#find the farscape stuff

[phantoms-world-and-more]

An idea came to me reading a fic where Danny was a kryptonian. What if Amity Park instead of being a city in the USA on Earth was once a city on Krypton (in what would be a kryptonian version of early 21st century or at least about 100 years before the planet blew up). Basically almost everything that happened in cannon DP happened and everything is mostly the same but with a more alien then earth tone to it.

After Phantom Planet Danny's parents except him being part ghost, the government overturn the Ecto Acts, and he able to finish high school and goes on to college after which he is happily welcomed to for work for KASA (Krypton Aeronautics and Space Administration). He becomes an Astronautical engineer. Danny is in his early thirties when he is testing out a new experimental space ship engine for KASA. While doing a flight test Danny's ship losses signal and no one can find it (kind of what happened in the show Farscape).

100s of years go by Krypton explodes baby Kal-El is sent to Earth where he grows up to be Superman. The JL suddenly get a signal/warning about some alien tech on the edge of the solar system. They send one of the Green Lanterns to take a look, where they report a spaceship dead in space. They don't expect any life forms but surprise because of his ghost half Danny was in a sort of suspended animation. He is brought back and wakes up in the Watch Tower.

Just Random ideas...

Kryptonite is the crystalized form of ectoplasm because of this Danny is not effected by it.

Danny's kryptonian name is Daniel Fen-Ton

The phantom zone projector was originally called the Fen-Ton zone projector or is was based off a Fen-Ton gadget.

Years after Danny disappears Krypton starts turning on ghost again, so the town of Amity, which now has a symbiotic relationship with ghost, vote to pull the whole town into the Ghost Zone. So it is not blown up like the rest of the planet though Danny does not know this in the beginning.

Danny has an easier time learning to use Earth technology then he does the Kryptonian technology in Superman's Fortress.

Danny also has slightly easier time when getting the regular Kryptonian power set due to the yellow sun because he went through something similar when getting his ghost powers.

Danny adopts Connor almost immediately. Maybe during Danny's time there was laws about cloning and clone rights on Krypton. Also while Connor is not a replacement he sort of fills in the void of losing Ellie.

While Superman has no idea who Danny is, Kara/Supergirl has a faint idea because he was briefly mentioned in her Krytonian History class. Also she is happy to have someone who can natively speak the kyrptonian language even if it has older vocabulary. Don't get her wrong its great to speak it with Kal-El but he learned it later in life.

Holly char this is amazing!

How many people will have a stroke when they see Danny casually pick up a piece of kryptonite? Batman? His normal Kryptonian contingency plan won't work. Luthor? There's a version of superman IMMUNE to Kryptonite. Clark? What the hell do you mean you can touch kryptonite

I think after Danny explains everything about his past and species so many people are going to just...give up. Hahaha a stronger version of superman who isn't effected by kryptonite, goodbye world

Connor will be ecstatic, Danny will do ALL the dad stuff, teaching him their language, proper training, engineering lessons and you bet he's going to use jazz's psychiatrist stuff on this kid

Danny's probably going to get mega-depressed, all his hard work breaking the racism against ghosts only for that to come back a few years after he left? And he can't even fix it again because their world went bye-bye

Also- here me out

Co-pilot Valerie

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I love all the early hints in Farscape that Zhaan is a plant. Even though we don’t find out until one of the last eps of the first season, there were some throwaway comments or little details that suggested it. Like I don’t remember when it was, but someone pierced her wrist and instead of blood this weird white stuff came out. At that point the thought process of the audience is “oh she’s an alien so her blood is a different color.” When actually, it was sap. And then that time when she had to deform her hand and pull it through handcuffs, John later asked her how her hand was and she said something like “the fibers are healing.” And then the time where she said “there is no bacteria in my body.” And then the big one was when they were near the planet with the solar flares and she was having “photogasms” 😂 but we still don’t know she’s a plant at that time.

[dangermousie]

Tagged by @tavina-writes

1. why did you choose your url?

This nick and my icon is all the way from Farscape forums back in early 00s. I picked it because I enjoyed the Dangermouse cartoons.

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

I made dangermousie2 in the event the main one gets banned or there is some other issue, but I don't use it. I am old enough that I started when people didn't have theme/sideblogs and that's how I roll.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

2011? 2012? I am a LiveJournal refugee who first got an account when LJ started being unreliable but only switched in a meaningful way when I got into Spartacus and all the fun fandom was here.

4. do you have a queue tag?

Nope. Impulse control and planning, what's that?

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

I first got LJ back in 2005 (I think) because a cousin got me into it; I was posting about things like books and Bollywood and Star Wars then. And then here I am all these years later.

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

Fits my user name. A very kind person made it for me back on long defunct Farscape boards back in 2003/2004.

7. why did you choose your header?

I don't have anything there, it's whatever tumblr gave me.

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

I have NO idea how to find it out tbh. But it might be:

9. how many mutuals do you have?

No idea how to check.

10. how many followers do you have?

6581

11. how many people do you follow?

2565

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

Nope

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

Way way way too often.

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

Yes. I am a lot less likely to do so now but when I was younger and more impulsive, oh yes.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

You say that, I will not reblog and will likely block you to boot.

16. do you like tag games?

Sometimes.

17. do you like ask games

Sometimes.

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

I have no idea. Thankfully we are largely past the era of BNFs and I am glad for that.

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

I am waaaay too old for that question. No.

20. what is the last song you listened to?

ТІК & Ірина Білик - Не цілуй

21. what are you currently watching?

I have a pinned post about that but a bunch. My faves out of the airing stuff I am watching are Love in the Desert, Black Out and Iron Family.

22. sweet/ savoury/ spicy?

I have no spice tolerance so the other two.

23. what is your current relationship status?

Married. To a man who is OK with listening me describe Wu Chang Jie to him in excruciating detail so def a keeper.

24. what is your current obsession?

Lust in the Dust (iykyk), Cass Morris' Aven Cycle, coffee.

25. what are nine albums/ songs you've been listening to lately?

no idea, it changes.

Tagging @aysekira @silviakundera @renewedmotionforjudgment @fake-married-my-dead-fiance and anyone else who wants to

[thethirdromana]

My husband's been away for a few days, which means no new Farscape, which means I've been rewatching the first four episodes of Torchwood - in some cases for the first time since they aired. I have some thoughts!

Everything Changes is an incredibly well-crafted pilot. The moment of "all alien technology stays on base. No one's allowed to take anything outside" segueing to nearly everyone having walked off with a bit of alien kit is especially neat: Torchwood's fallibility laid out in an instant.

Unfortunately that also makes its flaws stand out more. And the fact that Tosh wanting to read things a bit quicker is treated as more-or-less the same level of infraction as Owen going around raping people... yikes.

It does feel frightening that a lot of people saw that in production and no one went, hang on, we wanted Owen to be a bad boy but we've made him a sexual predator. It could just as easily have been a magic spray that lets him detect when people are attracted to him!

Having not seen most of this since it aired, the whole cast look like babies. Alarming to realise that I am now older than half of them. And no one has yet recruited me into an elite organisation for the defence of the Earth, which I really thought would have happened by now.

The team really doesn't seem to give a shit about Suzie's death. I can't remember if they care more later on? They're sadder about the dead rapist at the end of Ghost Machine.

Something else I didn't realise at the age of 15 is that Rhys is too good for Gwen. He's presented as the 'boring' boyfriend but he's a catch!

Besides, having one person in a cool, high-pressure job and one person in a boring straightforward job is the ideal for a relationship.

Gwen's belief that they need to care very deeply about every person they interact with, and that they shouldn't even stop work for a takeaway, seems like a fast track to burnout rather than a demonstration of her virtue.

The sex stuff is all very teenage, notches on the bedpost stuff. It's not sex as a fun activity for two people to enjoy, it feels like a competition that comes with winners and losers. I think that goes away a bit as the series goes on?

There's also an underlying misogyny that I mostly missed first time around. It's at its worst in Cyberwoman, which could have been a truly incredible episode if they hadn't decided that the half-cyberconverted Lisa needed to be sexy. But they did decide that, and it makes her situation absurd, rather than poignant. (I'm glad that Doctor Who had another go at the same idea and nailed it with Bill).

It's also just a weird image to find sexy?? Even without the context that this is a desperate woman losing her humanity, the cyber-bikini thing isn't hot?

I think at the time I was prepared to give it more grace on this front because the amount of queer content was genuinely groundbreaking. Now that's normal (and Torchwood contributed to that normalisation) so the dodgier sexual politics stand out.

Great character work all round, though. I was going to say that I can still see why 15-year-old me was obsessed with Ianto but honestly it's an ensemble with no weak points at all.

[your-a-wanker-number-nine]

In case anyone missed it (I can't really seem to find much hype about it on Tumblr), BOOM studios has a kick-starter going on for Farscape comics to celebrate the 25th anniversary. There is some pretty cool stuff for it (archived comics and a brand new book with new content, also a stretch goal which I hope is reached for a signed poster from Gigi Edgley). To the 10 people on my dash who still care about this show, please go check it out :D

[karasbroken]

Look, I have to be who I am, and what I am is obnoxiously shipping these two forever. So have more romantic mush about John/Aeryn. I'll plumb the depths of YouTube for weird Farscape stuff another week.

The editor of this schmoopfest is @schmackproductions on YouTube, and yes, the song Makes You Beautiful is by One Direction.

But we're going to ignore that and look at our pretty pretty pretty Peacekeeper through the adoring eyes of just about everyone and we're going to like it! Because come on, this woman is gorgeous, something she probably doesn't know, and would find irrelevant if she did. But everyone else in the galaxy is aware and this video is the propaganda.

[abyssalzones]

what are your favorite sci-fi stories?

hmm. david carpenter's "the thing" and the first two alien movies are probably my favorite sci-fi movies despite their "fear of the unknown" approach not being 100% in line with the things I typically like about sci-fi. I've been extremely fond of treasure planet since childhood... I also grew up watching star wars, though as an adult I think the only one I can say was legitimately interesting was rogue one. I'm more of a star trek nerd but I have yet to watch most of the series, I'm usually too busy doing other things to watch long serialized tv shows... then there's also farscape, which I enjoy despite good reason telling me it kind of sucks. there's good stuff in there if you find an episode guide from the early 2000s that tells you which ones to skip. is "severance" sci-fi? add severance to the list if so. the x-files is good but I haven't finished it, doctor who still kind of intrigues me but I also haven't scratched the surface of it... oh and PLEASE watch "magnetic rose". absolute must-watch if you enjoy satoshi kon's work or if you've never heard of him.

I've recommended both of these already in that ask I got about video games but SOMA and the half life franchise are great sci-fi games, one scary and one less scary. "south scrimshaw" is a great sci-fi visual novel if you're interested in specbio worldbuilding, the first chapter is up for free on steam! if you're more interested in something grounded and not-scary, "tacoma" is a fun short exploratory story ala "gone home". but in space.

as for literature the southern reach series is definitely my favorite... though I have yet to read the fourth book because I'm scared of it. oh and 17776 ("what football will look like in the future") is one of the most incredible works of internet fiction I've ever read, so. go check that out if you didn't already when it initially came out.

lastly if you're a webcomic nerd go check out jay eaton's "runaway to the stars", all the related worldbuilding is fascinating to dig through. I admittedly don't focus on specbio in my work very often as that's just not the creative direction I want to go in but their stuff has always been highly inspiring... talita if you're out there I love youuuuu

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

I really, really wish older sci-fi was more discussed in online spaces. It feels like (with rare, notable exceptions) sci-fi discussion focuses on Star Wars, (New) Star Trek and Marvel. Like, yeah, those have their moments, but where are the discussions of the post-9/11 paranoia of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Farscape's use of Aeryn Sun to explore the idea of letting go of your past sins to find happiness in your present, of Slider's masterful use of its premise, of Babylon 5's laserfocus on serialized storytelling?

When I'm not shitposting about Farscape or liveblogging reading The Wheel of Time, I try to use this blog to do that, but I wish there was more of that kind of discussion.

If y'all know of any blogs that do that kind of stuff, or places on here I can go to get that kind of analysis and discussion, let me know.

[crichton-idiot-lover-of-aeryn]

Alright everyone...this is a Claudia Black related post but also a Star Wars one as well. So I am writing a story set in the universe and it picks up after the events of Ahsoka and it connects to one key scene. This scene is after all, the moment when Thrawn returns to the known galaxy and his star destroyer is heading to the Dathomir system with the Nightsisters from Peridea (sp?). In my story, they are not alone. It just happens by sheer fate that a Mandalorian is in the system who has some connections to the nightsisters during the Clone Wars. There's a lot of details I'd like to include but I don't want to spoil too much...anyway, I just want to hear from some of ya in regards to what you think the background of Klothow might turn out to be.

In terms of appearances like, eye and hair color...? Age? Think she's ancient? It's hard to say since we know little about her role and if Claudia will have a chance to explore Klothow in depth. She has so much range to the point she can take her in any direction - honestly. She can go straight out evil or good....but why not both? so thats kind of what I am exploring with her character in a sense that could work. also where the character will eventually find some sort of a balance which explains that Nightsisters have never allied themselves fully to either Jedi and Sith. Again, it depends on the different clans too from what I remember - though I know a lot of the old legends are not in canon. However, I have seen every nightsister related episodes in Clone Wars and Rebels - but I think I will have to go back to those and see what I might have missed. It's been awhile.

Its a long wait for season 2 and I know Claudia has signed a NDA as to not spoil anything. Not sure if that is still in effect - I'd say yeah cause they're filming season 2 now. As far as those tie in films that will conclude the War between Thrawn and the New Republic, only time will tell. At this point its hard to say...even talk about with little details to go on with. I find it a little surprising that she hasn't spoken much about her role in Star Wars. I get it...NDA....its in her contract and all. Its just, after seeing Farscape...and other things she's been part of, and the fact that it took her this long to be part of the SW universe, I'd be disappointed if she didn't get to do much with her character. Nightsisters have always intrigued me - same with Mandalorians so... yeah - there is so much potential.

If I had a way, I'd pitch my story ideas to her haha...and if she wanted to have an input in it, bonus. The way I am writing my story is like a TV series in mind. This is gonna be huge, very ambitious but challenging. I have worked on a SW story beforehand for the past ten years or so - I have the basics written so all I gotta do is go back to what I have on file(s) and pluck what I think still works for my story and see where things could go. There are gonna be some weird stuff in it...some things that im gonna introduce but also re-introduce because of the ancient elements that relate to the Old Republic era - Knights of the Old Republic and even before that - Tales of the Jedi. It will in some ways connect to certain key characters from the ancient past - most notably Nomi Sunrider, Ulic Qel Droma, Revan and Bastila Shan. I got my work cut out for me. but yeah. There are gonna be a few different romantic storylines here and there so there will be a lil bit of this and that for anyone who ends up reading this and if I post it anywhere. So far I have 1 chapter written - titled The Intruder. next chapter is titled Here goes Nothing and it only has 4 paragraphs. lol.

Anywho. Thank God its Friday! Hey...reminds me of that episode from Season 1 of Farscape haha... lol

[kiki-eng]

"John Crichton is so wildly outmatched by the world he finds himself in that if he waited until he had learned enough stuff to fix the problems he’s having, he and all his friends would be dead a hundred times over. This is why he never wastes a moment arguing with the universe about what’s real. Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock both taught me, very young, that you can make a problem unsolvable by first making it unbelievable. You won’t fight a giant that shows up in the supermarket because there are no such things as giants. You won’t stop the principal from putting your kids in a junior Iron Maiden because a principal wouldn’t do something so crazy. We can also look to the real world: You can’t stop encroaching fascism by pretending it isn’t encroaching and it isn’t fascism."

--On Watching Farscape in an Election Year by Jenny Hamilton, Reactor Mag

[thenexusofsouls]

{i am the caretaker of souls} Quick question, mostly for my existing writing partners and my followers who are regulars in reading my threads. Is the Farscape stuff on here annoying you all? This started out as a miscellaneous blog with a mix of canons, OCs, and a side order of MCU people, and now in comes Farscape. That's what has most of my muse right now, so I'm posting a lot of it. Eventually my muse will even out, but I'm not sure when that'll be, heh. Are you okay with it, finding it interesting, enjoying the threads you're reading or writing... or are you a bit irritated that it's taking away some time from other muses?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm wondering if I should make a separate blog for Farscape muses. It might be scheduled on Saturdays or Sundays, since they're light days for writing/work. Then this blog would go "back to normal" and the Farscape posts here would stop. The downside is that it take times to set up a new blog and I don't have much time for another one. I should be cutting blogs, not making new ones, heh. But I'm already spending time writing Farscape muses anyway, so I don't feel it would take away too much time after it's set up.

I want to make this decision before I post Pilot, Aeryn, and Rygel as new muses. So! Let me know what you think in the poll below. Honestly, it'd be easiest for me to just leave everyone here, but I don't want people to be annoyed. Thanks for you input!

[thealmightyemprex]

Sci Fi Month : The Cold Equations

First film of Sci Fi Month this year and we are doing a Sci Fi Channel original movie ,technically my second time reviewing one on this blog if we count Dog Soldiers ,but that one was a movie bought by the channel .Now for those who arent familiar with the Sci Fi channel or Syfy as its oknown now (For the record I am one of many people who despise the name and I will stubbornly call it the Sci Fi Channel ),started as a haven for Speculative Fiction fans showcasing classic Sci Fi/Fantasy /Horror TV and movies .Nowadays it is associated with some of the most beloved SF TV like Farscape ,Stargate SG1 ,The Expanse and the reboot of Battlestar Galactica .......But its also more infamously known for its TV movies,,,,,,Most of which are bad (Also for stuff like wrestling that has nothing to do with SF but thats a whole can of worms ).Now to be fair not all the Sci Fi Channel original movies are bad some like Dog Soldiers and the Bruce Campbell directed Man With a Screaming Brain are pretty darn great .How does this film Cold Equations shake out ? Wel lets find out

In this 1996 TV Movie ,a pilot John Barton(Bill Campbell ) goes on a mission to deliver medical supplies when he finds a stowaway Lee (Poppy Montgomery ),who hitched a ride to see her brother....Unknowingly endangering the mission by doing this,and Barton is given orders from his supperiors.....Dump the girl into space

So apparently this film is based on a short story ,that has been adapted a few times (Most notably in the 1980's Twilight Zone ).....Now I am curious how a shorter run time treats this tale cause it does feel a bit stretched for 90 minutes .I do like the film though ,its basically a two person play (There are other characters,namely Daniel Roebuck as Bartons buddy but the focus are Barton and Lee ) and I gotta say Bill Campbell and Popy Montgomery give good performances ,in that they aid in the way the film tricks you.See Barton starts out cold and mission first and Lee starts off kind of obnoxious ....But as the story goes the characters shift and the actors really pull off the change.Without spoiling it......This is a tragedy ,like a gut wrenching one.This is the story about the value of life and how sometime...YOu cant save everyone

Now I wont lie,if you are inspired to watch this (You can its on youtube ),and you dont like it......I get it .Pacing is wonky ,Lee can be a bit overbearing and .....It aint an upper .But I think the two lead performances and the underlying story make it work

Hidden gem to me and an example of a good Sci Fi Channel movie

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @the-blue-fairie @princesssarisa @minimumheadroom @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @countesspetofi

[borninwinter81]

About me

I thought I should make a pinned post which is slightly more in depth than my bio concerning general interests as I seem to have gained a few followers, and in case any of them have a wish to know!  This is not definitive and will likely get added to over time when I have the thought “how could I possibly have forgotten X”.

Music:          Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad/Casualties of Cool Ulver Alcest Agalloch Gojira Cattle Decapitation It’s a safe bet that I’ll probably enjoy anything which could be labelled post-punk or goth, particularly if it originates in the 80s or 90s. Ditto for 90s metal (reminds me of my teen years!) Most classic rock from the 70s or 80s (my parents brought me up on this) Industrial and aggrotech. Classical music, including opera 1950s and 60s rock and roll Many genres of extreme metal, like black metal, death metal, funeral doom, goregrind etc.

Recently a friend has been getting into Black Metal having never listened to it before, and it's been causing me to rediscover my love of that genre as well as find a few new artists that I've never heard before 😁

Authors:  Edgar Allan Poe (also fits under poets) Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Stephen King Joe Hill JRR Tolkien Robin Hobb Brian Lumley Clive Barker Way too many more to count – I read A LOT

Poets: William Blake (see my Good Omens/Blake posts here and here) Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Milton Christina Rosetti Walt Whitman

Shakespeare plays (having a literature degree, I feel like I should know more Shakespeare, nonetheless the ones I am familiar with I absolutely love): Hamlet (loved it since the Mel Gibson version, and I have seen many since!) Macbeth Richard II (not only because of David Tennant, but also Fiona Shaw, hers was the first version I saw of it). A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Movies:  12 Monkeys Bladerunner Subspecies movie series Nightbreed (Cabal Cut for preference!) Dredd (2012) Only Lovers Left Alive Pan’s Labyrinth (honestly anything by Del Toro really, but this one especially!) Donnie Darko Franklyn The Green Mile Dark City One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Schindler's List Mad Max: Fury Road (the others too, but this is my favourite) Again, loads more than I’m not listing, I love movies

TV Shows: Good Omens The Sandman Star Trek (all versions, but particularly TNG and DS9) Farscape Blake's 7 Classic Dr Who (I do like the new stuff, but pre-Eccleston will always be my favourite, it's probably a nostalgia thing) Spartacus Black Sails Sharpe Robin of Sherwood

General interests:            Charity shops/thrift store shopping Sewing Crochet General DIY/crafting as the mood takes me, particularly customising items that I buy at charity shops Pencil sketching (relearning to do this, I used to be pretty good when in school!) Tattoos/piercings

[dangermousie]

Farscape rewatch - The Locket, 2x16

I am probably in the minority of being both a rabid John x Aeryn shipper and not being fond of this episode. It’s probably my least favorite ep this season except for Dream a Little Dream. Not sure why that is - perhaps because everything gets reset at the end of this episode in a way that it does not come to bear later. If it did not happen, nothing would change for anyone (with possible exception of Zhaan and Stark and even for them, it might just delay their relationship mildly at most.) But me being me, it does not mean I don’t have a ton to say. On the contrary.

It’s a bit ironic but in an ep known as a big John x Aeryn shipper episode, what brings me the most joy is the start of Zhaan x Stark, one of my favorite secondary OTPs in any shows. 

How could I not adore them? A former anarchist-assassin priestess who is also a wise earth mother type and supremely sensual being and over the edge of insanity and tortured by Scorpius for years, former Banik slave who helps the dying over to the next world? Who just work together perfectly? And it ends tragically? So so SO sold. Plus, Paul Goddard's voice makes me so weak in the knees I have no legs left.

It's funny because everyone loves Zhaan (how could you not?) but I remember Stark being such a polarizing character when the show aired. I confess to loving him. He is off the edge and off-kilter, but it makes perfect sense: even on Farscape, where it’s a tough competition, Stark wins the suckiest life award. I mean, he was in Aurora Chair dozens of times and we saw what it made of Crichton in a not nearly as many spins. And yet he still has compassion - he had it with Crichton in the chair, he searched the Moyans out to give D’Argo news of his son, and look at him be so kind to Aeryn:

And he is surprisingly together until he gets dispersed. And then he is much more off-kilter, and when he feels 10,000 of his people dying, killed by Scorpius, it doesn't help.

Whenever he gets any stability (as with Zhaan. He is quite normal with her) it gets yanked away. OMG, the bit in S&L when she basically tells him there is nothing he can do about her dying and just help her cross over and says he is an expert on dying, and he replies 'I am an expert on dying. I am just not an expert on you dying.'  Ohhhhhh...

And I still think that in a lot of ways, Zhaan/Stark is a mirror of John/Aeryn. With the woman the crazy guy's source of stability. Stark goes catatonic-mumbly when Zhaan dies which is a John thing to do. He sort of displaces onto Aeryn because Zhaan died for her.  He goes looking for Zhaan even though she is dead. These are all a John sort of thing to do. Only he doesn't have the happiness of having Zhaan back.  In some ways, Stark is John, complete with a dark streak (the way that he leaves Grunchlick frozen is rough justice but it's very dark) and passionate hate of the use of the helpless and hopeless love. Only years later and messed up a lot lot lot more than John (I still remember John telling Stark “she is my Zhaan” about Aeryn and it clicks for Stark, because of course it does.)

I love that he gets peace at the very end. One of my favorite things is that he is finally free of all the horror. And I am an optimist. Maybe one day he will find Zhaan  again. It's Farscape, anything can happen.

Oh, and I do love how alien the two of them can get:

(Those two clearly had a good time, heh.) 

OK, moving on to the non Zhaan x Stark stuff. This little moment is pretty awesome:

Indeed.

A moment that struck me is this one:

I think it strikes me so hard because this is such a constant for John. Aeryn comes back ancient and John has no idea what caused it or if it would do this to him or what danger he’d go into but it does not matter. She is in danger and that’s the sole thing that matters. Aging does not scare a man who went down to the Gammak Base in s1 to save her, saw his life  turn into neverending horror  as a result and that past experience and still does not let it give him even a moment of pause. John remains the same throughout - Aeryn’s safety trumps anything for him. It’s one constant no matter what else changes in him - in s4 he goes to the Scarran stronghold strapping a literal nuke to himself to rescue her. He has no stops when it comes to her and he never will.

The thing with the titular locket btw - I found it so interesting not that old Aeryn had John’s portrait in it and referred to it as the love of her life (not surprising) but that John ultimately did not want to look and see who it was because a man who was brave enough to walk into an enemy stronghold, to fight the Universe even, was not brave enough to look in case it was someone else. And how Farscape for him to find out only after her death (and once again, Farscape uses any opportunity to twist the knife; they make them old in giant part just to have her die in his arms, I swear.)

One bit of amusingness for me tho is Harvey’s frustration about being stuck in the middle of nowhere with crotchety old Crichton and nothing he could do about it.

But ulitmately everything gets undone and it ends on a surprisngly gentle note for this show. 

PS We begin to see the cracks in D’Argo x Chiana. It was a relationship that always made sense to me, in good days and bad - they were never compatible in some ways and I do think that their narrative really went through whether feelings and a hell of a sexual attraction is enough for them. (The thing with Jothee really was Chiana self-sabotaging in the most spectacular way because she was worried she was in too deep and because it was her subconscious telling her to pull the bandaid off before D’Argo did. Better leave than to be left. She really had enormous issues, like the rest of them, and nothing was ever magically easy.)

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Isekai commonalities

After giving a fair amount of thought to the matter, I think there's three main points that separate isekai from similar story types such as voyages of exploration.

The setting is substantially different from what the protagonist(s) are used to. Not merely a difference in culture, there's differences in how the world is assumed to work (magic, higher technology, psi, nonhuman sapients, etc).

The protagonist(s) arrives in a manner that is unusual and/or unintentional. They may be able to find their way back later for sequels, or even open up regular transport, although that changes the nature of the story if they do so.

The protagonist(s) brings one or more assets that are rare or absent in the world where they find themselves. This could be as simple is a fresh outlook on the situation which lets them find solutions the locals wouldn't think of, or something more overt like magical powers gained during the journey or enough knowledge to introduce technology to a low-tech world.

The rest is negotiable. The protagonist may remain in their own body, may be reborn in the local equivalent (such as Flynn in Tron), or be reborn as an entirely new person/monster/vending machine. It could be one-way (especially if they didn't so much take the bus as get run over by one), the story could end with returning home, or there could even be repeated visits during the course of which the protagonist has to decide how to split their time or if they should settle down in just one (Dorothy and Oz).

Point 3 does exclude some older stories that might be considered proto-isekai, such as Rip Van Winkle (1. The Future, 2. Magical Sleep) who doesn't really bring anything to the party IIRC. Fairy ring stories do hit all three points because mortals have flaws and virtues that the fair folk lack.

This whole line of thought was kicked off by someone else realizing that Big Trouble in Little China was an isekai, and I think it hits all three of my points, although #3 is a bit oblique.

Chinatown is not just culturally foreign to Jack Burton, there's the whole, "Oh yeah, there's actual magic here," thing.

Jack really just blunders into the whole thing. He didn't mean to get mixed up in Lo Pan's low plans or even spend a lot of time in Little China.

What does he bring? A fool's own luck and an outsider's arrogance, which end up breaking so many carefully laid plans through stupid good fortune. He does the thing the plan never anticipated because no one would be so STUPID.

Of course, Jack doesn't reincarnate, or even really change a whole lot thanks to his experience. He returns to his normal life on the road at the end (albeit with the promise of more weirdness in his near future). And frankly no one would believe his story.

Isekai can be further subdivided into categories alluded to above.

Odyssey: The goal is to get home, even if they never do. (Odyssey itself, Star Trek Voyager, Farscape, Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, etc.)

Just Visiting: Getting home may be a secondary goal, but there's something they want to do while in the other world, and are given reason to believe they can get home reasonably easily any time they really want. (A lot of the fairy ring stuff, Randolph Carter's dream quests, Tron.)

That Time I Got Reincarnated: For whatever reason, going home is not an option. Either literal reincarnation following death, a voluntary exile, or something else. The key point is that the story focuses on what to do now in this other world, because it's home now. (Star Trek Discovery they know they can't go home, all of the Truck-kun stories in modern Japanese-flavored isekai.)

First Contact: All of the isekai points are hit, but eventually the story progresses to the point that the two worlds become more connected and it stops being an isekai to travel between them. The 1980s Transformers cartoon started off as an isekai for the Cybertronians, but by the third season Earth has diplomatic relations with Cybertron and travel between the worlds is fairly normal if still uncommon and expensive.

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DC Trivia 2 | Grand Trivia 142

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