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Jul. 17th, 2010 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatGot a bit accomplished today, including a hair cut. This is major deal - since I tend to get a hair cut once a year. The last time was in September 2009. It's really short, shaggy bob. Hard to describe, but looks good on me and I like it. Been procrastinating for about forever. I hate getting haircuts - because I rarely like them and it involves me sitting and staring at myself in a huge unflattering mirror for an hour. Gotten in the habit of just closing my eyes and letting them cut. This one turned out well - I think. Plus the cost has skyrocketed. I remember when a haircut was 10-20 dollars, 40 tops. Now? $70 plus tip. No wonder I put it off.
The problem with most, actually all tv shows, that have a romantic interest develop amongst lead characters - is the unwritten rule that it is boring to put the leads together and kills the sexual tension, so we must keep them apart or show them almost having sex. This results in all sorts of annoying ways of keeping the two leads apart. (Several of which I already mentioned in a prior post and won't bore you with repeating). While the Aeryn Sun/Crichton romance actually keeps the characters apart in a way that is innovative and organic to their characters during the majority of the first four seasons - ie, they come from literally two different worlds, and don't completely understand each other (star-crossed to the max), during the 4th season - they reach a point in which it does NOT make sense, feels incredibly contrived and you want to kick the writers in the butt for doing it.
When S4 starts - John Crichton is obsessing over Aeryn. Every character from Noranti to D'ARgo, heck even Rygel - tells Crichton that he has to let Aeryn go. She's left him (this Crichton, who never went to Talyn) twice. When she comes back - she brings Scorpius who has saved her from the Living Death at least temporarily. But she also comes back with a secret - she doesn't know if the child is John's or someone she recreated with in an early cycle, prior to meeting John. Plus he learns that while she was away she was busy playing vigilante/assassin on some planet and never made it far enough to determine if the child was his or to take it to the stage in which she would give birth to it. Sebastian's can carry an embryo in gestation for up to 7 cycles - it takes surgeon to activate it. So, he tells her that while he can trust her with his life, he can't trust her with his heart - because she doesn't trust him. So she works to win back that trust, by staying, by waiting, by learning English, by supporting him and trusting him. Basically by loving him without requesting anything back. John meanwhile is drugging himself to forget her. She eventually finds out and confronts him on it in the less than stellar episode Twice Shy (What is it with sci-fi shows and spider creatures? Arachnaphobes everywhere wish to know? I really wish they'd find another monster to play with. The monster of that episode is well an arachnoid.) Anyhow, when she confronts him and tells him that she's done everything he asked, and he's cheating - and he has to start playing fair and stop taking these drugs to shut his emotions off, he says he's doing it to fool Scorpius.
Because if Scorpius, who is residing on Moya at the moment via Aeryn, would use Crichton's love for Aeryn and the baby to control him. Oookay. I'd buy that, except a)why does Crichton think Scorpius bothered to save Aeryn in the first place? Out of the kindness of his heart? b) Scorpius isn't stupid...he has eyes and Crichton/Aeryn steam up the screen. Everyone else sees it, why couldn't Scorpius? In short John, it's not working. You're just hurting yourself.
c) Scorpius doesn't have to do anything - when he has Graza and the Scarrens out there to do it for him.
I just don't quite buy the whole I'm still taking poppers to forget all about you so I can fool Scorpie line. Prefered the - I'm taking them to try and move on because we can't be together and I can't quite trust you because you brought Scorpie on board, and now I'm addicted to them and can't stop. That makes more sense. But I guess I can see why they chose not to go that route. Not that the poppers were working that well anyhow. Actually, not sure the whole popper bit totally works.
Other than that - the love story works for me.
Sigh. Running out of Sat. There seems to be a cardinal rule in life - Saturdays are the shortest days of the week and Monday's are the longest.
The problem with most, actually all tv shows, that have a romantic interest develop amongst lead characters - is the unwritten rule that it is boring to put the leads together and kills the sexual tension, so we must keep them apart or show them almost having sex. This results in all sorts of annoying ways of keeping the two leads apart. (Several of which I already mentioned in a prior post and won't bore you with repeating). While the Aeryn Sun/Crichton romance actually keeps the characters apart in a way that is innovative and organic to their characters during the majority of the first four seasons - ie, they come from literally two different worlds, and don't completely understand each other (star-crossed to the max), during the 4th season - they reach a point in which it does NOT make sense, feels incredibly contrived and you want to kick the writers in the butt for doing it.
When S4 starts - John Crichton is obsessing over Aeryn. Every character from Noranti to D'ARgo, heck even Rygel - tells Crichton that he has to let Aeryn go. She's left him (this Crichton, who never went to Talyn) twice. When she comes back - she brings Scorpius who has saved her from the Living Death at least temporarily. But she also comes back with a secret - she doesn't know if the child is John's or someone she recreated with in an early cycle, prior to meeting John. Plus he learns that while she was away she was busy playing vigilante/assassin on some planet and never made it far enough to determine if the child was his or to take it to the stage in which she would give birth to it. Sebastian's can carry an embryo in gestation for up to 7 cycles - it takes surgeon to activate it. So, he tells her that while he can trust her with his life, he can't trust her with his heart - because she doesn't trust him. So she works to win back that trust, by staying, by waiting, by learning English, by supporting him and trusting him. Basically by loving him without requesting anything back. John meanwhile is drugging himself to forget her. She eventually finds out and confronts him on it in the less than stellar episode Twice Shy (What is it with sci-fi shows and spider creatures? Arachnaphobes everywhere wish to know? I really wish they'd find another monster to play with. The monster of that episode is well an arachnoid.) Anyhow, when she confronts him and tells him that she's done everything he asked, and he's cheating - and he has to start playing fair and stop taking these drugs to shut his emotions off, he says he's doing it to fool Scorpius.
Because if Scorpius, who is residing on Moya at the moment via Aeryn, would use Crichton's love for Aeryn and the baby to control him. Oookay. I'd buy that, except a)why does Crichton think Scorpius bothered to save Aeryn in the first place? Out of the kindness of his heart? b) Scorpius isn't stupid...he has eyes and Crichton/Aeryn steam up the screen. Everyone else sees it, why couldn't Scorpius? In short John, it's not working. You're just hurting yourself.
c) Scorpius doesn't have to do anything - when he has Graza and the Scarrens out there to do it for him.
I just don't quite buy the whole I'm still taking poppers to forget all about you so I can fool Scorpie line. Prefered the - I'm taking them to try and move on because we can't be together and I can't quite trust you because you brought Scorpie on board, and now I'm addicted to them and can't stop. That makes more sense. But I guess I can see why they chose not to go that route. Not that the poppers were working that well anyhow. Actually, not sure the whole popper bit totally works.
Other than that - the love story works for me.
Sigh. Running out of Sat. There seems to be a cardinal rule in life - Saturdays are the shortest days of the week and Monday's are the longest.