And in conclusion: OH DEAR GOD, SHOW
Sep. 11th, 2007 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minxyThis particular incarnation of play-by-play reactions to Farscape might be reeeeeeally annoying to read. I had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
synecdochic on the IM when I announced that Farcape or Naps were winning in the 'I am sick, what shall I do?' poll, and invited her to watch with me. So all the reactions are two-fold, and the conversation actually starts with rydra_wong too, who claimed she had enough pain and angst with her WIP of Doom, thanks much, and preferred to read a book. But she came to taunt me a little first, and say hi. Nice of her, though now I need a hug, obviously. *makes grabby hands of need*
I hope it's readable, though, because it was so much fun to watch this episode with company, even if my wireless connection is somewhat unpredictable. But this is how it went, typos and all:
_minxy_: Should I be worried that this episode is going to break my heart into little bitty pieces?
Synecdochic: ...duh.
rydra_wong: *refrains from spoilage*
Synecdochic: this is *farscape*. :)
_minxy_: I am in a very fragile sick condition!
rydra_wong: Although ... this *is* Farscape.
_minxy_: Oh, right.
Silly question.
rydra_wong: GMTA.
Synecdochic: I will say that there are some of the most gorgeous visuals in the entire series ahead ...
_minxy_: *g*
rydra_wong: Yes!
_minxy_: Ooooooohhhhhhhhhh.........
rydra_wong: It is a great episode.
Synecdochic: Yes.
The end of season 3 is one of the most perfect bits of TV ever.
Like, from mid-S3 on, in fact.
_minxy_: Are these the last two eps, or are there more?
Synecdochic: Last two of the season.
_minxy_: Uh oh. Usually they kill me.
Synecdochic: :)
_minxy_: And it will be *days* before I can get my hands on the next eps.
Oh well!
Cheerfully into the fray!
rydra_wong: (And oh, minxy, once you have seen this, you will be able to read my choc_fic fic! When it gets posted.)
_minxy_: REALLY? Excellent!
Synecdochic: Ready to start?
rydra_wong: Anyhoo.
Have fun!
_minxy_:
Yes, ready!
rydra_wong: *waves*
_minxy_: Bye!
rydra_wong left the chat.
_minxy_: Okey dokey... just getting through the anime commercial...
Synecdochic: *giggle*
_minxy_: AND, the menu!
Synecdochic: okay!
3
_minxy_: Pretty Moya.
Synecdochic: 2...
1....
_minxy_: GO!
Synecdochic: ding *g*
*reminds self of where we are*
thank goodness for the Previouslies.
I love that shot of John striding off Moya.
_minxy_: those bracelets look heavy, don't they?
Yes, also love that long look at Aeryn, it just tells you so much about everything she's feeling.
Wow, Scorpius is definitely a top.
Synecdochic: Yes.
She has such an expressive face.
and oh, God, there's something wrong with me, but watching John getting beaten up is *so fucking hot*.
I love how *over the edge* he is, man.
Yes. Oh, yes.
_minxy_: Heh, liked that head bash. That was cool.
Ha. Loved that look from Crais about looking tense and needing the steam.
Synecdochic: It's the little cheek-tap.
I think the thing I love most about this situation is how everyone who *really doesn't want to work together* has to work together.
_minxy_: OMG this ep is killing me!
(likewise)
Yes, even Scorpius and John fighting and beating each other up (and, you know, foreplay) is them arguing about how they have to work together.
Synecdochic (4:35:47 PM): HARVEY. I love Harvey. So fucking much. And I love how Harvey and John's conversations are so damn *symbolic*. And I love how John really, really, really doesn't want to be doing this, and can't see any other way out. and ... here we start with my *favorite imagery ever in the history of television period*. John. *John*.
_minxy_: I also love Chiana's laughing and ott reactions to things she can't process right away.
Contrast that with Aeryn's gravitas and you totally understand what John just said.
Plus, you know, DESTROY EVERYONE AERYN EVER CARED ABOUT.
It's kind of fascinating to see Crais completely ensconced in this plan, and trusted.
Synecdochic (4:39:02 PM): This is also one of the best examples of games and roles and conspiracies and people giving information out of tactical necessity and not as a betrayal that I've ever seen. ever. it's brilliant.
Synecdochic (4:40:13 PM): and how far Aeryn's come.
_minxy_: Wow, Rygel saying that there are some things too powerful for *anyone* is pretty weighty.
Harvey is hilarious.
WOW, Scorpius looks so *betrayed*
Oooh, neat visual there with the ship as ceiling.
Synecdochic (4:41:42 PM): (this episode above all else makes me mourn how criminally underused Browder was on SG-1. Alas.)
and yes. this whole thing is just *brilliant*.
and powerful and amazing and *painful*
_minxy_: Yup, betrayal.
Interesting that Scorpius just totally levels with John, though.
It makes sense, though, they have incredible animosity, but huge amounts of honesty in it.
I think Chiana is giving herself away with her *breathing* That's just intense.
All of their reactions to being imprisoned are so sad!
Amazing leadership from Crais. Conflict and and and delegation of tasks.....
And *sacrifice*, wow.
JESUS. CHRIST.
Okay, antibetrayal.
WE'RE ONLY 20 MINUTES INTO THE FRIGGING EPISODE!!!
Fer crying out loud!
Synecdochic: *yes*
that moment when John looks at Crais when he's just announced the truth of the plan.
_minxy_: John just ran out of the room with Scorpius' scientist.
Synecdochic: *nodnod*
The *writing* on the *skin*.
_minxy_: This is Crais walking with his Ex.
The writing on the skin is so, so sexy.
Synecdochic: The John-writing-on-his-skin is my favorite piece of imagery ever.
_minxy_: I love the 3D math.
Oh, Crais is cutting ties, but saying good-bye first. I didn't expect to care about him so much.
PILOT!
Synecdochic: and. John and Pilot. PILOT.
PILOT.
_minxy_: Talyn was always destined for a violent end.... oh, Pilot.
Synecdochic: the muppets will make you *cry*, man
_minxy_: Have, do, will.
Give Moya my love. ARGH.
OH PILOT.
Synecdochic: He really was. And John touching Pilot like that. Forehead to forehead.
_minxy_: No one ever asked his name. Cofax wrote a whole story around that once.
Synecdochic: Yes.
Brilliant.
_minxy_: Read the middle finger, Scorpy
Synecdochic: *YES*
_minxy_: I have a THOUGHT.
Synecdochic: bye bye birdie. I loveh ow he *never* loses the inappropriate pop culture references.
_minxy_: Oh John.
Never, not when no one understands, not when inappropriate.
Synecdochic: That little smirk.
_minxy_: LOOK AT SCORPIUS' FACE!
AT THE WORMHOLE INVITATION.
Synecdochic: YES. Longing and fear and .... *yes*
_minxy_: It's just so OPEN.
And with all his backstory!
Synecdochic: Yes!
_minxy_: Imprisonment! Pain!
Synecdochic: I love eveyrone's faces in this.
_minxy_: HERE, WHAT YOU WANT.
Synecdochic: So mucah of the acting is *so subtle*. Even from the extras.
(Farscape had better wormhole graphics than SG-1 did.)
_minxy_: YESYESYESYESYESYES
Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, prettyness
Synecdochic: Crais is so beautiful. Heh.
_minxy_: Oh, the guy... Scorpius's head scientist, with all that face make-up, still so expressive.
Synecdochic: Yes!
_minxy_: Aeryn walking, stopping to look up as she hears John's voice. Crais' poker face.
Synecdochic: "Not as much as me." Oh, Crais, you *fucking badass*.
_minxy_: Star Wars reference!
John so wants to be Han Solo.
Synecdochic: I love how self-aware this show is. *g*
_minxy_: He's so much closer to whiney Luke.
Synecdochic: *snicker* Well, yes.
_minxy_: Oh, goodbye to Crais from Aeryn.
Synecdochic: that moment when Aeryn touches Crais's face. The *look*.
OMG. I'd forgotten that *look*.
_minxy_: Now you go. OMG.
Synecdochic: Best goodbye ever.
_minxy_: I am torn because i want to go back and see it again.
Synecdochic: oh god here is the part where i CRY
_minxy_: BUT OMG, CAN'T STOP WATCHING.
Synecdochic: I KNOW
_minxy_: Crais and Talyn
Synecdochic: YES
_minxy_: CRAIS AND TALYN.
Synecdochic: *flaily caps lock*
_minxy_:*CAPSLOCK OF DOOOOOM*
Synecdochic: okay, wait for it.
wait for it.
"I am standing in your *heart*, and I am about to squeeze." *inarticulate keyboard mash*
_minxy_: big sigh from Scorpius, 'Braca, solve the problem'
OH, SCORPIUS.
Synecdochic: and John. Through the glass.
_minxy_: SO SO SO SO SO MUCH IN THAT LOOK.
SO MUCH BACK FROM JOHN.
Synecdochic: The look on John's face through the glass.
The utter serenity.
_minxy_: the honesty in that relationship is stunning.
Synecdochic: God, yes.
_minxy_: I AM NOT LEAVING QUIETLY OMG
Synecdochic: I love the contrast between Crais and John and Scorpius. and the *terror* in Scorpius's eyes.
For just that *second*
because by now, they *all know*.
_minxy_: SERENITY AND PANIC AND RESOLVE
I SUGGEST YOU HANG ON TO SOMETHING AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Synecdochic: YES
THAT.
THAT RIGHT THERE
_minxy_: DON'T CRY CRAIS!!!!!
Synecdochic: *keyboard mash*
_minxy_: *WIBBBBBBLEE************* OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Synecdochic: and God, I love how they *let him react*
they *let him close his eyes and inhale*
_minxy_: *FLAILY*
Synecdochic: and then --
this is how you keep from becoming a monster: by becoming a monster.
_minxy_: ALL OF THEM, EVEN D'ARGO AND THE OTHERS, THEY ALL KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED
Synecdochic: *yes*
_minxy_: scream, Jool, NOW IS THE TIME TO MELT METAL.
Synecdochic: I love this show for being willing to give them that moment of indrawn breath.
_minxy_: OH GOD LOOK AT AERYN
Synecdochic: I love her SO MUCH
_minxy_: SHE'S EVACUATING HER FAMILY
OH MY GOD I DON'T HAVE BIG ENOUGH LETTERS
Synecdochic: I KNOW
_minxy_: WOW.
Synecdochic: and the water. and scorpius. and the process of watching your whole empire crumbling around your ears.
_minxy_: it's so powerful to see all these individuals in all that destruction.
Synecdochic: This whole episode is about fiddling while Rome burns, man.
_minxy_: usually it's just a ship blows up (HOLY CRAP LAST EPISODE IT WAS) a ship blows up, number dead, so sad....
This is so visceral
the scientist is so hurt
Synecdochic: and I love how John has come so far. and can say "this is not just science".
because -- God, how far he's come.
_minxy_: oh,
oh.
they ....
oh.
they understand each other.
oh.
Synecdochic: John's *face*
_minxy_: Scorpius on the top of the flooding stairs.
Synecdochic: (GOD, Browder was so fucking UNDERUSED on SG-1)
_minxy_: the Aurora chair, sweet jesus.
Synecdochic: *yes*
sacrifice.
everyone on this show understands sacrifice.
_minxy_: *remembers to breathe*
Only now calling for evacuation.
Aeryn already initiated it at the first possible moment.
Synecdochic: Disbelieving to the end.
_minxy_: It's amazing how they worked together.
Synecdochic: god, i've seen this already and I still can't breathe.
_minxy_: Oh John, I'm sorry you have to use that chair, from either side.
Synecdochic: (D'Argo's ship is SO COOL)
_minxy_: Pilot is just so RIGHT THERE. Helping, ready to help, hoping they come back. I love Pilot.
Synecdochic: God, me too.
_minxy_: HOLY CRAP YES.
Synecdochic: He didn't like them at first, and now ... they're family.
_minxy_: yes.
Synecdochic: because that's what this show is about, man.
_minxy_: OH. Burning.
OH.
Oh, Aeryn.
Synecdochic: fire and water.
God, the *imagery* on this *show*
_minxy_: Yes.
Synecdochic: *makes flaily hands*
_minxy_: *grabs flaily hands and flails MORE*
Synecdochic: oh. OH.
oh God
this scene
_minxy_: D'Argo. Save them, D'Argo.
Synecdochic: oh god john
_minxy_: JOHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Synecdochic: oh god, wait for it
_minxy_: millions will know that name
one evil at a time, that's the best I can do.
Synecdochic: "One evil at a time. That's the best I can do." And his world around his ears.
_minxy_: Ghandi. Oh no.
Synecdochic: and how Scorpius *even now* will reassure him
_minxy_: press 911 and release.
OH.
Synecdochic: YES.
_minxy_: Honesty. Partnership. Even trust, still.
Synecdochic: we were close.
_minxy_: WE WERE CLOSE
Synecdochic: it's all the comfort john can give him.
_minxy_: Walk away. OH
Synecdochic: YES.
_minxy_: Goodbye??????
Synecdochic: the fact that JOhn will let him *walk away*
_minxy_: *FLAILY CAPSLOCK DOOOOOOOM*
Synecdochic: see what i mean? you can't even *cry*
it's just --
_minxy_: Aeryn. John.... D'Argo?
Aeryn.
fly safe.
Synecdochic: *makes big hands indicating heart exploding*
YES
_minxy_: *FLAILS*
Synecdochic: and the use of slowtime
_minxy_: AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Synecdochic: because the whole world is in that minute
_minxy_: never say what you mean, Rygel.
chi. honey.
Synecdochic: (I still can't stand Rygel. Heh.)
_minxy_: (he is not a nice puppet)
Oh, Pilot.
Synecdochic: and how Jool is the only one who is willing to say it to Pilot's face
_minxy_: ink on skin.
Synecdochic: AND
Oh
yes
this
_minxy_: so *sad*
Synecdochic: her FACE
his SKIN
_minxy_: She's right there and not looking at him
Synecdochic: the *body language*
_minxy_: His body language is ....
YES
Synecdochic: secrets of the universe written under his skin
_minxy_: Turned away, don't look at me, don't leave
Synecdochic: *makes big flaily gestures*
_minxy_: i want a group hug.
Synecdochic: God. Yes.
_minxy_: *mashes all characters together *
Synecdochic: Shall we keep going?
_minxy_: YES OMG
Synecdochic: I want to see you flailing about DWTB *G*
(which is my favorite episode)
_minxy_: Do I need a break first?
Synecdochic: Take a deep breath and just plunge right in.
_minxy_: Like, um, to get DUCT TAPE TO HOLD MY HEART TOGETHER OR SOMETHING
Synecdochic: because. just.
_minxy_: short water break and diving in.
Synecdochic: *nodnod*
_minxy_: *dives haphazardly*
*big deep breath*
*go*
Oh, Aeryn.
Oh god, those visuals.
Synecdochic: yes.
"again."
_minxy_: THE PREVIOUSLIES WILL KILL ME
Synecdochic: that shot of John through the glass kills me *every time*
every. fucking. time.
_minxy_: Oh. She can't stand knowing that John is looking at her and closes her eyes.
This.... is different
Is John dreaming?
Synecdochic: the color contrasts.
_minxy_: ...about shopping?
Synecdochic: the *color contrasts*
White and black.
_minxy_: HE'S DREAMING ABOUT SHOPPING. John you are so odd sometimes.
Yeah, black and white and blue and skin
Synecdochic: (he is *so fucking gorgeous*)
(and she is incandescent)
_minxy_: So is *SHE*
Yes.
WHO IS THIS PERSON?
Synecdochic: Watch the color symbolism.
_minxy_: a cook?
Synecdochic: Through this whole episode.
Ha. Yes. *g*
"like, bosnia!"
_minxy_: Oh,
Aeryn can't live on earth....
Pip, who is that woman?
Synecdochic: (this is a running joke)
_minxy_: Leviathan burial place....
Synecdochic: "Revenge is a feast best served immediately." D'Argo, I adore you *beyond words*.
_minxy_: John is strange with multitasking
COLLISION? Because they haven't been through enough????
Synecdochic: *g*
_minxy_: It's just... they never get a moment to breathe!
Chiana was looking at John's fingers.
Synecdochic: Yep.
_minxy_: Like the secrets of the universe were under his fingernails.
Synecdochic: John's still working on wormholes.
_minxy_: Can't help it.
Synecdochic: And, well. His own skin is the best canvas.
_minxy_: a gorgeous canvas
Synecdochic: mm. yes. *g*
(I have such a dyke crush on Browder)
(it's scary)
_minxy_: Aeryn is so lovely
Synecdochic: God, that moment of *look* in the midst of all of this
_minxy_: (I have a massive straight-girl lust for Aeryn, so)
Oh, his dreams
Synecdochic: oh. my. god. the. color. symbolism.
_minxy_: So much dark.
Synecdochic: the lighting in this whole episode is genius
_minxy_: So much shadow, and overexposed dreams
D'Argo, you are hilarious.
Synecdochic: second luckiest man on earth!
_minxy_: The other leviathan is quite irrational.
Synecdochic: (integration. disjunction.)
"That's certainly true." Oh, *Rygel*
_minxy_: I don't know if grief can be classified as irrational, it just is.
Synecdochic: Yeah.
_minxy_: I'm not Crighton's mate; I'm not tied to him in any way.
Synecdochic: Aeryn's denial is just ... stunning.
yes.
_minxy_: RIGHT AERYN.
Grey girl in shadow.
Synecdochic: the *lighting*.
(I love how *aware* John is. God. He can't lie to himself even when he wants to.)
_minxy_: She wants to stay together, but can't. Oh Chi.
I look like a Peacekeeper.
Oh, John.
Synecdochic: "s'cool."
(I adore the crazy old lady so much)
_minxy_: Who *IS* this woman????
And why did she just blow baby powder at John?
Synecdochic: (whyyy does he look so good when he's crying and beaten and red-eyed and bleeding?)
(it's not fair)
_minxy_: I don't know, but it's sexy as HELL.
Synecdochic: YES
don't shoot d'argo, john. please.
_minxy_: Perhaps a slight misjudgement of his *WEIGHT*?
Synecdochic: "Perhaps a slight... HA. Yes.
_minxy_: SHE KILLED HER PILOT!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!
BAD CRAZY LEVIATHAN!!!!!
Synecdochic: never one to say I told you so, but!
GOD. John all shut up and dark with sunglasses
_minxy_: John, believing she will be so miserable. *KNOWING*
Synecdochic: He really can't lie to himself.
He's come too far.
_minxy_: Scorpius' influence, or natural personality
Synecdochic: And that's really the tragedy of John Crichton.
_minxy_: ?
Synecdochic: Too much self-awareness.
_minxy_: That he could be happy if he could lie to himself?
Synecdochic: Yeah.
_minxy_: Oh, John
Synecdochic: Or at least a reasonable approximation.
oh god chiana
_minxy_: Sin of omission, maybe.
Synecdochic: CHIANA
_minxy_: Oh, Chi.
I once asked Zhaan.... I once asked Zhaan...
Synecdochic: (I love how this show will put in pausals and stutters and hesitations)
no matter what.
_minxy_: Chiana is so frightened of honesty.
Synecdochic: she really is.
and the contrast between that and the other concept of Chi, in John's visions. it's just. stunning.
_minxy_: Oh, Chi in red.
Look at her behind metal and in wire
on the ship.
Synecdochic: yes.
and how John is just ... elsewhere right now
there's some part of him that's just shut *down*
and they managed to actually convey it. god.
_minxy_: Oh dear Gods.
Moya needs you.
to kill.
Oh.
Synecdochic: *yes*
"Chiana midwived Talyn's birth. She shouldn't have to bury him alone."
_minxy_: yes.
Aeryn with her bravado before a fight, so calm
Synecdochic: "I heard that." I love how they can put in those tiny little beats of grim humor
it's jsut so ... *human*
these people are so. fucking. *real*.
_minxy_: Rygel questioning the faith, but still right there for all of them.
John had the presence of mind to wear gloves?
Synecdochic: ("That's why I'm wearing gloves.")
*g*
YES
_minxy_: What is *with* the crazy old lady eating grass?
Synecdochic: how even *here* and now and in this situation they're still *them*. heh.
_minxy_: Don't begrudge us our dreams
Synecdochic: and the *juxtaposition*
_minxy_: i don't want to kill him, I just want revenge. The hell? D'Argo, seriously, splitting hairs, here.
Aren't we, boys? YEAH.
Synecdochic: Everyone's an idiot!
_minxy_: SHE'S SPITTING IN THE OATMEAL NOW SYNE.
Oh, Chi and Jool.
Good girl, Jool
Oh, thank you Rygel, Chi can't say honest emotional things, it's not her way.
And with respect for faith he doesn't get.
Synecdochic: and here is where I CRY AGAIN
*whimper*
(okay, yeah, I actually just whimpered)
yeah. he has his moments.
_minxy_: Oh, they killed the leviathan.
Look at their faces.
Synecdochic: joy and sorrow all at once.
_minxy_: Rygel pronounces that they all survived with such an ominous tone.
Synecdochic: and they can't believe it's *over*
and aeryn can't listen.
_minxy_: His hysteria about going home and everyone's faces....
Synecdochic: YES
the WRITING on his SKIN
_minxy_: and John's, actually in the moment, now it's present for him
Crazy old woman repaying a debt.
The lies that stay hidden do more damage.
Synecdochic: (and I love John's fucking *hysteria* at the thought that someone *else* is fucking with his *head*)
_minxy_: Sometimes she's not crazy.
Synecdochic: Yup. She's sometimes the sanest one there.
_minxy_: But he's okay with honesty, is complicit with that.
Synecdochic: his *face*
oh my god his *face*
_minxy_: Oh, John.
So. Tired.
Carrying so much weight. No wonder the crazy old lady misjudged it.
Synecdochic: the way it never was and just. omg.
because no one else can.
_minxy_: Show me again...
Synecdochic: this is the part where I CRY LIKE A LITTLE BABY
_minxy_: She's green, that crazy old woman is *green*
It would be so nice, this dream of his
Synecdochic: the *dancing*
_minxy_: Hand to hand, Aeryn glowing, John so broken and covered in graffiti...
Synecdochic: and his face back on the ship. so *happy*. for that one minute
_minxy_: Jack and Aeryn...
D'Argo such a hit with the ladies....
Having a blast with the party
HEEE.... aw...
Oh, JACK.
Oh, Jack.
See truth, see fear
Synecdochic (5:45:30 PM): oh my GOD that moment still SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME EVEN WHEN I KNOW IT'S COMING
_minxy_: D'Argo running into the fight, white shirt, red blood.
Synecdochic (5:46:02 PM): and how they all run *to*. instead of run *away*.
_minxy_: Chi, blue dress, blue blood.
Oh.
Synecdochic (5:46:58 PM): and the slow-motion destruction, just like the command carrier, just like ... oh God, *Aeryn*
_minxy_: John, you will make me cry
I CANNOT HANDLE IT WHEN AERYN GOES DOWN. HER CONFUSION KILLS ME.
Don't say that, Aeryn. Please.
Synecdochic (5:47:54 PM): "I've never felt better." Because, just. god. you wind up feeling just as gut-shot
_minxy_: JOHN, oh god.
Synecdochic (5:48:10 PM): always the last man standing, john. always the last one left.
_minxy_: John.
Synecdochic (5:48:36 PM): And Scorpius's pity. EVEN NOW.
_minxy_: Tell me, John, what did you expect?
Always with the honesty and Scorpius
I tried to merge the two, they're incompatible.
He's left standing there, looking at himself, and he has nothing.
Wow, the crazy old lady is *smart*, and also, not as tired as the rest of them.
OH CRAP.
THESE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THEM
Aeryn with her avoiding pain, John finally realizing what he wants.
Synecdochic (5:51:15 PM): "What do you want?" "You." god, this scene kills me, it *kills* me, their *faces*, their *words*. we don't say goodbye. and john can't handle the in between.
_minxy_: Don't make me say goodbye and don't make me stay. Oh, and he doesn't.
Synecdochic (5:52:16 PM): not him; not me; John Crichton. and the way they can't ever quite meet. ever, physical *or* emotional.
_minxy_: It's what you asked for, Aeryn, why don't you stay if you know damn well that you want to?
Flip of an alien coin, dear gods.
Synecdochic (5:56:17 PM): and she watches the coin, their fate, and he watches *her*. his center. his light. his life.
_minxy_: OH NO THAT'S NOT THE END. NOT NOT NOT.
D'Argo's goodbye.
Oh.
So many farewells
Except Aeryn
With her sense of fate
Fly safe
Synecdochic: YES
_minxy_: oh, a goodbye
Jool, so worried.
Synecdochic: (hi, Harvey)
_minxy_: Hi, Harvey.
My gift, oh dear.
Be forgiving, be kind.
HOLY CRAP.
WHAT?
Synecdochic: *G*
_minxy_: FLAIL
FLAIL OF FLAILY PROPORTIONS
Synecdochic: for the love of God, please.
_minxy_: WORMHOLE, WHAT????
JOHN LEFT BEHIND?
WHATTHEHELL
OMGNOTHATISSONOTFAIRJOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Synecdochic: I LOVE THIS FUCKING SHOW
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
_minxy_: SO SMALL
SUCH HUGE REPERCUSSIONS.
LEARN THE TRUTH, LOSE EVERYONE
OMG
*FLAIL*
holy crap.
this show is going to kill me
AIUYGHU#^%R%^&787111
*curls up under blankets for a few days*
Then I went and watchedsynecdochic's Consequences video like three times in succession and told her how beautiful it is. Yes.
synecdochic on the IM when I announced that Farcape or Naps were winning in the 'I am sick, what shall I do?' poll, and invited her to watch with me. So all the reactions are two-fold, and the conversation actually starts with rydra_wong too, who claimed she had enough pain and angst with her WIP of Doom, thanks much, and preferred to read a book. But she came to taunt me a little first, and say hi. Nice of her, though now I need a hug, obviously. *makes grabby hands of need*I hope it's readable, though, because it was so much fun to watch this episode with company, even if my wireless connection is somewhat unpredictable. But this is how it went, typos and all:
_minxy_: Should I be worried that this episode is going to break my heart into little bitty pieces?
Synecdochic: ...duh.
rydra_wong: *refrains from spoilage*
Synecdochic: this is *farscape*. :)
_minxy_: I am in a very fragile sick condition!
rydra_wong: Although ... this *is* Farscape.
_minxy_: Oh, right.
Silly question.
rydra_wong: GMTA.
Synecdochic: I will say that there are some of the most gorgeous visuals in the entire series ahead ...
_minxy_: *g*
rydra_wong: Yes!
_minxy_: Ooooooohhhhhhhhhh.........
rydra_wong: It is a great episode.
Synecdochic: Yes.
The end of season 3 is one of the most perfect bits of TV ever.
Like, from mid-S3 on, in fact.
_minxy_: Are these the last two eps, or are there more?
Synecdochic: Last two of the season.
_minxy_: Uh oh. Usually they kill me.
Synecdochic: :)
_minxy_: And it will be *days* before I can get my hands on the next eps.
Oh well!
Cheerfully into the fray!
rydra_wong: (And oh, minxy, once you have seen this, you will be able to read my choc_fic fic! When it gets posted.)
_minxy_: REALLY? Excellent!
Synecdochic: Ready to start?
rydra_wong: Anyhoo.
Have fun!
_minxy_:
Yes, ready!
rydra_wong: *waves*
_minxy_: Bye!
rydra_wong left the chat.
_minxy_: Okey dokey... just getting through the anime commercial...
Synecdochic: *giggle*
_minxy_: AND, the menu!
Synecdochic: okay!
3
_minxy_: Pretty Moya.
Synecdochic: 2...
1....
_minxy_: GO!
Synecdochic: ding *g*
*reminds self of where we are*
thank goodness for the Previouslies.
I love that shot of John striding off Moya.
_minxy_: those bracelets look heavy, don't they?
Yes, also love that long look at Aeryn, it just tells you so much about everything she's feeling.
Wow, Scorpius is definitely a top.
Synecdochic: Yes.
She has such an expressive face.
and oh, God, there's something wrong with me, but watching John getting beaten up is *so fucking hot*.
I love how *over the edge* he is, man.
Yes. Oh, yes.
_minxy_: Heh, liked that head bash. That was cool.
Ha. Loved that look from Crais about looking tense and needing the steam.
Synecdochic: It's the little cheek-tap.
I think the thing I love most about this situation is how everyone who *really doesn't want to work together* has to work together.
_minxy_: OMG this ep is killing me!
(likewise)
Yes, even Scorpius and John fighting and beating each other up (and, you know, foreplay) is them arguing about how they have to work together.
Synecdochic (4:35:47 PM): HARVEY. I love Harvey. So fucking much. And I love how Harvey and John's conversations are so damn *symbolic*. And I love how John really, really, really doesn't want to be doing this, and can't see any other way out. and ... here we start with my *favorite imagery ever in the history of television period*. John. *John*.
_minxy_: I also love Chiana's laughing and ott reactions to things she can't process right away.
Contrast that with Aeryn's gravitas and you totally understand what John just said.
Plus, you know, DESTROY EVERYONE AERYN EVER CARED ABOUT.
It's kind of fascinating to see Crais completely ensconced in this plan, and trusted.
Synecdochic (4:39:02 PM): This is also one of the best examples of games and roles and conspiracies and people giving information out of tactical necessity and not as a betrayal that I've ever seen. ever. it's brilliant.
Synecdochic (4:40:13 PM): and how far Aeryn's come.
_minxy_: Wow, Rygel saying that there are some things too powerful for *anyone* is pretty weighty.
Harvey is hilarious.
WOW, Scorpius looks so *betrayed*
Oooh, neat visual there with the ship as ceiling.
Synecdochic (4:41:42 PM): (this episode above all else makes me mourn how criminally underused Browder was on SG-1. Alas.)
and yes. this whole thing is just *brilliant*.
and powerful and amazing and *painful*
_minxy_: Yup, betrayal.
Interesting that Scorpius just totally levels with John, though.
It makes sense, though, they have incredible animosity, but huge amounts of honesty in it.
I think Chiana is giving herself away with her *breathing* That's just intense.
All of their reactions to being imprisoned are so sad!
Amazing leadership from Crais. Conflict and and and delegation of tasks.....
And *sacrifice*, wow.
JESUS. CHRIST.
Okay, antibetrayal.
WE'RE ONLY 20 MINUTES INTO THE FRIGGING EPISODE!!!
Fer crying out loud!
Synecdochic: *yes*
that moment when John looks at Crais when he's just announced the truth of the plan.
_minxy_: John just ran out of the room with Scorpius' scientist.
Synecdochic: *nodnod*
The *writing* on the *skin*.
_minxy_: This is Crais walking with his Ex.
The writing on the skin is so, so sexy.
Synecdochic: The John-writing-on-his-skin is my favorite piece of imagery ever.
_minxy_: I love the 3D math.
Oh, Crais is cutting ties, but saying good-bye first. I didn't expect to care about him so much.
PILOT!
Synecdochic: and. John and Pilot. PILOT.
PILOT.
_minxy_: Talyn was always destined for a violent end.... oh, Pilot.
Synecdochic: the muppets will make you *cry*, man
_minxy_: Have, do, will.
Give Moya my love. ARGH.
OH PILOT.
Synecdochic: He really was. And John touching Pilot like that. Forehead to forehead.
_minxy_: No one ever asked his name. Cofax wrote a whole story around that once.
Synecdochic: Yes.
Brilliant.
_minxy_: Read the middle finger, Scorpy
Synecdochic: *YES*
_minxy_: I have a THOUGHT.
Synecdochic: bye bye birdie. I loveh ow he *never* loses the inappropriate pop culture references.
_minxy_: Oh John.
Never, not when no one understands, not when inappropriate.
Synecdochic: That little smirk.
_minxy_: LOOK AT SCORPIUS' FACE!
AT THE WORMHOLE INVITATION.
Synecdochic: YES. Longing and fear and .... *yes*
_minxy_: It's just so OPEN.
And with all his backstory!
Synecdochic: Yes!
_minxy_: Imprisonment! Pain!
Synecdochic: I love eveyrone's faces in this.
_minxy_: HERE, WHAT YOU WANT.
Synecdochic: So mucah of the acting is *so subtle*. Even from the extras.
(Farscape had better wormhole graphics than SG-1 did.)
_minxy_: YESYESYESYESYESYES
Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, prettyness
Synecdochic: Crais is so beautiful. Heh.
_minxy_: Oh, the guy... Scorpius's head scientist, with all that face make-up, still so expressive.
Synecdochic: Yes!
_minxy_: Aeryn walking, stopping to look up as she hears John's voice. Crais' poker face.
Synecdochic: "Not as much as me." Oh, Crais, you *fucking badass*.
_minxy_: Star Wars reference!
John so wants to be Han Solo.
Synecdochic: I love how self-aware this show is. *g*
_minxy_: He's so much closer to whiney Luke.
Synecdochic: *snicker* Well, yes.
_minxy_: Oh, goodbye to Crais from Aeryn.
Synecdochic: that moment when Aeryn touches Crais's face. The *look*.
OMG. I'd forgotten that *look*.
_minxy_: Now you go. OMG.
Synecdochic: Best goodbye ever.
_minxy_: I am torn because i want to go back and see it again.
Synecdochic: oh god here is the part where i CRY
_minxy_: BUT OMG, CAN'T STOP WATCHING.
Synecdochic: I KNOW
_minxy_: Crais and Talyn
Synecdochic: YES
_minxy_: CRAIS AND TALYN.
Synecdochic: *flaily caps lock*
_minxy_:*CAPSLOCK OF DOOOOOM*
Synecdochic: okay, wait for it.
wait for it.
"I am standing in your *heart*, and I am about to squeeze." *inarticulate keyboard mash*
_minxy_: big sigh from Scorpius, 'Braca, solve the problem'
OH, SCORPIUS.
Synecdochic: and John. Through the glass.
_minxy_: SO SO SO SO SO MUCH IN THAT LOOK.
SO MUCH BACK FROM JOHN.
Synecdochic: The look on John's face through the glass.
The utter serenity.
_minxy_: the honesty in that relationship is stunning.
Synecdochic: God, yes.
_minxy_: I AM NOT LEAVING QUIETLY OMG
Synecdochic: I love the contrast between Crais and John and Scorpius. and the *terror* in Scorpius's eyes.
For just that *second*
because by now, they *all know*.
_minxy_: SERENITY AND PANIC AND RESOLVE
I SUGGEST YOU HANG ON TO SOMETHING AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Synecdochic: YES
THAT.
THAT RIGHT THERE
_minxy_: DON'T CRY CRAIS!!!!!
Synecdochic: *keyboard mash*
_minxy_: *WIBBBBBBLEE************* OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Synecdochic: and God, I love how they *let him react*
they *let him close his eyes and inhale*
_minxy_: *FLAILY*
Synecdochic: and then --
this is how you keep from becoming a monster: by becoming a monster.
_minxy_: ALL OF THEM, EVEN D'ARGO AND THE OTHERS, THEY ALL KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED
Synecdochic: *yes*
_minxy_: scream, Jool, NOW IS THE TIME TO MELT METAL.
Synecdochic: I love this show for being willing to give them that moment of indrawn breath.
_minxy_: OH GOD LOOK AT AERYN
Synecdochic: I love her SO MUCH
_minxy_: SHE'S EVACUATING HER FAMILY
OH MY GOD I DON'T HAVE BIG ENOUGH LETTERS
Synecdochic: I KNOW
_minxy_: WOW.
Synecdochic: and the water. and scorpius. and the process of watching your whole empire crumbling around your ears.
_minxy_: it's so powerful to see all these individuals in all that destruction.
Synecdochic: This whole episode is about fiddling while Rome burns, man.
_minxy_: usually it's just a ship blows up (HOLY CRAP LAST EPISODE IT WAS) a ship blows up, number dead, so sad....
This is so visceral
the scientist is so hurt
Synecdochic: and I love how John has come so far. and can say "this is not just science".
because -- God, how far he's come.
_minxy_: oh,
oh.
they ....
oh.
they understand each other.
oh.
Synecdochic: John's *face*
_minxy_: Scorpius on the top of the flooding stairs.
Synecdochic: (GOD, Browder was so fucking UNDERUSED on SG-1)
_minxy_: the Aurora chair, sweet jesus.
Synecdochic: *yes*
sacrifice.
everyone on this show understands sacrifice.
_minxy_: *remembers to breathe*
Only now calling for evacuation.
Aeryn already initiated it at the first possible moment.
Synecdochic: Disbelieving to the end.
_minxy_: It's amazing how they worked together.
Synecdochic: god, i've seen this already and I still can't breathe.
_minxy_: Oh John, I'm sorry you have to use that chair, from either side.
Synecdochic: (D'Argo's ship is SO COOL)
_minxy_: Pilot is just so RIGHT THERE. Helping, ready to help, hoping they come back. I love Pilot.
Synecdochic: God, me too.
_minxy_: HOLY CRAP YES.
Synecdochic: He didn't like them at first, and now ... they're family.
_minxy_: yes.
Synecdochic: because that's what this show is about, man.
_minxy_: OH. Burning.
OH.
Oh, Aeryn.
Synecdochic: fire and water.
God, the *imagery* on this *show*
_minxy_: Yes.
Synecdochic: *makes flaily hands*
_minxy_: *grabs flaily hands and flails MORE*
Synecdochic: oh. OH.
oh God
this scene
_minxy_: D'Argo. Save them, D'Argo.
Synecdochic: oh god john
_minxy_: JOHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Synecdochic: oh god, wait for it
_minxy_: millions will know that name
one evil at a time, that's the best I can do.
Synecdochic: "One evil at a time. That's the best I can do." And his world around his ears.
_minxy_: Ghandi. Oh no.
Synecdochic: and how Scorpius *even now* will reassure him
_minxy_: press 911 and release.
OH.
Synecdochic: YES.
_minxy_: Honesty. Partnership. Even trust, still.
Synecdochic: we were close.
_minxy_: WE WERE CLOSE
Synecdochic: it's all the comfort john can give him.
_minxy_: Walk away. OH
Synecdochic: YES.
_minxy_: Goodbye??????
Synecdochic: the fact that JOhn will let him *walk away*
_minxy_: *FLAILY CAPSLOCK DOOOOOOOM*
Synecdochic: see what i mean? you can't even *cry*
it's just --
_minxy_: Aeryn. John.... D'Argo?
Aeryn.
fly safe.
Synecdochic: *makes big hands indicating heart exploding*
YES
_minxy_: *FLAILS*
Synecdochic: and the use of slowtime
_minxy_: AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Synecdochic: because the whole world is in that minute
_minxy_: never say what you mean, Rygel.
chi. honey.
Synecdochic: (I still can't stand Rygel. Heh.)
_minxy_: (he is not a nice puppet)
Oh, Pilot.
Synecdochic: and how Jool is the only one who is willing to say it to Pilot's face
_minxy_: ink on skin.
Synecdochic: AND
Oh
yes
this
_minxy_: so *sad*
Synecdochic: her FACE
his SKIN
_minxy_: She's right there and not looking at him
Synecdochic: the *body language*
_minxy_: His body language is ....
YES
Synecdochic: secrets of the universe written under his skin
_minxy_: Turned away, don't look at me, don't leave
Synecdochic: *makes big flaily gestures*
_minxy_: i want a group hug.
Synecdochic: God. Yes.
_minxy_: *mashes all characters together *
Synecdochic: Shall we keep going?
_minxy_: YES OMG
Synecdochic: I want to see you flailing about DWTB *G*
(which is my favorite episode)
_minxy_: Do I need a break first?
Synecdochic: Take a deep breath and just plunge right in.
_minxy_: Like, um, to get DUCT TAPE TO HOLD MY HEART TOGETHER OR SOMETHING
Synecdochic: because. just.
_minxy_: short water break and diving in.
Synecdochic: *nodnod*
_minxy_: *dives haphazardly*
*big deep breath*
*go*
Oh, Aeryn.
Oh god, those visuals.
Synecdochic: yes.
"again."
_minxy_: THE PREVIOUSLIES WILL KILL ME
Synecdochic: that shot of John through the glass kills me *every time*
every. fucking. time.
_minxy_: Oh. She can't stand knowing that John is looking at her and closes her eyes.
This.... is different
Is John dreaming?
Synecdochic: the color contrasts.
_minxy_: ...about shopping?
Synecdochic: the *color contrasts*
White and black.
_minxy_: HE'S DREAMING ABOUT SHOPPING. John you are so odd sometimes.
Yeah, black and white and blue and skin
Synecdochic: (he is *so fucking gorgeous*)
(and she is incandescent)
_minxy_: So is *SHE*
Yes.
WHO IS THIS PERSON?
Synecdochic: Watch the color symbolism.
_minxy_: a cook?
Synecdochic: Through this whole episode.
Ha. Yes. *g*
"like, bosnia!"
_minxy_: Oh,
Aeryn can't live on earth....
Pip, who is that woman?
Synecdochic: (this is a running joke)
_minxy_: Leviathan burial place....
Synecdochic: "Revenge is a feast best served immediately." D'Argo, I adore you *beyond words*.
_minxy_: John is strange with multitasking
COLLISION? Because they haven't been through enough????
Synecdochic: *g*
_minxy_: It's just... they never get a moment to breathe!
Chiana was looking at John's fingers.
Synecdochic: Yep.
_minxy_: Like the secrets of the universe were under his fingernails.
Synecdochic: John's still working on wormholes.
_minxy_: Can't help it.
Synecdochic: And, well. His own skin is the best canvas.
_minxy_: a gorgeous canvas
Synecdochic: mm. yes. *g*
(I have such a dyke crush on Browder)
(it's scary)
_minxy_: Aeryn is so lovely
Synecdochic: God, that moment of *look* in the midst of all of this
_minxy_: (I have a massive straight-girl lust for Aeryn, so)
Oh, his dreams
Synecdochic: oh. my. god. the. color. symbolism.
_minxy_: So much dark.
Synecdochic: the lighting in this whole episode is genius
_minxy_: So much shadow, and overexposed dreams
D'Argo, you are hilarious.
Synecdochic: second luckiest man on earth!
_minxy_: The other leviathan is quite irrational.
Synecdochic: (integration. disjunction.)
"That's certainly true." Oh, *Rygel*
_minxy_: I don't know if grief can be classified as irrational, it just is.
Synecdochic: Yeah.
_minxy_: I'm not Crighton's mate; I'm not tied to him in any way.
Synecdochic: Aeryn's denial is just ... stunning.
yes.
_minxy_: RIGHT AERYN.
Grey girl in shadow.
Synecdochic: the *lighting*.
(I love how *aware* John is. God. He can't lie to himself even when he wants to.)
_minxy_: She wants to stay together, but can't. Oh Chi.
I look like a Peacekeeper.
Oh, John.
Synecdochic: "s'cool."
(I adore the crazy old lady so much)
_minxy_: Who *IS* this woman????
And why did she just blow baby powder at John?
Synecdochic: (whyyy does he look so good when he's crying and beaten and red-eyed and bleeding?)
(it's not fair)
_minxy_: I don't know, but it's sexy as HELL.
Synecdochic: YES
don't shoot d'argo, john. please.
_minxy_: Perhaps a slight misjudgement of his *WEIGHT*?
Synecdochic: "Perhaps a slight... HA. Yes.
_minxy_: SHE KILLED HER PILOT!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!
BAD CRAZY LEVIATHAN!!!!!
Synecdochic: never one to say I told you so, but!
GOD. John all shut up and dark with sunglasses
_minxy_: John, believing she will be so miserable. *KNOWING*
Synecdochic: He really can't lie to himself.
He's come too far.
_minxy_: Scorpius' influence, or natural personality
Synecdochic: And that's really the tragedy of John Crichton.
_minxy_: ?
Synecdochic: Too much self-awareness.
_minxy_: That he could be happy if he could lie to himself?
Synecdochic: Yeah.
_minxy_: Oh, John
Synecdochic: Or at least a reasonable approximation.
oh god chiana
_minxy_: Sin of omission, maybe.
Synecdochic: CHIANA
_minxy_: Oh, Chi.
I once asked Zhaan.... I once asked Zhaan...
Synecdochic: (I love how this show will put in pausals and stutters and hesitations)
no matter what.
_minxy_: Chiana is so frightened of honesty.
Synecdochic: she really is.
and the contrast between that and the other concept of Chi, in John's visions. it's just. stunning.
_minxy_: Oh, Chi in red.
Look at her behind metal and in wire
on the ship.
Synecdochic: yes.
and how John is just ... elsewhere right now
there's some part of him that's just shut *down*
and they managed to actually convey it. god.
_minxy_: Oh dear Gods.
Moya needs you.
to kill.
Oh.
Synecdochic: *yes*
"Chiana midwived Talyn's birth. She shouldn't have to bury him alone."
_minxy_: yes.
Aeryn with her bravado before a fight, so calm
Synecdochic: "I heard that." I love how they can put in those tiny little beats of grim humor
it's jsut so ... *human*
these people are so. fucking. *real*.
_minxy_: Rygel questioning the faith, but still right there for all of them.
John had the presence of mind to wear gloves?
Synecdochic: ("That's why I'm wearing gloves.")
*g*
YES
_minxy_: What is *with* the crazy old lady eating grass?
Synecdochic: how even *here* and now and in this situation they're still *them*. heh.
_minxy_: Don't begrudge us our dreams
Synecdochic: and the *juxtaposition*
_minxy_: i don't want to kill him, I just want revenge. The hell? D'Argo, seriously, splitting hairs, here.
Aren't we, boys? YEAH.
Synecdochic: Everyone's an idiot!
_minxy_: SHE'S SPITTING IN THE OATMEAL NOW SYNE.
Oh, Chi and Jool.
Good girl, Jool
Oh, thank you Rygel, Chi can't say honest emotional things, it's not her way.
And with respect for faith he doesn't get.
Synecdochic: and here is where I CRY AGAIN
*whimper*
(okay, yeah, I actually just whimpered)
yeah. he has his moments.
_minxy_: Oh, they killed the leviathan.
Look at their faces.
Synecdochic: joy and sorrow all at once.
_minxy_: Rygel pronounces that they all survived with such an ominous tone.
Synecdochic: and they can't believe it's *over*
and aeryn can't listen.
_minxy_: His hysteria about going home and everyone's faces....
Synecdochic: YES
the WRITING on his SKIN
_minxy_: and John's, actually in the moment, now it's present for him
Crazy old woman repaying a debt.
The lies that stay hidden do more damage.
Synecdochic: (and I love John's fucking *hysteria* at the thought that someone *else* is fucking with his *head*)
_minxy_: Sometimes she's not crazy.
Synecdochic: Yup. She's sometimes the sanest one there.
_minxy_: But he's okay with honesty, is complicit with that.
Synecdochic: his *face*
oh my god his *face*
_minxy_: Oh, John.
So. Tired.
Carrying so much weight. No wonder the crazy old lady misjudged it.
Synecdochic: the way it never was and just. omg.
because no one else can.
_minxy_: Show me again...
Synecdochic: this is the part where I CRY LIKE A LITTLE BABY
_minxy_: She's green, that crazy old woman is *green*
It would be so nice, this dream of his
Synecdochic: the *dancing*
_minxy_: Hand to hand, Aeryn glowing, John so broken and covered in graffiti...
Synecdochic: and his face back on the ship. so *happy*. for that one minute
_minxy_: Jack and Aeryn...
D'Argo such a hit with the ladies....
Having a blast with the party
HEEE.... aw...
Oh, JACK.
Oh, Jack.
See truth, see fear
Synecdochic (5:45:30 PM): oh my GOD that moment still SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME EVEN WHEN I KNOW IT'S COMING
_minxy_: D'Argo running into the fight, white shirt, red blood.
Synecdochic (5:46:02 PM): and how they all run *to*. instead of run *away*.
_minxy_: Chi, blue dress, blue blood.
Oh.
Synecdochic (5:46:58 PM): and the slow-motion destruction, just like the command carrier, just like ... oh God, *Aeryn*
_minxy_: John, you will make me cry
I CANNOT HANDLE IT WHEN AERYN GOES DOWN. HER CONFUSION KILLS ME.
Don't say that, Aeryn. Please.
Synecdochic (5:47:54 PM): "I've never felt better." Because, just. god. you wind up feeling just as gut-shot
_minxy_: JOHN, oh god.
Synecdochic (5:48:10 PM): always the last man standing, john. always the last one left.
_minxy_: John.
Synecdochic (5:48:36 PM): And Scorpius's pity. EVEN NOW.
_minxy_: Tell me, John, what did you expect?
Always with the honesty and Scorpius
I tried to merge the two, they're incompatible.
He's left standing there, looking at himself, and he has nothing.
Wow, the crazy old lady is *smart*, and also, not as tired as the rest of them.
OH CRAP.
THESE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THEM
Aeryn with her avoiding pain, John finally realizing what he wants.
Synecdochic (5:51:15 PM): "What do you want?" "You." god, this scene kills me, it *kills* me, their *faces*, their *words*. we don't say goodbye. and john can't handle the in between.
_minxy_: Don't make me say goodbye and don't make me stay. Oh, and he doesn't.
Synecdochic (5:52:16 PM): not him; not me; John Crichton. and the way they can't ever quite meet. ever, physical *or* emotional.
_minxy_: It's what you asked for, Aeryn, why don't you stay if you know damn well that you want to?
Flip of an alien coin, dear gods.
Synecdochic (5:56:17 PM): and she watches the coin, their fate, and he watches *her*. his center. his light. his life.
_minxy_: OH NO THAT'S NOT THE END. NOT NOT NOT.
D'Argo's goodbye.
Oh.
So many farewells
Except Aeryn
With her sense of fate
Fly safe
Synecdochic: YES
_minxy_: oh, a goodbye
Jool, so worried.
Synecdochic: (hi, Harvey)
_minxy_: Hi, Harvey.
My gift, oh dear.
Be forgiving, be kind.
HOLY CRAP.
WHAT?
Synecdochic: *G*
_minxy_: FLAIL
FLAIL OF FLAILY PROPORTIONS
Synecdochic: for the love of God, please.
_minxy_: WORMHOLE, WHAT????
JOHN LEFT BEHIND?
WHATTHEHELL
OMGNOTHATISSONOTFAIRJOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Synecdochic: I LOVE THIS FUCKING SHOW
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
_minxy_: SO SMALL
SUCH HUGE REPERCUSSIONS.
LEARN THE TRUTH, LOSE EVERYONE
OMG
*FLAIL*
holy crap.
this show is going to kill me
AIUYGHU#^%R%^&787111
*curls up under blankets for a few days*
Then I went and watched
synecdochic's Consequences video like three times in succession and told her how beautiful it is. Yes.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-09-11 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 03:05 am (UTC)I had it on file from when Cofax gave me her favorite vids, but because I don't know whether they'll spoil me for S4, I've watched none of them. Thanks for clearing that one, it was totally worth it. Wow.
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Date: 2007-09-12 12:09 am (UTC)Yes, SHOW.
I cannot wait for you to watch "What Was Lost" part 1 & 2. Oh yes.
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:06 am (UTC)Every time I see these big eps, these ones that people cannot wait for me to see, there's another one (or two) just waiting for me to see next! How will I process if the show gets even *better*? HUH?
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:31 am (UTC)As for Scorpius....gods, just wait!
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Date: 2007-09-12 12:41 am (UTC)I'm all teary-eyed just reading this. GOD, SHOW!
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:07 am (UTC)JUST LIKE THAT.
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Date: 2007-09-12 12:41 am (UTC)The end of DWTB makes me weep every time. It's so fantastic. I love that episode so, and not least because we had to wait SO LONG for it.
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:09 am (UTC)(also, since I've just watched another recommended vid that I miraculously have thanks to you, THANK YOU FOR THE VIDS.)
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Date: 2007-09-12 01:10 am (UTC)The last ever (supposedly) Farscape con is going on this November just up the road from you in LA, you MUST go so we can live through you!
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:10 am (UTC)Oh Farscape, you are so awesome.
I'm going to need to purchase the Starburst Editions, quite clearly.
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:21 am (UTC)I'm actually debating going to the Farscape Con this year, but I would be stopping in LA on my way home from Beijing and I think I'll be too burned out to actually enjoy the Con.... still wishing it, in a crack smokin' kind of way..
But you should TOTALLY GO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2007-09-12 02:45 pm (UTC)Farscape. It breaks you into small pieces and keeps you begging for more.
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Date: 2007-09-13 01:10 am (UTC)But I totally believe that the fanfic would have been astounding. Looking forward to it.
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Date: 2007-09-12 06:16 pm (UTC)And the dialogue between the two of you was fantastic:)
The imagery of John with wormholes written into his skin is probably also my favorite imagery from anything. I could write novels about it.
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Date: 2007-09-13 01:12 am (UTC)That imagery is *incredible* The lighting, for one, the 3dness of the math, and how Ben held his hands and fingers, looking at it... also just the symbols curved and dotted and alien and complex. It started out such a simple way to write on one's hand, and it became such a huge, meaningful visual! I think that's why I loved Syne's vid, too, she worked that image all the way through.
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Date: 2007-09-13 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 02:22 pm (UTC)