meredithchandler73
08-02-2006, 07:35 AM
10 episodes in 3 days. I couldn't stop myself! All these episodes deserve another look (or four) but I want to keep plowing ahead to find out what happens next!
GREEN EYED MONSTER - I really enjoyed this episode. I could not believe that Aeryn had "recreated" with Crais, yet there it was! I was literally jumping up and down on my bed saying, "NO! She couldn't...she wouldn't...NO!" I never guessed who was pulling the strings throughout the episode. I loved how it was written (thank you, Ben Browder) and shot. It's so interesting to think how much Aeryn means to Crichton, Crais AND Talyn. I could watch the end of this episode forever. Love the dialogue and performances. I didn't need the star twinkle, but it didn't ruin anything for me.
LOSING TIME - Liked this episode, particularly possessed Chiana. (The way she pronounced "me" as "may" made me think of Jodie Foster in "Nell".) Aside from the fact that it's not nice to take over someone else's body, I'm not sure whether it's established that it's actually dangerous to the host or not. The creature that possessed Pilot says they must find the runaway rider because of the harm he'll cause, but I don't think we ever see any harm. The most harm done was actually in trying to find the rider. (All that jerking and shaking did not look like fun.) Cool way they got rid of the bad guy in the end.
RELATIVITY - I like that we're going back and forth between Moya and Talyn!!! And as a die-hard romantic and fan of the Aeryn-John relationship, I love the beginning of this episode. Sexy is good. But it's the humor infused there as well that makes it priceless. I really dug this episode. You get some Luke Skywalker-daddy/Darth Vader thing going on. I don't think Aeryn started out with the intention of trying to bring her mom to the good side. She seemed resolved that mom was the enemy. (Loved their fight sequences.) I liked the way Aeryn talked to her mom - not earnestly pleading with her, "You're my mother and you loved me! You can be good!" But honestly reminding her of what she had done and how that affected Aeryn. But I especially loved that by the end of the episode, mom hadn't changed. The fact that you don't see Crais kill Xhalax definitely sent up a red flag for me that she'd live and we'd see her again.
INCUBATOR - If someone told me that we were going to see stuff that might make you feel a twinge of sympathy for Scorpius, I would have said they were frelling crazy. Well, the Scorpius backstory actually did get to me, just a little bit. And I finally got an answer to an old question of mine - how did Scorpius get to where he was as a Peacekeeper when they hate half-breeds? The common enemy - Scarrans. By the way, as much as I enjoyed neural-chip-Crichton in Scorpy's head (and the fact that he only knows what happened before the chip came out), as I watched I sincerely hoped this wouldn't be a regular theme. Two Crichtons to keep track of is enough for me, thanks.
MELTDOWN - Okay, I'm a BIG fan of the John-Aeryn romance so this episode was very much like a sweet-tooth being given the keys to the candy store. Almost every moment they are together they are either touching each other or sending longing looks at each other. And it's so great to see the playfulness there. And later, as John is trying to get through to Stark: "Because Aeryn is my Zhaan. She's my Zhaan in every way, I love her and I would die for her..." Can I get an, "Awwwww"? Thank you.
SCRATCH N SNIFF - This episode was so wacky! And I loved it! Tons of great stuff. I liked the look and feel of the episode - so totally different from every other episode before it. Ben Browder in thigh-high stockings PLUS a girly scream. D'Argo's "new man" look. I kinda wish there would be an excuse to see Anthony Simcoe without any of the D'Argo make-up. I believe he has a cameo in A Human Reaction (one of the three guys in the mens room), but that's just a split second. Loved "the show" that Jool and Chiana put on. As soon as I saw Chiana start the fire twirling I thought, "She really knows how to do that!" (I have friends that are into that.) It seemed so specific and I gathered that the writers didn't make her learn it just for the episode. Sure enough, they wrote it in because Gigi knows how to do it in real life. And at the end of it all, John and D'Argo are still childishly fighting and Pilot is still disgusted with the both of them and wants them off the ship for a while. It's true that they've all become somewhat of a family. But it's a family where they bicker and get on each other's nerves sometimes. My only nitpick about the episode - would D'Argo really have gotten jealous about how John was acting during the auction - checking out Chiana? He knows John is just trying to win Chiana and get out. If they just needed a reason for D'Argo to be jealous so that he would metabolize the disguise away too quickly, they could have had people all around him making comments about Chiana during the bidding.
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Parts 1 & 2 - So good. SO good. SOOO GOOD! Love Furlow - great character and a wonderful actress playing her. Fascinating return of the Ancients. I love how you get a hint that the Ancients might kill them all - John, Aeryn, everyone - to ensure that wormhole technology doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Scorpy making a case for John helping him and the Peacekeepers with wormhole technology - against the Scarrans. Getting rid of the Scorpy in John's head!!! And John waking up as Scorpius - that was a nice little plot twist. You know that there are two John Crichtons and one of them is going to go away, probably die. It's just a matter of which one and how. At that point I thought Aeryn was going to kill him because he became Scorpy. How gut-wrenching that would have been. Glad I was wrong. I love, love, love how the episode ends. Ben & Claudia - I fall in love with you both over and over again watching this show!!!
REVENGING ANGEL - Some great stuff in this episode. I enjoyed the cartoon and cartoon-y bits. And yes, the Cartoon Aeryn stuff is probably my favorite. Different voices and movie/TV references. FUN! Claudia Black RULES! Also, the character explorations for D'Argo and Jool. I've been pleasantly surprised by Jool. I'm liking finding out more about her.
THE CHOICE - An amazing performance by Claudia Black in this episode. Claudia deserves *all* the prizes. (Sorry, I'm pretty sure I lifted that phrase from Gillian Anderson fanatics.) I listened to the commentary for the episode even though spoilers usually come up. (I can't help myself.) Claudia Black talks about how the episode is all about touch - who you can or can't touch. It's very interesting to watch the episode from that perspective. It's SO great to see Aeryn completely undone. She's not dressed like her usual self. (Actually, I love her outfit - tears in the stockings and all.) Drinking herself into a stupor. Seeing Crichton everywhere. Very interesting that they brought The Locket into this. Somehow in her overwhelming grief, she was able to touch that alternate reality that she didn't remember? We don't see all the clips, but did she just remember the flashes we saw or did it all come back to her? WONDERFUL echo of the kiss in A Human Reaction. The Xhalax story is fabulous - talking about having to amputate her own leg when they left her on the planet. Xhalax actually says that she knew Aeryn's pain would ease her own, and that it did. Wow. How many mothers say that?!?! The admission about the choice she was given. She did something for love and it basically killed her inside. Really great how it was resolved with Crais, Aeryn and Xhalax. But the very end, when Aeryn says she is going back to what she was - is she actually talking Peacekeeper?!?! (DON'T answer that. I'll be watching more episodes today.) But the way she is suiting up, it does give that impression. Maybe she is talking about being what she was before she loved Crichton, separated from her emotions. I noticed in recent episodes how much easier and easier it was for Aeryn to say "I love you" to John.
Well, thanks for reading the unintended novel I just wrote. Not many more episodes left for me to watch. I won't get 4.1 or 4.2 for about two weeks. The withdrawal is going to be painful.
GREEN EYED MONSTER - I really enjoyed this episode. I could not believe that Aeryn had "recreated" with Crais, yet there it was! I was literally jumping up and down on my bed saying, "NO! She couldn't...she wouldn't...NO!" I never guessed who was pulling the strings throughout the episode. I loved how it was written (thank you, Ben Browder) and shot. It's so interesting to think how much Aeryn means to Crichton, Crais AND Talyn. I could watch the end of this episode forever. Love the dialogue and performances. I didn't need the star twinkle, but it didn't ruin anything for me.
LOSING TIME - Liked this episode, particularly possessed Chiana. (The way she pronounced "me" as "may" made me think of Jodie Foster in "Nell".) Aside from the fact that it's not nice to take over someone else's body, I'm not sure whether it's established that it's actually dangerous to the host or not. The creature that possessed Pilot says they must find the runaway rider because of the harm he'll cause, but I don't think we ever see any harm. The most harm done was actually in trying to find the rider. (All that jerking and shaking did not look like fun.) Cool way they got rid of the bad guy in the end.
RELATIVITY - I like that we're going back and forth between Moya and Talyn!!! And as a die-hard romantic and fan of the Aeryn-John relationship, I love the beginning of this episode. Sexy is good. But it's the humor infused there as well that makes it priceless. I really dug this episode. You get some Luke Skywalker-daddy/Darth Vader thing going on. I don't think Aeryn started out with the intention of trying to bring her mom to the good side. She seemed resolved that mom was the enemy. (Loved their fight sequences.) I liked the way Aeryn talked to her mom - not earnestly pleading with her, "You're my mother and you loved me! You can be good!" But honestly reminding her of what she had done and how that affected Aeryn. But I especially loved that by the end of the episode, mom hadn't changed. The fact that you don't see Crais kill Xhalax definitely sent up a red flag for me that she'd live and we'd see her again.
INCUBATOR - If someone told me that we were going to see stuff that might make you feel a twinge of sympathy for Scorpius, I would have said they were frelling crazy. Well, the Scorpius backstory actually did get to me, just a little bit. And I finally got an answer to an old question of mine - how did Scorpius get to where he was as a Peacekeeper when they hate half-breeds? The common enemy - Scarrans. By the way, as much as I enjoyed neural-chip-Crichton in Scorpy's head (and the fact that he only knows what happened before the chip came out), as I watched I sincerely hoped this wouldn't be a regular theme. Two Crichtons to keep track of is enough for me, thanks.
MELTDOWN - Okay, I'm a BIG fan of the John-Aeryn romance so this episode was very much like a sweet-tooth being given the keys to the candy store. Almost every moment they are together they are either touching each other or sending longing looks at each other. And it's so great to see the playfulness there. And later, as John is trying to get through to Stark: "Because Aeryn is my Zhaan. She's my Zhaan in every way, I love her and I would die for her..." Can I get an, "Awwwww"? Thank you.
SCRATCH N SNIFF - This episode was so wacky! And I loved it! Tons of great stuff. I liked the look and feel of the episode - so totally different from every other episode before it. Ben Browder in thigh-high stockings PLUS a girly scream. D'Argo's "new man" look. I kinda wish there would be an excuse to see Anthony Simcoe without any of the D'Argo make-up. I believe he has a cameo in A Human Reaction (one of the three guys in the mens room), but that's just a split second. Loved "the show" that Jool and Chiana put on. As soon as I saw Chiana start the fire twirling I thought, "She really knows how to do that!" (I have friends that are into that.) It seemed so specific and I gathered that the writers didn't make her learn it just for the episode. Sure enough, they wrote it in because Gigi knows how to do it in real life. And at the end of it all, John and D'Argo are still childishly fighting and Pilot is still disgusted with the both of them and wants them off the ship for a while. It's true that they've all become somewhat of a family. But it's a family where they bicker and get on each other's nerves sometimes. My only nitpick about the episode - would D'Argo really have gotten jealous about how John was acting during the auction - checking out Chiana? He knows John is just trying to win Chiana and get out. If they just needed a reason for D'Argo to be jealous so that he would metabolize the disguise away too quickly, they could have had people all around him making comments about Chiana during the bidding.
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Parts 1 & 2 - So good. SO good. SOOO GOOD! Love Furlow - great character and a wonderful actress playing her. Fascinating return of the Ancients. I love how you get a hint that the Ancients might kill them all - John, Aeryn, everyone - to ensure that wormhole technology doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Scorpy making a case for John helping him and the Peacekeepers with wormhole technology - against the Scarrans. Getting rid of the Scorpy in John's head!!! And John waking up as Scorpius - that was a nice little plot twist. You know that there are two John Crichtons and one of them is going to go away, probably die. It's just a matter of which one and how. At that point I thought Aeryn was going to kill him because he became Scorpy. How gut-wrenching that would have been. Glad I was wrong. I love, love, love how the episode ends. Ben & Claudia - I fall in love with you both over and over again watching this show!!!
REVENGING ANGEL - Some great stuff in this episode. I enjoyed the cartoon and cartoon-y bits. And yes, the Cartoon Aeryn stuff is probably my favorite. Different voices and movie/TV references. FUN! Claudia Black RULES! Also, the character explorations for D'Argo and Jool. I've been pleasantly surprised by Jool. I'm liking finding out more about her.
THE CHOICE - An amazing performance by Claudia Black in this episode. Claudia deserves *all* the prizes. (Sorry, I'm pretty sure I lifted that phrase from Gillian Anderson fanatics.) I listened to the commentary for the episode even though spoilers usually come up. (I can't help myself.) Claudia Black talks about how the episode is all about touch - who you can or can't touch. It's very interesting to watch the episode from that perspective. It's SO great to see Aeryn completely undone. She's not dressed like her usual self. (Actually, I love her outfit - tears in the stockings and all.) Drinking herself into a stupor. Seeing Crichton everywhere. Very interesting that they brought The Locket into this. Somehow in her overwhelming grief, she was able to touch that alternate reality that she didn't remember? We don't see all the clips, but did she just remember the flashes we saw or did it all come back to her? WONDERFUL echo of the kiss in A Human Reaction. The Xhalax story is fabulous - talking about having to amputate her own leg when they left her on the planet. Xhalax actually says that she knew Aeryn's pain would ease her own, and that it did. Wow. How many mothers say that?!?! The admission about the choice she was given. She did something for love and it basically killed her inside. Really great how it was resolved with Crais, Aeryn and Xhalax. But the very end, when Aeryn says she is going back to what she was - is she actually talking Peacekeeper?!?! (DON'T answer that. I'll be watching more episodes today.) But the way she is suiting up, it does give that impression. Maybe she is talking about being what she was before she loved Crichton, separated from her emotions. I noticed in recent episodes how much easier and easier it was for Aeryn to say "I love you" to John.
Well, thanks for reading the unintended novel I just wrote. Not many more episodes left for me to watch. I won't get 4.1 or 4.2 for about two weeks. The withdrawal is going to be painful.