My John Crichton is not second best.
It's been fucking years since I've posted here, yes? Or maybe just months, I have no idea.
Anyway, I was going to hijack Shunda's latest entry to ask this question but then I remembered that I do have a journal I've more or less abandoned, so hey.
Topic?
Camille is an ornery ass. True fact.
We watched Unrealized Reality over the weekend (because we are geeks who still get together to watch this show) and we couldn't agree on the following scene(s):
When John is sniffing the laka and he gets these flashes of himself and Aeryn in an embrace. It's my opinion that these are simply desires John has that he's trying to suppress with the laka, and like he told D'Argo, the laka only works when he doubles the dosage.
There's a flash again of that same embrace with them kissing, and then we see Aeryn staring out into space watching John study the wormhole with his old notebook in her hand. I interpret this scene to mean that Aeryn is having similar thoughts and desires, to be reunited with him again the way she was with the other John.
Camille thinks those scenes are memories from Aeryn's time with the other John on Talyn, and they were somehow transferred or left like a footprint on this John's conscious from his time with Stark's mask.
I cannot begin to describe how ill-fitting Cam's theory sits with me. I won't say that her interpretation is wrong, but I do not agree that Aeryn and *this* John's relationship is built completely upon the other John's experiences. It's not fair to Aeryn or either John. They have enough fabrications to sort through without adding this on. Additionally, what Cam's theory really translates to is the John on Moya is somehow not real, or incomplete, without this connection to the other John, and I simply don't agree with that. They were led down very different paths, and as much as I love Aeryn Sun and her relationship with John Crichton, the experiences of the John on Moya without her, are not unimportant or have lesser meaning or makes him a copy of the original.
He's real, dammit, and he has his own set of wants and needs and feelings and jealousies and irrational behaviors. He deserves no less than the other John. My John Crichton is not second best. He's lived and loved and died, and he continues to live and love Aeryn Sun.
Erm, yeah. I may be just a wee bit taken with this subject.
Anyway, I was going to hijack Shunda's latest entry to ask this question but then I remembered that I do have a journal I've more or less abandoned, so hey.
Topic?
Camille is an ornery ass. True fact.
We watched Unrealized Reality over the weekend (because we are geeks who still get together to watch this show) and we couldn't agree on the following scene(s):
When John is sniffing the laka and he gets these flashes of himself and Aeryn in an embrace. It's my opinion that these are simply desires John has that he's trying to suppress with the laka, and like he told D'Argo, the laka only works when he doubles the dosage.
There's a flash again of that same embrace with them kissing, and then we see Aeryn staring out into space watching John study the wormhole with his old notebook in her hand. I interpret this scene to mean that Aeryn is having similar thoughts and desires, to be reunited with him again the way she was with the other John.
Camille thinks those scenes are memories from Aeryn's time with the other John on Talyn, and they were somehow transferred or left like a footprint on this John's conscious from his time with Stark's mask.
I cannot begin to describe how ill-fitting Cam's theory sits with me. I won't say that her interpretation is wrong, but I do not agree that Aeryn and *this* John's relationship is built completely upon the other John's experiences. It's not fair to Aeryn or either John. They have enough fabrications to sort through without adding this on. Additionally, what Cam's theory really translates to is the John on Moya is somehow not real, or incomplete, without this connection to the other John, and I simply don't agree with that. They were led down very different paths, and as much as I love Aeryn Sun and her relationship with John Crichton, the experiences of the John on Moya without her, are not unimportant or have lesser meaning or makes him a copy of the original.
He's real, dammit, and he has his own set of wants and needs and feelings and jealousies and irrational behaviors. He deserves no less than the other John. My John Crichton is not second best. He's lived and loved and died, and he continues to live and love Aeryn Sun.
Erm, yeah. I may be just a wee bit taken with this subject.