Ahhh...

[shadowkat]

First an apology - I've been hibernating. Between work, watching Farscape and other personal issues, no time for online.

Have you ever fallen in love with a work of art? Didn't expect it. Came as a complete and utter surprise. Was certain you'd hate it. And yet...it fits everything you were looking for in a tv show or artwork or book at this moment in time.
It satisfied the itch? So much, that part of you just wanted to escape into it...let it cover you with soothing waves?
(Not completely - working and training remember? But half way there.)

Farscape...I've fallen in love with this show, which feels like a telenovel for TV. Each time I tune in I expect to fall out of love and nope, just get more enraptured by it.

Here's a line from a recent episode:
-"This is a very ass-backward world. They don't have monarchies or political parties, they have ruling law firms."

Only one little problem with this - dang sci-fi network is only showing the episodes once in a marathon, between 8am-4pm. And since I work now (hallueh!! so not complaining about that just wish I could afford a Tivo or something, but it seems a tad unnecessary just for one show that will be gone in two weeks) I have to tape to see them. So as the result of taping problems, I've missed four episodes: PK Tek Girl, Exodus in Genesis, Throne for A Loss, and JEremiah Crichton. I've also, due to the fact that my tapes are only 8 hours and the VCR acts up, managed to lose the first five to ten minutes of episodes aired on Oct 4-8. In attempting to fix the problem, I lost the last five to ten minutes of Meltdown - which was last episode that aired on
Oct 11. Highly annoyed. It's like having bits and pieces of the chapters of a book you've fallen in love with, that is currently out of print, but has come back for one last hurrah,
chopped off before you can actually experience them. Ugh. Meanwhile, books you could care less about are crowding the shelves in its place. I may join netflix just so I can watch the episodes I missed. (That is as soon as I get a DVD player...LOL! Yes, I am amongst the minority of folks out there who still do not own a DVD player or a cell phone.)

Comments

[deadsoul820.livejournal.com]

I'm watching them too, via netflix, and, so far, my favorite is Won't Get Fooled Again. Inspired lunacy. Doubt I'll get them all seen before PK Wars, but that's what VCRs are for. It's not Buffy level love for me, but Farscape does grow on you.

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Won't Get Fooled Again: brilliant episode, insane, funny, hilarious, and yet also disturbing in spots. In particular, the scene with John's mother in the bar is just...devestating. I love how the show can blend lunacy and comedy and tragedy, and have it work perfectly.

For me, Farscape is equivalent to my Buffy love which is equivalent to my Six Feet Under love.

Sorry, s'kat, that I keep taking over your Farscape posts! But I've just finished rewatching the entire run of the show on DVD about an hour ago (took me about 2 months, at a slow pace), and I'm just so excited to be able to talk about it here!

And you are very, very lucky in that you're getting to see the conclusion to the story immediately after the "last" episode of the series. It's been almost 2 years or more, I believe, since the show was cancelled, and the wait for the show's resurrection has been interminable. In many ways, I'm even more excited about it than the Firefly movie, particularly because Firefly was a show that barely had a chance to start, with some lingering questions at is cancellation but no huge story arc in full gear yet, whereas Farscape was a novel-for-television whose creators had a very clear plan for the show's future...In fact, they were writing the fourth season expecting the fifth to be the last: the fourth is the grand, building setup for the fifth and probably last season, so you get the set-up and no payoff. It was like reading the only copy of a great book and having the last chapter ripped out and burned before you could get to the end. Without the miniseries, Farscape is an incomplete story, and why start a story that will never be concluded and ends on a hair-tearing-out-worthy cliffhanger? With it, it is a complete work. And from what I've heard, the miniseries is basically what the fifth season would have been in microcosm, without the padding that always has to happen to stretch a seasonal story arc out over 22 episodes. Firefly can be fully enjoyed in its current form, whereas with Farscape, I did not watch the show for 2 years until it was definite that the story would be completed. Because it was just too frustrating. Now, I am ecstatic about the miniseries, and intrigued by the word that it finishes the story while opening up new avenues at the end by which a spin-off or continuation could occur in the future, depending on the success of the miniseries. That's a really tough job to do, leaving some threads open but in such a way that, were the story not to be continued, this could function as an ending to the series. And from what I've been reading in advance reviews, it's going to be amazing.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Joining you in the Farscape love. I haven't watched it in ages, still have to see the final episode and am so excited about the miniseries (Thank you Rob). I want to buy the DVDs so I can watch it all at my leisure...
Nothing will ever take the place Buffy and Angel have in my heart, but Farscape comes close.

[deadsoul820.livejournal.com]

I'm finding that the more over the top Ben Browder is, the more I like him (I didn't much, at first, and still don't find him particularly attractive). I'm still only in mid S2 (although netflix sent some s3 last week out of order and I watched them, anyway), so I'm guessing that the craziness builds and builds throughout the rest of this season.

Remind me, because I'm lazy, when exactly is PK Wars airing?

Laughed like a crazy person when John complained that if he let himself be turned into a statue for 80 years, when he got back to earth, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be dead. Indeed, catching his pop culture references is a good part of the fun, much like it was with Buffy.

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

PK Wars is airing this Sunday night at 9 pm! Part 1 that is. Part 2 is Monday night, same time.

Ben Browder is one of my absolute favorite actors. Particularly as you progress to late S2 and beyond, he has some amazing scenes. In Won't Get Fooled Again, his reaction to his dying mother approaching him in the bar was one of the best acted scenes I think I've ever seen, the way he just barely gets out the words, "This is cruel..." Sometimes I think John Crichton gets tortured too much for any one human being to handle. But then of course the story wouldn't be nearly as interesting w/o it.

[deadsoul820.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Rob! I guess it's a good thing that I think I kinda hate Desparate Housewives.

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Rob! I guess it's a good thing that I think I kinda hate Desparate Housewives.

Heh, you're so lucky! I actually like it, so now I have to do the annoying tape-one-thing-watch-the-other juggling act. Things would be so much simpler if I thought I kinda hated it, too. ;-)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Nice to find someone else who kinda hates
that show. I ditched it last Sunday to watch my tape of Farscape. It's a little too cliche for my taste, I think.

We're about at the same point btw. Last episode I saw
was the Locket. Also adored Won't Get Fooled Again and laughed hysterically during the whole Look At The Princess storyline, especially at the comment about Buffy.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

They are replaying it again at 11pm-1am on Sun. Then showing both back-back sometime on Tuesday or later in the week. Sci-Fi repeats its mini-series several times so people can catch them. Unlike the broadcast networks which only show a mini-series once. So you can actually watch both, without a Tivo.

Me? I'll probably tape the 9-11pm on Sunday, 9-11pm on
Monday and the four hour back to back one just to make
sure I have it all on tape and in case there are any foul-ups. But I tend to be a tad anal about these things.