Mission accomplished: Farscape, Babylon 5 and a bit of BTVS thoughts

[selenak]

Farscape: My guestage (TM Andrew of BTVS) has just left, and I can happily report success with the seduction. She's hooked. It was fascinating, watching someone else's impression first hand. She started out thinking John Crichton was clueless and too much all-American boy to be interesting, and wondered whether he'd ever get any depth. Changed her opinion around A Human Reaction regarding his dimensionality (though she called him likable before that, just not that interesting), and was impressed by Nerve/The Hidden Memory. Noticed at once that Crichton had kept the PK leather in Family Ties and started praising the actor for subtle performances. Around Saturday late afternoon and Fractures, she just wanted to hug him. ("He's so happy," she wailed as we see John running to meet Aeryn. Since I had included the Talyn John stuff, she knew what was to come.) When we had arrived at Into the Lion's Den: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, she said this was beyond awesome.

Aeryn she liked from the start. Crais she thought was a dull villain, then in Family Ties she said "He's suddenly... interesting, you know?" and followed his intermittent appearances avidly, praising his ending. Scorpius held her interest pretty much from his first apperance. After Incubator, she said: "Is there any speculation in the fandom about what would have happened if he and Crichton had met in a different way, sans torture and chip? I mean, surely John would have empathized with the whole Scarren and science thing... they could have been friends..."
"Hm," I replied, poker-faced.
During the teaser for ItLD:WiSC, she said: "Is this a gift for slashers or what?"

Since I love Rygel, I was happy she took to him very soon, too, especially he was one of the reasons she hadn't tried Farscape before - the whole muppet aspect. She also thought he and Londo would get along famously, which is completely true.

Talking of Londo led to Babylon 5 longing, so after we had finished the Farscape seduction with watching Into the Lion's Den twice, and I had given her all the episodes she hadn't seen on CD Rom to watch at home, we used the remaining time for watching Babylon 5 episodes, starting with some from season 1 (Born to the Purple, Parliament of Dreams, Signs and Portents). Signs and Portents let to exclamations that G'kar was ever so lucky Morden picked Londo, and speculations as to why. (Londo held the better speech and had the more ambitious vision?) The second time G'kar is ever so lucky is of course in Coming of Shadows when Emperor Turhan dies before G'kar can assassinate him. If G'kar had gone through witlh the assassination, he would have started the new Narn/Centauri war, not Londo, and of course he never would have developed into the wise being he became.

Oh, and when we watched G'kar and Londo squabbling in front of the elevator, my pal said: "You know, you're right. They are married.

BTVS: Lastly, I only just started catching up on my friends list, and what do I see? andrastewhite has written an Andrew story. Not my Andrew story (i.e. the one she promised me), but a delightful one nonetheless, which I urge all Andrew lovers to read here.



Alfred Bester, Psi-Cop


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Since he tends to get the best lines of most of the episodes he's in, and is nicely three-dimensional, I'm happy. Especially since I'm not too bad considering I'm also:


You poor little dear. With a boss who seems rather
determined to do whatever he wishes regardless
of whether it is wise, your life is marked by
anxiety and strain. Take heart- you are
stronger than you realize, and your kindness
and gentleness of spirit will carry you
through.


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Comments

Depends on the circumstances.

[alara-r.livejournal.com]

John fell in love with a Peacekeeper hardass who beat the crap out of him the first time he met her, made friends with a crazed beast who kept going wild and trying to kill him, and tried his best to reach out to the guy who was psychotically obsessed with killing him. Then the Aurora Chair happened, and John got hard.

Had the Aurora Chair never happened John and Scorpius could *very* easily have been friends, but the best way to get them to that point would be for Scorpius to fall from power and end up on Moya. Oh, like that's hard. :-) It's *possible*, though not plausible, to imagine other circumstances where they could have been friends. The UR where John is the head of Peacekeeper wormhole research and Sikozu is a Scarran spy might have started with John ending up in circumstances where he was working closely with Scorpius, and I think without the Aurora Chair and the chip between them there's little reason they *wouldn't* have been friends. John can get over "you're ugly" and Scorpius is used to it; both would be tolerated outcasts in the Peacekeepers; both would have information and life experiences of value to the other.

Of course I can't see them ever making friends with the Chair in their history. But I think John could possibly have developed a lot more tolerance for Scorpius than he ended up doing, with somewhat different circumstances.