It's a beautiful morning in Barcelona. . .

Well, strictly speaking it's neither morning nor exceptionally beautiful -- it's noon, and it's rather grey outside. But I'm sure we're going to have a good day... :)

I think it's time I posted a bit of a report of the last days here, and since I'm waiting for Kadira to finish ironing so we can have breakfast, I might as well do it now.

I arrived here on Wednesday morning last week, after a twenty-hour bus ride, and was picked up by Kadira and her family at the bus station. We then spent the rest of the day talking and watching Farscape music videos and eps. (I know Kadira from HL fandom, but she started watching FS because of my constant recommendations, and really grew to love it.) The next day we were planning to visit Montserrat, a famous mountain and monastery, but we didn't get out of bed in time, so we spent the day watching FS instead. The day after that, we *did* manage to do some sightseeing, but we only made it to Barcelona's Barri Gotic, not to Montserrat. We also visited a number of bookshops and had some icecream. In the evening, of course, we watched Farscape again.The next day we went to Barcelona again to see another old quarter called Born, and a beautiful gothic church (and another bookshop. *g*) That evening, we did *not* watch FS because we ran into some technical problems. The day after that we finally managed to get up in time for Montserrat... I'd already been to Montserrat with Kadira the last time I visited her, but the mountain is very beautiful, and I wanted to see it again - and Kadira is simply in love with Montserrat, so she never minds going there another time! :-) As on the previous days, Volker and Mike, Kadira's husband and son, accompanied us, and made altogether pleasant company. In the evening - you guessed it - we watched FS again (we've reached 4.05 now)... and today my muscles ache from hiking on Montserrat, and I have no objections at all to spending most of today watching most of the rest of season four! And maybe I'll be able to write a bit.

Besides what I described above, we of course spent a lot of our time talking about anything from our so called Real Lives through general fandom related things through Farscape in particular to writing. (I pestered Kadira with all my writing neuroses) Oh, and Volker provided consistently great food, except for two days, on one of which *I* cooked (I made my trademark 'lazy lasagna'). On the other we called a pizza service.I'm enjoying every moment here, and I don't really want to think about going back to Frankfurt yet...

PS: I just accidentally posted this entry in Kadira's journal! Ooooops...

I want to enter the mind of David Kemper.

Kadira and I just finished watching 'Unrealized Reality' (Farscape 4.11), which means now we'll have to wait through four months of Farscape drought. As always when I've watched this ep (it's been the third time for me) I feel as if my brain is smoking like Scorpy's when he needs to change cooling rods. I suspect David Kemper is really from some strange parallel universe, maybe he came to Earth through a wormhole from another reality... ;-) Seriously, the last three eps this man has written have all been weird as hezmana. (Dog With Two Bones, Crichton Kicks, and Unrealized Reality)

Right now, the aspects that are frelling with my mind the most are Aeryn's practising to pronounce the word 'existence' (or something very similar) just before John entered the wormhole, and the very short glimpses of Bad Stuff Happening to John's friends and family on Earth. Glimpses into the future of the show, perhaps? And, BTW, has everyone forgotten about John's sisters? They appeared neither in Dog With Two Bones nor in Unrealized Reality!

Some dissociated thoughts on the much-maligned Season Four before I return to killing Methos in a fic. I've just watched most of the season for the second time, and - much like Season Three - it all comes together much nicer now than at the first viewing. The worst episodes aren't so bad after all, and the good episodes are even better than I though - especially I Shrink Therefore I Am. That was a work of genius -- my feelings towards it are similar to my feelings towards Season Three's Thanks For Sharing: at first glance, I recognized it was a good, probably a very good ep, but at the second viewing, I suddenly noticed it was more than that -- it was vintage Farscape, a truly great ep. Not very arc-relevant, true, but it had great character and relationship moments and some truly hilarious situations. Not to mention John in Die Hard Mode, which is always fun, too. I also loved Aeryn riding 1812!

Okay, gotta go write a bit now. I'd love to ramble on here for a bit, but I have a character to kill. (Though I doubt I will get to that bit today!)