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dangermousieI ended up having a little TV marathon and watching Farscape's "We are So Screwed, Part 1" and my favorite Buffy episode, season 3's "The Wish."
I have never loved any show half as much as I love Farscape, and WSS three-parter is probably my favorite Farscape, ever. And I love the very first part, where Crichton is trying to rescue Aeryn held captive and drugged on a Scarran way-station. I love the complicated plan, and the character interactions, and all that. But what I love the most is how the threat of losing Aeryn destroys Crichton more than anything else ever does. You see him falling apart completely in a very self-contained way through the entire episode. He breathes a bit easier once he sees her for himself (though even then he is on the edge, and over the edge, and in the other universe from wherever the edge happens to be), but before that: he looks as if he can't think or feel or do anything except for the narrow, disciplined goal with steps or he'll literally go crazy. And he scares me, and I hurt for him and there is just this general sense of guuuuuuuuh at how he is my favorite TV character ever. Watch this episode and Premiere to get character whiplash. This Crichton would freak Premiere Crichton more than any of the other beasties out there.
Of course, he saves her (and I love both that he shoots the Kalish and that he only wounds him. Crichton is very, very grey, but he isn't gone yet). And I love the symmetry: she was in hell and he came for her and in a way it's an inverse of that moment in Season 1 when she bursts into his cell and John tells Stark "this is the radiant Aeryn Sun."
And the scene where he finally has her and carries her to her room and she asks him if this is real and the look on his face as he is so near crying as makes no difference? And he is pretty much armored (even the gauntlets are on) but he takes her hand and kisses the inside of it and she asks him to stay and the look on his face, this crazy mixture of love and tenderness and disbelief and joy. And the we see the room sometime later, as he is sprawled on the floor by her bed deeply asleep (because I bet he couldn't get any sleep when she was gone), and his gauntlets are off and she is lying there, lightly stroking his hair with this amazing look on her face. This is probably my favorite John/Aeryn scene bar none.
Buffy's "The Wish" is the perfect AU episode. Cordy wishes Buffy never came to Sunnydale, it happens, and we get results. I love that Cordy herself gets killed half-way through because she is the POV character and it's shocking for this to happen. I love that Buffy is a more pragmatic version of Faith in this reality, that Willow and Xander are saner and more sadistic Spike and Dru (and the kink in both Cordy and Angel scenes? Whoa). And I love that Angel and Buffy team up here too (and that Buffy was checking Angel out in this reality as well). And then there's Oz....
I have never loved any show half as much as I love Farscape, and WSS three-parter is probably my favorite Farscape, ever. And I love the very first part, where Crichton is trying to rescue Aeryn held captive and drugged on a Scarran way-station. I love the complicated plan, and the character interactions, and all that. But what I love the most is how the threat of losing Aeryn destroys Crichton more than anything else ever does. You see him falling apart completely in a very self-contained way through the entire episode. He breathes a bit easier once he sees her for himself (though even then he is on the edge, and over the edge, and in the other universe from wherever the edge happens to be), but before that: he looks as if he can't think or feel or do anything except for the narrow, disciplined goal with steps or he'll literally go crazy. And he scares me, and I hurt for him and there is just this general sense of guuuuuuuuh at how he is my favorite TV character ever. Watch this episode and Premiere to get character whiplash. This Crichton would freak Premiere Crichton more than any of the other beasties out there.
Of course, he saves her (and I love both that he shoots the Kalish and that he only wounds him. Crichton is very, very grey, but he isn't gone yet). And I love the symmetry: she was in hell and he came for her and in a way it's an inverse of that moment in Season 1 when she bursts into his cell and John tells Stark "this is the radiant Aeryn Sun."
And the scene where he finally has her and carries her to her room and she asks him if this is real and the look on his face as he is so near crying as makes no difference? And he is pretty much armored (even the gauntlets are on) but he takes her hand and kisses the inside of it and she asks him to stay and the look on his face, this crazy mixture of love and tenderness and disbelief and joy. And the we see the room sometime later, as he is sprawled on the floor by her bed deeply asleep (because I bet he couldn't get any sleep when she was gone), and his gauntlets are off and she is lying there, lightly stroking his hair with this amazing look on her face. This is probably my favorite John/Aeryn scene bar none.
Buffy's "The Wish" is the perfect AU episode. Cordy wishes Buffy never came to Sunnydale, it happens, and we get results. I love that Cordy herself gets killed half-way through because she is the POV character and it's shocking for this to happen. I love that Buffy is a more pragmatic version of Faith in this reality, that Willow and Xander are saner and more sadistic Spike and Dru (and the kink in both Cordy and Angel scenes? Whoa). And I love that Angel and Buffy team up here too (and that Buffy was checking Angel out in this reality as well). And then there's Oz....
