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Where do I go for Farscape fic? Anyone have recs? Ideally centered on John, Aeryn, and/or Scorpius (or Harvey).

Good: Hurt/comfort, long epics, alternate seasons, humor, darkfic, slash.

Bad: Schmoop, babyfic, agendafic, anything OOC or too AU.

Please?

Yes, everyone who tried for years to talk me into watching Farscape was right. I loved it.

I just finished the series. I began to really like it in seasons two and three, but didn’t find myself totally in love until season four. It took a while for the show to actually gel into the quality they were attempting all along, but once it did it became absolutely brilliant. I had no idea how dark, odd, twisted, and kinky the show would get! And yes, I did fall totally in love with John Crichton. He’s an insane, hilarious, fucked-up mess of a character. He ended up hitting all my fictional kinks and probably creating a few new ones. Aeryn Sun just got better and better, passionate and vulnerable without compromising her strength and competence. John and Aeryn might be the best portrayal of a relationship of equals that I’ve ever seen on television.

You were all right. I should have watched it sooner. And I would really like to smack in the face whatever moron at the Sci Fi Channel decided to cancel this amazing show!

It wasn't perfect. They so should have had a fifth season; the miniseries was too rushed and, by necessity of time, lacked a lot of the odd and twisted diversions that made the series so unique. I wish Scorpius had gotten more development; I'd have liked to have seen more of a character arc and more of his relationships with Sikozu and Braca. Jool's miniseries return was OOC and nonsensical. The show threw in way too many scantily-clad young women who seemed to exist mostly in pursuit of ratings. Crais had a good arc in theory, but never connected emotionally as a three-dimensional character (and what's with Lani Tupu forgetting how to do Pilot's voice in the miniseries?). A lot of the "issues" between John and Aeryn were obviously manufactured to drag out the UST as long as possible. There were some definite race issues--why so few people of color and wtf were they thinking with "Twice Shy"? D'Argo's apparent death was more about the writers twisting the knife than organic to the story. The emphasis on John and Aeryn's child annoyed me, as the whole thing about life only being meaningful if you reproduce always bothers me in fiction.

These are minor quibbles, though. The show is amazing.

More favorite things: every surreal moment of Harvey; John's pop-culture references, ridiculous sense of humor, and shaky grip on his own sanity; the show's moral ambiguity, refusal to let anything be simplistic black and white--that every single character has both good and bad qualities, that sometimes the heroes do repulsive things and the villains command genuine sympathy; all the over-the-top absurd episodes--virtual reality games, cartoons, body swaps, alternate universes...; canonical muppet mpreg(!!!); the variety of strong, complex female characters--particularly that Aeryn, Chiana, and Zhaan are strikingly different archetypes that prove that there's not just one way to be a "strong woman"; that the show passes the Bechdel test regularly; that despite my dislike of the baby storyline, Aeryn defied every schmoopy pregnancy stereotype and remained her badass warrior self throughout; that the writers treat viewers intelligently and subvert the cliches of the genre; that despite the annoying nuclear-family-beats-all ending, most of the series emphasizes the non-traditional, self-created "family" of friends and comrades (and that John chooses them over returning to Earth); the silliness that lurks beneath D'Argo's tough exterior; Claudia Black's astounding talent, beauty, and that fantastic semi-goth dress she wore in "The Choice"; that everything has consequences--main characters bleed when they get hit, traumas change the people who experience them; that even though it's often goofy, it treats war and murder as profoundly serious; and did I mention how insanely dark, absurd, twisted, and kinky this show gets?

I am so totally going to watch it again. And again.

And... fic recs? Please? Must... have... fanfiction...

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