Very devious of you. Kudos. On the other hand the Scarrans have no reason to be in a hurry to get to Earth. It's nothing special, except to John. And John must already know that if the Scarrans blow through the Peacekeepers, they'll get to Earth long before Earth has any capability for defense.

Would it be too meta for Spike to have a Cable Network Rescue program?

All true, and its a great Scorpius moment that Wayne Pilgrim sells with his usual skill. But…it is kind of cheat. I would have been happy to see Crichton carry a little "I may have just dicked over the Earth, it was the right thing to do, but what have I done?" angst for a little bit longer.

I remember on first watch, the scene where the hologram of Earth pops up was just chilling. One of the unstated, unconscious elements of John being so very far from home was that Earth was never really at risk. The ability of Farscape to change the rules in that respect, in such a simple and powerful way, is just such…

I don't know, but that sounds like something he would plan.

Sure. We all have our favorite moments. This is for funsies, there's no right or wrong answers.

wrt Lise, you don't accidentally marry a billionaire super-villain by paying attention to the subtle nuances.

Yeah I think so. IIRC, he's playing dueling prophecies off each other, to combat the "If you go to Z'Ha'Dum, you will die" thing?

I guess one reason I am so willing to ditch the Line is that I always preferred Sheridan to Sinclair, including their backstories. And he would be my sole choice for the movies too.

I think you're a shoo in but when it comes time to negotiate the contract, won't you find it a bit ironic when your agent asks you "What do you want?"

Subtitle: Try to help lesser species evolve, and see what thanks you get!

Maybe. It's a challenge to start with a mystery like that hanging out there without resolution in the first movie.

Very true. But the resolution of the Line requires all the Valen stuff. Maybe it could be done, but sometimes less is more.

The Battle of the Line is very cinematic, and a key part of the TV show mythology. The problem is, it's a huge can of worms. Those worms may have been very tasty served up over time in a TV series, but fitting the best elements of the story into a trilogy is the priority. And for me personally, the transition from the…

Interesting. That's a lot of ground to cover, and a pretty weak first film. Here's another thought along the same lines, just to play around.with, here's one way the first movie could maybe work?

I could see a waiter in a high end restaurant suggesting (correctly) that coffee was a poor accompaniment to a fine meal and wine would be preferable, even being snippy about it on a bad day, but that's not what's going on in the Garibaldi scene. Even if JMS did base this on a real experience, it seems embellished in…

"The filming has wrapped, it is too late for the executives to give notes."

I'm not saying it would have been an easy thing to incorporate, but from a storytelling perspective, it seems such a blatant omission.

When it takes a show as excellent as The Wire to do a thing right, that doesn't at all detract from your point that it's something most shows do not do well.

The Wire looks at drug use and addiction from multiple angles.