beams at Katie

Unless they know we know ...

That way lies madness. I think they are using the cliche.

Those fiends.

Ken Buddha, Twice Shy is to Farscape what all the episodes after big mytharc episodes in X-Files were.

As in, MOTW, and everyone seems to have forgotten last week's newfound purpose. That said, there's a couple of fun exchanges, Chiana is outed as completely omnisexual, and the tag at the end made a big splash. Although it drives me bugfuck since it makes no sense at all. But I'm too demanding, they tell me.

Plus, spiders.

I've been building up my my immunity to Iocaine powder commercial trickery.

Ummmm... Ok, Due South people?

I watched the show maybetwice. Maybe. But I've, well, gotten hooked on the fic. Which is a good. But, I really want a tune to go with the "Northwest Passage" song, but I can't put up with Stan Rogers enough to learn it (based on the Amazon clip). Are there any other recordings that anyone might recommend?

And any help with an appropriate hex to put on Netflix for not having the DVDs would also be great.

and the tag at the end made a big splash. Although it drives me bugfuck since it makes no sense at all.

That would be the scene between Aeryn and John concerning the Comms? Yeah, it sounded like an attempt to appease the fans, but it also read like an asspull.

Sorry, I can't help you with the tune, DebetEsse. You do know that ds_flashfiction on LiveJournal has hosted 684 short stories over the past nine months?

Possibly some really OCD-ish fan has made an MP3 clip of the song from the episode....

it also read like an asspull.

Yup. Complete and utter asspull, and it made a mockery of the rather complex and interesting characterization of John they'd set up in the first half of the season. Somebody forgot to trust the fans...

Complete and utter asspull, and it made a mockery of the rather complex and interesting characterization of John they'd set up in the first half of the season.

I'm memfaulting - had Scorpy come in with Aeryn prior to John using Granny's forget-me-powder? That's the sequence I remember, so it's not completely outside the realm of possibility that he was doing that because of Scorpy, not Aeryn. However, if they knew they were going there, they should have dropped a few hints along the way. If not, they should have given it a LOT more thought.

Of course, not having actually seen the episode, I guess I shouldn't comment, but it still sounds like jury-rigging to me. There's a fine line between HSQ and WTF.

The laka came after Aeryn's return, and was explicitly tied to his desire to cut ties between them because he didn't trust her and his obsession was endangering other people. He told her to her face they were done until she changed her behavior and came clean with him about where she'd been and what she'd been doing and who was the father. The alienation from John's side was all about trust and power issues.

So for the writers to throw all that out the window in Twice Shy and make it be about Scorpius was wrong, not least because Scorpius has known for at least two seasons that John's bugfuck nuts over Aeryn. John's too smart not to recognize that pretending he didn't love her would make no difference. He's risked everything for friends he didn't knock boots with in the past, and everyone knows it.

I still think it would have been coolest if Scorpius had orchestrated the capture of Aeryn by the Scarrans in order to throw John into direct conflict with them. It would have made Scorpy an agent for once in Season 4, but if that's what happened there was no indication of it. Such a shame.