Fandom Snowflake #5

[eve11]

This is mostly a placeholder, but snowflake_challenge number 5 is to discuss/promote a canon you love.

Aaaaah what do I choose???

Oh wait, of course I choose John Crichton and Aeryn Sun in Farscape. Oh my frelling GOD, it is the most epic and amazing love story, brilliantly acted, brilliantly scripted, beautifully filmed, laugh out loud, cry your eyes out, tear your heart out and hand it to you a thousand times over in a show that lasted only four seasons and a made-for-tv movie. It's the essential "contemporary astronaut flung through wormhole into strange land meets bad-ass but emotionally stunted alien commando and they fall in love" but aaaaagh it is so much more than that. Growth, survival, death, torture, angst, hilarity, slow descent into madness, more death, EVEN MORE ANGST, and lots of shooting things.

If I go searching for highlights, I'm going to end up rewatching the whole series. And if I post them all here, I will definitely spoil you all. But you start here:

Rank and Regiment, Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nv9rw1pSs
Very. Clear. Air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7-Ta-t-EY
Is somebody docking?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-RKumWTkkE

[3.5 seasons later]

End up around here (which hey, also has a nice recap since it's the start of the miniseries, and doesn't particularly spoil very much):
One More Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1gBNNyACvI

And in between.... it's a hell of a ride.

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

Those two! They're the rare case of "I like the canonically intended het ship"! And they're my go-to example for how to get a reasonable amount of will-they won't-they without it getting boring or creating the "Maybe they shouldn't be together" problem a lot of shows have.

[eve11]

D has been rewatching Farscape, and I am realizing how much of this brilliant show I've forgotten. Also apparently the comics that took place afte PKWars were really good... I should maybe track those down.

[gillo]

My daughters were deeply into Farscape but it somehow passed me by. It's on my TBW list. Thanks for doing the challenge!

[eve11]

Your daughters are wise!

[giallarhorn]

It's also a ship that has literally every fic trope you'd want- body swap? Domestic AU (well, sorta)? Trapped in a small ship and about to die? Death? Resurrection at great cost? Even more death? Cloning blues? Death/resurrection again??

Also they did the whole 'will they won't they but they did but now one died but there's the other John but it's not the same John Aeryn knew' angst really, really well.

[eve11]

Yes to all of this! Also the trope of "dangerous mission to get substance X needed to save one, plan goes to hell and now they need to mount a rescue mission to save the other one."

NGL I rewatched Infinite Possibilities last night after writing this blog post and thinking about them too much. Still bawled my eyes out 20 years later.

[spikedluv]

What a great post! I love these two so much! #RelationshipGoals LOL Thanks for the youtube links.