OK, So Maybe yet Another Another Farscape Post Is Hardly Mandatory, But I Just Had to Quote This Guy...

A while back I stumbled upon a cool little webpage called My Summer With Farscape. It's written by a guy who's pretty much new to the show[*] but has started watching with the fourth season, and it features some absolutely hystericial "reviews" describing his thoughts and reactions on the individual episodes. Anyway, he's finally gotten around to doing "Unrealized Reality" (the last new episode before the current hiatus), and, well, like I said, I just had to quote ths guy's comments on finding out the show had been cancelled after he'd only just really started getting into it:

"It's kind of like that jarring feeling you get when you're reading a magazine while you're walking upstairs, and you think that there's one more stair than there really is -- so you miss the top step, and bang your foot down really hard. You know that feeling? It was kind of like that, except that your hamster is sitting at the top of the stairs, so instead of just stepping down too hard on the floor, you crush your hamster under your foot. I don't know if you've ever had that specific experience, but it's sort of unsettling and depressing and irritating all at once, like the universe is playing tricks on you while you aren't looking."

Now, that's what I call eloquence. He then adds:

"What makes it worse is that this episode is all about a creepy white guy in a three-piece suit who spends the whole hour patiently explaining to Crichton why he has to be killed. And that just seems so much like a hideously ironic metaphor for the Sci-Fi Channel cancelling Farscape that I start to get that hamster feeling all over again."

And then he goes on to further explicate the "metaphor" in truly inspired fashion. Suddenly, it all makes such frightening sense...


[*] Well, more or less. He did have a basic familiarity with it through "relationship osmosis," apparently, which is what happens when you're in a relationship with a person who's a big fan of a show you don't really watch, yourself. I know all about that; my own knowledge of Babylon 5 is pretty much based on it. Also Space: Above and Beyond, but I think I've pretty much blanked that one out.