Mmm, good choices all! None are my absolute favorite (which is "Into the Lion's Den: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"), but all in my top five! TWWW, in particular, stands out as being one of the first times the show really shocked me by going there (and for a different definition of "going there" than, say, "Crackers Don't Matter," which also shocked me in its own, cracktastic way). If AHR was the transition to the show Farscape would become, TWWW signaled its arrival as a fully-formed vision, I think.
"Into the Lion's Den Part 2" made my short list, but I decided to make it easier on myself by eliminating two-parters.
If AHR was the transition to the show Farscape would become, TWWW signaled its arrival as a fully-formed vision, I think.
I always come back to Chiana asking them, "What have you guys been thinking all this time? What? She was out picking baskets of rolliss buds while all the other mean Peacekeepers did all the really nasty stuff?" They did, or at least wanted do; and so did the audience. And the show wouldn't let any of us maintain that comfortable delusion.
Excellent choices, all. TWWW is also one of the first times I was truly shocked by the show. And emotionally wrenched. It's a doozy - and the puppets make you cry!
It took a lot of narrowing down. For example! I might be one of the only people in the fandom that likes "Back and Back and Back to the Future." Sure, I want to FF through every moment that Matala is onscreen, like any sane fan, but I adore how well-structured and smart it is otherwise.
*raises hand gamely* I like BBBF, too, despite Matala. Crichton needs air, we see a glimpse of fatalism for the first time (breaking Zhaan's mask), that absolutely terrific shot of Aeryn on the gym mat.
I spent a ton of time at the bottom of a diving well when I was a kid. (It's a long story, which can mostly be summed up by: I was on the swim team and when you're 10 and on a swim team, you tend to test your lung capacity because it affects your racing time). Given that the place where they filmed those scenes has a door, it clearly isn't actually a pool; but they were definitely trying to imitate that same refraction of light off water.
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If AHR was the transition to the show Farscape would become, TWWW signaled its arrival as a fully-formed vision, I think.
I always come back to Chiana asking them, "What have you guys been thinking all this time? What? She was out picking baskets of rolliss buds while all the other mean Peacekeepers did all the really nasty stuff?" They did, or at least wanted do; and so did the audience. And the show wouldn't let any of us maintain that comfortable delusion.
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where John converses with the Ancients in what appears to be the bottom of the pool
HEEEEE. Well, yes, there is that.
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