Saturday, June 2, 2012

Farscape Geekwatch: S01E04 and S01E05

Two more episodes of Farscape, watched by us recently.

Episode 4, Throne for a Loss, featured a juicy one.  Crichton compares the TavloidTavlex gauntlet weapon to a well-known DC superhero: "Willpower. Like the Green Lantern's ring."

Honorable mention to his Wile E. Coyote nod.  It's not genre, but it's cute. Oddly, these dudes will show up again.

Episode 5 featured no overt Crichton geekisms, though the title itself is a sci-fi nod: Back and Back and Back to the Future.   This episode DOES hold the distinction of being the first legitimately good episode of the series.

Farscape: The Complete Series is for sale on Amazon.com.  Should you get it?  Well, not for this episode, but... better days ahead.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 3, 2012 at 4:40 PM

    Never found the time to watch the show but I remember it striking me as appearing better then some of the others Sci-Fi had at the time. It had that shot on film look that ST:TNG had. I would guess they had some of their actors under special contracts because they'd show up in other SF shows, Ben Browder being one example.

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  2. JimtronJune 3, 2012 at 4:59 PM

    It's a fantastic show, one of the best space operas out there. It starts slow, but by the end of S1 it gets there.

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  3. AnonymousJune 4, 2012 at 4:36 PM

    I'll have to start watching it then, at least when I get a spare second again.

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