{"id":1627,"date":"2007-04-01T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T03:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1627"},"modified":"2007-04-01T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T03:49:25","slug":"what-i-did-on-my-vacation-part-the-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1627","title":{"rendered":"What I Did On My Vacation, Part The Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0002VGSBM?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0002VGSBM\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"farscape_season_4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.klishis.com\/random\/images\/farscape_season_4.jpg?resize=81%2C140\" width=\"81\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>And the last thing I did on my vacation: We finished watching Farscape. In three days we watched the end of Season 3, all of Season 4, and <em>The Peacekeeper Wars<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>My brain hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it was pretty good&#8211;even <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0006FO9B0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0006FO9B0\">Farscape &#8211; The Peacekeeper Wars<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=randomreading-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0006FO9B0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em>, which Daniel had said was horrific. Of course a good bit of <em>The Peacekeeper Wars<\/em> was completely ridiculous, (Have a baby and then get up and kick butt? Unlikely.) but mostly I found it a satisfactory conclusion, in that it tied up all the loose ends and left me with a feeling of closure.<\/p>\n<p>For the series as a whole, I found it hit and miss. Some episodes just didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense or made me cringe, while others were absolutely fantastic (the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0578122\/\">episode where John kept seeing things as a cartoon<\/a>&#8211;pure genius). And in the middle of the series, I didn&#8217;t much care for how John changed from a use your brains to solve problems to a kick ass and take names kinda guy who thought first with his gun.  That, combined with the number of scantily clad women aboard Moya, made it feel at times like a geek&#8217;s fantasy world. But that eventually sorted itself out, so for the most part it was pretty satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>What I found interesting was that even though I found many of the episodes only to be so-so and even at times maddening, as a whole, I thought <em>Farscape<\/em> was very good, primarily due to an excellent group of actors who had fantastic chemistry. I mean, the sexual tension between John and Arin was&#8230; whew! And the desire to know what happened to those characters that made the whole thing so compelling. <\/p>\n<p>That and the fact that they weren&#8217;t afraid to kill people off.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have to decide whether to start watching <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000AJJNFE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000AJJNFE\">Battlestar Galactica  &#8211; Season One<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=randomreading-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000AJJNFE\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em> while my grandmother is visiting my Aunt in Virginia, or wait and save it for later&#8211;probably to watch it in the basement. Despite the fact that she really enjoys science fiction, I don&#8217;t think I want to watch <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> with my grandmother for the same reason we didn&#8217;t watch <em>Farscape<\/em> with her&#8211;just a little too much sex. (Either for her to enjoy the show or for me to be comfortable watching the show with her.)<\/p>\n<p>Then we figure out what we should watch my grandmother finishes watching <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0001M3MXY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0001M3MXY\">Babylon 5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=randomreading-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0001M3MXY\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em>. We&#8217;ve watched it before. She&#8217;s now in the middle of Season 3. We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000ERVJKO?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B000ERVJKO\">The Wild Wild West<\/a>, but we really need something geekier in the line-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the last thing I did on my vacation: We finished watching Farscape. In three days we watched the end of Season 3, all of Season 4, and The Peacekeeper Wars. My brain hurts. Actually, it was pretty good&#8211;even Farscape &#8211; The Peacekeeper Wars, which Daniel had said was horrific. 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