On Farscape (or how to think through the pain)

The Henson Company will be selling episodes of Farscape on iTunes.

This is extremely awesome news for a variety of reasons. First of all, I no longer have to encourage people to figure out other means to hunt down S1 dvds as frikkin' ADV no longer has the rights to the first season and Sony--which does have the rights--has not yet produced any S1 dvds.

It means my show, my beautiful flawed, perfect, brutal, crazy, unique, cliched, overly-ambitious, disgusting, violent, psychologically scarring, emotionally devastating, awe-inspiring and soul crushing One True Show will be available for all to worship. and despair Oh, John Crichton. No matter how much Dean Winchester owns my brain you will always have my heart.

Y'see the problem with constantly pimping a show that no one can purchase is that I always get afraid that people will just skip to the second season (or worse, try to start off watching in S3 or S4--that's a recipe for a disaster because Farscape gets intense and continuity-laden in the second half of the show's run. Even the standalones count.

I have no idea what a person's impressions would be if you started off with The Peacekeeper Wars (the miniseries). Besides the fact that John Crichton and Aeryn Sun are really handsy with each other and that John must have a drug problem with the way he’s constantly hallucinating (his drug problem is in S4). And that Chiana seems to be high for the first half of the miniseries.

(And hopefully the newbie viewer recognized that Scorpius is the coolest evil motherfucker in the universe.)

The first season has this wobbly "is this a kid's show or a show for adults?" style that makes the earlier episodes a bit wonky (at best) and the extreme soundtrack that makes episodes like Throne for a Loss (the one with the John: "Tav-loidss" Aeryn [*punches John out*] :"That's Tav-leks" AND a shot of naked Zhaan in all her blue behind glory) a little less awesome than they could be.

But they figured out how to make the show more adult-oriented even with two of the main characters being animatroic. I don’t think I’ve ever known a person not to sympathize with Pilot, the 8 foot tall animatronic, which is to the credit of the puppeteers and to Lani Tapu for doing some amazing voicework. I especially think when David Kemper sort of took over the creative helm, that this show could be, much like Aeryn, more. When do you pinpoint the moment that Farscape really became a space opera?

(Also: Scorpius = Sweeney Todd - an inability to follow through with his plans? I'll let people fight it out amongst themselves who would be his Mrs. Lovett. I lean towards Sikozu. Her final scene in PK Wars strikes a chord in the Lovett-sensibility, although her love was more for her species than anything else. Hmm. Braca would be…Toby? The one taken from his competitor although of course Scorpius and Braca’s relationship was um a lot more kinky. Heh.)

(Which makes Crais Pirelli! The bloviating braggart who thinks he’s hot shit but he’s just a pretender to the throne. I'm stopping myself now.)

(John would be Joanna. Which would make the Scarran Emperor the JUDGE. Oh god. Aeryn would be…Anthony? At least, an Anthony that wasn't a pussy. Anthony's idealism would be so very John but Joanna's slightly batshit crazy would be all John as well. Er.)

I'm starting to make too much sense. Let me get back to talking about the moment where Farscape finally grew up and took a turn that I am so very grateful for as it made the show become my show.

The change from “what a fun show!” to “OMG SHOW own my soul why don’t you? happened late S1.

It's not quite Durka Returns, which is the episode that introduces the lovely and frustrating Chiana.

If I have to pick the moment where I thought "a-ha! This is what I've been waiting for" it would be A Human Reaction.

( Further Thoughts and Meta on Farscape )

the goggles do nothing

If I go into a Farscape marathon mode I may purposely miss Thursday's brand new episode of Supernatural so to save me from myself I need recs.

Or at least, I need self-pimping. If there's a story of yours that I have not commented on, please tell me to read it. I am in a crazy mood for J2 but you know, SPN fic always make me happy. (Especially if it is Dean het. What? Sometimes I am EASY to please). SPN fic where Dean tops will make my current health aches disappear.

Well, it might not do exactly that but it'll bring me JOY.

ALSO! Because nobody's taking my AU request and running with it, I am again posting this:

In "how to make me feel better" news, this may just be the pills talking, but if SOMEONE (or everyone) wrote a J2 AU where Jared and Jensen were elite figure skaters who were constantly pitted against each other and didn't really like each other even though they didn't know each other all that well and Jared was a crazy flamboyant one who EVERYONE loved and wore weirdass costumes and dressed off the ice with huge glasses and ridiculous fur-trimmed coats and was super-talented but let his emotions get to him and everyone believed that he's going to be one of the greats AND Jensen was the serious, naturally gifted, intese skater who people didn't know well off the ice and everyone just assumes he's kind of jerkish and he gives blah interviews and seems douchey when being civil even though he really means it AND then they come to an understanding (that they are very hot and kind of really like each other) and then have very flexible sex...

I may have harbored some crazy fantasies watching Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir skate tonight. Er.


My birthday's on February 16th. THIS WOULD BE AN AWESOME PRESENT.

Kindly offer up your stories so that I may read and read and READ. Don't make me start writing meta on Dean Winchester being the new John Crichton. I could do that for HOURS and no one would want to read it because it would be extremely emotional and have "Oh John!" and "Oh Dean!" throughout the meta.