It's a Book! It's a TV Show! It's a Book About a TV Show!

Well, I did get my copy of Farscape: The Illustrated Companion in the mail today. It only covers the first season, and the illustrations are mainly black-and-white stills from the show and aren't actually all that impressive, but it does look like there might be some interesting stuff in it. (Mini rant: Gee, Farscape fans do buy a lot of merchandise... You'd think that would be one of the things that would make us an attractive audience for a cable network that didn't actually have its head up its eema...)

I also got Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, which looks like a really cool book. It only covers the first two seasons, but that's fine by me, since I've only seen through the first half of season three, and I don't want to be tempted to read ahead. I strongly suspect that, once I'm caught up through season four (which I hope doesn't take too long -- come on, DVD releases!), I'm going to have to pick up The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2 as well.

By the way, speaking of Buffy (or at least something tangentially related to Buffy), Joss Whedon's new science fiction series, Firefly, premeires this week. I'm rather looking forward to that. Although part of me almost hopes that it turns out not to be as good as Buffy, because the last thing I need right now is another TV show to get all obsessive over. Then again, there is a huge, gaping hole in my TV-viewing schedule on Friday nights now...