thinking about crichton and agency and violation and why that hookup with the assassin lady in “look at the princess” actually always really worked for me. people complain about it because like, isn’t he supposed to be pining after aeryn? oh she won’t put out so he’s going to someone else? but it isn’t about that to me at all. it’s about how this trilogy totally takes his sexual and romantic agency away (in a show that is constantly taking his agency away, sexual and otherwise). people want to force him to give up his genetic material, his life, his hope, his body, the possibility of loving the person he wants to love (and meanwhile scorpius is slowly taking over his brain). and of course, he’s a good man who wouldn’t force the issue with the person he actually wants. so as trite as it might look on the surface, in context for him to get laid--to just have sex with an attractive woman because he wants to--really does feel like an attempt at sexual agency. it’s why i always react like, “yeah sure, give this man a break.” (also with the context of how hard browder apparently resisted the “hooking up with an alien of the week” trope during the rest of the show, it just has more of the feel of a deliberate choice than a random thing)
















