Miscellaneous stuff, Farscape thoughts

[alias_sqbr]

First, a random adorable picture of Ken Watanabe with a horse and dog I found while vaguely pondering fanart.

Anyway: Am watching the Farscape episode "A Human Reaction".

Eee it's set in Australia! (Well, pseudo!Australia) Much better than trying to pretend Sydney was Chicago or whatever. Certainly did a better job of being convincingly Australia than Inception did, with it's one Australian accent, though not quite as good on the "it's all a dream created by someone rifling through your memories" front.

Anyway, I've been constantly irritated at John for making all those pop culture references and then being surprised/annoyed/mocking when nobody understands them. Yes, he's along way from home, so's everyone else, and it's not their fault.

And then he did it to the Australians too! Ok, the guy being all "Lol, like I know or care about the World Series" was a bad guy, it still made me feel better to have his jerkishness highlighted, even if it might have gone over the heads of many US viewers (Care factor of 99% of Australians about the World Series: Zero).

On the whole I'm enjoying the series. Not going through it very quickly and it annoys/bores me in places, but overall lots of fun and subtly different from the usual tv space opera tropes.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

*g* Season 1 is when the show was fumbling around trying to find its feet and decide if it was a kids' show or not; it's fun but nothing special, IMHO. It's only around the end of the season that the show hits its stride and starts to become extraordinary.

[sanguinity]

Seconded.

[velithya]

I don't know anything about Farscape but EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE KEN WATANABE WITH HORSE AND DOG ♥ do you know where that picture is from?

[alias_sqbr]

Sadly no. It was on a French language fansite I found via google images and had no caption.

[sqbr]

That's good to hear, better than the "Oh, you're making me all nostalgic for when the show wasn't crap" response people had when I got into X files :)