Farscape - yeah/nay?

[Lightray]

@dropzone

The Muppets are obviously Muppets. Even more obviously than Yoda was with his Fozzie Bear doing the Cookie Monster voice. They so totally and irkily scream MUPPETS! that I cannot watch the show. That, and it’s boring in that Tedious British SF way that Dopers find so irresistable.

So, I guess if you LIKE Muppets and “Space 1999” and “Dr Who,” or if you’re looking for a good nap, you’ll like “Farscape” but I’ll warn ya, it ain’t no “Babylon 5” or “Battlestar Gallactica.” Hell, it ain’t even an “Enterprise.”

Although I’ll give you the obvious muppets, the rest of your screed is like you watched a completely different show than any episode I’ve ever seen. In fact, I’d suspect you never really watched a complete show at all; slow, it ain’t.

So: put me down for “Farscape, yea!”

[athelas]

I watched about two seasons worth of episodes, from all four seasons. Didn’t like it. The action seemed quite campy, and the “humor” was just weird. Besides which, you later got John muttering everything in such a low voice you can’t make out what he’s saying, and general weirdness.

I’m with dropzone on this one, although I think a few episodes, like “The Way we Weren’t” and the “Look at the Princess” three-parter, were decent to good.

[Alessan]

My main problem with the show (beyong the blatent Muppetry and jokey-but-not-actually-funny attitude) was with the main character. To me, Crichton always came across as, well, a slack-jawed moron. A buffoon. I just couldn’t buy him as an astronaut - there’s no way he could have passed the IQ test - not to mention a brilliant scientist.

[dropzone]

@Lightray

…the rest of your screed is like you watched a completely different show than any episode I’ve ever seen. In fact, I’d suspect you never really watched a complete show at all; slow, it ain’t.

And I suppose you find Dr Who entertaining in a well plotted, written, and acted way and not because it’s campy enough crap to get the MST3K treatment except it would put the robots to sleep. :rolleyes: I stand by my opinion.

[Lightray]

@dropzone

And I suppose you find Dr Who entertaining in a well plotted, written, and acted way and not because it’s campy enough crap to get the MST3K treatment except it would put the robots to sleep. :rolleyes: I stand by my opinion.

You should, instead, suppose that my lack of mention of Dr. Who would indicate that I had no objection to your characterization of it. It is in your comparison to Farscape – completely different in tone, pacing, plotting, acting, special effects, and most else – that I disagreed.

Particularly on the pacing: in Farscape, things happen; the plot moves along. If you find the plot and the things happening uninteresting, so be it. But you mischaracterize Farscape by comparison to “Tedious British SF”.

And be careful rolling your eyes while going over to stand by your opion. Wouldn’t want you to trip yourself up while you weren’t watching what you’re doing.

[dropzone]

True. At least when I roll my eyes at “Farscape” I’m sitting down.

Nice things about “Farscape”: I like the gray girl’s makeup. The scrawny hatchet-faced battleaxe is hot in a cool-ugly way.

But Alessan is right and Crichton is a buffoon, making everything he supposedly does impossible unless there’s someone off-camera being smart for him.