I've watched the first four episodes of Torchwood now, and I think I like it? It's so different from Doctor Who, and I won't have a real opinion until I finish the season, I think, but so far so good.

I've also seen through episode 1x16 of Farscape and I'm really enjoying it! 1x14 ("Jeremiah Crichton" was sort of terrible but the fantastic commentary with everyone panning it more than made up for it.

So thanks again for the recommendations, all! I probably would have gotten around to Doctor Who/Torchwood eventually, but I don't think it ever would have occurred to me to watch Farscape.

zuisa, it's been pretty cool seeing your reactions to the stuff you have been watching.

I just finished up S4 in my Farscape rewatch this weekend. Man, that poor season. So much potential, and yet! At least I know this time that there's the miniseries to look forward to.

At least Season 4 had Hot to Katrazi with Aeryn's line "It's the hat."

I sort of feel bad posting my reactions to old shows so much, as you all have seen them already and such, but... I've definitely got nowhere else to post such nonsense. So thank you for humoring my recent sci-fi binge!!

I should have another Farscape disc tomorrow and I'm very excited about it! I loved the last episode I watched, where John thinks he's found Earth again but uh, things go horribly wrong.

where John thinks he's found Earth again but uh, things go horribly wrong

It's not much of a spoiler to say that happens at least twice. Maybe 3 times? I forget.

If I didn't have so much else to watch, I would be all over a FS rewatch...

I watched the commentary, and they kept mentioning the "Earth episodes" so I figured as much. It was a really great episode, and I'm fairly sure that that's exactly what would happen if someone came crashing back onto Earth with a ship full of alien friends.

I really liked that the show remembered that people on Earth don't have the translator microbes in their brains and so can't understand the aliens. I liked that John had to keep translating for them.

I should say, there's a lot of good stuff in S4. But there's a LOT of filler in there too. And a lot of things that are just plain confusing.

I should say, there's a lot of good stuff in S4. But there's a LOT of filler in there too.

Yeah, for all that I bitch and moan about S4 (and there is definitely stuff to complain about), it also has "John Quixote" and the trilogy of "Unrealized Reality/Kansas/Terra Firma", and I love Sikozu (despite spoilery stuff), and I loved a lot of individual moments in a lot of episodes, even if the episodes themselves didn't hold up.

There's one moment in particular, in "Constellation of Doubt", which I don't think is nearly as great an episode as David Kemper does, but there's the bit where Crichton goes to see Scorpius and promises to give him wormholes if he helps get Aeryn back, and Browder has this look on his face, as though his soul is just cracking into a million pieces: it's utter desolation.

And what got me about that moment was that was four seasons into the show, and Browder was still finding new stuff to do with the character, new ways to break him (and the viewer). I loved that so much, and it's one of the reasons I'm still a bit pissy about how criminally under-used he was on SG-1.

But to be fair, SG-1 isn't Farscape, and they don't do that to their characters.

I'm really looking forward to watching more. People have been telling me that seasons 2 and 3 are better than 1, but I've been very much enjoying 1, so... yay!

I'm also considering upgrading to two-discs-at-a-time on Netflix because I am horribly impatient.

I'm also getting much better at resisting the urge to see what's been written in whitefont. It's like, most of me absolutely does not want to know what's going to happen on any given show I'm watching, but then a small part is like JUST HIGHLIGHT IT YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO KNOW.