thoughts on Self-Inflicted Wounds thru Thanks For Sharing

[meredithchandler73]

I love this show. Even having been spoiled about some of the stuff that happened, I am still loving this show.

Self-Inflicted Wounds parts 1 & 2 - Zhaan!!! Another well-done goodbye. (If I didn't mention it before, I liked the memorial that Aeryn got in Die Me, Dichotomy.)

Different Destinations - Really liked how things kept changing and getting worse. The altered timeline story isn't new. But I liked the way it was more like Quantum Leap - where you (the audience, at least) finds out immediately how every action affects the future. And the ending - oh my.

Eat Me - Farscape as a horror flick. Well done! Zombie cannibals - again, not a new thing. But having them eating the ship 'cause it's alive - brilliant. Even though I already knew there was going to be two Crichtons, I didn't know when or how it happened. I was pretty shocked with D'Argo died. I started thinking that the whole episode was going to turn out to be a dream or someone telling a ghost story using the members of the crew. (I know, lame - that's why I'm not a writer.)

Thanks for Sharing - Interesting how in Suns and Lovers and this episode we see that Moya and crew's "exploits" are travelling the galaxy. (And, of course, getting blown out of proportion.) Something I never expected to happen. So excited to see Aeryn's mother coming into the story! Really interesting to see how the two Crichtons are reacting to each other. Yet again - an unexpected double created - not new. (Anyone remember two Xanders on Buffy? Two Janeways on Star Trek: Voyager?) However, all examples I can think of were single-episode stories. Really fascinating to see it be a longer story arc. I wonder whether Scorpy is in both their heads right now. PLEASE - DON'T ANSWER THAT!!! I'll find out for myself.

Sadly, I only brought collection 3.1 with me for my weekend trip. Actually, I knew if I brought more, I'd blow through them too quickly. Trying (somewhat) to make the experience of first-time viewings last. I'll be home tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon and continue my Farscape marathon. Woohoo! :)

[Scaper_S]

I'm just re-watching this part of the season three also.
The Self-Inflicted wounds double is great because we see the story from the point of view of another race looking into wormhole technology - and wonder if the pathfinders will return (and why they are called pathfinders).
I find it really hard to watch Different Destinations because it is so well done. It combines the painful feelings of their recent bereavement, the confused mind of Stark and Crichton trying to do the right thing, but getting it completely & devastatingly wrong because he's not thinking (something he seems to realise at the end that he's going to have to to learn to do). By the end we also see he now has Aeryn's support no matter what.
Eat me is amazing, because it touches on a level of the unimaginable - someone who can reproduce sentient beings to use for food and turn a race as powerful and ordered as the peacekeepers into savage cannibals - this is other ep I don't watch too often. Dark.