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shallowness) wrote2014-04-22 08:20 am
shallowness) wrote2014-04-22 08:20 am
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TV, old and new
Last night, I happened to chance on Farscape airing on PickTv (Sky's front window on Freeview, I think - I had known that Sky was going to be re-airing it). I missed the opening couple of minutes, maybe. So that led to nearly an hour of 'Oh, my babies'. Farscape is one of the shows of my heart, so I was celebrating seeing them all again. Innocent John - he first comes across Moya, of course, but takes a while to discover she's alive. And Aeryn is the last crew member for him to meet. Setting sentimentality like enjoying the knowledge that D'Argo and John are going to be best friends forever, I think as a first episode it does a decent job of introducing everyone and suggesting there are going to be interesting developments to follow.
Zhaan is the most intriguing, I think, an anarchist-priest with 'appetites', the one who calms everyone down and gets them to focus on the imminent crisis instead of quarreling, beautiful and a little bit dangerous. And also with the fabulous scarf hood that I adore. Basically this made me want to look up Zhaan fanvids.
But the seeds of John/Aeryn are there, one of my all time favourite ships - his face when he clocks who is under that helmet, how she throws him to the floor (to an unsubtle position). Compassion, irreversibly contaminated (by compassion) but her face as the system she's been bred to betrays her, because of the decision of someone who's not doing what he's meant to do, and 'you can be more'.
There are some bits that they clearly haven't nailed down, but there's the distinctive camera movements in Moya and seeing the remarkable Pilot for the first time still evinces a gasp. Of course, I was watching knowing what complexities would come and what pain and angst would be revealed and suffered. Plus helium farts, and we'll never get such a Star Trek the Motion Picture slo-mo tour of Moya's hangar again.
I was reminded that I've been meaning to rewatch Farscape on DVD for an age, which I will definitely do after this taster, as I doubt I'll be able to catch all the episodes being aired.
I watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.14 The Ebony Falcon I laughed, maybe less at Jake the overprotective, which was obviously about his abandonment issues and the power of cute kids. But it was good to see Terry in action more. One of Holt's other duties is trying to get everyone else not to hate Gina, despite herself. And so this was the place Rosa's question about axes came from (a big part of the March madness campaign for her). Never change too much, Rosa Dias (she and Aeryn would get on so very, very well.)
Plus Revenge (E4's adverts for this show. which it airs and I watch are still viciously amusing) 3-16 Disgrace
I enjoyed when Emily was clearly performing for Victoria and Daniel, though, when she said she wanted the divorce to happen on her terms, I didn't expect it to be so quick. At least there are some developments in how her society sees her.
I realised, by reading the names of the guest stars, that the reason the PI was familiar was because he was played by Steve Strait aka Warren Peace. In my defence, I don't think I've seen him act with short hair before. I am going to check whether there's been a flurry of Sky High private eye AUs and, if not, think about writing one. Not that he had a lot to do this episode.
Stevie asking who Emily really was led to nowhere except Jack working with Nolan and insisting on being in on the rebranded revenge action, despite Emily's attempts to protect him. Carl could have been used as more of a bargaining chip there.
Deeply unshocked that Pascal was involved in the cover-up, although shouldn't Emily be looking at finding out what he knows and getting the evidence before 'taking him down'? Duly noted that he was very young when he had Margeaux, of course he's half in love with Victoria, and he and Margeaux really should have spoken more French with each other. Stop being so tokenistic with the subtitles, show!
I enjoyed the little flickers of humanity in Conrad's sympathy for Emily and regret for what he did to Stevie.
Zhaan is the most intriguing, I think, an anarchist-priest with 'appetites', the one who calms everyone down and gets them to focus on the imminent crisis instead of quarreling, beautiful and a little bit dangerous. And also with the fabulous scarf hood that I adore. Basically this made me want to look up Zhaan fanvids.
But the seeds of John/Aeryn are there, one of my all time favourite ships - his face when he clocks who is under that helmet, how she throws him to the floor (to an unsubtle position). Compassion, irreversibly contaminated (by compassion) but her face as the system she's been bred to betrays her, because of the decision of someone who's not doing what he's meant to do, and 'you can be more'.
There are some bits that they clearly haven't nailed down, but there's the distinctive camera movements in Moya and seeing the remarkable Pilot for the first time still evinces a gasp. Of course, I was watching knowing what complexities would come and what pain and angst would be revealed and suffered. Plus helium farts, and we'll never get such a Star Trek the Motion Picture slo-mo tour of Moya's hangar again.
I was reminded that I've been meaning to rewatch Farscape on DVD for an age, which I will definitely do after this taster, as I doubt I'll be able to catch all the episodes being aired.
I watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.14 The Ebony Falcon I laughed, maybe less at Jake the overprotective, which was obviously about his abandonment issues and the power of cute kids. But it was good to see Terry in action more. One of Holt's other duties is trying to get everyone else not to hate Gina, despite herself. And so this was the place Rosa's question about axes came from (a big part of the March madness campaign for her). Never change too much, Rosa Dias (she and Aeryn would get on so very, very well.)
Plus Revenge (E4's adverts for this show. which it airs and I watch are still viciously amusing) 3-16 Disgrace
I enjoyed when Emily was clearly performing for Victoria and Daniel, though, when she said she wanted the divorce to happen on her terms, I didn't expect it to be so quick. At least there are some developments in how her society sees her.
I realised, by reading the names of the guest stars, that the reason the PI was familiar was because he was played by Steve Strait aka Warren Peace. In my defence, I don't think I've seen him act with short hair before. I am going to check whether there's been a flurry of Sky High private eye AUs and, if not, think about writing one. Not that he had a lot to do this episode.
Stevie asking who Emily really was led to nowhere except Jack working with Nolan and insisting on being in on the rebranded revenge action, despite Emily's attempts to protect him. Carl could have been used as more of a bargaining chip there.
Deeply unshocked that Pascal was involved in the cover-up, although shouldn't Emily be looking at finding out what he knows and getting the evidence before 'taking him down'? Duly noted that he was very young when he had Margeaux, of course he's half in love with Victoria, and he and Margeaux really should have spoken more French with each other. Stop being so tokenistic with the subtitles, show!
I enjoyed the little flickers of humanity in Conrad's sympathy for Emily and regret for what he did to Stevie.