More Farscape
May. 12th, 2015 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaHum. So it's been... a week? Since I posted about Farscape? Almost? My obsession has gotten way, way, WAY worse.
Potential spoilers. I ship John/Aeryn SO FREAKING HARD. I usually don't really care one way or another if characters get together through the course of the series. I actually can't think of a series I've seen recently (OK, Downton Abbey) where I wanted it as bad as I wanted John/Aeryn to be canon. I was shipping it so much, desperate for anything that would confirm it was a thing. I started reading smutty fanfiction (since one doesn't need canon to ship anything and write smutty fanfic!) and tried to avoid spoilers. I was more or less successful at that, finding a rec-list with a number of fics that were clearly tagged with what part of the series they were in (not a lot... but a decent number, and some were very long and very smutty. Perfect).
I was thrilled when my ship became canon. Even allowing for Downton, I haven't been that excited for a couple to get together since Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5. In 1996. And then I was heartbroken when it became un-canon. And I've been on the edge of my seat and annoying my cat desperately hoping for it to become canon again.
(It just did. I can get through the rest of the series knowing that much.)
But I also really want to be in fandom! I've been reading more and more fanfic as I get further along with less fear of spoilers. I've tried to go into tumblr a couple of times but a: it slows my computer down horrendously and b: I've been accidentally spoiled just from gif sets and I so need to be not-spoiled anymore.
If I push through a bunch more eps tonight, I miiiight be able to finish season 4 before I leave for Calgary on Friday. But I have also been advised to have Peacekeeper Wars handy once I do because it ends abruptly and it wasn't continued past season 4, except for Peacekeeper Wars.
And, gah, this show broke my heart so many times. At the end of season 3,the crew split up and went their separate ways. Moya was sucked into a wormhole and John was left floating in space, all alone. Then in the beginning of season 4, he had taken up residence on a very very old Leviathan, Elack, whom he and his pilot were so very close to the end of their lives. I sort of missed what happened; Elack and Pilot were trying to reach the end of their lives at a sacred Leviathan graveyard but I'm not sure why they agreed to help John. Then two episodes later, the crew had mostly all reunited and they were trapped by peacekeepers and needed a distraction, so Elack and Pilot deliberately crashed into the planet to wreck all their ships. It was so sad, but it didn't kick in until the next day when I was driving to visit my grandparents. And it just hit me out of nowhere, just singing along to the radio and thinking idly about different things, including the eps I'd just watched, and bam, tears everywhere. Hard when one is doing 110km/hr.
Everything about this show is so wonderful. I hate it and love it for breaking my heart. I never expected that I would love it this much. Everyone and everything is so beautiful, and it makes me cry, and I can't stop watching. I already want to rewatch it, too, even though after this I can finally catch up on Doctor Who.
And I really ought to be tidying my apartment more since I have an inspection either tomorrow or Thursday but... I need this like I need air (or so it seems).
Potential spoilers. I ship John/Aeryn SO FREAKING HARD. I usually don't really care one way or another if characters get together through the course of the series. I actually can't think of a series I've seen recently (OK, Downton Abbey) where I wanted it as bad as I wanted John/Aeryn to be canon. I was shipping it so much, desperate for anything that would confirm it was a thing. I started reading smutty fanfiction (since one doesn't need canon to ship anything and write smutty fanfic!) and tried to avoid spoilers. I was more or less successful at that, finding a rec-list with a number of fics that were clearly tagged with what part of the series they were in (not a lot... but a decent number, and some were very long and very smutty. Perfect).
(It just did. I can get through the rest of the series knowing that much.)
But I also really want to be in fandom! I've been reading more and more fanfic as I get further along with less fear of spoilers. I've tried to go into tumblr a couple of times but a: it slows my computer down horrendously and b: I've been accidentally spoiled just from gif sets and I so need to be not-spoiled anymore.
If I push through a bunch more eps tonight, I miiiight be able to finish season 4 before I leave for Calgary on Friday. But I have also been advised to have Peacekeeper Wars handy once I do because it ends abruptly and it wasn't continued past season 4, except for Peacekeeper Wars.
And, gah, this show broke my heart so many times. At the end of season 3,
Everything about this show is so wonderful. I hate it and love it for breaking my heart. I never expected that I would love it this much. Everyone and everything is so beautiful, and it makes me cry, and I can't stop watching. I already want to rewatch it, too, even though after this I can finally catch up on Doctor Who.
And I really ought to be tidying my apartment more since I have an inspection either tomorrow or Thursday but... I need this like I need air (or so it seems).
