expectation may make it difficult to appreciate the thing for what it is, and you may be disappointed,
I guess I was lucky in this regard (or perhaps this is an alarming sign of emotional detachment on my part) because I didn't feel the true weight of excited anticipation until the opening credits started to roll. Then I got all tingly and started feel, "Oh. Wow. Farscape. What a brilliant idea!" Everything felt very fast to me, too, but I was too busy going, "John! Aeryn! Black leather! Their pretty little arms sticking out to point their pistols! Aeryn’s hair!" I guess what I'm saying is that I wasn't disappointed because I'm a creep.
The exchange between Scorpius and John just before John sets the wormhole weapon in motion may have been, for me, even more emotionally charged than D'argo's death ("Happy Birthday. Now get out of my sight."),
It was for me, too. I think it was because D'argo's death scene was, inevitably, A Scene Where a Good Character Dramatically Dies, which is something we've all seen before. I'm not saying it didn't have impact--I love D'argo too and I thought the thing was decently put together. But the exchange between Scorpius and John is based on a more atypical, powerfully emotional relationship. It's one of those things that puts me off balance enough to somewhat waken the blank, childlike mind . . .
And I'm not sure how tense that climax was for others, but I was fairly convinced that, given all he'd been through and all he and those he loved would have had to endure if the Scarran/Peacekeeper conflict continued, John would have certainly let the wormhole weapon devour the galaxy.
I felt this was where the miniseries naturally needed to go, all along. I knew this from the way all the hero characters kept thinking the Eidolons were gonna be the best answer. No way was it gonna go, "John sees pretty Eidolon/John shows pretty Eidolon to Mama Scarran and Daddy Peacekeeper/Mama and Papa stop fighting." And with the idea set up towards the end of the 4th season that terrible, deadly violence was the only path to victory for the desperate, I had not only a pretty good idea they'd get to the climax they got to, I also hoped they would. Which is a really nice trick.
Now that I think about it, I suppose one of the things that make Crichton and Aeryn so fascinating as heroes is that in they're desperate and deadly state, they aren't as incredibly stupid as real life people in the same situation tend to be. They actually are heroes. Not because they're never tempted to lose nobility, but because they have it to lose. And the fact that they don't lose it is also nice.
This isn't at all consistent with the character. What about Nerri and the Nebari Resistance?
Agreed. Maybe on the way she'll come to her senses, say, "What the frell am I doing?" and turn around. Even if she wasn't doing the Resistance thing, why leave John, Aeryn, and Moya?
What the frell was the deal with Grayza's pregnancy?
One of my less useful talents is the ability to tell, almost always, whether someone on television is actually pregnant or just pretending to be. I could tell right away that she really was, so for me the whole time I was thinking the writers and director were priding themselves on vaguely emphasising--like it was their idea--the pregnancy they got stuck with.
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I guess I was lucky in this regard (or perhaps this is an alarming sign of emotional detachment on my part) because I didn't feel the true weight of excited anticipation until the opening credits started to roll. Then I got all tingly and started feel, "Oh. Wow. Farscape. What a brilliant idea!" Everything felt very fast to me, too, but I was too busy going, "John! Aeryn! Black leather! Their pretty little arms sticking out to point their pistols! Aeryn’s hair!" I guess what I'm saying is that I wasn't disappointed because I'm a creep.
The exchange between Scorpius and John just before John sets the wormhole weapon in motion may have been, for me, even more emotionally charged than D'argo's death ("Happy Birthday. Now get out of my sight."),
It was for me, too. I think it was because D'argo's death scene was, inevitably, A Scene Where a Good Character Dramatically Dies, which is something we've all seen before. I'm not saying it didn't have impact--I love D'argo too and I thought the thing was decently put together. But the exchange between Scorpius and John is based on a more atypical, powerfully emotional relationship. It's one of those things that puts me off balance enough to somewhat waken the blank, childlike mind . . .
And I'm not sure how tense that climax was for others, but I was fairly convinced that, given all he'd been through and all he and those he loved would have had to endure if the Scarran/Peacekeeper conflict continued, John would have certainly let the wormhole weapon devour the galaxy.
I felt this was where the miniseries naturally needed to go, all along. I knew this from the way all the hero characters kept thinking the Eidolons were gonna be the best answer. No way was it gonna go, "John sees pretty Eidolon/John shows pretty Eidolon to Mama Scarran and Daddy Peacekeeper/Mama and Papa stop fighting." And with the idea set up towards the end of the 4th season that terrible, deadly violence was the only path to victory for the desperate, I had not only a pretty good idea they'd get to the climax they got to, I also hoped they would. Which is a really nice trick.
Now that I think about it, I suppose one of the things that make Crichton and Aeryn so fascinating as heroes is that in they're desperate and deadly state, they aren't as incredibly stupid as real life people in the same situation tend to be. They actually are heroes. Not because they're never tempted to lose nobility, but because they have it to lose. And the fact that they don't lose it is also nice.
This isn't at all consistent with the character. What about Nerri and the Nebari Resistance?
Agreed. Maybe on the way she'll come to her senses, say, "What the frell am I doing?" and turn around. Even if she wasn't doing the Resistance thing, why leave John, Aeryn, and Moya?
What the frell was the deal with Grayza's pregnancy?
One of my less useful talents is the ability to tell, almost always, whether someone on television is actually pregnant or just pretending to be. I could tell right away that she really was, so for me the whole time I was thinking the writers and director were priding themselves on vaguely emphasising--like it was their idea--the pregnancy they got stuck with.