Farscape 1x17 -- Through the Looking Glass

[butterfly]

Huh. John calls Chiana Sunshine here. It's just a generic 'hey, stop being glass-half-empty' nickname for him, then, yes? Because I know that I've read about him calling Aeryn that.

I really like seeing Chiana bond with the crew. She wants to leave, but she a) tries to warn them about the DRDs listening in and b) helps Zhaan up and is concerned for her. She doesn't want to feel trapped on Moya, she doesn't want to die, but she genuinely likes Zhaan and Crichton at this point, I feel. Crichton gets to her.

John really does have a will of iron. He's the one who doesn't give in or up and who finds a way no matter what.

It's interesting seeing Chiana's surprise at the existence of Starburst. Like John, she's a newcomer to a lot of this stuff, because she's Nebari. And wow, she is so adorable. The little face that she makes when Pilot tells her that she's free to leave at the first available opportunity... they haven't gotten close yet.

Oh! The John/Pilot scene! It's so sweet and wonderful and how can that be a muppet? It isn't. It's an alien, it is.

So, so sweet.

"Pip means?"
"My favorite traveling companion."
"Before I got here, did they believe anything you said?"

So cute! So this is the first appearance of the Chi-specific 'Pip' nickname. Cuteness.

Hee. I kinda love Chiana's grin when D'Argo tells John to 'take the girl and go'. She'd be fine with that plan.

"What if the creature's waiting?"
"Then piss it off."
"How?"
"Pretend it's me."

They have so much chemistry. And it's such lively, bouncy chemistry.

Wow, and John just immediately snaps to and gets her the hell out of the blue dimension when it's clear that she can't function there.

Aeryn's smart, yo.

"Whatever happens, we go together. We keep the baby."

Yeah, that sort of thing builds loyalty.

Damn, but John's the entire package.

Yeah, it's totally obvious that John and Aeryn had sex back in A Human Reaction.

Hmm. He calls both Aeryn and Chiana 'baby' in this episode. "Give me seven seconds, baby."

Oh, the ending is so sweet.

Comments

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmm, I d'know if they Did It in AHR because I'd expect the emotional level in ABL to be a little different after that (particularly re Aeryn and Larraq). The writers kept them (and the audience) on the tightrope for a long time.

"Through the Looking Glass" has so many of my favorite early Farscape moments in it -- Rygel singing his ditty, "One mippippi" (we still say that around our house when counting something down), John counting the prime number slashes (now that's something a physics geek would do), Rygel and John giggling together, Aeryn's miming D'Argo with the big sword over her head....and the ending's really great, too, celebrating one of the first times they really all work together as a team -- a real crew. And Pilot's just adorable. At first it was hard for me to see him and Rygel as anything other than muppetry, but Lani Tupu does such a lovely job with Pilot's voice I just fell for him. Plus, he kinda looks like a giant sea turtle, and I find them adorable.

John calls Aeryn "Sunshine" in "Crackers Don’t Matter" right when he pours the glass of water on her, I think.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I d'know if they Did It in AHR because I'd expect the emotional level in ABL to be a little different after that (particularly re Aeryn and Larraq). The writers kept them (and the audience) on the tightrope for a long time.

Well, they confirm it in the S2 opener, yes? ('how many times have we been close?')

Through the Looking Glass is a wonderful bonding episode.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

In "Mind the Baby"? Hmmmm, I think that's still sufficiently vague (that may be just my interp, tho).

I think that's one reason why I especially like "Looking Glass" -- the typical Star Trek ending of an ep is heh-heh-heh-watch-us-bond, but it happens so infrequently on Farscape (and these people didn't start out as anything like a united crew, much less friends) that it's a real treat.