FYI, my father, who we got Firefly for Xmas (and who is a retired Episcopal priest and social worker), is loving it. Some part, he said, are pure camp, and then it goes directly from that to some of the truest, most mature relationships ever written. (I paraphrase.)

So, a toaster winner is me!

I liked Inara from the start. I think it was the combination of that fragment of her looking away, not synchronized with her speaking voice talking about her home, and how she just moved the decorated curtain to reveal a pilot seat and that she herself was the pilot. Both, of course, from "Serenity", so I definitely think there's something to the "watch in order" theory.

Also, there's a mixup in the order of the episodes of "Farscape"? Because I've recently got a tape of the beginning of the first season, and the relationships between the characters keep seeming to go back and forth for no apparent reason. I would prefer an episodes-order explanation much more than a writers-not-paying-attention one.

Also, there's a mixup in the order of the episodes of "Farscape"? Because I've recently got a tape of the beginning of the first season, and the relationships between the characters keep seeming to go back and forth for no apparent reason. I would prefer an episodes-order explanation much more than a writers-not-paying-attention one.

The first three seasons, it's generally episodes-airing order, although the worst of it was the first half of the first season, from what I understand.

Fourth season, alas, it's more the writers fault.

Also, Hi Nilly!

waves at Nilly!

t Waves back at Frank

the worst of it was the first half of the first season

Well, I'm at the first half of the first half of the first season (how does that tie back to all the post who talked about infinities?), so that's what it is for me, now. However, Suela warned me about that, so I will continue watching regardless (um, when this semester ends and I return to being able to find the time, that is).

Because I've recently got a tape of the beginning of the first season, and the relationships between the characters keep seeming to go back and forth for no apparent reason. I would prefer an episodes-order explanation much more than a writers-not-paying-attention one.

That's probably what's at fault, though as the most recent airing of Lost shows, airing order snafus aren't always required for character interaction to be all over the map.

Huh. I'm going to have to fight beathen for Inara's clothes. That might be tricky.

(Also on the liked-Inara train. But I loved Train Job, too. So clearly I'm strange.)

If y'all divide up Inara's clothes between you, does that mean I can have Inara naked?

Also hey Nilly! Let's all have a 'We Love Inara' sing-a-long, shall we?

Inara! You don't have to put on that red light...

Okay, maybe not. But still, yay Inara!

I've always liked Inara, although never much impressed by the prostitute-as-priestess-as-counsellor trope.

If anyone recalls, it was done by Cassiopeia on Battlestar Galactica, although not nearly as well.

Anyway, I think Inara's attitude towards her calling walks a fine line between truly believing in what a Companion is meant to be, and coming up against....parochial male attitudes towards women in general, and women who sell sex in particular.

(Also on the liked-Inara train. But I loved Train Job, too. So clearly I'm strange.)

Don't think it's strange to have liked the Train Job, particularly if you saw Serenity beforehand.