#Picard momence.

[landfilloftrash]

Look up, turn around, everything is falling down.  Do you promise to be mine forever?  Hold me tight, don’t let me go until the end of time—

I’d destroy everything just to be with you

[gayspock]

ive been listening to vera&jessie's podcast still and i think they helped me realise what it was abt farscape in terms of storytelling and pacing that make it so refreshing, like.... the episodes are sooo freaking packed... AND they pull it off !!! like by comparison i know, like, my main gripe with chibnall era dw is that episodes kind of suffocate themselves. like they introduce a LOT of half-formed concepts into episodes and never really follow through or develop them.

meanwhile with farscape its like... yep they introduce a lot of ideas into one episode . and they arent explored to the extent where, like, a star trek episode might rlly do a deep dive into sth. BUT instead of like with recent dw......its all so cohesive and snappy. like it WORKS so well together in its pacing, and the MANY issues build upon each other so well... and whilst we dont ALWAYS get the time to ruminate on, like, a storybeat it doesnt feel... shallow? or underdeveloped? it does just feel- yknow, fast, bc whats happening IS fast-paced and by the end of the ep its like you sit back and ur like hweh yeah...

and its like i also dont think they do anything. like. CRAZY off the beating path for scifi, narratively speaking, BUT. instead its like... lots of little divergences at each of these points that make it really nice and unique... where it'll be an age old trope but its like. both bc they go through it so fast and also bc of the way they do it it just feels... refreshed...

and also i love the way theyre slowly developing characters at a more even pace rather than just dedicating whole eps to each. it makes it feel so much more organic. dont get me wrong- i love an ep dedicated to a deep dive on a guy... but i think this way it does sorta feel more like a journey with them. not everything is just revealed so fast. and theyre developing... slowly? but developing still. and its at a realistic pacr wherein, like, they dont just go through one thing and become someone entirely different... its just sth they work at...

&i also love crichton ... i really do. i like him. he could have been nothing but hes adorable... sorrryyyy. like- i realise why, more and more, tng did always rely on picard SO much. i dont like it. but it makes sense for an episodic, show that ppl couldnt binge/follow continuously, to always just... bring out Mr Star Trek for when ppl are flickinmg through channels, so its more recognisable... but i still dont like the way they handle him sometimes, euch.... i say that just as an example bc meanwhile i rlly like the way theyre doing john, i do... bc i kno they still have to walk that line, and include him a lot and so yeassss he is sometimes Mister Main Character but its usually... more balanced and more level in actual execution . and theres subtleties that rlly make it less egregious and more like well oh thatsnice.... bc yeas he is the protag, the one who brings the ep to a close and the level-headed guy but ... its still buffered by his little momence... and its alsooo helped bc humans are nebver put on a weird freaking pedestal and the other guys do all also get their dues. smile.