October 17, 2004

• You last link is to post for MoFi. Might want to check it.
• I am so incredibly happy that they are bringing Farscape back, if only for a miniseries. It is one of the best sci-fi shows to come along, period. I've been making due trying to catch up on any back episode I've missed, but it'll be great to watch a brand new episode. It's going to be a frelling good time.
• me, jay hova.
• oops. screwed up the link Far What?
• I can't get SciFi channel - but "Yaaaayyyyyyyyy!" /kermitesque arm waving This is one of the best science fiction shows ever - someday I will just get all of the DVDs. I was hooked by just one scene, caught when flipping channels - D'Argo was playing his instrument, maybe Creighton came on, or Pilot - but it didn't matter. All I knew is that here was a tv show that had caught that sense of mystery and alienness that literary SF expresses so well, but rarely appears on television. The muppets, the make-up, the design, the talented actors (as always the aliens steel the show on that side) - all of these things add up to something so much more than the typical space adventure show. Here were aliens who were truly alien, not humanoids with bumpy foreheads - I love the 'Trek with a loyalty only childhood adoration can bring, but their approach to alienness is only rarely really interesting. Farscape feels like a painting, or a novel brought to life - the colours, the movement, all have a certain theatrical quality and wonder.
• After having read all kinds of science fiction for nearly half a century (yeah, Guitarmonkeys live a LONG time) this is the kind of TV that I wanted to see when I was a kid... and and adult. As with the best of all science fiction, the story is about the PEOPLE, whatever they look like, and the story always comes first.
• YES! *does the happy dance* The best sci-fi show evah! About time they brought it back, even if only for a miniseries!
• I hate it.
• It IS good to have a show where HUMANS are the alien species for a change.
• Ahh Nostrildamus your just saying that to get a reaction (and it worked). How come you hate it?
• I just don't like the writing very much. There's something about it I don't dig, and I am a big sci fi fan from way back. Can't put my finger on it. I think some of the casting is a bit naff, too. Characters lack consistency in their behaviour. I don't like the spaceship, interiors look like tinfoil. Might be "cultural cringe" - I'm Aussie so seeing Aussie actors everywhere might be part of it - Aussies tend not to take their own very seriously for some reason. I would never say something just for a reaction. Well, actually, that's not true, I *would* say something just for a reaction, but not in this instance. Notice I didn't say "Farscape is crap" because that's subjective. You obviously love it, & more power to you. I just said I don't like it. But I hope that more sci fi shows try to be more original like this (even though it's not that original as far as sci fi concepts go - but for TV it certainly is).
• "perhaps your under and overestimations of each other are meaningless--" --aeryn
• I saw the first half, loved it, and now am very sad that I won't get to see the second half and see how they get out of the ending cliffhanger. Night class tomorrow. Any Monkeys who watch part two tomorrow, watch for me too!
• It is basic cable so I'm sure they will rerun it eternally.
• Awful music.
• And, like most Australians, both Wolof & myself have slept with Virginia Hey. Although at different times, I think.