Have you seen any of Fringe S4 yet? I can hook you up if you want/need/aren't opposed to downloaded tv (I don't download anything I'd have to pay for if I were still living in the US, but currently airing broadcast tv? No qualms).
From what you write it would seem that comic characterization has spared no one, and that Chi is only the last in a long list of victims. I had such high hopes for the comics, since they seemed to have taken the place of the now-mythical webisodes, but those hopes are beyond wilted.
I admittedly have a very strong bias towards Chiana, and what bothers me deeply may not bother others at all or very much, but I this is what I see when I read them. They've had opportunities to fix it (honestly, I was DESPERATE to like them) and squandered them. For instance, at one point Chiana essentially says "Of course I'm just whoring around with the guy that wants to kidnap Deke and will help him because I have no choice, you know who I am, what did you expect?" And John could have - should have - said "Yes, I know who you are, and this isn't it. You've been sick, you've been acting strange, I know how alone you must be with D'Argo dead, tell me what's wrong and let me help." But no. We get a pissy, glaring "whatever".
If D'Argo's physiology was making him hyper-rage constantly, and he was hurting himself and others...wouldn't everyone come together and try and help him? Wouldn't they care? Wouldn't HE care, and fight against it?
There are other obsessive Chi fans who would disagree with me (and I respect their opinions) but I think this Roiin/Nebari biology story could have been heart-breaking (in a good way LOL) and well done, if it hadn't come out of nowhere, if Roiin had had an ounce of complexity and compassion, if Chiana had fought this change in her tooth and nail, if the others had noticed and been fearful for her, hell, even for themselves! What happened to the Nebari threat? The Nebari living with you, whom you consider a sister, has been taken over by her biology, is consorting with an assassin that wants your son, is visibly sick (I'm talking the rash here, not her suddenly red blood) and you can't be bothered? It makes me so sad.
And Chiana's story isn't the storyline that bothers me the most actually, from a plot perspective. It's just the most hurtful.
Farscape is a show that gave me much, both directly and indirectly, and at this point I prefer that it remains as it is, with its 88 episodes and final mini-series. No further additions, no "extreme measures", thank you very much.
Amen.
On the plus side, the comics have made me think much more favorably of PKW (which I WILL rewatch! Cross my heart, hope to die LOL)
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From what you write it would seem that comic characterization has spared no one, and that Chi is only the last in a long list of victims. I had such high hopes for the comics, since they seemed to have taken the place of the now-mythical webisodes, but those hopes are beyond wilted.
I admittedly have a very strong bias towards Chiana, and what bothers me deeply may not bother others at all or very much, but I this is what I see when I read them. They've had opportunities to fix it (honestly, I was DESPERATE to like them) and squandered them. For instance, at one point Chiana essentially says "Of course I'm just whoring around with the guy that wants to kidnap Deke and will help him because I have no choice, you know who I am, what did you expect?" And John could have - should have - said "Yes, I know who you are, and this isn't it. You've been sick, you've been acting strange, I know how alone you must be with D'Argo dead, tell me what's wrong and let me help." But no. We get a pissy, glaring "whatever".
If D'Argo's physiology was making him hyper-rage constantly, and he was hurting himself and others...wouldn't everyone come together and try and help him? Wouldn't they care? Wouldn't HE care, and fight against it?
There are other obsessive Chi fans who would disagree with me (and I respect their opinions) but I think this Roiin/Nebari biology story could have been heart-breaking (in a good way LOL) and well done, if it hadn't come out of nowhere, if Roiin had had an ounce of complexity and compassion, if Chiana had fought this change in her tooth and nail, if the others had noticed and been fearful for her, hell, even for themselves! What happened to the Nebari threat? The Nebari living with you, whom you consider a sister, has been taken over by her biology, is consorting with an assassin that wants your son, is visibly sick (I'm talking the rash here, not her suddenly red blood) and you can't be bothered? It makes me so sad.
And Chiana's story isn't the storyline that bothers me the most actually, from a plot perspective. It's just the most hurtful.
Farscape is a show that gave me much, both directly and indirectly, and at this point I prefer that it remains as it is, with its 88 episodes and final mini-series. No further additions, no "extreme measures", thank you very much.
Amen.
On the plus side, the comics have made me think much more favorably of PKW (which I WILL rewatch! Cross my heart, hope to die LOL)