>New Order was an 80s/early 90s tech-pop band which evolved out of the
>ruins of Joy Division after their lead singer killed himself - and at
>the risk of seeming direspectful to the dead, they were a lot more fun
>than Joy Division, not being bogged down by said lead singer's
>depressive personality. I say "were" because I don't think they've
>done anything much in a while - Truss would know better, he's a much
>bigger New Order fan than I am, though I'm fond of a good many of
>their songs.

Oh, okay. That's why I know the name; I'm familiar with Joy Division, having checked them out by way of The Crow. Joy Division didn't do a whole lot for me, so I never bothered checking out New Order. Maybe I will now.

>the EPU forums once), did a cover of New Order's "Blue Monday" on
>their first album, Candyass. ("How does it feel / To treat me
>like you do / When you laid your hands upon me / And told me who you
>are?")

I do remember that song. I rather liked it, but nothing else I've heard by Orgy has done much for me. I'm not into techno, as a rule; electronic instruments just don't sound as expressive and subtle to me as proper ones. When a techno song does really appeal to me, it's something special. (It took me awhile to really like most of the stuff on the Matrix soundtrack.)

>My main problem is that it's hard to tell where in the sequence any
>given episode falls, so I'm always wondering, "OK, so is this
>before or after Important Development X?" Sometimes
>it's obvious and sometimes it's not.

If it's important, it's generally obvious, from what I've seen.

>Heh. My favorite episode of it that I've seen so far was one of those
>- it was the "Crichton wakes up in the hospital on Earth, with
>everyone saying, 'Whoa, lucky escape, dude - how's your head?' - only
>he doesn't buy it for an instant" episode. Had me laughing my ass off
>for a solid hour, and we got to see Chiana and Aeryn French
>kissing. :)

Oh, I LOVED that episode. I'm dying for it to come out on DVD, but it's gonna be a little while before we get to Season 2. (Next DVD is past the halfway point of Season 1.) My favorite of the first season is "Back and Back and Back to the Future" -- the one where John keeps flashing forward and then back; the first time I watched it, I had no idea what was going on, and it takes quite a bit to do that. And even a bad episode by Farscape standards is still far better than, say, the average Voyager episode, or even some of NextGen's weaker moments.

John's dialogues with the Scorpius living in his head are also a lot of my favorite moments. Almost as much as the shippy moments between Aeryn and John. (Yes, I'm a romantic.) And I just love the way the show handles the tension between those two; resolve it in one way one episode, show that it is, in fact, moving forward... yet still remind us just how far they have to go.

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