@avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus  (I hope I'm doing this reply thing right, it's a bit confusing)  Those are all good points about PIYW.  I'll try to watch it with a more open mind this time around.  The more Farscape I can unabashedly enjoy the better!

@avclub-ab7d240c84d7265faec0b698a29c6ca7:disqus I don't think it's a spoiler to say Luxans make fine pilots, exceptional bodyguards, and superlative lovers.

@avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus Maybe it's one of those things that the writers had in their heads but it never made it onto the screen.

I swear I've read the companions, but I missed the two brains bit, and thought it was just two hearts, like Time Lords.

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus I will admit that arm thing is TERRIBLE.

Looking forward to it!

Yeah, a weak episode of Farscape is far stronger than a weak episode of many other series.

Thanks for this!  You summed up why I appreciate it.  The premise and episode could have been a lot better, but I can't dislike anything that gave us those great Chiana/Aeryn and John/Chiana scenes.  I'll save my more detailed thoughts for next week.

Heh, I love Home on the Remains, all of it.  I like it much better than either VM or TTS.  Picture If You Will is in my bottom 10 eps though, ugh.

Great Zhaan description, and I hated the super-leap too.  I look away and pretend it doesn't happen.  For some reason I find it super-embarrassing.

Buy it buy it buy it buy it.  The series is even better on your first rewatch.  And your second, and your third, etc, etc.

My favorite fanwank is that he's pale from his time as a prisoner, gets a deep space tan, and by the time that fades his natural skin has darkened.

I'm starting to think there's something wrong with me because I genuinely enjoyed a good deal of Taking the Stone.  And well before I became a rabid Chiana fangirl - her story and Gigi's performance there really endeared the character to me.  I found her so earnest and wounded I could forgive the dumber elements of…

Don't get me wrong, Scorpius is magnificent.  I think he's one of the best antagonists ever seen in television and is certainly much more well developed and thought out than Stark.  Scorpius is the superior character in many, many ways; but Stark just grabs me on a deep, emotional level and won't let go.  While I love…

I didn't fall in love with the show until somewhat later, but these were the episodes that made me feel as though I had to finish the series or I would never be happy and they're still some of my very favorite episodes (although I think I'm like one of three people in the known universe that squees more over Stark…

I also thought Chiana's disguise was great - it was a small thing, but it really made the show feel special to me.  It would have been so much easier to just have Gigi without any makeup at all; instead they went through the thought and trouble to make her up as Chiana, then paint over that in a way Chiana could have…

I think on a lesser show we would have had a terribly cliche sort of triangle develop, but I don't think it's spoilery to say you can breathe easy on this front.  All three characters are far too complex and understanding of each other to fall into that trap.  The Aeryn/Crichton ship is unsinkable.  The…

"Chiana as catalyst:

I can easily defend the A plot of Taking the Stone, but the B plot is truly horrible.