I never learnt to tolerate other people's tolerance of him. He seemed a net minus for the crew, so I felt like he was kept around to amuse the audience, not for any strong in-universe rationale. Which bugged.

the trilogy of "Unrealized Reality/Kansas/Terra Firma"

That's when I stopped watching. Well, UR concerned me, and then I fell asleep during Kansas and realized that I just didn't care anymore. It was like they'd sat down with a list of things I'd liked about the show, just so they could do the opposite of each one.

He seemed a net minus for the crew, so I felt like he was kept around to amuse the audience, not for any strong in-universe rationale. Which bugged.

I agree with you there, though. I never could figure out what he actually added.

I just watched 1x16, so I'm glad it starts to really take off now.

Ah, yeah, that really is where the series kicks off. What I am about to say would be a spoiler for Mark in that it hints at future events even though it doesn't really say anything specific, so I will whitefont it: in retrospect, it is the single-most important episode of the series. That won't become apparent for a while, though. I remember when I first saw it, I think I was sort of disappointed by the ending, but I grew to appreciate it.

zuisa, I reviewed each season of Farscape on my LJ. If you check my tag, I have reactions to each episode in the posts. (Like you, I was posting my reactions here.)

Ooh, yay, I will check that out! And I am always impressed at people with nicely tagged LJs. I have the same LJ I've had since 2003, and there are... no tags. So it's always thrilling for me when I try to find anything!

I don't mind non-specific spoilers, and yeah, I obviously can't see how or why, but it sort of makes sense that that episode would end up being very important.

I don't remember - which one is 1.16? And who is Mark?

1x16 is "A Human Reaction", where John thinks he has found Earth, and then Rygel, D'Argo, and Aeryn follow him, and uh... bad stuff ensues.

Mark is of Mark Reads and we've been discussing his reviews of The Hunger Games in the literature thread. He has a very specific no-spoiler policy.

The Parts I and II of "Into the Lions Den" in Season 3 are just awesome in Farscape.

I remember watching one particular scene about 5 times before I could advance the video any further. The character's speech is absolutely killer, dramatic, and on point. I liked Farscape before that, but I had much love of the series after this 2-parter.

my lj has been severely neglected in the past year or so. makes me sad that i don't still post there. i love being able to go back through almost ten years of my life. lots of history there.

Thanks, zuisa. It's killing me that I don't have the same kind of recall with FS by ep title as I do with BtVS. But I'm not sure I do for anything else either. Well, besides Firefly.

It's killing me that I don't have the same kind of recall with FS by ep title as I do with BtVS.

My BtVS title recall has horrified a lot of people. It's probably not as sharp as it once was, but yeah. I understand. I'm not as good with any other show.