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dangermousie) wrote2006-12-11 05:23 pm
dangermousie) wrote2006-12-11 05:23 pm
Entry tags:
Farscape and First Wave
They’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/
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Didn't they have lots of things with recasts or stuff? Or am I mixing that up?
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I remember back then it was sort of handled as the anti thesis to The X-Files because the main couple was together unlike Mulder and Scully.
Sigh, the 90s had so many great crazy short lived sci fi shows.
My favorite one (now that one is totally obscure) was the really, really, really, really bad "Prey" starring Debra Messing (pre Will and Grace) and Adam Storke. Like, he is part of some higher evolved human species living among humans and she is the genetics expert who finds out about them and he is sent to kill her but of course he falls for her and switches sides and starts fighting his own people for her.
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I actually started watching it because I was watching One Life to Live at the time, and Roger Howarth(I think that was his name) played the recurring bad guy.
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God, the science of it was sooooooo bad. But what can I say, I loved the concept of it, the supposed killer falling for his victim, the evil mentor guy who wants to brainwash him back into the fold, lots of angsting and protecting. It was like the concept was really interesting and maybe if they had had more time...
Plus, her sidekick guy what cutie!
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FW is a show I enjoy but am not crazy for, the way I am for the other scifi shows on my lists (no angsty OTP :D Well, SPN has no OTP either as I am not into Wincest but who cares when you got Dean?). It's still quite fun though and I am annoyed at its lack of DVDs.
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This comment from IMDB really sums up why I like it and why I don't love it:
I will guarantee you that when Nostradamus predicted the world's destruction, he never thought it would be made into a strange sci-fi show about the adventures of a cute guy, a high-strung computer geek, an alien, and a pretty girl. But this is really not all that bad. A good way to spend a Monday night.
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Now, whenever I spot him on BSG I just squeal *hee*
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He was the Pegaus Viper pilot that counted his kills (the one Kara, Lee, Helo, and Racetrack were laughting at), and now he's a viper Pilot on the Galactica.
In the latest episode he appeared in a couple of scenes :)... I've taken a screencap for you :)
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:)
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Also, on this rewatch, just realized something. D'Argo ended up ingesting Leviathan sperm. Heeeee.