Zhaan and Stark
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dangermousieLookie, lookie what I found.
A Zhaan/Stark vid.
OMG.
Now, I adore John/Aeryn with an unholy adoration but Zhaan/Stark is probably my favorite secondary ship ever.
How could I not? A former anarchist-assassin priestess who is also a wise earth mother and supremely sensual being and over the edge of insanity and tortured by Scorpius for years, former Bannik slave who helps the dying over to the next world? Who just work together perfectly? And it ends tragically?
So so SO sold.
Plus,Paul Goddard's voice makes me so weak in the knees I have no legs left.
It's funny because everyone loves Zhaan (how could you not?) but Stark is such a polarizing character. I confess to loving him. He is off the edge and off-kilter, but it makes perfect sense: even on Farscape, Stark wins the 'suckiest life' award. I mean, he was in Aurora Chair dozens of times and we saw what it made of Crichton in a not nearly as many spins. And yet he still has compassion. And he is surprisingly together until he gets dispersed. And then he is much more off-kilter, and when he feels 10,000 of his people dying, killed by Scorpius, it doesn't help.
Whenever he gets any stability (as with Zhaan. He is quite normal with her) it gets yanked away. OMG, the bit in S&L when she basically tells him there is nothing he can do about her dying and just help her cross over and says he is an expert on dying, and he replies 'I am an expert on dying. I am just not an expert on you dying.' Ohhhhhh...
And I still think that in a lot of ways, Zhaan/Stark is a mirror of John/Aeryn. With the woman the crazy guy's source of stability. Stark goes catatonic-mumbly when Zhaan dies which is a John thing to do. He sort of displaces onto Aeryn because Zhaan died for her. He goes looking for Zhaan even though she is dead. These are all a John thing to do. Only he doesn't have the happiness of having Zhaan back. In some ways, Stark is John, complete with a dark streak (the way he leaves Grunchlick frozen is rough justice but it's very dark) and passionate hate of use of helpless and hopeless love. Only years later and messed up a lot lot lot more.
I love that he gets peace at the end of PKW. One of my favorite things is that he is finally free of all the horror. And I am an optimist. Maybe one day he will find Zhaan again. It's Farscape, anything can happen.
I need a Z/S icon.
A Zhaan/Stark vid.
OMG.
Now, I adore John/Aeryn with an unholy adoration but Zhaan/Stark is probably my favorite secondary ship ever.
How could I not? A former anarchist-assassin priestess who is also a wise earth mother and supremely sensual being and over the edge of insanity and tortured by Scorpius for years, former Bannik slave who helps the dying over to the next world? Who just work together perfectly? And it ends tragically?
So so SO sold.
It's funny because everyone loves Zhaan (how could you not?) but Stark is such a polarizing character. I confess to loving him. He is off the edge and off-kilter, but it makes perfect sense: even on Farscape, Stark wins the 'suckiest life' award. I mean, he was in Aurora Chair dozens of times and we saw what it made of Crichton in a not nearly as many spins. And yet he still has compassion. And he is surprisingly together until he gets dispersed. And then he is much more off-kilter, and when he feels 10,000 of his people dying, killed by Scorpius, it doesn't help.
Whenever he gets any stability (as with Zhaan. He is quite normal with her) it gets yanked away. OMG, the bit in S&L when she basically tells him there is nothing he can do about her dying and just help her cross over and says he is an expert on dying, and he replies 'I am an expert on dying. I am just not an expert on you dying.' Ohhhhhh...
And I still think that in a lot of ways, Zhaan/Stark is a mirror of John/Aeryn. With the woman the crazy guy's source of stability. Stark goes catatonic-mumbly when Zhaan dies which is a John thing to do. He sort of displaces onto Aeryn because Zhaan died for her. He goes looking for Zhaan even though she is dead. These are all a John thing to do. Only he doesn't have the happiness of having Zhaan back. In some ways, Stark is John, complete with a dark streak (the way he leaves Grunchlick frozen is rough justice but it's very dark) and passionate hate of use of helpless and hopeless love. Only years later and messed up a lot lot lot more.
I love that he gets peace at the end of PKW. One of my favorite things is that he is finally free of all the horror. And I am an optimist. Maybe one day he will find Zhaan again. It's Farscape, anything can happen.
I need a Z/S icon.
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Date: 2007-10-10 12:17 pm (UTC)Having said all that, I will start rewatching Farscape tonight:)
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Date: 2007-10-11 01:10 am (UTC)And yay re: farscape!
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Date: 2007-10-12 12:21 am (UTC)*hugs you like mad for finding it*
And I still think that in a lot of ways, Zhaan/Stark is a mirror of John/Aeryn.
WORD!
I love that he gets peace at the end of PKW. One of my favorite things is that he is finally free of all the horror.
Healed!Stark is my faveoritest thing ever.
And I am an optimist. Maybe one day he will find Zhaan again. It's Farscape, anything can happen.
At the very least, at the end he will be with her. I mean, you can't tell me those two don't end up in the same afterlife. He's a stykera, he can send himself to her....
I need a Z/S icon.
EVERYBODY DOES!! :D ..I have six, myself. :)
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Date: 2007-10-12 01:45 am (UTC)And yet, while they are a mirror of J/A, they are also uniquely their own thing, aren't they? Their own beautiful messy thing.
I know that part of the reason I love Z/S is because I just love damage being healed by love as a theme, but also because it's such an unusual relationship. Even J/A, much as I adore it, is a complication, a superb development of some tropes out there (it makes me think of things like Dorothy Sayers), but Z/S because they are such off-kilter, 'energy' type beings, and because Stark is much more broken than John and Zhaan is most at hardwon peace with herself...