Hey there. You know...the truth is that this show is so damned layered and involved that it does take a few watchings to have it all "just click" into place. For me the only real season that seemed disjointed was S1. I love the season of course, but it is also the most bizarre - the most fragmented. And I think that has to do so much with that also being John's first year in this new situation and being completely a fish out of water.
Ironically however, my favorite character almost from the beginning was always Aeryn Sun. And then it would change to John Crichton because he is just so awesome. But her journey isn't as . . unfleshed out as you may think. I'd be curious to think when you do go back and watch and see things that were set up from the beginning. But I think that it's important to mention that Aeryn was written SO strongly in S2 and S3 because she had to be. She had to be in order to endure allowing allowing herself to truly give herself body and soul to another "lesser" being, find happiness really for the first time in her life, and lose it. After that she puts up the wall of a lifetime in order to figure out how to deal. And then when she comes back to John - she is so used to him always waiting for her that she actually has to be the patient one and wait for him to allow her back in. That is a huge turn of events for her.
All in all - out of all of the shows that I have watched and loved - their relationship is the MOST honest and true to life relationship I've ever seen. And it gets to succeed where other tv shows ruin things.
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Date: 2007-11-02 06:26 pm (UTC)You know...the truth is that this show is so damned layered and involved that it does take a few watchings to have it all "just click" into place. For me the only real season that seemed disjointed was S1. I love the season of course, but it is also the most bizarre - the most fragmented. And I think that has to do so much with that also being John's first year in this new situation and being completely a fish out of water.
Ironically however, my favorite character almost from the beginning was always Aeryn Sun. And then it would change to John Crichton because he is just so awesome. But her journey isn't as . . unfleshed out as you may think. I'd be curious to think when you do go back and watch and see things that were set up from the beginning. But I think that it's important to mention that Aeryn was written SO strongly in S2 and S3 because she had to be. She had to be in order to endure allowing allowing herself to truly give herself body and soul to another "lesser" being, find happiness really for the first time in her life, and lose it. After that she puts up the wall of a lifetime in order to figure out how to deal. And then when she comes back to John - she is so used to him always waiting for her that she actually has to be the patient one and wait for him to allow her back in. That is a huge turn of events for her.
All in all - out of all of the shows that I have watched and loved - their relationship is the MOST honest and true to life relationship I've ever seen. And it gets to succeed where other tv shows ruin things.
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