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Been sleeping poorly and feeling overly edgy and irritated. Have come to the conclusion that the high frequency mouse repellers plugged around my apartment were repelling me. So they've all been unplugged, except for one that I placed in the cabinet below my sink. Hopefully will sleep better tonight, feel better already.

Finished Farscape S4 and it is by far the best science fiction television series that I've ever seen. This season, while weaker in some respects to S3, still blew me away. What's depressing is it had two more seasons plotted and blocked out. While tv shows that were renewed and did continue at that time didn't. Makes me wish I was actually watching it back then and so was everyone else instead of wasting our time on tv shows that well, are sort of forgettable (too long a list). That said, can see why I wasn't. The show, because it is a novel for tv, works better on DVD than it did airing week by week. Novels for tv work better on DVD actually. I'm guessing sometime in the not to distant future - we'll be seeing more and more novels for television. Series released in this format, either via HBO (True Blood) or Showtime (Dexter) or on broadcast networks (LOST). What is innovative about Farscape is it is a sci-fi series written for women, to attract women, and for a female nitch audience. Normally sci-fi is targeted towards men, and fantasy towards women. It is also possibly the most feminist sci-fi series that made it to four seasons.

Went online to see what the talented writers, actors, and directors were doing now? Got depressed. Does anyone want to explain to me why Frances Bueller, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simco, Gigi Edgly, Raleigh Lee, Wayne Pygrim, Paul Goddard, Rowan Woods, David Kemper, and Rockne S O'Bannon aren't getting work? Don't bother. Walking into a bookstore or looking at Amazon's new releases or the one's on my Kindle depresses me. Current Popular taste unfortunately is cheese whiz and spam. Honestly, Ben Bowder is double the money, the man can write and act. Why he isn't getting more roles, I've no clue. Same can be said for Claudia Black. They did both get on Star Gate - which I did watch for a bit in 2004 and 2005, just because they were on it. But gave up. I honestly will never understand why people like that series.

Farscape got cancelled because it cost Sci-Fi too much. As much as I'd really love to blame Star-Gate, it really zip to do with it, outside of the fact that it was cheaper and more popular in the ratings. And NBC, Sci-Fi's parent company couldn't afford it. Sort of reminiscent to what NBC did with the original Trek years ago. And I can see why it had troubled attracting new fans - the series is a novel for tv, you can't just come into it at any time like well 95% of the tv shows on right now. Was talking to Momster about this - and she said you can come into Mad Men or The Wire at any time and figure it out - they really aren't novels for tv. You don't need to watch previous episodes to figure them out. (She's done it). You couldn't do that with Farscape. Farscape unlike most sci-fi - was a series about the emotions and the mind - it delved into those areas and in new ways. So it was based on the characters and how they grow and evolve and change. Most sci-fi is interested in things external to the characters, and external problems, and rarely deals with emotion or psychology.
Farscape also was dirty sci-fi - with spitting, showers, vomit, pissing, and the daily life of living on a ship in space. It wasn't clean. Fanfiction wasn't as required - because the focus was so much on character.

Am on to the mini-series now - The Peacekeeper Wars.