I did intend for bed, but I'm exploding with reactions!

[akeyoftime]

You know, I really want to cut "Bad Timing" some slack (wow is that aptly named), seeing as it was the show's Ack!We've-been-canceled! finale (I can't figure if they knew it was ending, or if it caught them that off guard), but I ever have reactions. And lot of them are extremely critical.


Please excuse the roughness of this entry. I may edit it to polish it up a bit tommorow, but right now, it's just words spilling onto a page.

Moya doesn't do planetary surfaces. Her own weight crushes her in a planet's gravitational sphere. Plz to be respecting your own rules. I was willing to work with Talyn, still being a (comparatively) little guy, but this just doesn't fly.

Marriage. My god John, didn't you learn anything from the season 3 closer? I don't hate marriage. I really don't. But the assumption that it's the same across all cultures, that this is Aeryn Sun, raised a soldier with a different value system would desire it as much as he does? With the way they were laying the romantic happy ending on, you'd think they really were going to settle down on some planet and have lots of babies... which would never work. Neither of them would be satisfied with that life. And here I thought the show could actually valorise a relationship that wasn't entirely traditional. (I don't know why this has gotten so thoroughly under my skin, but damnit, I'm really annoyed!)

There is no way they could have seen a ring. None. Not and make all the silly comments they made earlier. Though I did love how Chianna knew what it meant! So apt. (I love that kid more and more.)

Congratulations John, you've destroyed *a* wormhole. Not all wormholes forever. As we've seen time and time again, they can be artificially created. This simply makes things a bit more difficult for the rest of the universe to follow suit; it does not lock Earth off forever, as you seem to think it has. I understand it makes for nice closure, but it smacks far too strongly of plot device.

What's with all the pairing off? Let's look at the three character who don't get laid at the end of the series: the old woman (undesirable by virtue of age - we've already seen her sexuality mocked), the crazy one (oh Stark), and Rygel. Nice guys, nice. Old, disabled and... slugged. Okay, Rygel's a fair point.

I did like finally seeing Aeryn interract with Pilot again, however briefly and Stark and Rygel in the same room tends to delight me as well. (They drive each other to distraction so well!) Everything to do with Chianna in this episode was also fantastic. I also liked the goodbye conversation between John and his dad. That, I will admit, was nicely done. That alien design was also one of the neatest things ever.

I did like the episode. Really. I simply enjoying tearing things to shreds as well ^^*

Comments

[sofisticat.livejournal.com]

Basically I like Aeryn and John as a couple. But all the sugar they put on top of it threatens to give me diabetes. Is it really necessary for them to make Aeryn so out of character to show that she loves John? Strong, independent women can love and have relationships that work!

[claudiasharon.livejournal.com]

Oh Bad Timing...how I love thee.

Um, the Farscape ppls didn't know the show was ending until after they had done all the season 4 stuff and they were all "omfg wtf?" and stuff.

Fans were the same too.

And then the endng they decided to keep how it was because THEY KNEW THEY'D COME BACK. Because we are awesome like that. xD