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Am watching more Farscape.
So much pretty in so little time.
The costume design is gorgeous. So much of it I waaaaant. Even though I know it wouldn't look half as good in different lighting.
The worlds all have their own design aesthetic, sets of patterns and colors. Gorgeous work.

Aeryn Sun is extraordinarily beautiful.
I like her hair best when it's bouncy ponytail. I have been considering this carefully.
You know that ad for the no drug driving campaign where they say they'll make your eyes look big? And their eyes are biiiiiig? I swear her eyes are like that naturally. But not all the time. She has serious face and Big Eyes face. It's cool.

The diversity in the crew is excellent. Half women, lots of different colors, and at least one character with a disability (Rygel needs a chair and has limited tool use), plus what you might call an assortment of mental health differences. And it all adds to the story. More variety, more possibilities. Why is this not obvious to more writers?

I finished watching

happy ending!

well, crying with happy...

but especially compared to how season 4 left off,

best ending ever!

I just finished watching Farscape season 4

have now seen all of it
previously I had missed maybe as much as 1/2 of it, mostly every other episode. don't know why.

I love the bit with the flowers and the bomb.

I was everso tempted to stop the last episode at 40:56
when everything was shiny


See this is the *other* reason it took me so long to watch Farscape
because 'Bad Timing' *really* was


Now I have Peacekeeper Wars to watch
but they won't all fit in before Doctor Who

Have finished watching season 3

Farscape just keeps getting bigger

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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...

Been watching more Farscape
the 'Liars, Guns and Money' three parter is brilliant ( Read more... )

Am up to "The Way we Weren't"
which gives Aeryn some more context and reasons
so it wasn't just John and his magic words
they were keywords to her already
yaays.


The one problem with their relationship is it reads a bit like where the noble white man goes in and civilizes the violent savage, or maybe a bit of liberal white guy teaches freed slaves not to hate. I like her kick ass self. I also like compassion and empathy and all that. The bit that bugs is when Crichton is set in the middle of how and why, like its all about him.


I'm kind of in a cranky mood generally at the moment. Don't know how much is opinion and how much is mood.

Been watching Farscape. Up to almost end of first season.
That Peacekeeper Tech girl's ( Read more... )

Finished watching Farscape episode "The Flax".
Fun because finally an alien female with no breasts.
I mean, breasts are these strange pretty much non functional lumps that humans have and nothing else bothers with, and yet, we head out into the galaxy? Breasts everywhere! Usually large. And symmetrical. When was the last time you saw an asymmetric alien? Okay, DNA mad scientist, but that was meant to look messed up.
And, okay, a lot of the time there's just a presumption that no breasts = male, which was made funny in this ep, but really, what's with all the lumpy bits? Or the lack of lumps in other places. When was the last time aliens had sexy udders? Not that I personally can imagine finding udders sexy, but that isn't the point.
There's all sorts seen in the insectoid aliens or whatever, but the humans in makeup tend to stick with 2 sexes with visible lumps. Silly.

Presumption of heterosexuality, also silly. I mean, the way they talk about the kissing, they pick opposite sex crewmates as the other people it could happen with. Is space! She couldn't assume it could happen with guys? Different culture! I mean any culture that has to control population, it would make sense to encourage activity that doesn't lead to procreation. And they live in big ships, but not all that big, so population control is an issue.

Also also, while having a male looking female character is fun, the reactions of the rest of the crew to her is actually not very fun at all. I mean the funny is in the oops, so there has to be an oops, but then they are mean. Surely it should be oops my bad? Not oops wandering off all ack face.

Also also also, the other characters of her species refer to her as him once, I think. If so, somebodys oops.