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Another beastly hot day. It was 43 C/103 F yesterday. And 40 C/100 F today.
I'm in air-conditioning and planning on staying there, except for commute, which isn't all that bad considering.

Watched more Farscape last night and am now officially obsessed with the series. Just what I need another cancelled series, which has no more episodes or content, to be obsessed with. I'm now writing Aeryn Sun fanfic in my head (sigh). Aeryn like Mary Shannon on In Plain Sight - is a character that totally resonates for me, on a certain level. I get the character. They are both my physical type - big boned, tall, long limbed, with an atheletic build. And both tough women. They make sense to me.

How to keep your romantic leads apart - Farscape.

Finished church listserve editing, will wait until tomorrow to send - because some people wait until Thursday to send stuff that should be added. Work is crazy busy.

Ah, and Farscape. There's an unwritten rule in tv - that if you have a male and female lead, they are not permitted to be happy together or get together for any length of time - because we, the audience will get bored of a happy couple and wander off to better climes. To an extent this is true - conflict is more interesting. As a result, a lot of TV writers fall into all sorts of cliches attempting to find ways to keep their two leads apart. Some make sense, most feel contrived. My favorite is - "she or he is presumed dead! And really isn't, instead they lost their memory and are elsewhere". I sort of like that one. My least favorite is - the attempted rape or sexual violence - that's been overused by soap operas (all of the soap operas have done that one at least once.). Then there's the old - misunderstanding - ie. one or the other can't get up the courage to confess their true feelings, so the other one leaves thinking their affections aren't returned or they appear to die thinking it. (I've grown bored of that one and find it highly frustrating).

Farscape actually finds an innovative way to keep their leads apart. After bringing them together romantically. They do a really interesting twist on he's dead but not really, which I've never seen done before and works brilliantly. So much so, that by the end of S3, I really can't imagine how the two romantic leads could ever get back together again. And it is organic to the plot and theme.

( spoilers for S3 Farscape up to Dog with Two Bones )

[ETA: Please note this post is only about the episodes leading up to S3 Farscape. I haven't watched S4 yet, and I don't remember any of it, really, except the very last scene. So please don't spoil me. Farscape unlike most sci-fi and tv series - is a novel for television. You cannot watch it out of order and figure out what is going on. It wouldn't make sense. There are a few, but very very few episodes - that you can watch on their own. I think maybe three or four - and they aren't the best. ]