nymeria_dw

shedding the oppressive and psychologically damaging aspects of your culture - and to not interpret "You can be more" as "Be more like me, my way is better"

You have hit on a very important detail: this is one of the points where Farscape diverges from the usual tv norm, where the "bad" character does an about-face and changes radically. We saw many instances of this in Trek, for example - let me state outright that I "grew up" with Trek, and that for many years it was the only "sci-fi food" I consumed, but when compared to more mature shows (Farscape, B5) it shows all its inherent starry-eyed naiveté.

Farscape walked several steps beyond that point, accepting - and showing - the concept that we, as people, are much more complex and multi-layered than that, that we can retain the basics of our psychological make-up while *integrating* other values. This is - IMHO - part of what being more means.

This is what Aeryn does: she sheds the "bad" parts of her education (or conditioning if you want), yet is able to retain the "good" parts (the sense of honor, of duty, for example), and uses them in synergy with her newly acquired characteristics, to become a changed person, who nonetheless is still very much the person we met in episode one.

Yes, I do admire this character :-) but I love this show even more because it forces me to *think* - which is always a good thing...

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