Ah, It's So Much Fun to Corrupt Young Minds!

It's nice to know that the next generation of science fiction enthusiasts is coming along well! Yes, that's right, my nephew, who's all of two and a half, is apparently already showing signs of growing up into yet another Fan. I can take a certain amount of the credit, I think... Last Christmas, when I was up there to visit, I happened to pick up a copy of the Farscape role-playing game at Powell's, and while I was sitting there looking through it, the little guy kept climbing up on my lap and pointing at the pictures. So, OK, fine, I began naming them for him: "That's a Scarran, and that's a Sheyang, and that's John Crichton, and this is D'Argo. Can you say D'Argo?" Well, yes, apparently the kid could say D'Argo, and pretty soon he was pointing at D'Argo's picture and identifying him quite readily, which I thought was pretty cool.

Well, I was talking to my sister earlier today -- the usual "where should I meet you at the airport?" kind of phone call, mostly -- and she happened to mention that, amazingly enough, her son can still pick ol' D'Argo out of a lineup. She was watching some of the Farscape tapes I sent her recently, she says, and when the Luxan came up on the screen, darned if the kid didn't pipe up with "D'Argo!" Interestingly, he the proceeded to follow it up with "D'Argo bad!" Yep, that's right, not only is the kid a budding Scaper, but he's already got firm opinions about the characters, apparently. I'm not sure exactly what he's got against D'Argo, though. Heh, maybe he's a Stark fan like his Auntie. I know I always get pretty pissed off with D'Argo every time I watch "The Ugly Truth."