Ask Me!

[moonshayde]

Here comes the next lemming...

Comment here and ask me ANYTHING about any fandom I'm involved in/have been involved in, or fandom in general. Controversial or innocent, silly or serious, ask and you'll get my honest opinion on the subject [to the best of my knowledge/ability].

Okay, so I am only really involved in Stargate fandom, but I've watched and like a bunch of shows. So, here's a few: SG-1, SGA, Smallville, MacGyver, Sanctuary, X-Files, Lois and Clark, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Supernatural, Farscape, Futurama...um oh just have fun and ask whatever.

Just please don't spoil me on anything! And I'm behind on SGA.

Comments

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

What's your favorite Farscape episode? And also your favorite Farscape character?

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I have to go with John. I love all the characters and I think CB rocks as Aeryn, but I am most invested in John. I think it's because John represents Earth and by extension us and how we can crack under pressure, search for a place to belong, and long for home. So I do feel that connection with him.

My fave episode has to be a double ep: Kansas/Terra Firma. Those two episode finally sold me on the show beyond just something fun, enjoyable, and bizarre to watch.

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's at all odd that you'd go with John! He is, after all, the favorite character of many, many, many Farscape fans, and even those of us who like Aeryn best have to love John tremendously, I think. And the Unrealized Realities/Kansas/Terra Firma arc is fabulous. Best of season 4, easily, and among the best of the series. And in terms of overall themes, these are absolutely key. I read the best description EVER of Farscape this week (attributed to thassalia)--"The Odyssey on acid"--and, well, our hero does have to get back home again.

Those two episode finally sold me on the show beyond just something fun, enjoyable, and bizarre to watch.

This is the only thing you say that makes me go *boggle*! I'm afraid I'm so very convinced that season 3--and particularly from "Infinite Possibilities" through the end of the season--is pretty much the best and most emotional arc that's ever been on TV that I cannot fathom how someone could get through that and still need to be sold on the show as something more than fun, enjoyable, and bizarre. But different strokes for different folks, I guess. :)

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I loced Season 3. I devoured it. But there was something interesting in the reversals of S4 even if they could have been explained better.

But the going home arc in S4 just clicked for me. I'm a highly family oriented person and seeing him finally reach home, not quite fit in, and then have to say goodbye, watching his family in agony as he left them -- that is what sold it on me.