Nope, It Didn't Metamorphose Into the "Season of Living Happily Ever After" While I Wasn't Looking...

Just got the first batch of Farscape Season 3 DVDs in the mail today, and I have to say, I'm pretty pleased. After the disappointingly skimpy extras on most of the Season 2 discs, this set definitely represents an improvement. There's only one commentary track (on "Wait for the Wheel"), but so far, just on the first disc, I've found episode preview spots, an interview with Claudia Black, several deleted scenes, and, well, some other stuff I'm sort of blanking on just at the moment. They've also redesigned the menu, changed the usual still picture gallery into a slideshow with music, and really jazzed up the character bio screens. So, even if I can't have any new Farscape, I'm at least getting old Farscape in a reasonably attractive package.

So far, I've already watched "Season of Death" and "Suns and Lovers." I'm looking forward to seeing the two-part "Self-Inflicted Wounds" again, as I haven't seen it in its entirety since my first complete pass through the series a couple of years ago. At the same time, though, part of me is... oddly reluctant. It's not that I don't like the episode (though I don't think it's nearly as well-written as certain other two-parters I could name). It's just that, emotionally, this particular portion of the series kind of gets to me. It's one of those storylines where I find that I keep yelling at the characters in hopes that this time they'll listen to me and not do the ill-advised or self-destructive things they're about to do. They didn't in those first two episodes, though, and I sincerely doubt they're about to start now. I mean, honestly, you'd think I was talking to myself...