[NOTE: I tried to post this last night, but Blogger apparently wasn't working. And, like an idiot, I just typed it all in the form box and neglected to make a copy of it before I hit "post," so I lost it all when Blogger choked. So I had to rewrite the whole thing. Fortunately, I'm not quite stupid enough to make the same mistake twice, because I just got the same error message the second time. Hopefully this time it will work. Isn't it impressive, the lengths I'll go to on my heroic quest to keep the world imformed of my opinions? Anyway, for "tonight," everywhere, read "last night."]

The season finale of Farscape was on tonight. (Yeah, if you're lucky, maybe that will mean that I'll shut up about it now... At least until the fourth season premieres in June.) I'm honestly not entirely sure what to make of the episode. I'm thinking I may have to watch it again a time or two to decide whether it actually works or not. It's... strange. But at least it suffers none of the faults I was just complaining about with regard to Enterprise. It's character-driven, it's different, and it's definitely not dull. And, whatever you might say about this particular episode, it certainly leaves things in an interesting state going into the beginning of the fourth season. There are any number of directions things could go in from here, and all of them are interesting. It hasn't left me in the edge-of-my-seat state I was in waiting for the conclusion of the last two-parter, but I'm definitely curious to see what's going to happen next.

Tonight also marked the series finale of Lexx. I hate to say it, but I'm not really too terribly sorry to see this series end. At its best, Lexx was a brilliantly funny and bitingly satirical dark comedy... But at its worst, it was simply, embarrassingly, bad. And, unfortunately, while this past season had a few really good episodes, they generally tended more towards the latter than the former. The final episode, at least, was very good: not only did it feature a few laugh-out-loud moments, in the end it was also surprisingly moving. I am glad that I stuck with the show this long, because it was nice, at least, to see it go out on this kind of a positive note.