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Procrastinating, again.
I swear Farscape is an addictive tv series - it sucks you in and you just can't stop watching it. Also the dialogue is so good (and often hard to decipher because it's fast and spoken with heavy accents and with music and other sounds over it) that I'm constantly flipping back or rewinding.
Great line yesterday:
Crichton to his arch enemy Scorpius who he has tried to kill numerous times: What does it take to kill you? Kryptonite? Superbullet? Buffy?
Also, I'm liking the reintroduction of Aeryn into the show better than I remembered, possibly because I realize that we are almost entirely in Crichton's point of view. ( spoilers up to and including I Shrink Therefore I Am )
Great commentary on the John Quixote episode - which also bolsters my respect for Bowder - who wrote it. Claudia Black asks him how he found the time - because he is the lead and they work 30 hour days. He said on weekends and in the middle of the night. In this surreal episode, the actor references fairy tales, subverts them, as well as numerous science fiction references.
Max Headroom shows up at one point. As does a reference to the Tardis. He also breaks the Fourth Wall at least twice. It's a brilliantly written episode, and a collaborative piece. In the commentary - he makes it clear that as a tv writer you have no control. The script goes through numerous changes, the actors, etc play with it. And as a writer - it works best in tv if you work with everyone involved, ask for their input, what the actors would like to do,
what would challenge them. That the problem with long-running tv shows - is boredom. People start to get blaze, and stop challenging themselves...and phone it in. You need to keep the energy up and it helps if you allow for input and see what everyone is capable of, how they want to push the barriers. And you have to keep doing it. Oh, and this episode features one of the best directors of the series, Australian Director Rowan Woods, naked, painted blue, and looking like Zhan.
I swear Farscape is an addictive tv series - it sucks you in and you just can't stop watching it. Also the dialogue is so good (and often hard to decipher because it's fast and spoken with heavy accents and with music and other sounds over it) that I'm constantly flipping back or rewinding.
Great line yesterday:
Crichton to his arch enemy Scorpius who he has tried to kill numerous times: What does it take to kill you? Kryptonite? Superbullet? Buffy?
Also, I'm liking the reintroduction of Aeryn into the show better than I remembered, possibly because I realize that we are almost entirely in Crichton's point of view. ( spoilers up to and including I Shrink Therefore I Am )
Great commentary on the John Quixote episode - which also bolsters my respect for Bowder - who wrote it. Claudia Black asks him how he found the time - because he is the lead and they work 30 hour days. He said on weekends and in the middle of the night. In this surreal episode, the actor references fairy tales, subverts them, as well as numerous science fiction references.
Max Headroom shows up at one point. As does a reference to the Tardis. He also breaks the Fourth Wall at least twice. It's a brilliantly written episode, and a collaborative piece. In the commentary - he makes it clear that as a tv writer you have no control. The script goes through numerous changes, the actors, etc play with it. And as a writer - it works best in tv if you work with everyone involved, ask for their input, what the actors would like to do,
what would challenge them. That the problem with long-running tv shows - is boredom. People start to get blaze, and stop challenging themselves...and phone it in. You need to keep the energy up and it helps if you allow for input and see what everyone is capable of, how they want to push the barriers. And you have to keep doing it. Oh, and this episode features one of the best directors of the series, Australian Director Rowan Woods, naked, painted blue, and looking like Zhan.