Farscape: one and a half...

[selenak]

Oh joy! Oh curse! Thanks to the link ide_cyan provided, I've been able to watch Part 1 of Peacekeeper Wars online (which means I still need those CDs!), and about 48 minutes of part two, but though I tried twice, it won't show me the rest! This is a conspiracy. Evil. Though still, woo hoo for what I've seen so far. Except...


...for the fact they made Sikozu a spy, which is about the last scene I've watched. before everything came to a halt (twice). My other nitpick would be the stuff with Jool - she never had a crush on Crichton, so why on earth introduce that now?

Other than that: much love. I was utterly delighted, of course, with the Rygel opening sequence. Ah, Farscape, how do I adore thy creative use of vomit. And bad fanfic clichés - that's the mpreg to end all mpregs. More delights continued to come my way - Aeryn back to normal, quiet moments for D'Argo, the John & Pilot talk in II about John being willing to committ mass murder for Aeryn and the baby... The Eidolons I'm not sure about. I mean, if their ability to convince others to peace rests on their physical presence and some kind of quasi-hypnosis, it's a very temporary solution at best, leaving alone the ethics involved. (Jasmine, anyone?) Still, cool tie-in of the season 4 opening episodes, the purpose of which is finally clear now.

I don't know what to do now. I want my remaining 30 or so minutes of II. Failing that, I'm not sure I can resist reading those spoilery posts any longer. Frell!

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Re: Reponses

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I loved the backstory as well, and so far have resisted for find out about the ending. This will be my last Farscape experience ever, in all likelihood, and I want the surprises to continue.

You've got a point about Staleek not having become a brainwashed follower a la Jasmine near the end of I, but... how about a comparison with what the Nebari do? Mindcleansed Durka was eminently reasonable, too.

Rygel: was last seen saying "thank you" to John (for taking the baby out) before the rude ending of my viewing. Am looking forward to more of him!

Incidentally, one could see a thematic parallel between the Sebaceans being the descendants of the humans, and the Eidolons on the water planet being the descendents of the Eidolons on Annesk.

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[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

You've got a point about Staleek not having become a brainwashed follower a la Jasmine near the end of I, but... how about a comparison with what the Nebari do? Mindcleansed Durka was eminently reasonable, too.

Yes, but I would put the Nebari mind-control closer to what Jasmine does, because the cleansed are completely blissed out, are not essentially themselves, and speak in rhetoric about what a life-changing experience the mind-cleansing has been for them. Staleek saw the benefits of peace with under Eidolon influence, but wasn't exactly what you'd call a hippie. ;-)

If the last thing you saw of Rygel was him saying "thank you" to John for taking the baby out, you have some really great stuff left with the little Hynerian.

Expanding on that...

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Maybe since the Nebari weren't given a role to play in the end of the story, you could say that the Nebaris and Eidolons are examples of, respectively, the wrong and right way to go about doing the same thing. Perhaps the Nebaris were directly inspired by the Eidolons, but instead of coaxing out the essential reason within people, chose an alternate, more forceful route. Also, Eidolon presence is required to maintain their influence, whereas what the Nebaris do is supposedly permanent, closer to a lobotomy.

A link maybe could be drawn with how the Peacekeepers developed from people who could bear their name unironically to their current, almost Fascist state, and how the Nebaris also took an Eidolon idea and perverted it.