Farscape rewatch

[rivkat]

1.  Lookin' good!  John has very nice arms, and what even I must acknowledge is a very nice ass, and he wears short sleeves and tight pants, so yay.  Aeryn has amazing abs.

2.  It's interesting that in 1x05 John expresses horror at the thought of using a black hole as a weapon.

3.  Also, episode 5 and you're already doing "repeating day," Farscape?  Well, it wasn't a failure of imagination; I guess I'll call it a statement of confidence that there were tropes to burn.  I only wish I'd gotten a musical episode.

Comments

[amalthia]

I miss John's nice arms. :) I should start re-watching Farscape too. :) I'd forgotten just how much I loved it.

[jadelennox]

I'm in the middle of a farscape re-watch, and last night we were going through the beginning of season four. The thing about farscape is that they burned those tropes and burned them so well. I mean, farscape heaven, like Marvel heaven, has a revolving door -- but people don't come back from it normal. People die constantly, you never know how many of any one person there are going to be, there's daddy issues, mommy issues... And I don't know why it is that John and Aeryn are so much more attractive than Browder and Black. (Not that Browder and Black aren't attractive. They just aren't as attractive as John and Aeryn. Who are smoking.)

[rivkat]

We may need to agree to disagree on Claudia Black! But I am in definite agreement re: John. I am a fan of midseries Aeryn hair, which I haven't reached yet in the rewatch.

As I think I said above, the amazing thing about Farscape is summed up by how one of my least favorite episodes (monster clones and eats people) is redeemed by setting off an incredible arc because they didn't push the reset button like any ordinary f/sf show would have done. Consequences!

[miriad]

I always appreciated Farscape for both the consequences and the different ways they took SF tropes and twisted them.

I LOVE the body swap episode. John would TOTALLY check out "his" boobs when in Aeryn's body. Rygel wouldn't know how to pee in John's. It felt very real in a way that other shows never really made it when they used the same trope.

And I loved the fact that when John gets tortured, he is never, EVER the same person again. He doesn't go back to being the same guy he was- he is forever altered by what he went through. That really meant something to me, as a writer and as a consumer of fiction and television. The man he was at the beginning of season 1 does not exist at the end of that season.

Fantastic story telling. Now I'm going to have to pull out the box set. :)

[rivkat]

The acting in the bodyswap episode was great. That must be fun for the actors. And yeah, all the characters grow and change so much, not always in good ways but always with consequence; it's incredible storytelling.