Because It's Been a While Since I Pimped My Favorite TV Show Here

A few months ago, I had quite a few people asking me to explain various things about the characters and backstory and plot points on Farscape, because they'd tuned in mid-season to see what all the fuss was about and liked the show but found it confusing. Man, I really wish I'd had this Farscape Overview to give people then! It seems to be primarily written with the idea of giving people who haven't seen the show enough background to read fan fiction based on it. (Though, personally, I've never understood why anybody would want to read fan fiction for a show they'd never seen. But maybe that's just me.) But it's also bound to be useful if you are coming in in the middle[*], or if you just happen to catch the occasional episode and need a lot of blanks filled in. More than that, I'd say that if you haven't seen the show and reading this doesn't make you want to, you're probably a hopeless case and should stick to watching reruns of Murder, She Wrote.

It's also funny as hell, particularly if you are familiar with the show. It's tremendously amusing to realize that the more insane and bizarre a particular statement about the series sounds, and the more it really needs to be tagged with one of the "seriously, I'm not joking!" asides that are strewn throughout, the more likely it is to be simply, literally true. Heh.

I can't resist a few sample quotes:

"John and Aeryn comprise the Big Apocalyptic Love Story for the series. The two of them have serious chemistry, even in the fourth season when Aeryn turns into a pod person."

"Meet Pilot. Pilot also happens to be the name of his race. They're not a very creative race."

"Sometimes the Muppets will have sex. This is exactly as gross as it sounds."

And an entire paragraph on my boy Stark:

"Stark was John's cellmate while imprisoned by Scorpius. When John escaped, Stark came with them. At first he was all, "My side, your side, my side, your side!" and we thought he was insane. Then it turned out he was only pretending to be insane. Then it turned out he was only pretending to be pretending to be insane. This makes him, in fact, crazier than Brian Wilson on acid."

Heh!

In other Farscape (non)-news I heard a rumor that there was some interesting news about a rumor about a possible Farscape movie to be found over on the forums at the Save Farscape site, but the site appears to be almost completely non-functional at the moment, so I can't go and look. Some days, I really do think the internet hates me...


[*] As opposed to starting at the beginning, in which case you probably really want to avoid the spoilers to be found here, unless you're one of those people who, for some inexplicable reason, likes spoilers.