It's always possible that literally *any* property could come back eventually, but it feels squarely behind a few other similar properties in terms of how likely a revival would be. I could see a BSG-style effort to revive Blake's 7 gaining traction *way* before Farscape, for instance.

It looks like maybe it was a simpler makeup job for Raelee Hill? Or maybe she had changed her hair for another role or something. But yeah, it's weird.

Optimism and empathy strike me as closely linked. That was the one thing about the Eidelon plot I found good, the notion that peace is possible if you try to understand Staleek not as some ultimate evil but as a person with his own hopes and passions.

The replies to the official tweet are bad, if you want to confirm it's not just people anticipating others being idiots, but who gives a shit what idiots think?

I'm Team Seven Seasons myself, with the assumption 6 and 7 would have been weird and frustrating and post-story, but with lots of cool Nebari stuff for Chiana.

And thank you! That means a lot.

O'Brien must suffer, after all.

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I think you may be somewhat underrating how exasperated and aggravated all the characters (especially John, and especially D'Argo) are with Noranti, even if it takes a different form than their issues with Sikozu. And in fairness, if there were actually any bootable offenses on the ship, Rygel would have been thrown…

I guess you can still find ways to make the "Sebaceans are our future" argument work, assuming either the Eidilon heirarch is a total dick when describing how primitive humans are when they found us or Abed considers PKW non-canonical, which feels like something he would do.

Also, re turning enemies into allies, one wonders if season five would have tried the same thing with Grayza. That doesn't sound *that* amazing, especially after Scorpius, but as I'm watching Peacekeeper Wars I'm fascinated by the thought of a season six making either Staleek or Akhna a shipmate.

You have to be feeling really saucy to make a case for season one, but really I think any season is defensible as the best. Certainly any is valid as one's favorite.

With Noranti, I guess I'd say — and what I was trying to get at, but it's hard to land every point — is that what makes her interesting is that she's calculating in a way that appears profoundly reckless to everyone else. The show takes a bit of time to get there, but it takes someone who at first appears just to be…

Sikozu did sort of feel like a Jool replacement, which means she's part of the Zhaan lineage. If anything, I think the show was smart enough to split the Zhaan role between Sikozu and Noranti, though the latter's character debt is far more obvious.

I thought the same thing about the early weirdness before going back and rewatching, and it's really just "Crichton Kicks" and "What Was Lost" that are needlessly opaque in their storytelling. (Well, okay, "John Quixote" too, but that's to be expected.) The run from "Lava's A Many Splendored Thing" to "I Shrink,…

I assume they knew Virginia Hey was leaving before S3 started and that Jool would be the replacement, right? If so, it's weird they put such seemingly little thought into who her character would be. Compare with Sikozu, who they clearly knew a hell of a lot about in terms of her personality and motivations long before…

Yeah, there's absolutely a personal taste aspect here, and one can certainly argue the Talyn Crichton stuff is the high-water mark for the series. The Moya Crichton stuff from S3 is rather more hit-and-miss. Again, I think it's a little bit of consistency vs. highest highs, and a little bit of where you want your…

A deleted scene of Peacekeeper Wars has Emperor Staleek crying his eyes out while reading Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief for the 15th time, then priggishly complaining about the liberties Charlie Kaufman took with the adaptation.

I'd be interested to know what the writers were going for with Jool, because when I try to work out what would have been her optimal use, I keep coming back to her just being terminally bland both in personality and backstory. Unless the point was just to create as intentionally irritating a character as possible,…

I'll admit I haven't gone back and watched the three earlier seasons since I last reviewed them, so I may not be in the fairest position to judge. But, I think season four has a few big advantages over season three: D'Argo, Chiana, and Rygel are their best selves this season, Noranti and Sikozu are much more…