Gloating

[eee1313]

I'm just posting this to gloat at y'all who are Farscape fans. I went to taraljc's place tonight for birthday celebrations, and she had The Peacekeeper Wars on DVD, shipped to her from SciFi due to her Mediasharx connections. So we watched it. I have seen the miniseries several weeks before the rest of y'all. Mind you, I've only seen about six episodes of the show, so I'm sure I didn't pick up on most of the subtleties of the characters that the rest of y'all will get. I'm not going to say anything about it, other than the fact that I've seen it, and you haven't, and now y'all have weeks to wait while I sit here knowing what happens. Ha ha ha. I'm such a bitch. And look, I don't even have a Farscape icon to go with the post, which shows how bad of a fangirl I am. As in, I'm not, really. Yet I've seen it, and you haven't. Nyah nyah!

But ljc did loan me the entire series of Odyssey 5 on VCD, so I'll be loading that up and trying to copy it for myself. Because that's an awesome show.

Comments

[missrachael.livejournal.com]

what's farscape all about? there were apparently a lot of fans of it at DragonCon.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

It's actually pretty good sci-fi. Okay, there's an astronaut named John Crichton, and he's out piloting his new space capsule around Earth when a wormhole opens and he gets sucked into another galaxy. When his ship arrives in the new galaxy, it collides with a Peacekeeper ship and the other pilot is killed. Crichton then get hunted by the Peacekeepers (the name is ironic) because the commanding officer was brothers with the dead pilot. Meanwhile, Crichton gets pulled onto another spaceship named Moya. Moya's carrying passengers who were all prisoners of the Peacekeepers. John eventually befriends them, but he doesn't befriend Aeryn, a Peacekeeper pilot who was brought abord Moya a bit by accident. Aeryn kicks massive ass, and she hates John and all the others on the ship, but the Peacekeepers think she's a deserter and so she's stuck on Moya or else she'll be jailed/killed by her own people.

There's a whole bunch of other shit going on (which you can read about here (http://www.scifi.com/farscape/primer/)), and it's actually a pretty inventive show, which is why I've enjoyed it when I've watched it. The aliens actually look like aliens and not just humans with makeup, seeing as how Jim Henson's Creature Shop does all the puppets. And the makeup is fabulous on the actors as well. Even the concepts behind the different alien races are cool, like there's "the blue lady" who looks human, but she's actually a plant. Weird. But the man reason people watch is the love/hate relationship between John and Aeryn, because they have incredible chemistry and are really fun and hot.

The REALLY big reason why Farscape is important is that it was SciFi's flagship show, and the network decided to cancel it because it was too expensive to produce. The problem was that it has a rabid fanbase (as you could tell from DragonCon), but more importantly, the show ended on a massive downer/sorta cliffhanger. After four years of watching John and Aeryn's sexual tension and watching John get chased across the galaxy by different bad guys, they finally got to a safe planet and John asked Aeryn to marry him. She says yes, they kiss, and just then a spaceship flies out of nowhere and blasts them to bits. End of show. Needless to say, the fans went crazy. Years of angry letters, shaking of fists, and gnashing of teeth occurred. Brian Henson kept fighting with SciFi to get the show back on the air. And now, at least two years later, he got a miniseries done to wrap up all the loose ends. It's actually a pretty phenomenal story of fans taking the networks on and fighting to get a show reinstated. Farscape is pretty much the show by which all the other rabid fandoms are judged, just because these fans were so vocal about their show getting cancelled.

[missrachael.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for the explanation.

I really kind of miss watching sci fi shows. It's the one reason I'd want to get cable.

[adjrun.livejournal.com]

It's really an amazing show. John Crichton (the guy in the icon) is one of the best sci-fi characters EVAH.

This is me, eepy, horrendously jealous at your good luck.