Bought the T-Shirt

I'm sitting here wearing what, I suppose, counts as my birthday present to myself. Yes, it's a Farscape t-shirt (the fourth one down on the page if you follow the link). T-shirt buying appears to be one of the final phases in my obsessive addiction to a TV show. Expect to see me in a Buffy one soon. (Although perhaps not until I've actually seen most of the rest of the series... The t-shirt is practically an invitation for people to come up to you and start talking about the show, and any Buffy-related conversation concerning anything later than the second season is probably going to leave me with a blank stare and a meek request not to mention too many spoilers.)

Anyway, It's a very cool shirt, well-designed, with good pictures of the characters. And it has Stark, which was a major selling point for me, Champion of the Neglected and Downtrodden Character as I am. (No Zhaan, alas, but you can't have everything.) I do, however, have one problem with it. Not with the image, but with the words. Right up at the top, the shirt bears the phrase "Lost in some distant universe..." Which is kinda poetic, I guess, but it's also wrong. It's "Lost in some distant part of the universe." The shirt's version is not only an inaccurate rendition of the phrase from the show's opening monologue, it's just inaccurate, period. Crichton isn't lost in a distant universe. He never left this one. (Well, OK, maybe briefly while he was in the wormhole, but never mind that.) Indeed, we've recently learned that he's only 60 cycles (years) away from Earth at maximum speed. Now, I don't know how fast those hetch drives can go, but regardless, that's still a pretty small distance, in cosmic terms.

Oh, and it says "The Offical Farscape Convention" on the back, which I didn't know when I bought it, because the ad didn't show the back of the shirt. I've never been to a Farscape convention, official or otherwise, so I can't help but feel guilty of some small bit of false advertising as I walk around wearing it. But I think about this kind of thing far too much.

It's still a really cool shirt, though.

Speaking of Farscape... New episode on tonight! We'll finally get to find out about Aeryn! Yay! I'll doubtless natter on about that later, too, even if I am probably the only one reading this blog who actually cares...