DH sent me this last night:

'FARSCAPE' DECLARES 'WAR' ON THE COMPETITION

SCI FI Miniseries Premieres #1 Among P18-49 and P25-54

New York, NY (October 19, 2004) -- The fans have spoken. They frelling love their Farscape. The two-night, four-hour Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (Oct. 17-18 @ 9-11pm ET/PT) premiere averaged a 1.7 HH rating/1,916,000 P2+, making SCI FI the #1 non-sports cable network for P25-54 and P18-49 for the time period over the two nights.

SCI FI trounced its competition among P25-54, outdelivering TNT (24%), TBS (45%) and Spike TV (42%). They fared no better among P18-49, with SCI FI outperforming TNT (32%), TBS (27%) and Spike TV (35%).

Peacekeeper Wars delivered an aggregate audience of 6,883,000 viewers over the two nights (4 telecasts of Night One, 3 telecasts of Night Two).

Woo hoo!

Fucking Sci-Fi Network. They cancelled this show WHY?

I read an awful, condescending article about Sci-Fi Channel in EW - the Sci-Fi execs hold their audience in such disdain, it's sickening. Basically, there was a shot from the Peacekeeper Wars, it was mentioned in the lead-off, but then it talked about how Sci-Fi has been doing better since they stopped airing, you know, science fiction. I'll see if I can link or repost.

Why (and how) would it do that?

::handwavy::

So that Rygel would wind up carrying John and Aeryn's baby for a while. For the funny!

I loved it, of course. I had issues with the crystalline-baby-reconstitution as well, but well, totally nonsensical plot device. Okay. I particularly liked Aeryn's conversation with D'argo, where it's clear that while she's fiercely protective of the baby, she doesn't have any actual attachment to it yet. I thought that rocked, both because it was a startling declaration of love for John, but also in how it totally subverted the usual representations of pregnancy.

It's funny; although I really loved Aeryn's pregnancy, I was kind of surprised by the baby. Like, oh, it's... a baby. Like, with gender and everything. Nah, I kind of liked it better as a pregnancy. I also found the last scene a little tacked on and uninspiring, but then there was the big pull-back shot of Moya, and that made me all verklempt so it was okay.

I thought that rocked, both because it was a startling declaration of love for John, but also in how it totally subverted the usual representations of pregnancy.

I freaking loved that too. Also how she was squicked when the baby started moving, and had a "Oooookay, living thing inside me! Kinda not fun anymore!" moment. It was so honestly written.

A lot of the high emotion scenes, especially John's tangential speechifying, failed to hit home with me.

I don't think I got hit where everyone else got hit.

But I sure did get hit.

How long are we whitefonting for?

There was indeed subversion -- Aeryn was multiply redeemed from the nonsense of last season. However, I may always hate the "no! marry us before the birth!" gimmick, no matter where it pops up. Haven't seen it be not annoying yet. And it seemed so very human, like Aeryn was the one making all the cultural compromises.

How long are we whitefonting for?

This is a NAFDA-esque thread, right? Where people generally whitefont during the broadcast out of courtesy for other time zones? Therefore, I think we can blackfont now.

I just kind of like whitefonting at random. But I'll stop . Um, soon. I promise. I think.

Okay, all I needed was the one person to agree with me. In honour of Steph:

Aeryn's pregnancy clothes were beyond dumb, and I have no idea what was done with the knife, although her idea seemed very plausible. How in HELL do you turn a breeched baby, and what do you have to touch to do so? Aeryn pregnant (well, aside from the stiff prosthetic) was a thing of glory, both in acting and in writing. Bless them all. Aeryn and John were pretty marvellous together -- there was passion and intensity and tenderness, and that's worth tuning in for.

Chiana was weird, both in appearance and motion. I don't know if I buy that it signalled her maturing, but I'm willing to consider that.

D'Argo was both dead meat and a namesake the moment Chiana agreed to go to Hyneria with him. Nothing's that happy.

Did John say Ferengi at one point?