Farscape 1x09 & 1x10 DNA Mad Scientist Now the wheels of Farscape truly begin to turn. The villain of this episode is a 7-foot-tall, quadruple-kneed ratman wearing a yellow fishnet body-stocking and a baroque set of nipple clamps. His name? Namtar. Moya’s crew visit Namtar in the hope that
Book Review
Architectonically Sublime, or What? After many years of manifesting it into the used bookstore shelves before me, I finally located and acquired John Crowley’s Little, Big, in a lovely, aged first paperback edition. You might ask, “Why didn’t you just buy the book online or something, if you
Television
An Intergalactic White Boy Grows Up Resident Alien, a SyFy/USA sitcom about a megalomaniacal alien stranded in an eccentric Colorado small town, ended recently. I’m a bit sad and a bit happy because I really enjoyed this show. I didn’t watch close to every episode, but that
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Farscape 1x05 & 1x06 PK Tech Girl This is the first episode that brings the sauce. Moya stops to explore a derelict Peacekeeper Command Carrier, thinking it’s Crais’ ship. It’s not, but one of Crais’ tech officers is aboard. Her name is Gilina and she’s kinda cute.
Book Review
Of late, friends and advisors have provided me with leads on books about fantasy versions of Italy, to provide touchstone references for a manuscript I’m preparing which also involves a type of made-up Italy. Of these, I have recently completed The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, the third
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Farscape 1x03 & 1x04 Back and Back and Back to the Future This episode serves as a perfect introduction to the “Aged Poorly” class of Farscape Episodes. Like so many science fiction television episodes, the villain is a sexually indiscrete hot lady alien who makes false assault accusations. It’s
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Farscape 1x01 & 1x02 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars were a sex club? Wonder no longer: Farscape is here to tell you. I love Farscape, but it’s hard to explain why. Farscape is a show about having
Television
Season 4, Episode 8: “Green”; Episode 9: “Tonnato”; Episode 10: “Goodbye” The thing about a streaming show is that you can be done with it at any time, if you truly want to be done with it. Actually, this is true of almost everything, but most people weirdly don’t
Television
Season 4, Episode 7: “Bears” This family wedding reception-themed episode was fully one entire hour long, but it felt as long as a family wedding reception actually is. It attempted to repeat the success of Season 2’s “Fishes”, which was one hour long and stuffed with family-playing guest stars.
Book Review
Yes, I Read War & Peace! Look, it’s not classy, but I gotta take my victory lap. I read War & Peace, all one-thousand two-hundred and twenty-four pages of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. The project did require two months and I did return the book to the library
Television
Season 4, Episode 6: “Sophie” I know what this show has come to remind me of. I couldn’t think of it for a long time, but now I know. It reminds me of the TV scripts I used to write in 8th grade that were about thinly-veiled versions of
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Season 4, Episode 5: “Replicants” This episode was a collection of random scenes stuffed into a pillowcase. And the pillowcase has insufferable taste in music. I resisted writing this review. I dreaded writing this review. I struggled internally about how to make this review entertaining, let alone informative. I guess