Passing Through...
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shadowkatWhere have I been? (Outside of working during the days). Watching and taping Farscape. Where will I be this weekend and next? That's right. Watching and taping Farscape. Oh I've watched other things, Gilmore Girls and Lost for example - while watching my tapes of Farscape. Everytime there's a commercial - I flip to Farscape. (Did not do this during Nip/Tuck which was the only show all week that was literally 60 minutes long and had no commercial interruptions. A rarity. So I did not flip and sat on the edge of my couch throughout.) I've only watched 15 episodes of Farscape, skipped four due to taping problems and I'm hooked. When did it happen, somewhere around episode 8, I think. Yep, like many I'd foolishly dismissed this gem as cheesy low budget sci-fi. Now I know better. What an idiot I was.
Also somewhat annoyed at myself for skipping over four episodes and not taping them - they were: Exodus Gensis, Throne for A Loss, PK Tek Girl, and Jeremiah Crichton. (I saw the first ten minutes of Exodus Gensis and Jeremiah Crichton). (Yes, I went to the Farscape web site and Sci-Fi web site to get the titles of the episodes, so I can lable the tapes, which I've only done for BTVS and ATS, which ahem means, I'm hooked.)
If you haven't tried this cult secret, you have no clue what you've missed.
It takes Sci-Fi to a completely new level and place and may be the most innovative and visually creative Sci/Fantasy series I've seen. And I've seen pretty much all of them. I may actually write something in livejournal about this show. It's that good! The characters are all distinctly different. Each character is visually and auditorially different. As opposed to most sci-fi in which everyone looks and acts the same. The space-ship is alive. And...well, that would be giving too much away. I can see why it didn't survive, it's too good for tv, too thought-provoking, too innovative, too out-there. It requires the viewer use, wait, a brain, as opposed to vegetate. Now, I've only seen 10 episodes of this thing, it's possible I'll change my mind. But right now...ahhh, looking forward to a lazy Saturday watching and pondering Farscape.
Other shows I enjoyed this week:
Nip/Tuck - whoa. Great ending to a great season. Everything worked metaphorically and plotwise. Will miss it.
Desperate Housewives - shows potential. Witty. But falls back on over-used cliches. That said? Have hopes it will get better with time.
(I'm ignoring the Presidential Debates. Bad enough week emotionally speaking without mixing in politics.)
Also somewhat annoyed at myself for skipping over four episodes and not taping them - they were: Exodus Gensis, Throne for A Loss, PK Tek Girl, and Jeremiah Crichton. (I saw the first ten minutes of Exodus Gensis and Jeremiah Crichton). (Yes, I went to the Farscape web site and Sci-Fi web site to get the titles of the episodes, so I can lable the tapes, which I've only done for BTVS and ATS, which ahem means, I'm hooked.)
If you haven't tried this cult secret, you have no clue what you've missed.
It takes Sci-Fi to a completely new level and place and may be the most innovative and visually creative Sci/Fantasy series I've seen. And I've seen pretty much all of them. I may actually write something in livejournal about this show. It's that good! The characters are all distinctly different. Each character is visually and auditorially different. As opposed to most sci-fi in which everyone looks and acts the same. The space-ship is alive. And...well, that would be giving too much away. I can see why it didn't survive, it's too good for tv, too thought-provoking, too innovative, too out-there. It requires the viewer use, wait, a brain, as opposed to vegetate. Now, I've only seen 10 episodes of this thing, it's possible I'll change my mind. But right now...ahhh, looking forward to a lazy Saturday watching and pondering Farscape.
Other shows I enjoyed this week:
Nip/Tuck - whoa. Great ending to a great season. Everything worked metaphorically and plotwise. Will miss it.
Desperate Housewives - shows potential. Witty. But falls back on over-used cliches. That said? Have hopes it will get better with time.
(I'm ignoring the Presidential Debates. Bad enough week emotionally speaking without mixing in politics.)
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Re: Farscape
Date: 2004-10-10 12:40 pm (UTC)One of the best things about it? In many episodes, we don't get much exposition. They fly past it...he exposition is either given in a brief teaser at the front, or a few lines of dialogue. No long speeches. Yet, I know exactly what is happening. Now that is kick-ass writing.
Agreed, and this is also why the show really lends itself to repeated viewings. Complex emotions or important plot elements are many times conveyed with only the most subtle of dialogue on the parts of the writers or facial expressions on the parts of the actors, and so you really do notice new layers and details on every re-viewing. For example, in my post today on the fourth season, which I don't recommend you read until you've seen it, something dawned on me out of the blue that was implied but not spelled out word for word on the show which basically made the entire fourth season and all of its episodes come together for me in a new light, in a way it hadn't before. Just one little revelation, which I actually thought of the second I woke up this morning for some reason, and I now have a new interpretation for the entire season. And when I look back on it now, I see that this element was there all along, but I just hadn't noticed it before.
But, anyway, yeah, the show's writing is absolutely brilliant. The audience has to do some work, though, sometimes by mulling over or piecing together clues we get over a large number of episodes, one of the reasons it never was as successful as a more easily digestible sci-fi show like Stargate.