A Human Reaction

[annundriel]

One of my very favorite scenes of anything ever. You can watch it here. It's just...It's so simple, but it's not insignificant. There's a lot of weight behind it. Expectation. It's lovely, and slays me every time.

So, Farscape is about this astronaut - John Crichton - who gets flung through a wormhole to a distant part of the universe where he meets a living ship containing escaping prisoners. He gets pulled in as they're escaping, along with Peacekeeper Officer Aeryn Sun and soon they're all trying to find their respective ways home.

Here's the IMDb description of "A Human Reaction": A wormhole appears before Moya, the crew can see Earth on the other side. Crichton flies down the wormhole to the world he left behind. But when the rest of the crew comes looking for him, Crichton's loyalties are tested does he side with his new found friends, or Earth.

In the scene I linked to, John and Aeryn find a safe place to stay on Earth. John's been talking it up and talking it up and here they are...and it's raining. The government is after them. Things are not looking good. He wanted so much to share things with them...

It's not their first kiss, but it is their first one without the belief that they're going to die in the near future.

John and Aeryn have some of my all-time, hands-down favorite kissing scenes on television.

They are...kind of my OTP to end all OTPs. Because 1) they are not a figment of subtext and 2) somehow, someway the writers did right by them. I look back at Farscape (which I missed during its initial run) and I look at the progression of John, Aeryn, and John/Aeryn and there really isn't anything I would change.

I love them a hell of a lot.