Why yes I do suck

I can't seem to bring myself to delete this even though the re-watch is over. Perhaps I'll finish updating it someday but that is an awful lot of TWoP posts to go through. On the off chance there's anyone out there still reading this and someone would like to catch this beast up, drop me an email and I'll add you to the permissions list. Otherwise, this poor little blog will just keep sitting here waiting for me to do something with it. Which may or may not actually happen.

What can I say; real life got the best of me for so long that now I have a long ways to go to catch up. We'll see how it goes. I finally started updating my other blogs again, so it could happen.

Real Life dealys

Dreadfully sorry about the lack of updates here my frustrated readers.

Real life reared its ugly head in that annoying way it has of doing. Expect some catching up to be happening over the next few weeks. I haven't determined a definite plan for how to go about it yet; either skip to the current episodes and grab one old one that I've missed each week until caught up or just do a series of shorter write ups until I've plowed through. But I'm not abandoning this project and my time should clear up enough to start having new material up sometime in the next two weeks.

1-3: Exodus from Genesis – This little mutiny.

"Evil gets you a double post."

(poster by gilliam)
Holy sweet blue vomit Batman, Farscape IS kind of minty. This one was, is and will be the beginning of addiction for many. Granted more will fall in the episodes to come (and a few were gone from moment one), but this is the true beginning of the curve. The line forms on the left. Mind your toes.

"...I have the image of John and Aeryn looking out towards the ‘swarm’...with the text, ‘All are bases are belong to Farscape’ [written] below it. Smitten."

The power of the Scape compels you. And don't worry it will keep its promise, though it may get hotter than squag once or twice along the way. Oh and the eyeliner might get a bit thick. And you may have to play nice with parasites.

"The fact that it's only half over when the Moyans and the bugs make peace is a great upending of audience expectations even further."

1-2: I, E.T. -- Mud is mud.

"Is 'killing a bird' a euphemism for 'choking the chicken?'"
(poster by gilliam)

Somehow, I always forget about John's eye. Which is, I think, melting my brain. At the very least I'm having sympathy seizures. Again. Seriously, how do I forget about this every time? Clearly I have issues.

"You know you’ve got a pacing problem when the script calls for every character to stick his or head in the tiny hole to confirm that, “yep, there’s a peacekeeper thing in there."

And that would be one of them. It's certainly the cause of a great deal of the tumbleweeds that lurched across Rewatch landscape the first day after our weekly appointment. But we'll face the pain together. Strength in numbers. They'll all learn that soon enough. The formula serves it's purpose with algebraic accuracy.

"It made me think that Farscape was going to be mundane. Man, it is a good thing I'm comfortable with admitting when I am wrong enough to basically be the walking definition of wrong."

Last week, the Moyans were introduced to a great catalyst in each other. Now comes the awkward adjusment phase where every thought is debatable. The moment seems so quiet but there's a storm of change beneath the surface.

"See, for various sentimental reasons, this is one of my favorite episodes. Let the I, E.T. smackdown begin."

Gloves and mouthguards all around, then. And I think a helmet might be cushy.
Faustro does look a little like E.T. and it is a real kick in the pants, now that you mention it.

"Rygel biting off a chunk of Aeryn's arm and then swallowing it made me sit up and take note: this is not your usual sci-fi show!"

WWKND? Oh, the depths of disgusting we shall plumb. Even as I squirm and cover my eyes, I'm more charmed with each innard added to the soup. Bring on the entrails and vomit, I say. Did I mention I have issues?

"I loved the irreverence of this episode. Suddenly, Earth is not the center of the universe, and humans are the scary aliens."

And he is not just human, this Scary Alien (tm). He is like us, except he's an astronaut; an idealized portrait of geekdom. He's an action nerd, like we've all dreamed we could be. All of John's frames of reference are the stories he's consumed. His ramblings are gibberish to his companions, but speak deep truths to his own kind. And now he is Scary Alien (tm) when he's still new to all this scary alien crap.

"...this is one of the better episodes to rewatch because it pretty much exemplifies for me the entire Farscape experience..."

Peeling back the image even more. That same sense of impending everything, but less overwhelming than last week. I can breath enough to see the color; honeyed light sticks to each image. These early days I think they used a single color for each episode; crayons for grownups just like the "puppets" are.

So there.