Jan 23
A Frighteningly Large Amount Of Spare Time
My life as a sci-fi nerd was seemingly incomplete, so I’ve been watching Farscape (from the beginning.) I’m up to the middle of season 2, and it’s starting to get interesting. As such, I’d like to share some observations.
In many ways, the show feels like a re-envisioning of Star Trek: TOS. Except with money. Instead of having ridiculously shitty sets and 90 different kinds of ‘aliens’ who all conveniently look like us, they have real sets, real effects, real aliens. However, a lot of the stories feel the same: crew touches down on planet, crew shanghaied by evil leader, crew comes up with plan, crew escapes. All that said, it’s 950x better than Voyager ever was.
Sometimes the whole conflict thing between the inhabitants of Moya seems forced and at other times it seems frighteningly convenient.
Other plotlines feel like they were so painfully obvious that they hurt (Hey! Let’s make a concerted effort to convince Talyn that Craise is a good guy! That can’t possibly go wrong!)
Still, it’s an interesting show. Some episodes (”Crackers Don’t Matter”) have phenomenal dialogue, if not storyline, and I’ve rarely seen the Gilligan’s Island metaphor applied as well.
It’s fun. You should watch it.