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I’ve always maintained that Farscape must be the most ‘fanficcy’ series there ever was. They did angst with ‘The Choice’, and now they’ve done a coming home fic. Yes, ‘Terra Firma’ was pure and utter fanfic. Oh, don’t worry, it was *good*. It was, in fact, very good, from the lush colours and meditative music and the dreamy quality of the beginning to the moving scenes between John and his family. The only thing that really annoys me is that DK’s death was treated so cavalierly. Still, as I said, it was a very, very good ep.
‘Kansas’ was just good, not *very* good, and it had more elements that slightly annoyed me than ‘Terra Firma’ did. But even ‘Kansas’ was pure fanfic. John talking to his mom; John losing his virginity to Chiana – it doesn’t get much more fanfic than that!
But, back to ‘Terra Firma’, which just may make it into my top ten. John pointing a gun at his father (well, okay, that was actually the end of ‘Kansas) – fanfic. John sitting on the pier writing in his diary – fanfic. Aeryn taking Jack to Saturn – fanfic. Everyone talking to Aeryn about her relationship – fanfic. It being Christmas time – fanfic. Political problem arising from alien technology – fanfic. John talking to his sister – fanfic. All of those are very familiar topoi to a fanfic reader. Ricky Manning certainly knows what fans want to see... no one can tell me that that man has never read a fic.