I kind of like The Locket myself, gaping holes, asspulls and all.
You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
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Sean K - Mar 24, 2005 11:45:50 am PST #490 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 11:49:06 am PST #491 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Apart from production issues, my biggest issue is that as shown, John and Aeryn wasted twenty (fifty?) years together. I like to think that after fifty years with the guy she loves, even Aeryn Sun might admit as much to him. It isn't as if he wasn't just as wrinkly as she by the end.
StuntHusband - Mar 24, 2005 11:49:34 am PST #492 of 10001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I weep at lots of stuff. Under my crusty, ancient, cranky, curmudgeonly elder-goth-fag exterior - you know, the Alex that says, "I love children - done to a nice medium-rare over mesquite" - lies an incredibly sentimental goofball.
Gandalf falls? Crying. Doesn't make any difference that I've read the books twice yearly for 24 years, and I know what happens, and what happens NEXT. Crying.
Eagles out of the sun? Crying.
Boromir? Crying.
shrug
Jilli can tell you - just talking about the end of RotK, or "Sleeping in Light" from Babylon 5 makes me weepy and choked up. I made the vast, vast mistake of putting the RotK soundtrack in the car's CD player. The Eagles music came on and I almost had a wreck - hard to drive when your eyes runneth over.
Sap, thy name is Alex.
Nutty - Mar 24, 2005 11:56:50 am PST #493 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I see there is no magic in my heart. I hated that episode, and several others in that excessively sentimental and wrongheaded vein.
(Also, the whole Locket/never getting together thing doesn't really make sense -- or actually, the emotional/sexual culture of PKs never made sense, so lots of individual episode plots are like, "What do you need PKs to be this week??")
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 12:01:28 pm PST #494 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yup. Early on Aeryn says "A friend would kill me. Family would do it quickly." Then we find out Peacekeepers don't do family.
Nutty - Mar 24, 2005 12:02:47 pm PST #495 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. Like how PKs are wildly xenophobic, except when they're having sex with aliens.
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 12:03:52 pm PST #496 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Well, he doesn't LOOK like an alien.
My working hypothesis as of mid-season2 is that Aeryn is actually very naive about Peacekeeper politics and believes what she's told; in fact, it's as corrupt as any other system, and people with pull can do whatever they damned well want to.
Nutty - Mar 24, 2005 12:10:25 pm PST #497 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, not only is there more in the way of PK/alien sexuality (e.g., Bug's Life/Nerve), there's more about PK daily life in S2 and then in S3, and it only becomes less logical as it goes along.
tiggy - Mar 24, 2005 2:30:45 pm PST #498 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I envy you; I would love a big ol' shippy episode that worked that well for me. (Oh, okay, I have Look At The Princess part 3.)
the Look at the Princess 3 parter remains my favorite "to be continued" episodes ever. that was damn good television.
Consuela - Mar 24, 2005 3:14:44 pm PST #499 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My working hypothesis as of mid-season2 is that Aeryn is actually very naive about Peacekeeper politics and believes what she's told; in fact, it's as corrupt as any other system, and people with pull can do whatever they damned well want to.
That's a pretty good rationale, actually, given what you've already seen (Scorpius and Jenavian) and what you haven't (Grayza). Aeryn is already rather disillusioned about the Peacekeeper way, and it really only continues.