arevhat: (sad aang with momo hat)
arevhat ([personal profile] arevhat) wrote2011-10-19 05:27 pm

Saw the preview for Farscape #24...

...and I realized I'm hoping Chiana dies.  Which would be sad, but not nearly as sad as her free will and dignity being stripped away, her having literally no choice in who she has sex with (isn't that called rape?), her being suddenly, slavishly devoted to Nebari ideals, and no one giving a shit or thinking this might be odd, or of some concern.  

Alive she will continue to be used and abused and alternately ignored and maligned.  Dead she will be a free spirit, with Zhaan, D'Argo, Jool, and Sikozu for company.

Huh.  Maybe her death at this point wouldn't be sad at all.

[identity profile] vinegar-dog.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, that sounds dreadful, I am still well behind with the comics but I don't like the sound of this at all...now I am dreading what's coming! :(

[identity profile] damnedscientist.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand where you're coming from. Although I may not feel it as intensely as you, I loved Chi, Jool, Sikozu and (some of) the others and I hate to see them-short-changed. Although I dont want to bad-mouth the writers, the whole thing just doesnt feel like FS anymore.

But then, when I watch eps these days, they often dont seem like FS either, although to nothing like the same extent as the comics. I think in some ways FS has become some fan-thing with a life outside of canon to me now.

Hey ho. I feel like the whole thing seems to have run out of steam, with a small group of fans talking to themselves in a rapidly dwindling group.

I tried to write something more detailed and longer in reply, but none of it quite worked.

[identity profile] firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's *horrid*. I'm so sorry. I never wanted to pick up the comics because...well...I read the Buffy ones and I was worried. (Also once I heard Sikozu was gone....)

What an awful thing to do.

[identity profile] nymeria-55.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Since a comic spoiler is not the same as an episode spoiler (the reason I haven't read your Fringe post yet...) I went and checked your post.

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.

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.

*sigh*

[identity profile] olegscape.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, I know how you feel. It’s sad when authors do something so unprofessional and selfish, rewriting characters according to their whim in order to make their plots work, and not writing their plots based on how the established characters would’ve acted. Even more sad when they purposefully degrade the characters. In comparison to that the death of a character doesn’t seem so bad. I’ve been hoping they’d kill her and spare her this indignity for quite a while now. And then I discovered it’s easier not to care. One good thing about it is that it’s finally over with. Nice work with keeping up fans love for the show, Mr. O’Bannon.

[identity profile] vinegar-dog.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
By the way, I would love to know what Claudia and particularly Ben Browder, who seems to have invested so much of himself in FS as well as the other actors think about the comics plot and developement..are they even keeping up with it and would they want to be involved in any webisodes if these were ever actually financed?

I know it's ridiculous but my Scaper heart has broken a little today...sorry for venting, Arevhat!

And even though I know what ADS mean about dwindling number of fans, I have also heard of so many people who are watching the show for the first time only now or recently and absolutely love it..so many missed opportunities to leave a great show alone or maybe one day revive it properly as it justly deserves!

That's it I promise I will stop moaning now...maybe I will rewatch Crackers Don't Matter to cheer myself up a little..

[identity profile] charlie-bz.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I got through about 10 issues of the comics and my interest in them just went away. There was so much about them that didn't feel like Farscape. Farscape, to me, is Vivid, Larger than Life, Gross, Funny, Loud, Chaotic, Vivid, Vivid, and Vivid. None of this came through in the comics.

I think this situation just goes to show how precious collaboration is in a tv show. Writers, directors, set designers, costumers, actors...all that combined gives us the wonder of the shows. The comics just show how when there is only one person involved, things fall by the wayside.

I would imagine that the actors had a huge influence on how their characters were written. That influence is sadly lacking in the comics.

[identity profile] diarmi.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
First of all - you have Avatar icons!!! Oh, I'm jealous... Aang and Momo, yay!

On the comics - I haven't check the preview for this one but yeah, Chiana characterization had no sense at all to me from the beginning. And especially when she run away to this guy who wanted to kidnap Deke? I read comics to know more or less what's going on since it's supposed to be canon but it's rather less and less to me. And Aeryn being into religion? Complete absurd for me. I'm not also very fond of stories where Aeryn or John become some kind of leaders in the future, it happens sometimes in future fics (for PKs or Earth interstellar forces, whatever). It can be well executed, yes and it happened it some really great fanfics but it makes me uneasy. I just can't see them in that context.

[identity profile] olegscape.livejournal.com 2011-10-23 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Saw the recaps of this issue elsewhere, what an epic fail indeed. I don’t know all details without looking at it, but apparently nothing happens. At. All. There is no resolution for Chiana, no stand off, no conflict, no change, no nothing. Apparently bounty hunter decides to give Deke back to JA. Which means it doesn’t only leave her being what they turned her into, but it also makes turning her into it have absolutely NO PURPOUSE, and completely POINTLESS.

I guess that’s something you can expect from somebody who resolves the years long plot of galaxy coming to the brink of devastation by everyone praying. If that's all it took, then why couldn’t that have been done when the invasion just started, saving billions of lives, destroying good characters, and reading this half a@@#$ attempt at a plot.