Oh, I don't read fic, but thanks.

t gasp

Blasphemy!

Forgive me ficcers for I have sinned.

Oh, I don't read fic, but thanks.

Leave this house!

flounces away, sits next to Dana, reads porny fic

Hmmm, well at least we'll get the extended Pegasus sometime. I'm happy to know that I will be able to purchase a second half dvd set and not have to buy a full season 2, you know?

I bought Serenity and BSG 2.0 yesterday. There's some cross-promotional thing going on where I can get $10 back for buying both. (Also good if you buy season one of BSG with Serenity.)

x-post to Firefly

Oh man. Farscape.

So "A Bug's Life" was good. All right. Every sci-fi show needs an episode where people get possessed by something and everyone's suspicious of each other and you can do things without consequences. Unless you're Smallville, in which case you have three or four a season.

I'm rather enjoying the ability to watch this show mostly in a vacuum. I'm almost completely unspoiled except for, well, the death of a major character in The Peacekeeper Wars. And I don't have to deal with annoying fandom reactions. For instance, I wonder what the initial reaction to Chiana was. Because it seems weird to randomly introduce a new character to the team so late in the season. One thing I like, though, is that she's actually proving herself useful. She's got mad thievery skills. And she's hot.

I'm still not sure what to make of her, though. Her manner of speaking can be a little overdone and annoying, as can the very deliberately odd way she moves.

But back to the episode. The ending? Totally the kind of action-movie badassery I can get behind!! "Boom." Fucking sweet, Crichton.

And then...and then..."Nerve." Holy crap! Finally, the show is becoming as awesome as I had been led to believe! Continuity so up the ass it's frothing at the mouth.

First of all, the direct consequences of the previous episode drive the plot of this one. Sweet.

When Aeryn mentioned that she needed a genetic match, I thought it'd be amusing if the match was Gilina. I knew we'd see her again from Consuela's reaction before, and I thought I recognized the actress's name in the credits.

The ident card! Whose purpose I was so confused about at the end of "A Bug's Life"! A plot point in one episode was actually set up in the previous episode! I love that shit!

Another note: they finally got a director whose little tricks actually worked. I haven't been mentioning it, but the use of slo-mo on this show blows. But from the opening scene, with the quick cuts to close-ups of Aeryn's boxing fists, I knew this guy was trying to be cool in a good way. And I really liked the fast swooshy dissolves; it really added to the tension.

There you are, Gilina! All hacking into everything and saving the day. Aw. And getting Aeryn her nerve, how nice of you. Also, dudes: it's a pipette! Just like in the last episode, they're using fucking pipettes! It's real lab equipment! I've used those things! I mean, actual pipettes don't act like syringes, but that's obviously what the props are designed around!

The Aurora Chair! Memories! Clips from the whole season. And despite being Crichton's memories, they're actually...clips from the show, shown from the camera's perspective. Which is a necessary device, I know. And whooooa, the Ancients gave him subconscious wormhole technology?! That episode is suddenly three times better!

I love that the relationship between D'Argo and Aeryn is built almost entirely on the fact that they're both "warriors." And yet you have to assume there's the subtext of his being married to a Peacekeeper.

Moya! Now is NOT A GOOD TIME TO BE HAVING CONTRACTIONS.

To be continued!!

And I just watched "The Hidden Memory." Scorpius is great. Anyone who puts Crais in the Aurora Chair is fine by me. I'm not sure if he's supposed to be Sebacean, though. I like that they now have a villain more formidable than Crais, who becomes less and less menacing the more we see of him. I mean, he's got daddy issues. You can't be afraid of a guy with daddy issues.

Aaaand Gilina is cute but a wee bit annoying. Some friends of mine dubbed her PK Anders, and now I know why. Come on, girl. You spent a few hours with Crichton and had a hot makeout session. You are not in love with him. Geez. And your daring escape is no time for you to discuss whether he wants you or not. You were a sweet, deluded girl, and I'm sorry you had to die an inevitable death. Poor PK Dead Girl.

Moya has a boy! And...I have no idea how this works, or how it's going to work. Will they get to ride (continued...)

( continues...) around in him? Is he going to protect them with his crazy weapons? Or will he be a Peacekeeper ass and shoot them a lot when he gets hungry?

Oh: Aeryn kicks ass. Facing Crais the way she did and throwing in some gratuitous torture was awesome, and maybe now she'll stop complaining about not being able to go back to her precious Peacekeeper world.

I'm disappointed they didn't really follow up on the whole subconscious wormhole technology. I mean, I thought that was the whole point of the Chair, that they could pull that out of him. But I guess they kept focusing on whatever he was blocking because they assumed it was that. I do hope they come back to it. What I love about this whole plotline is it's so connected to the beginning. The story feels organic and natural and Crichton-specific. Things happen because of what happened before.

Almost done with the first season, and the second season is primed and ready to go. I'm all excited to see what happens next.

(People who will seek Crichton out and kill him, so far: Crais, Durka, Scorpius...)

I'm disappointed they didn't really follow up on the whole subconscious wormhole technology.

Heee. Oh, they will, fear not.

I gotta go home, so more comments later, but it's Gilina, actually, not Jolena. Glad you're having fun!

Heee. Oh, they will, fear not.

Oh, I don't doubt it.

I gotta go home, so more comments later, but it's Gilina, actually, not Jolena.

Thanks. I couldn't remember how it was spelled. And I await your further comments!

Man! I just realized Dad and I missed a disc. We haven't seen Through the Looking Glass and A Bug's life.

I guess we can finish watching Hidden Memory and go back.

PC it's so cool to see your reactions!