How To Seduce Someone Into Farscape In 48 Hours

[selenak]

That was a question, by the way. Okay, here is what material I have to work with:

1) Box Set DVDs of season 1
2) Season 3 individual DVDs from "Incubator" onwards till "Dog with two Bones"

Mind you, I also have the other episodes, but they're on CD Rom (and were my own introduction to the show, courtesy of the estimable hmpf). Hence not available for TV consumption.

I also have a friend who is going to visit me over the weekend and whom I will be trying to convert. So I ask you, oh fellow fans, which episodes shall I pick? The premiere of course, but then? Shall I go for a Scorpius arc and start with "Nerve/The Hidden Memory"? But isn't "A Human Reaction" also crucial to the show? Do the final TalynJohn episodes stand enough on their own that I should include them during the marathon I'm planning? Please, advise.



In other news, I've given in a while ago and aquired the season 6 BTVS DVDs despite owning the videos already. I mean, how can one resist the Once more, with feeling karaoke? All those episodes in pristine DVD quality? (As you know, big later seasons of BTVS fan here.) Audio commentaries? I just heard Joss on OMWF, and will listen to Drew Greenberg on Smashed next. The Jossian ramblings are entertaining and enlightening as always. Something which I find particularly endearing is the affectionate and proud way he talks not just of his actors but his production crew (from the choreographer to the three guys who play everyone from the vampires in Buffy's graveyard scene to the window cleaners to Sweet's minions) and fellow writers, in this case, for obvious reasons, David Fury and Marti Noxon, "my partner in crime", as he calls her. (And he did write that Parking Ticket lady bit to showcase her voice.) There were earlier shows where I paid attention to the writer/producers (i.e. DS9 - loved Ira Behr for his Ferengi episodes, and Ron Moore for his dark, arc-oriented eps, plus Peter Fields for several of the Cardassian-centric shows), but none where I fangirled the lot of them the way I do for BTVS and AtS. Which presumably is why the casting changes over the years, including the newest ones, aren't that big a deal to me. It's really the writing I am in love with.

Comments

Re: Hooked on Farscape

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I think "I, ET" is the worst Farscape episode in the first three seasons, and quite possibly the worst in the entire series.

I would do the Pilot, PK Tech Girl (skippable--but it's solid and it's helpful to know who Gilina is for Nerve/Hidden Memory), DNA Mad Scientist, They've Got A Secret (if you need to explain Talyn and D'Argo backstory), Durka Returns, A Human Reaction, A Bug's Life, Nerve/Hidden Memory, Family Ties, and then as much of S3 as you've got and can fit in, really. Well, skip Revenging Angel. But aside from that.

I started watching with Fractures, then Sci-Fi had a two or three month hiatus during which they reran the entire series -- so I saw the end of the twin John arc, then went back to beginning. It worked.

What's wrong with "Revenging Angel"?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I mean, yes, it's not arc-necessary, and if there isn't time I will leave it out, but otoh my friend is a sucker for the experimental episodes of BTVS, so I thinks she should love this one.

Re: What's wrong with "Revenging Angel"?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

It bores me. But then I hate Roadrunner cartoons.