Just when you thought your days of feeling really fannish about something were over...

[bimo]

Well, I turned 50 this spring and over the last decade there have been quite a number of shows which I enjoyed, admired, or which left me absolutely breathless (most recently Andor, Foundation), but for a long while there hasn't been anything that I felt this degree of connection and fannish excitement for that I used to have far more often in earlier days.

Yesterday I looked at my AO3 account only to realize that the last time I published a story was way back in December 2017, so I haven't written anything new in almost eight years. But to get back on track with this entry...

After finishing Foundation, Cavendish and I started with Farscape, mostly because I got this very nice Blu-ray set for my birthday, and there it was, lying on a shelf and we both thought "Well yeah, let's have a go at it!". (Cavendish has only ever watched a handful of random episodes, for me it's actually the third watching, with my last one being sometime around 2011-2012.)

And where to start? One of the first things I noticed is that except for minor missteps, the show has actually aged incredibly well in my opinion and already in season 1 feels exactly as amazingly poignant, crazy and subversive as I remembered it.

Also, while I'm not sure whether this has anything to do just with me getting older or with the horrifying times that we are currently living in, many episodes now seem to make a much stronger impact on me. Especially, because we are right as this point with our rewatch where the show starts pick up steam with larger overall plot lines and descent into madness character development, while at the same time coming up with all those small, shining moments of beauty like Aeryn experiencing rain on her face for the very first time in her life in "A Human Reaction".

And I truly missed that, so I guess all I can do now is to say a huge thank you to Farscape people old and new, starting with selenak who introduced me to the show some odd 22 years ago and everybody else that I met along the way.