WHACK!

OK, I'm probably not going to do the blogathon thing, really, but I did find a charity event I can really get behind: the Crichton-A-Thon! This is held by a group of Farscape fans who call themselves the Society Against Cruelty to Crichton, and whose main mission in life is to protest the frequency with which their favorite character gets the snot beaten out of him. I'm not sure what the charity is this season; last year, appropriately enough, it was the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. For the charity drive, you can choose either to be a SACCer ("Do you hate watching Crichton get hurt? Do you think there have been enough aliens in his head, up his nose, down his pants, in his stomach, and just in general beating him up?") or a WACKer ("...if you can't help but cheer on when our hero gets hurt, if you secretly enjoy watching Crichton get the stuffing knocked out of him...") In the former case, you pledge to contribute some amount of money (whatever you feel like -- I pledged two bucks) for each episode in which Crichton manages to go unscathed, and in the latter, you contribute instead for each episode where he takes physical abuse. I picked WACKer. Hey, I'm a Blake's 7 fan! Bring on the angst, the torture, the character deaths! I call that "drama"! Besides, the way things are going, I don't think you're very likely to raise any money for charity betting the other way...