[January meme] Thoughts on Killjoys

[grimorie]

Thoughts on Killjoys? What fandom do you love to revisit? for aurumcalendula​

I really really love Killjoys and I'm forever sad it never became popular in fandom as it should be. I love the complicated dynamics between the characters and I adored the worldbuilding in the first two seasons, especially the politics and religion of that world because it played off nicely with each other, especially the religion. Because it made sense, the Qresh was the main planet and the water levels rose and swallowed up the majority of the other lands, the other people fled, the remaining people became royalty called the Nine Families.

Birthright is based on land ownership and where they're born rather than blood ties, hence the important royals all have "Land" attached to their names. The Trees are rare and became sacred to them and are folded into their religion, "Praise the Trees".

If I think about it, it's really just so elegant which makes me sad they moved away from all of this to pursue more intergalactic storytelling. It took me a while to like the new direction of the show, which involved fewer Killjoys and politics and more outright war.

I do love the whole theme of memory and living on through that legacy, and how Dutch struggled hard for that remembrance.

Most of all I love Dutch a lot because she's strong but flawed, she was raised to be an assassin but the toll of that was something she wore heavily around her shoulders. Also, this is the first show I watched the engaged honestly with abuse and how it's not a cut and dried emotion because Dutch both hated and loved Khlyen, her father.

I love Dutch's stronger than blood relationship with Johnny and eventually, I did come around D'avin (much, much, much later).

This was such a fun cracky show with excellent characters and even better characterizations.

Comments

[musesfool]

I think not having it available on Netflix or another streaming service (in the US) really hurt it in fandom terms, because when I wanted to watch it, to catch up, I had to use On Demand or the SyFy app, which was very glitchy.

[aurumcalendula]

I agree! (tbh this is part of why it took me so long to get into it)

[musesfool]

Yeah, the first time I tried and the Syfy app glitched, I ditched it and picked up The Expanse instead, which was available on Amazon Prime, iirc. It was only later that I came back to Killjoys.

[aurumcalendula]

It really does shift focus, now that I think about it (I wonder if that was always planned or if it was more of an on the fly decision). On a related note, I wish we would’ve seen more of Bellus after season 2.

I do love the whole theme of memory and living on through that legacy, and how Dutch struggled hard for that remembrance.

I loved that!

[rthstewart]

You and me both about D'av. I don't think I warmed to him until he figured out how to be what Dutch needed him to be and he took command of the joint forces for the attack on Aneela. I really loved the first 2 seasons and would have been so happy if they'd stuck to that formula. I wasn't ready for space alien wizards and the green goo. They got to an end pretty cleanly and I was satisfied.