The Ballad of John Chricton
Feb. 15th, 2003 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlock"I don't care care about the things you care about. I care about one thing. ONE. Thing.
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God have mercy on my soul.
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I will give you wormholes. Wormholes, for Aeryn."
Is not Farscape the coolest thing this side of all science fiction?
(Considering thatSpike the Vampire Chronicles Buffy the Vampire Slayer is fantasy, not scifi.)
I swear, the writing for this show has only gotten better and better. Watching these episodes and knowing that its nearing the end; I can't help but feel that it's being cut off when it is at its strongest.
This episode was fantastic. The idea of framing the episode with clips of an Earth tv-show special post-visitation, and hearing/seeing the earthlings attempt to analyze the crew of Moya, to ascertain what parts of their attitude come from being aliens, and what parts come from the trauma that we the audience know is part of their lives. I especially liked the sequences on Chiana, D'Argo, and Sikozu.
The humans look at Chiana and are baffled-- but they don't know that Chiana is vastly different from her own race, that the things we'd think of as "human" are what ahve cause her to be cast out from her people.
I loved the D'Argo scenes, because they bring to focus what has always been my favorite aspect of his character-- for all he is loud and aggressive, when not in a situation of stress he is a stoic, reserved individual who prefers simplicity and strives for peace of mind. Also, seeing him in comparison with the boy--John's nephew-- D'Argo seems so mature, much wiser and more rational and patient than he was when the series began.
I like the image of Sikozu singing on the video tape. I thought it was pretty, and seeing her hold up the dish and the singing made her look both very beautiful and very alien. I also liked the shot of her with the books, and also her various comments to the boy about different topics of Earth and space.
I loved, of course, the scene between John and his sister about his relationship with Aeryn. Everything about this ship is so bittersweet; it was from the beginning andf it will be as the show ends. But as everyone knows, the last word in 'bittersweet' is not the bitter.
I love how Earth and Aeryn's pregnancy/kidnapping have clarified his motives and his direction in life. I love that he's gotten darker, come to be so altered by the time he's spent out in deep space that he's realizing what he's capabale of doing or becoming in order to save what he loves. Crichton's first desire when the series began was to find a way home, to Earth. Then, his desire became the mission to stop the Peacekeepers, to keep safe the prize that is wormhole technology and to not let it go to the Scarrans or PKs. Now, John has made it home. John has warned Earth. And now, what does John want? He wants Aeryn, and he'll fuck up the rest of the galaxy, instead of saving it, to get her back. He's got issues. I love it.
...
God have mercy on my soul.
...
I will give you wormholes. Wormholes, for Aeryn."
Is not Farscape the coolest thing this side of all science fiction?
(Considering that
I swear, the writing for this show has only gotten better and better. Watching these episodes and knowing that its nearing the end; I can't help but feel that it's being cut off when it is at its strongest.
This episode was fantastic. The idea of framing the episode with clips of an Earth tv-show special post-visitation, and hearing/seeing the earthlings attempt to analyze the crew of Moya, to ascertain what parts of their attitude come from being aliens, and what parts come from the trauma that we the audience know is part of their lives. I especially liked the sequences on Chiana, D'Argo, and Sikozu.
The humans look at Chiana and are baffled-- but they don't know that Chiana is vastly different from her own race, that the things we'd think of as "human" are what ahve cause her to be cast out from her people.
I loved the D'Argo scenes, because they bring to focus what has always been my favorite aspect of his character-- for all he is loud and aggressive, when not in a situation of stress he is a stoic, reserved individual who prefers simplicity and strives for peace of mind. Also, seeing him in comparison with the boy--John's nephew-- D'Argo seems so mature, much wiser and more rational and patient than he was when the series began.
I like the image of Sikozu singing on the video tape. I thought it was pretty, and seeing her hold up the dish and the singing made her look both very beautiful and very alien. I also liked the shot of her with the books, and also her various comments to the boy about different topics of Earth and space.
I loved, of course, the scene between John and his sister about his relationship with Aeryn. Everything about this ship is so bittersweet; it was from the beginning andf it will be as the show ends. But as everyone knows, the last word in 'bittersweet' is not the bitter.
I love how Earth and Aeryn's pregnancy/kidnapping have clarified his motives and his direction in life. I love that he's gotten darker, come to be so altered by the time he's spent out in deep space that he's realizing what he's capabale of doing or becoming in order to save what he loves. Crichton's first desire when the series began was to find a way home, to Earth. Then, his desire became the mission to stop the Peacekeepers, to keep safe the prize that is wormhole technology and to not let it go to the Scarrans or PKs. Now, John has made it home. John has warned Earth. And now, what does John want? He wants Aeryn, and he'll fuck up the rest of the galaxy, instead of saving it, to get her back. He's got issues. I love it.
