I liked Act III, too, though like pretty much everyone I was a little stunned at the ending. It seemed like this whole project was the ultimate realization of that idea that superheroes are nothing but testosterone-fueled muscle-bound bullies, and mad scientists are just misunderstood nerdy guys -- but instead of turning it around and letting the nerd prevail and have his moment of glory, instead he gets there and realizes it's -- not really worth it?

I totally expected him to reanimate Penny and bring her back as his evil zombie girlfriend so they could rule the world together.

Now I have to have -- well, most of those, really. Definitely Venus. Wow.

Pluto would go nicely side-by-side with Ice Age.

Where am I going to get all this money, dammit?! Anyone need a kidney?

Pretty good advice for basically anyone considering sex, really.

...I'm going to bed.

Is this a dispatch from some alternate universe? How long has this been going on? Where are these things shown? Why would you even do that?

Ohhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhh.

*It's not, really, but I was worried that no one else would make the joke.

Nice star, btw.

Now, it's been a while for me, too (I've actually been working up the mood to do a rewatch the past couple of months), but at one time each episode was inscribed into the squishy parts of my brain...let's see if they're still there...

The first Big Plan Gone Awry is when Crichton impersonates a Peacekeeper commander and lets a team of elite PK commandos board the ship. Their cargo, a hostile virus, gets loose, everyone dies, and Aeryn gets mortally wounded. Next Big Caper: infiltrate a Peacekeeper base to get a medical sample that can save Aeryn's life. This is where Crichton meets Scorpius, who straps him to the Chair, tortures him, learns he has wormhole knowledge, and plants a chip in his brain, to haunt him and hunt him and dog him for years to come.

Apart from that, the classic failed plan is the one IchabodCrane mentions, the fantastically ballsy heist on the Shadow Depository with a mercenary gang cobbled together from various bad guys and criminals Crichton's faced and defeated in the past. (One of them's even reformed and turned pacifist -- Crichton just knocks it out of him and turns him violent again so he can get his help!) Things go horribly wrong, everybody dies, but they do get the loot -- which turns out not money but deadly parasites that infest Moya and have to be removed with fire that scars and almost kills her. This leads the crew to seek a doctor, who makes many other bad things happen...

Man, I miss Farscape. That was a fantastic show. *wipes tear*

@Numerous: I just finished watching all of Hex at a friend's suggestion, and...I still don't know what to think of it. No show in recent memory has baffled my critical faculties as thoroughly as Hex. Is it just a Buffy rip-off, or do I like its low-key, postmodern take on supernatural goings-on? Do I enjoy the angels-and-demons, cosmic battle stuff, or am I perplexed how everyone seems to take consorting with devils and the End of Days in stride, and how even when the school is burning in a sacrificial orgy and the world seems poised to end, matters never seem that urgent or the stakes terribly high? Are the characters complex and interesting, or baffling and unknowable? I dread the day my friend asks me what I thought, because I know I'll collapse in a confused and inarticulate puddle of goo.

(*knows she probably will anyway*)

She went back because Doctor Brown asked her to take care of Doctor Blue -- when the Doctor asks you to do something, you don't refuse lightly -- and sweetened the pot with the prospect of a romantic relationship with him. It was just barely enough to convince her, as you can see by her reaction. She's still torn. She (and the rest of the Pete's World immigrants) didn't have to go back because they belonged there or the universe would fall apart, or anything. Doctor Blue was the only one *required* to leave the universe. I suppose Rose could have said "Nah, screw that, he'll be fine. I'm coming with you." She did have a choice.

It made great sense to me, and didn't seem contrived or bother me at all -- I was a little surprised to see that it stuck out to anyone.

Donna's ending is incredibly tragic. But I'm sure her "no" was fear and denial, not rational refusal. Either way Doctor-Donna dies, and those memories are destroyed -- the question is whether or not Supertemp Donna gets to live a life afterward. And I'm sure the Doctor knew that her family would much rather hear "Here's your daughter back the way she was when I found her," than "Your daughter's head asploded. I'm so sorry."

I wanted the Doctor to take Wilf so bad. He obviously has a companion's spirit of adventure and has proven quite capable. But as he showed us already with Mr. Copper, old men need not apply! Mr. Copper quickly showed his true colors, though, being all domestic and thrilled with a house with windows and furniture, and clearly not adventuring material. But Wilf really wants to see the stars, poor guy. I always thought Donna should have asked for at least one trip in the TARDIS for her old grandpa, just a quick spin around the solar system or something.

Doomsday was a nice and right-feeling ending, I agree. But since Rose inevitably came back, I think Journey's End is actually pretty acceptable as a secondary ending. It's only cloying and outrageous if you think it's supposed to be a picture-perfect happy ending tied up in a bow with a dollop of whipped cream and a cherry on top, but it's not. RTD knows it's not (listen to what he says in Confidential), Rose knows it's not, and I daresay both Doctors know it, too.

Maybe the shippers think that after that final shot of the bay, the Doctor and Rose stroll hand-in-hand a few feet offscreen to where a big canopy bed waits on the sands, white linen blowing in the ocean breeze, harps singing and smiling putti fluttering in the wings. They swim in cascades of love, as the Doctor brings Rose to the edge of bliss and whispers his true name in her ear as she calls out their love to the skies and the planets align in cosmic harmony...

But really, if we were to follow them beyond that moment, I suspect things are rather rockier than that, and there's the potential for some rather serious tension and even ugliness before they work it out. That wrongness that makes us all so uncomfortable is intentional, and pretty dramatic. It's not as neat as it seems. And that makes it okay.

Incidentally, the Doctor seems to keep doing this. It's basically the same thing he asked of Pete and Jackie (where it also felt uncomfortable and wrong, but without the story seeming to acknowledge that at the time) -- he asked them to accept a substitute, similar but not the same, to replace the person they had loved and lost. And it worked, apparently. I guess close only counts in horseshoes and Pete's World.

As far as why Mickey "got" to stay on the original Earth -- it wasn't so much that he got to stay as that the others were all required to return for one reason or another. Jackie had left Pete and her son behind, so she was going back, although there's a good chance she might have uprooted her family to follow Rose wherever she went. She might have preferred her wealth and status in Pete's World, though -- it's hard to say, since she was never exactly the decider. Doctor Blue had to be quarantined from the original universe (why again? That bit seemed a bit hand-wavey, tbh), so he had to go -- and Rose, who definitely intended to stay now that she finally got through, was assigned to go back and look after him. Mickey just didn't have any reason to go back. Plus we want him on Torchwood.

And since I wasn't sitting in one of the three seats in the very center, the only tolerable vantage point in the entire theater, it was a rather vertiginous experience, all told.

Obsidian Order would probably be best, but since they're not an option, I'm going with Tal Shiar -- alien, from the future, large, organized, highly disciplined, and a bit ruthless. They would have to get the job done.

K-9 is best in small -- teeny, tiny -- doses. Like in the Doctor Who version of the Weakest Link when K-9 was the first one voted off. He does not need his own show.

But since I don't feel up to a big ID discussion and it's impolite to hang around for the sole purpose of ragging on people one dislikes, I should probably just excuse myself from this thread now. Er, bye...

Nice, but like so many cool things, really, really, really impractical!

But whatever. Space is sexy, whoo!

I was also starting to get a little worried that the Sisko/Q match wouldn't make it in, since it came so late in the video!

Glad to see the Farscape love. Crichton was awesome.

I only noted a few omissions, most of which I think were already brought up: that weird Voyager ep Tsunkatse (yes, I actually remembered the name of the game/episode), the weevil-fighting scenes from Torchwood, and the Doctor getting slapped by various mothers, if slapping counts (and it should!) Martha's mother got him once, too. Oh, and Donna, more than once...

Anyway, nice video. :)

Other than that, though, I'm loving it. Mostly what I love about Moffat is that his plots don't follow conventional patterns, and that he finds so many disparate elements to throw -- to carefully weave into his scripts.

([strike] tag doesn't work? Boo! That's a valuable tool in the arsenal of internet snark...)

And I should probably leave it, but @Darkedge: at least stick to slinging your poo at whatever the post topic is and leave your fellow commenters alone. Or you could even say something that's not filled with bile. Sorry, I'm mixing my scatological metaphors...

Also:

"There's as many episodes of this cartoon so there's a lot of ideas, but if we make the sequel maybe that will be in 3-D, but I mean it would have been possible, because it was digital to begin with, to do it in 3-D and all those shots were rendered so it would have been possible."

This sentence is simply glorious, I just wanted to honor it in some way.