Farscape season 3
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beccaelizabethHave finished watching season 3
Farscape just keeps getting bigger
Talyn's mental breakdown and suicide is really very creepy when you read him as either a child or a teenager.
Crais going out that way fit.
Unfortunately, it also fit Talyn.
Talyn is the Connor of Farscape / Connor is the Talyn of Angel.
Hybrid child trained to violence and ending in meltdown.
They were going to give Talyn a new personality, as Angel did with Connor.
But in the end they needed his violent death a lot more.
At least Crais wasn't sending him to do it alone. Courage of his convictions, sort of thing.
I still think there should be better options. Therapy has been known to work. TV just goes for the big kaboom.
So, my issues with depictions of mental health issues aside, anything else wrong with the season?
Not so much. All plausible and terribly tragic, in that 'the people they are can only do those things they do' inevitable way.
But I'm so annoyed at Aeryn and John in that last episode. 'Fate' indeed. There is no fate but what you make. Letting your whole life ride on a coin toss is the cowards way of not having to decide.
Says the girl who asks the Tarot whenever I have anything remotely difficult to decide.
So, I should know.
Coin toss, tarot, visions, whatever, its all ways to get insight into your own motivations and desires. Input. NOT a decision making process in itself. Letting it be so is to avoid making decisions at all.
I have much sympathy for John with his realising the dreams don't work. Old plan all broken, no new plan. That moment, usually slightly less dramatic but exactly that end/begin moment, happens very often in life. A lot of people go for 'retry/ignore' instead, and that doesn't tend to work out.
But it really annoys me when there are two people who know exactly what they want and then find dumb run away reasons to not go do it. Very annoying. Most people most of the time get stuck with not really knowing, or having much of a clue even. So when knowing? Doing! Even if scary!
Yes, this from the girl who doesn't leave the house alone.
I do manage to leave to get to conventions. Knowing => Doing.
Farscape is good. Lots of layers and stuff. Lots of themes and issues and all.
Only one season and the after that thing left to watch.
All except the first discs of season 4 are still wrapped. When it got cancelled I decided if I hadn't watched them all it wasn't actually over. So now I feel like I should slow down and ration whats left...
Farscape just keeps getting bigger
Talyn's mental breakdown and suicide is really very creepy when you read him as either a child or a teenager.
Crais going out that way fit.
Unfortunately, it also fit Talyn.
Talyn is the Connor of Farscape / Connor is the Talyn of Angel.
Hybrid child trained to violence and ending in meltdown.
They were going to give Talyn a new personality, as Angel did with Connor.
But in the end they needed his violent death a lot more.
At least Crais wasn't sending him to do it alone. Courage of his convictions, sort of thing.
I still think there should be better options. Therapy has been known to work. TV just goes for the big kaboom.
So, my issues with depictions of mental health issues aside, anything else wrong with the season?
Not so much. All plausible and terribly tragic, in that 'the people they are can only do those things they do' inevitable way.
But I'm so annoyed at Aeryn and John in that last episode. 'Fate' indeed. There is no fate but what you make. Letting your whole life ride on a coin toss is the cowards way of not having to decide.
Says the girl who asks the Tarot whenever I have anything remotely difficult to decide.
So, I should know.
Coin toss, tarot, visions, whatever, its all ways to get insight into your own motivations and desires. Input. NOT a decision making process in itself. Letting it be so is to avoid making decisions at all.
I have much sympathy for John with his realising the dreams don't work. Old plan all broken, no new plan. That moment, usually slightly less dramatic but exactly that end/begin moment, happens very often in life. A lot of people go for 'retry/ignore' instead, and that doesn't tend to work out.
But it really annoys me when there are two people who know exactly what they want and then find dumb run away reasons to not go do it. Very annoying. Most people most of the time get stuck with not really knowing, or having much of a clue even. So when knowing? Doing! Even if scary!
Yes, this from the girl who doesn't leave the house alone.
I do manage to leave to get to conventions. Knowing => Doing.
Farscape is good. Lots of layers and stuff. Lots of themes and issues and all.
Only one season and the after that thing left to watch.
All except the first discs of season 4 are still wrapped. When it got cancelled I decided if I hadn't watched them all it wasn't actually over. So now I feel like I should slow down and ration whats left...
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:10 pm (UTC)I watched the first disc of The Sentinel and liked it- no where as well as I love Farscape, but it's sufficiently pleasing. But there's only one disc and two stories left, and I put the second disk in my dvd player and then have found other stuff to do instead of watching it, since there's no other material to buy.
Julia, sharing your somewhat cowardice (and your impatience with John and Aeryn at the end of s3)