Did you see the ep later where Pilot recalls how he arrived on Moya?

I just finished The Flax, so I don't think so. That is the problem with watching the episodes so close together. I'm sure I am missing quite a bit. I'll have to pick those things up on the rewatch though. It's too good not to keep going quickly.

Off to mainline (but not Mainline) more Farscape

Crichton's journey is something special, though.

Oh yes.

I just finished The Flax, so I don't think so.

It's in season two.

The most shocking thing to me about DNA MAD SCIENTIST was Zhaan's participation. Up to that point, despite her prisoner status, they had been showing her to be a token empath character. D'Argo and Rygel were not a suprise at all in their willingness, but it was Zhaan's involvement that really made it a shocking moment.

As I've said before, Farscape is everything that you didn't realize was missing from Star Trek.

I always called the show Blake's Seven on acid. (And Star Trek Voyager was Blakes's Seven on Valium.) And now that I've actually seen Blake's Seven, I think that's even more true!

A friend of mine just sent me this link: http://stnv.dragonfly.com

I watched. I went, "Oh...my." Was this a fan film (episode?)? Because "Oh... my" and fan film are usually mutually exclusive for me.

Oh, jesus. They played those episodes over and over at DragonCon on the con TV channel. (The con TV channel used to show cool stuff like the LoTR movies, but then the copyright hammer came down on them.)

They strike me as really fanboyish creations, with emphasis on the boy. That's not a value judgment -- I've just spent so much time in the world of female-dominated fandom that the difference hits me really hard. The episode I saw about half of at D*C was like canon exploded everywhere.

"We should have an episode with the Guardian of Forever! And Christopher Pike! And the Doomsday Machine! And time travel! ALL AT THE SAME TIME and then SHIT CAN BLOW UP!"

Though they got George Takei. That's pretty fucking awesome.

DragonCon. Must be some sort of demo then. Thanks. If I wasn't antisocial I'd have gone to DragonCon.

Must be some sort of demo then.

Oh, no, these guys are making these new episodes. They're totally not kidding about the "New Voyages" part.

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Edit: Jesus, they've got a million people involved. David Gerrold, Denise Crosby, Howard Weinstein, J.G. Hertzler, Rick Sternbach...

Okay, so I just watched "Journeyman" another new series on NBC - and again through Amazon Unbox.

I believe Jessica thinks the show is crappy, but I kind of liked it. Perhaps I have no taste, which is possible. This show is Quantam Leap for 2007, but I'm kind of interested in why he is moving through time, so I'm willing to stick with the show until it is canceled and completed online through nbc.com. I did it with "Day Break", so I'm in for this.

I guess that is good storytelling even if I am left with kind of a sick feeling.

Austin, welcome to Farscape. Heh.

I blame the Buffistas and Nutty for my FS addiction, although I think I went well past any of them, since I ended up actually working on the Save Farscape campaign, and wrote metric assloads of fanfiction for it.

Farscape is the anti-Trek in a lot of ways: they almost never use the reset button, they usually end up with the worst possible outcome in terms of the characters' emotional states, and they will kill people. Also, yes, chop their arms off.

Zhaan, by the way, as you may have already learned, is not just an empath. I mean, she is that, but she's also other things as well, not all of them nice. And now I will shutup so as to avoid spoiling you.