Farscape 4.4-4.13
Sep. 14th, 2009 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreThe problem with this show is that it only has two settings. The first is really good/entertaining. The second is really bad/annoying. Sometimes it mixes the two, but I can usually tell from the first couple of minutes which it will be. Sadly, most of these episodes were not on the positive end of the spectrum.
Mostly, this season is making me dislike John and Aeryn/John? John’s never been my favorite, and I’m consistently more interested in all the other Moyans except for Rygel (Uhm…are we counting Scorpy as a Moyan? If so, he ranks lower, too.), but I’ve always been fond of him, if often in a mildly annoyed way? And this season, he just irritates me. I keep telling myself that he’s been through a lot (and he has) but it’s just so…unreasonable. And it makes me even more annoyed that it’s apparently going to be passed off as drugs. But he’s just seemed so incredibly out of character all season, and the fact that it feels out of character makes it worse for me.
And then there’s Aeryn/John, when we’re back to how I’ve never actually shipped them, but I’ve always liked the pairing and storyline. Initially, I was just irritated by the “Who’s the Daddy?” plotline. It’s just so…gratuitous, and I fail to see how it matters. Like, in the first three seasons, I’d say that it’d be absurd to think it would matter in the long run, because John would treat the baby like his own anyway? Besides which, the only time John and Aeryn have actually been involved in anything that could be called an exclusive relationship was on Talyn, so even if she had had sex with someone else over the last few years (the stasis thing makes no sense to me, and I fail to see why, if they wanted questionable paternity, she couldn’t have just had grief!sex in her drunken binge after Talyn!John died) she wouldn’t have been cheating. (And I do like that everyone seemed to assume that was the case at first, and no one held it against her.)
But mostly, it feels like, at this point, Aeryn has worked through all her issues and accepted that she’ll never understand John and he’ll always annoy her, but she loves him anyway and that’s what matters, and John is the one with issues, and is blaming her for them. Like, when he was talking about trust, I couldn’t help but think that, at this point, he isn’t objecting to her issues, but to things that are actually a part of her personality. I mean, the woman is an introvert, and an extremely controlled one at that. It’s not a flaw or something she needs to get over, but a part of her personality. Plus, I kinda fail to see exactly what it is that she’s done that’s so horrible. (I mean, look at D. His girlfriend slept with his son and he never treated Chi as badly as John has been treating Aeryn. He never really treated her badly at all, really, and pretty much treats her exactly like he did before.) And it’s worse because Aeryn, at this point, seems to think how he’s acting is somewhat warranted, which is starting to make me annoyed with her. And I’m not used to being annoyed with Aeryn at all.
Still loving Chiana, D’Argo, Pilot, Sikozu (though not her crush on Scorpy) and was thrilled at Zhaan’s return (the changes in her look are a bit disconcerting, but I’m glad they apparently found ways to achieve something close to it so that Virginia Hay could put in a couple appearances) and Granny is a hoot, if often on the gross side. And I do still love Aeryn, just not her plotline this season, and I still like John, I just…don’t like him lately. Sigh.
Like I said, when it’s good, it’s good. When it’s bad, it’s bad.
Mostly, this season is making me dislike John and Aeryn/John? John’s never been my favorite, and I’m consistently more interested in all the other Moyans except for Rygel (Uhm…are we counting Scorpy as a Moyan? If so, he ranks lower, too.), but I’ve always been fond of him, if often in a mildly annoyed way? And this season, he just irritates me. I keep telling myself that he’s been through a lot (and he has) but it’s just so…unreasonable. And it makes me even more annoyed that it’s apparently going to be passed off as drugs. But he’s just seemed so incredibly out of character all season, and the fact that it feels out of character makes it worse for me.
And then there’s Aeryn/John, when we’re back to how I’ve never actually shipped them, but I’ve always liked the pairing and storyline. Initially, I was just irritated by the “Who’s the Daddy?” plotline. It’s just so…gratuitous, and I fail to see how it matters. Like, in the first three seasons, I’d say that it’d be absurd to think it would matter in the long run, because John would treat the baby like his own anyway? Besides which, the only time John and Aeryn have actually been involved in anything that could be called an exclusive relationship was on Talyn, so even if she had had sex with someone else over the last few years (the stasis thing makes no sense to me, and I fail to see why, if they wanted questionable paternity, she couldn’t have just had grief!sex in her drunken binge after Talyn!John died) she wouldn’t have been cheating. (And I do like that everyone seemed to assume that was the case at first, and no one held it against her.)
But mostly, it feels like, at this point, Aeryn has worked through all her issues and accepted that she’ll never understand John and he’ll always annoy her, but she loves him anyway and that’s what matters, and John is the one with issues, and is blaming her for them. Like, when he was talking about trust, I couldn’t help but think that, at this point, he isn’t objecting to her issues, but to things that are actually a part of her personality. I mean, the woman is an introvert, and an extremely controlled one at that. It’s not a flaw or something she needs to get over, but a part of her personality. Plus, I kinda fail to see exactly what it is that she’s done that’s so horrible. (I mean, look at D. His girlfriend slept with his son and he never treated Chi as badly as John has been treating Aeryn. He never really treated her badly at all, really, and pretty much treats her exactly like he did before.) And it’s worse because Aeryn, at this point, seems to think how he’s acting is somewhat warranted, which is starting to make me annoyed with her. And I’m not used to being annoyed with Aeryn at all.
Still loving Chiana, D’Argo, Pilot, Sikozu (though not her crush on Scorpy) and was thrilled at Zhaan’s return (the changes in her look are a bit disconcerting, but I’m glad they apparently found ways to achieve something close to it so that Virginia Hay could put in a couple appearances) and Granny is a hoot, if often on the gross side. And I do still love Aeryn, just not her plotline this season, and I still like John, I just…don’t like him lately. Sigh.
Like I said, when it’s good, it’s good. When it’s bad, it’s bad.