Okay, moar Farscapes. End of season 3, beginning of season 4.
•First off, I would like to say, wrist bands which link up two people's tactile senses, so that Person 1 feels everything Person 2 feels and vice versa? Somehow I *doubt* this technology was created with (...actual) prisoner exchange situations in mind.
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milkshake_b has summarized the show for me as "The adventures of an American trapped in the Australian BDSM scene." There are few greater truths in this world.
•For season 4, they've fixed the title voice over so it's not as nails on chalkboard annoying to me, but they did so by getting rid of *all* the wonkiness. Maybe this is meant to represent Crichton's slowly stabilizing mental state? Whatever, I still like the season 1/2 credits best of all.
•In the season 3 finale arc, Aeryn Sun and her former friend are the femslashiest thing ever. I am hoping the former friend was somehow rescued at the end and, um. Given space!plastic surgery to recover, and they meet up again and there's hate!sex. Actually, *is* there a thriving Farscape femslash fandom? There are enough ladies in the cast, though it's not quite a proper ensemble show, so it's hard to guess.
•Either no one in this galaxy has heard of off-site backups, or it's just that *Crichton* hasn't, and he is embarking on mad, risky plans to blow up these shipboard databases by WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY and set back his enemies until the morning of the next business day when they can get their IT people on the phone.
•I've been trying to force myself through Bride Wars again, so it was a nice change to have a dude distracted by fantasies about his dream wedding! Dress shopping with his beloved! Wedding cake! Guest seating arrangements! IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF HIS LIFE. HE'S BEEN DEAD UNTIL NOW.
•I was unduly impressed by a tiny wall climbing device that used its tail to push itself upwards. This was made years before all the "climbing robots need tails WTF" press reports! (...Okay, then it turned out to be a bug. But a *fake* bug.)
•I find myself thoughtful about Rygel's (meant to be) last words to the old, dying Pilot they team up with for a couple episodes: "Good-bye, my friend. You've served us well." Because, wow. Insulting much to someone who is about to sacrifice herself for you?
But then again... we've been told that serving their passengers is one of the driving motivations for a Leviathan ship and by extension its Pilot. And someone raised as royalty wouldn't have the same instinctual recoil at the concept of that as an identity rather than, y'know. A duty. If any of the other characters had been in Rygel's place, they'd have spoken about their gratitude and gotten very emotional, but maybe that would have been the more inappropriate good-bye.
•...Is there long involved meta somewhere about the BDSM themes in this show, beyond the gimp masks and the character who always wears a collar?
•Pro tip, if Our Hero is drunk and half stir-crazy, and then he gets annoyed that a reunited crewmate is acting standoffish towards him and decides to follow her down the hallway and overpower her and pin her forcibly against the bulkhead (in a scene reminiscent of the intended-rape one involving the same characters from "Crackers Don't Matter") and demand she tells him what the matter is, and she tells him that during the hiatus she was arrested and tortured and gangraped MAYBE THAT IS HIS CUE TO LET HER GO AND BACK OFF MAYBE.
Later in the same ep he pins a different female character, though with context I'd be more okay with if it wasn't for my lingering worry that maybe Our Hero isn't the sort of guy you can trust to walk you home after he's had a few beers. The episode does not make a point of calling him on this, although a good percentage of the next story is John having dub-con bondage sex, so. *handwaves* I disembarked from my train of thought at some point.
•And speaking of... the big military bad (so far) in season 4 is an Evil Domme with mind control boob sweat. I'm conflicted, because you have to grant res*pect* to a show which can throw in an Evil Domme with mind control boob sweat and not have it break the atmosphere. OTOH, I'm not sure I want a whole season of Our Hero vs EDWMCBS. We will see?
•PoC in Space tally: So long Crais, you will be missed. He lasted longer than I'd have guessed, and he got to choose his own death in the end. His last scene with Aeryn and John made me suddenly wish we got more info on his off screen story (so, season 2, probably). Did he have his own set of fleeting triumphs and failures and make friends doomed to die within 40 minutes? We got to see the general shape of his character line, but there are still blanks where he must have been having adventures unrelated to the people on Moya.
Crais decided he was going to change as a person, and he *did*... although not to who he wanted to be. The universe fought him every moment. No wonder he was so tired by the end. (Of course, who wasn't.)
•Then, in John's wedding fantasy, it's implied D'Argo gets a *proper* threesome, where one of the ladies is blond and one is Asian. Way to be buddies, John! ...Does it go without saying that neither lady gets lines?
•First off, I would like to say, wrist bands which link up two people's tactile senses, so that Person 1 feels everything Person 2 feels and vice versa? Somehow I *doubt* this technology was created with (...actual) prisoner exchange situations in mind.
milkshake_b has summarized the show for me as "The adventures of an American trapped in the Australian BDSM scene." There are few greater truths in this world.•For season 4, they've fixed the title voice over so it's not as nails on chalkboard annoying to me, but they did so by getting rid of *all* the wonkiness. Maybe this is meant to represent Crichton's slowly stabilizing mental state? Whatever, I still like the season 1/2 credits best of all.
•In the season 3 finale arc, Aeryn Sun and her former friend are the femslashiest thing ever. I am hoping the former friend was somehow rescued at the end and, um. Given space!plastic surgery to recover, and they meet up again and there's hate!sex. Actually, *is* there a thriving Farscape femslash fandom? There are enough ladies in the cast, though it's not quite a proper ensemble show, so it's hard to guess.
•Either no one in this galaxy has heard of off-site backups, or it's just that *Crichton* hasn't, and he is embarking on mad, risky plans to blow up these shipboard databases by WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY and set back his enemies until the morning of the next business day when they can get their IT people on the phone.
•I've been trying to force myself through Bride Wars again, so it was a nice change to have a dude distracted by fantasies about his dream wedding! Dress shopping with his beloved! Wedding cake! Guest seating arrangements! IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF HIS LIFE. HE'S BEEN DEAD UNTIL NOW.
•I was unduly impressed by a tiny wall climbing device that used its tail to push itself upwards. This was made years before all the "climbing robots need tails WTF" press reports! (...Okay, then it turned out to be a bug. But a *fake* bug.)
•I find myself thoughtful about Rygel's (meant to be) last words to the old, dying Pilot they team up with for a couple episodes: "Good-bye, my friend. You've served us well." Because, wow. Insulting much to someone who is about to sacrifice herself for you?
But then again... we've been told that serving their passengers is one of the driving motivations for a Leviathan ship and by extension its Pilot. And someone raised as royalty wouldn't have the same instinctual recoil at the concept of that as an identity rather than, y'know. A duty. If any of the other characters had been in Rygel's place, they'd have spoken about their gratitude and gotten very emotional, but maybe that would have been the more inappropriate good-bye.
•...Is there long involved meta somewhere about the BDSM themes in this show, beyond the gimp masks and the character who always wears a collar?
•Pro tip, if Our Hero is drunk and half stir-crazy, and then he gets annoyed that a reunited crewmate is acting standoffish towards him and decides to follow her down the hallway and overpower her and pin her forcibly against the bulkhead (in a scene reminiscent of the intended-rape one involving the same characters from "Crackers Don't Matter") and demand she tells him what the matter is, and she tells him that during the hiatus she was arrested and tortured and gangraped MAYBE THAT IS HIS CUE TO LET HER GO AND BACK OFF MAYBE.
Later in the same ep he pins a different female character, though with context I'd be more okay with if it wasn't for my lingering worry that maybe Our Hero isn't the sort of guy you can trust to walk you home after he's had a few beers. The episode does not make a point of calling him on this, although a good percentage of the next story is John having dub-con bondage sex, so. *handwaves* I disembarked from my train of thought at some point.
•And speaking of... the big military bad (so far) in season 4 is an Evil Domme with mind control boob sweat. I'm conflicted, because you have to grant res*pect* to a show which can throw in an Evil Domme with mind control boob sweat and not have it break the atmosphere. OTOH, I'm not sure I want a whole season of Our Hero vs EDWMCBS. We will see?
•PoC in Space tally: So long Crais, you will be missed. He lasted longer than I'd have guessed, and he got to choose his own death in the end. His last scene with Aeryn and John made me suddenly wish we got more info on his off screen story (so, season 2, probably). Did he have his own set of fleeting triumphs and failures and make friends doomed to die within 40 minutes? We got to see the general shape of his character line, but there are still blanks where he must have been having adventures unrelated to the people on Moya.
Crais decided he was going to change as a person, and he *did*... although not to who he wanted to be. The universe fought him every moment. No wonder he was so tired by the end. (Of course, who wasn't.)
•Then, in John's wedding fantasy, it's implied D'Argo gets a *proper* threesome, where one of the ladies is blond and one is Asian. Way to be buddies, John! ...Does it go without saying that neither lady gets lines?
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