My Farscape Post
I was going to jot down a few thoughts on sebaceanbabe's birthday post, but it got...longer than I was anticipating. It's a bit rambly and all over the place, I apologize for that, since I have to flee to pick up my pops at the airport in a few, so he can come visit with my boys, who have a full schedule of baseball and soccer, which they wanted to show off.
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Rygel can make me laugh, despite myself, though I'm not a huge fan. I do like that Crichton reacted the way he did in "Human Reaction," even though he's not much of a fan, either. Though, I also liked his dressing-down in the finale, because...so well deserved.
Do you see now why Farscape is hard to recommend? It's, like, brilliant at doing things I LOVED, but it's got muppets and body paint and fart jokes and really, really, really bad science, and occasional bad boring episodes on planets of blue people or planets of tribal people dressed in purple nylon vests. But when it's awesome it's really awesome.
Yes, totally, I'm trying to get folks to come along with me for the ride, but it's a hard sell.
Some people don't like that he does get so loud and inappropriate when backed into a corner. (And especially in season two.) I kind of like it as character development, in that he starts to lose any inhibitions after all that happens to him. He'll say what he pleases and react how the hell he wants to, and he'll find the humor in everything, because otherwise he'd just go, well, crazier.
Okay, I completely and totally would marry this. As I said, I LOVE the "fall back to humor" reaction, and even the inappropriate laughter (LOVE) and comments (well deserved, I think). I cannot STAND folks without some semblance of humor, especially in the face of so much despair. I think humor is one of THE THINGS that makes us all human and it saddens me when folks seem to have no semblance of it. Not to get too much TMI, but it's totally what got me through my mom's death, what with hanging with my sibs and dad in the horrible aftermath, and realizing that you CAN still laugh, as incredible as it seemed at the time.
Anyway, on that depressing note:
Aeryn is LOVE. I adore her. She's absolutely everything I'd ever want to be, if I was a kickass hero-type. She was so painfully alone and actually had to make the decision that none of them had had yet (I guess the blue chick had it later with the commune episode) of whether to "go back home," but realized that it was no longer her home and she was just as alone and stranded as the rest of the sorry lot. Only to find her home with them...she's heartbreaking, but without giving up being all badass. I'm really, really digging her. A. Lot.
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She was so painfully alone and actually had to make the decision that none of them had had yet (I guess the blue chick had it later with the commune episode) of whether to "go back home," but realized that it was no longer her home and she was just as alone and stranded as the rest of the sorry lot.
Yeah, she's awesome. She's full of the least amount of crap of anyone on the show, and yet she's so emotionally stunted. I can't decide if I like her arc or Crichton's better, but hers is much more subtle.
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Yes, I'm bored.
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My answer should totally be a resounding yes, since I plugged my i-pod in last night before going to bed, then actually went to the gym today (go me!), but, sadly, apparently, I had checked the box to only upload television shows that I had marked and I hadn't marked the Farscape ones. Boo!
So, I ended up rewatching an old episode of Freaks and Geeks and sad, so sad...
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