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elliejaneUp to last weekend there were still three Farscape episodes I hadn't seen all the way through. Daedelus Demands, Icarus Abides and Different Destinations. Now there are only two.
I am fairly rabid when it comes to Farscape. Got all the dvd's and then some. WENT TO BURBANK! I say this to demonstrate that I am not some fly by nighter fan who didn't watch some eps because I just missed em! Oh no...this was deliberate.
The ep I saw on Sunday was Infinite Possibilities: Daedelus Demands. The SKY despription (without the title) made little sense. Charrids, I thought? Pah, it was the Scarrens! Until I switched it on, already started, to find I had never seen this action before.
John and Aeryn on a planet shooting their way in? Well, yeah check, because haven't I seen that before...? But, woah!! Furlow?? Now I know something's up! And like someone hypnotised I continued watching.
I will let you into a sekrit.
I am an overly sensitive baby who needs her hands held, and HECK how did I every manage to watch Farsape all the way through anyways?? I still haven't seen Icarus Abides and Diferent Destinations all the way through simply because I find them TOO DARN PAINFUL!
I've seen parts of them, like someone who worries at a painful tooth just to be sure it still hurts. Heck, I think I may have downloaded Talyn John's death scene even before I didn't watch the episode. I've seen enough bits and pieces so that you'd think why not just watch the whole things and be done?
But no. Had the opportunity to watch Icarus Abides as well after seeing IP:DD and just couldn't do it. I don't want to sit though it all, to know that however much they fight, and fight and win, and however much John and Aeryn love each other - John still dies and it all goes to pot emotionally for over a season.
And Diff Des? I can't watch it because John wants ultimately to do right, he wants to be that beacon of hope, he wants to be able to fix things. And here, he tries and he doesn't, he can't. Not having seen the ep (but not minding actual spoilers, obviously!!) I don't know whether everything goes wrong because of some action of John's or whether screwing with time just naturally screws up the fate of the nurses. I think I knew I'd never watch it all when I read part of a transcript where the nurse is calling out for "Crichton, Crichton" but he is nowhere to be found. I love Crichton. And Aeryn. I love the whole crew, though maybe in a less visceral way. I don't want to see Crichton frell things up. It hurts him too much.
It was brought home to me that I can see the appeal of shows where you don't deeply emotionally connect with your characters and where bad things don't happen. Or at least bad things that leave your characters traumatised for weeks and weeks never to be the same again, don't happen.
There are some shows where you can sit down to them as if they were a slice of apple pie - tasty, filling, sweet but a little spicy, a light hand on the pastry. And you know it won't be too tart and you won't break your tooth on anything. There is something to be said for a show that is like a dessert and where you won't angst too much, you won't cry, you'll be entertained and then you'll go and do the ironing. Or whatever.
Of course, I don't LOVE THOSE SHOWS WITH A PASSION.
But maybe it's a trade off? The shows which catch you by the throat and demand you connect with them, give you characters who enthrall and whom you want to take home and protect, and just darn love? Maybe by the very act of connecting with them, these shows are no longer dessert; they are no longer something easy to eat and watch. They are a different and inventive menu, and you know you can't just watch and then do the ironing because you'll be sat staring with disbelief at the screen, or sobbing into a cushion. This is not always something you want to put your feet up with at the end of the day.
It's something which has always made me wonder vaguely...did Farscape not gain huge amounts of viewers simply because some folks just don't want to be put through the emotional wringer when they switch on the tv? And maybe the reason that Farscape got the very tenacious viewers it did was because once you do commit to letting yourself go through the wringer for someone you don't give up on them that easily.
/rambling
I am fairly rabid when it comes to Farscape. Got all the dvd's and then some. WENT TO BURBANK! I say this to demonstrate that I am not some fly by nighter fan who didn't watch some eps because I just missed em! Oh no...this was deliberate.
The ep I saw on Sunday was Infinite Possibilities: Daedelus Demands. The SKY despription (without the title) made little sense. Charrids, I thought? Pah, it was the Scarrens! Until I switched it on, already started, to find I had never seen this action before.
John and Aeryn on a planet shooting their way in? Well, yeah check, because haven't I seen that before...? But, woah!! Furlow?? Now I know something's up! And like someone hypnotised I continued watching.
I will let you into a sekrit.
I am an overly sensitive baby who needs her hands held, and HECK how did I every manage to watch Farsape all the way through anyways?? I still haven't seen Icarus Abides and Diferent Destinations all the way through simply because I find them TOO DARN PAINFUL!
I've seen parts of them, like someone who worries at a painful tooth just to be sure it still hurts. Heck, I think I may have downloaded Talyn John's death scene even before I didn't watch the episode. I've seen enough bits and pieces so that you'd think why not just watch the whole things and be done?
But no. Had the opportunity to watch Icarus Abides as well after seeing IP:DD and just couldn't do it. I don't want to sit though it all, to know that however much they fight, and fight and win, and however much John and Aeryn love each other - John still dies and it all goes to pot emotionally for over a season.
And Diff Des? I can't watch it because John wants ultimately to do right, he wants to be that beacon of hope, he wants to be able to fix things. And here, he tries and he doesn't, he can't. Not having seen the ep (but not minding actual spoilers, obviously!!) I don't know whether everything goes wrong because of some action of John's or whether screwing with time just naturally screws up the fate of the nurses. I think I knew I'd never watch it all when I read part of a transcript where the nurse is calling out for "Crichton, Crichton" but he is nowhere to be found. I love Crichton. And Aeryn. I love the whole crew, though maybe in a less visceral way. I don't want to see Crichton frell things up. It hurts him too much.
It was brought home to me that I can see the appeal of shows where you don't deeply emotionally connect with your characters and where bad things don't happen. Or at least bad things that leave your characters traumatised for weeks and weeks never to be the same again, don't happen.
There are some shows where you can sit down to them as if they were a slice of apple pie - tasty, filling, sweet but a little spicy, a light hand on the pastry. And you know it won't be too tart and you won't break your tooth on anything. There is something to be said for a show that is like a dessert and where you won't angst too much, you won't cry, you'll be entertained and then you'll go and do the ironing. Or whatever.
Of course, I don't LOVE THOSE SHOWS WITH A PASSION.
But maybe it's a trade off? The shows which catch you by the throat and demand you connect with them, give you characters who enthrall and whom you want to take home and protect, and just darn love? Maybe by the very act of connecting with them, these shows are no longer dessert; they are no longer something easy to eat and watch. They are a different and inventive menu, and you know you can't just watch and then do the ironing because you'll be sat staring with disbelief at the screen, or sobbing into a cushion. This is not always something you want to put your feet up with at the end of the day.
It's something which has always made me wonder vaguely...did Farscape not gain huge amounts of viewers simply because some folks just don't want to be put through the emotional wringer when they switch on the tv? And maybe the reason that Farscape got the very tenacious viewers it did was because once you do commit to letting yourself go through the wringer for someone you don't give up on them that easily.
/rambling
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:30 pm (UTC)imho... exactly. that.
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Date: 2005-04-02 12:50 am (UTC)Of course, one could always say "Gee, she's such a wuss," but I don't chose to ;)
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Date: 2005-04-02 12:58 am (UTC)I'm a glutton for punishment because I still watch those eps and Icarus Abides still makes me cry.
I ♥ John Crichton too. and Aeryn and the whole crew and in fact it's still Farscape Friday every Friday for me.
My friend Deb is coming over to my house tonight and we'll watch 2 or 3 episodes. Next week we'll watch at her house. We've been doing this every Friday give or take a couple missed weeks every Friday since the cancellation was announced.
I don't see us stopping any time soon
because once you do commit to letting yourself go through the wringer for someone you don't give up on them that easily.
exactly.
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Date: 2005-04-02 08:44 am (UTC)Love, me
seva
( in a weird place tonight)
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Date: 2005-04-03 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-04 08:54 pm (UTC)*huggles*