him out. Heeeeee. Crichton’s liking for her is so obvious (he is not good at concealing, not yet) but hers is just as strong, if better hidden. She is being all woman about it, :P
In other news, let’s talk about First Wave.
If you’ve friended me for more than oh…a day or so, you can tell that the only thing I like better than checking my LJ for comments is scifi. More specifically, a clever, dark, dystopian scifi or horrorish fantasy.
Now, the scifi/horror/fantasy shows I adore range from cult classic favorites (Farscape, Firefly, Buffy) to currently running (BSG, Supernatural) to over though still known (Dark Angel, Roswell). Some of them are better known than others, but no scifi show I strongly enjoy is more obscure than First Wave. Running for three seasons (it concluded its story arc, never fear), FW aired on scifi from 1998 to 2001 (Guh, those were the days when scifi had a lot of good stuff on). It involved dark prophesies, an alien invasion, an angsty, angry hero of awesome hotness, and darkness and dystopia. It is not as clever or moving or romantic as some of my other favorites, but it’s still good and deserves to be better known.
A very short synopsis: Former thief turned security specialist, Cade Foster’s life was idyllic, with a beautiful wife, good job and a nice house. Without his knowing, he is used as subject 117 in an extraterrestrial race (called Gua) experiment to test human resilience. As part of this experiment his life is systematically ruined, including the murder of his wife for which he is framed. He is the only one of the 117 subjects to solve the riddles of the experiment and escape arrest to live as a fugitive. The Gua are among humans in the form of hybridised genetic clones and plan to enslave humanity—the first of three “waves” intent on conquering and finally destroying the human race. Constantly pursued by the police, and a strange government agency called the Illuminati, Foster discovers previously unknown quatrains of Nostradamus, which tell of three waves which will destroy the planet unless the “twice-blessed man” can stop them. For this reason, Foster investigates strange occurrences which may have ties to the Nostradamus’ quatrains, hoping to find what he needs to stop the Gua.
Reasons to watch? Darkness, and angst, and a hair-gelled-within-an-inch-of-its-life Sebastian Spence.
This is, weirdly enough, not on DVD yet, but you can dl it or find copies on ebay. And scifi still shows it sometime.
Links:
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_wave
Episode Guide: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Theater/2119/firstwavetable.html
Scifi site: http://www.scifi.com/firstwave/
It’s not an ep I am super fond of (though it’s not bad) so only brief observations behind the cut.
This is a very D’Argo centric ep, and poor boy does have plenty of angst, but what I find interesting is that this ep is about hybrids: D’Argo’s hybrid son, Moya’s (future) hybrid offspring. Etc. And how rigid purity doesn’t work (ironically, PKs are against hybrid offspring between themselves and others, but would love to have a hybrid Leviathan, e.g.).
I loved the tag with Aeryn and D’Argo where she tells him his child (in hologram) is beautiful and she’d never tell. She has come incredibly far.
On John/Aeryn front, I loved the bit in the beginning where she is fixing something and is using him as a ladder, sitting on he shoulders. I really wanted to suggest for him to turn around :P
Their banter and chemistry are great. I especially love the scene in the hallway where he is using the solvent to dissolve the gunk that is gluing her hand to the floor. So funny and cute and light and perfect. And also, in the scene he is talking to her when she is washing her hand? When he doesn’t see it, she is totally checking him out. Heeeeee. Crichton’s liking for her is so obvious (he is not good at concealing, not yet) but hers is just as strong, if better hidden. She is being all woman about it, :P
In other news, let’s talk about First Wave.
If you’ve friended me for more than oh…a day or so, you can tell that the only thing I like better than checking my LJ for comments is scifi. More specifically, a clever, dark, dystopian scifi or horrorish fantasy.
Now, the scifi/horror/fantasy shows I adore range from cult classic favorites (Farscape, Firefly, Buffy) to currently running (BSG, Supernatural) to over though still known (Dark Angel, Roswell). Some of them are better known than others, but no scifi show I strongly enjoy is more obscure than First Wave. Running for three seasons (it concluded its story arc, never fear), FW aired on scifi from 1998 to 2001 (Guh, those were the days when scifi had a lot of good stuff on). It involved dark prophesies, an alien invasion, an angsty, angry hero of awesome hotness, and darkness and dystopia. It is not as clever or moving or romantic as some of my other favorites, but it’s still good and deserves to be better known.
A very short synopsis: Former thief turned security specialist, Cade Foster’s life was idyllic, with a beautiful wife, good job and a nice house. Without his knowing, he is used as subject 117 in an extraterrestrial race (called Gua) experiment to test human resilience. As part of this experiment his life is systematically ruined, including the murder of his wife for which he is framed. He is the only one of the 117 subjects to solve the riddles of the experiment and escape arrest to live as a fugitive. The Gua are among humans in the form of hybridised genetic clones and plan to enslave humanity—the first of three “waves” intent on conquering and finally destroying the human race. Constantly pursued by the police, and a strange government agency called the Illuminati, Foster discovers previously unknown quatrains of Nostradamus, which tell of three waves which will destroy the planet unless the “twice-blessed man” can stop them. For this reason, Foster investigates strange occurrences which may have ties to the Nostradamus’ quatrains, hoping to find what he needs to stop the Gua.
Reasons to watch? Darkness, and angst, and a hair-gelled-within-an-inch-of-its-life Sebastian Spence.
This is, weirdly enough, not on DVD yet, but you can dl it or find copies on ebay. And scifi still shows it sometime.
Links:
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_wave
Episode Guide: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Theater/2119/firstwavetable.html
Scifi site: http://www.scifi.com/firstwave/
