I was thinking about Farscape again...
Feb. 17th, 2003 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlock...and wondering if I should watch last friday's ep one more time. Because itt really was very good. like a glorious sign luring you in with the words "Come! Watch the fall of John Crichton, earthling!" John's shattering moment when he amost shoots Sikozu (and how great was her line "It is not my providence if she lives or dies!") somewhat reminded me of Spike's breakdown in Beneath You. Though there are significant differences, one of which being that John Crichton is not crazy. He's becoming many dark things, but he's not crazy anymore. I've decided I want Ben Browder to have an Emmy too. Because seriously? aCoD kicked massive ass. BB has kicked massive ass this whole season. He needs to win best actor, and then James Marsters needs to win best supporting actor, and I'd never bithc about an Emmy award ever again. This is what it would take to make me happy.
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shrift's journal directed me to someone's wonderful commentary on the last Farscape episode, A Constellation of Doubt. It puts to words everything I felt about the episode but couldn't articulate.
I particularly liked these comments:
-The performances, the alternation of humor and intimate moments smoothed things out though, and I was able to overlook that rather clumsy mechanism in favor of subtler scenes: Chiana reaching for John through the bars of his cell, D'Argo trying to alleviate his friend's suffering with a football game, his final stand of support at the end, that wonderful moment between Chiana and Rygel as they watch themselves be rejected by Earth, a place they came to love as John's home.
-At the end of CoD, John shatters. He does, trust me, he shatters. It's almost too painful to watch, too intense, too intimate, too frightening, like a psychotic break, like a car accident in progress: you want to turn away from the gore and the blood on the sidewalk, but there is nothing for it--you watch. It's John and it's not John anymore. He's so human he's alien now. In that moment, I couldn't see him for all the layers of his self-loathing.
"God have mercy on my soul."
-To save Aeryn, he is turning himself into something that, I believe, Aeryn would despise.
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Aeryn made Talyn-John a better person. But Moya-John...?
-"Millions upon millions of lives hang in the balance." How many will die for John's love of Aeryn?
John says 'Aeryn' in the same voice Scorpius says 'wormholes'.
-He's not going to help Crichton get Aeryn because John offered him a deal: he's going to help rescue Aeryn to keep Crichton alive, because he knows that John does stupid things when his friends are threatened. Without that piece (Aeryn), the edifice (John) folds, and Scorpius needs time to see his own agenda through.
shrift's journal directed me to someone's wonderful commentary on the last Farscape episode, A Constellation of Doubt. It puts to words everything I felt about the episode but couldn't articulate.I particularly liked these comments:
-The performances, the alternation of humor and intimate moments smoothed things out though, and I was able to overlook that rather clumsy mechanism in favor of subtler scenes: Chiana reaching for John through the bars of his cell, D'Argo trying to alleviate his friend's suffering with a football game, his final stand of support at the end, that wonderful moment between Chiana and Rygel as they watch themselves be rejected by Earth, a place they came to love as John's home.
-At the end of CoD, John shatters. He does, trust me, he shatters. It's almost too painful to watch, too intense, too intimate, too frightening, like a psychotic break, like a car accident in progress: you want to turn away from the gore and the blood on the sidewalk, but there is nothing for it--you watch. It's John and it's not John anymore. He's so human he's alien now. In that moment, I couldn't see him for all the layers of his self-loathing.
"God have mercy on my soul."
-To save Aeryn, he is turning himself into something that, I believe, Aeryn would despise.
...
Aeryn made Talyn-John a better person. But Moya-John...?
-"Millions upon millions of lives hang in the balance." How many will die for John's love of Aeryn?
John says 'Aeryn' in the same voice Scorpius says 'wormholes'.
-He's not going to help Crichton get Aeryn because John offered him a deal: he's going to help rescue Aeryn to keep Crichton alive, because he knows that John does stupid things when his friends are threatened. Without that piece (Aeryn), the edifice (John) folds, and Scorpius needs time to see his own agenda through.
