(also, I watched all of s3 this week while home sick, and now I am trying to make myself watch s4, but--and I don't know if you thought this or not--s4 cannot hold a candle, in my opinion, to s3 and that makes it HARD to get through it, except for the eps on Earth.)
I WATCH PK WARS TOMORROW. i'm too wiped out to watch it tonight, i can't cry anymore.
i didn't think that about s4, really? i think that s3 is the BEST season, but the episodes i loved in s4 -- the ones on earth, "john quixote", "constellation of doubt" -- i loved more than any other episodes individually in the series. and i found the john-and-aeryn-and-baby thread incredibly compelling, so that kept me moving through S4. i never found S4 quite as compelling as two crichtons, john-and-aeryn, S3, but it was compelling enough that i watched on the edge of my seat most of the season.
Yeah, s4 had some great standalone episodes, this is true. Much like Buffy s4, though, I felt like overall it lacked a compelling cohesiveness. I think my complaints mostly had to do with Aeryn and how they handled her storyline, baby aside. And to be more coherent about that, I think I need to go back and watch s4 again. Hey, motivation! I am not trying to rain on your squee, though, sorry!
Peacekeeper Wars is...well, it will take you apart and put you back together again and make you LIKE it, which, as you kow, is par for the course with Farscape. Also, John and Aeryn are even more smoking hot than ever.
my squee for "constellation of doubt" alone is SO LARGE that it cannot be dampened by anything. but i can see what you mean -- i found the aeryn/crichton and the aeryn & xhalax storylines of S3 to be done more ... completely than her storyline in S4, aside from the ending, with john. more compelling, at least; she felt vaguely incomplete in S4.
not that it stopped me from loving it completely, just that i can see what you mean. but you should watch again, so you can talk to me about it!
i think that s3 is the BEST season, but the episodes i loved in s4 -- the ones on earth, "john quixote", "constellation of doubt" -- i loved more than any other episodes individually in the series.
Likewise - I think s4 is more uneven than s3, but it's actually got more of my top ten favourite eps than any other season.
i am not sure it is possible for me to love a single episode of television more than i love "constellation of doubt", and that includes the west wing episode "in the shadow of two gunmen", which i would absolutely MARRY if such a thing was legal in the united state. ♥
And I hope people have pointed out the cameos in that ep, right?
Apparently a lot of the snippets there (like the scene with Chiana in the bathroom) were shot in the very last days of filming, after they'd been told about the cancellation, and I think it shows - Gigi Edgeley's talked about looking at that scene as possibly her last chance to say everything she wanted to say about Chiana.
Ah - among the various talking heads in the documentary, "Dr. Edmund Johnston" is played by Brian Henson, and the CIA informant seen only in shadow is David Kemper (writer, showrunner and Evil Genius).
So I can squee at you about that!
(also, I watched all of s3 this week while home sick, and now I am trying to make myself watch s4, but--and I don't know if you thought this or not--s4 cannot hold a candle, in my opinion, to s3 and that makes it HARD to get through it, except for the eps on Earth.)
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i didn't think that about s4, really? i think that s3 is the BEST season, but the episodes i loved in s4 -- the ones on earth, "john quixote", "constellation of doubt" -- i loved more than any other episodes individually in the series. and i found the john-and-aeryn-and-baby thread incredibly compelling, so that kept me moving through S4. i never found S4 quite as compelling as two crichtons, john-and-aeryn, S3, but it was compelling enough that i watched on the edge of my seat most of the season.
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Peacekeeper Wars is...well, it will take you apart and put you back together again and make you LIKE it, which, as you kow, is par for the course with Farscape. Also, John and Aeryn are even more smoking hot than ever.
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not that it stopped me from loving it completely, just that i can see what you mean. but you should watch again, so you can talk to me about it!
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But I will also say that PK totally made up for a lot of my discontent by virtue of its sheer awesomeness.
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Likewise - I think s4 is more uneven than s3, but it's actually got more of my top ten favourite eps than any other season.
Man. My one true show, still and always.
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Apparently a lot of the snippets there (like the scene with Chiana in the bathroom) were shot in the very last days of filming, after they'd been told about the cancellation, and I think it shows - Gigi Edgeley's talked about looking at that scene as possibly her last chance to say everything she wanted to say about Chiana.
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