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[freckles_and_doubt]

So, Farscape! Why has the universe been keeping this from me all these years? It's space opera! Four episodes in, I'd say that it has the necessary combination of over-the-top and gritty, with a nice line in humour and sufficient sexy spaceships to keep my happy buttons pushed. It's not quite as well-scripted as Firefly, but otherwise functions as a rather happy mix of Lexx with same, with possible occasional moments of Star Trek. And when I find the particular cosmic wossname responsible for delaying this happy addition to my fangirly archive, there will be Words Said, I can tell you.

Did the Career Choice meme, courtesy of egadfly. No. 1 choice is "Professor". Am glumly unsurprised. Fortunately "Website Designer" and "Desktop Publisher" came in at 7 and 10 respectively, so perhaps there's extra-academic hope for me. Amused to note that the test apparently agrees with my current dream-tendencies, in mutual defiance of all actual ability and inclination: "Actor" is at number 9. Tchah.

Finally, must pimp the rather fun online fantasy novels of Mayer Allen Brenner, which I found somewhereorother a couple of weeks ago, and of which I have just been reminded by BoingBoing. Entertaining, quite well written, with a nicely irreverent take on magic as an essentially geeky discipline, and a hero called Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable. Fun.

Last Night I Dreamed: I was shepherding Neil Gaiman (in his trademark black leather jacket) through various public appearances in a large, busy city I suspect was New York. While including a certain amount of hotel-wrangling and airport-taxi-provision, this also entailed standing around protectively while he wrote madly on his laptop, and occasionally rubbing his shoulders. Anyone who tried to interpret this one gets shot. Metaphorically speaking.

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[nimnod.livejournal.com]

Ever watched Torchwood? Best thing since Firefly, imho.

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Farscape: If only I'd known you hadn't seen it! I would have Made Plans. E introduced me to Farscape in late 2002 when I first visited her in Hungary. I got sufficiently hooked that instead of stomping through snow to explore Budapest, we spent hours indoors ploughing through seasons 1 and 2. Imo it's not the "best tv eva" that the die-hard fans proclaim, but it is extremely enjoyable - madcap hero, compelling story arcs, interesting villains, some fun tech/creature concepts, pretty good characterisation, and space muppets! I also find it charming that the default alien accent is Australian for a change, rather than American.

Professor: Your glumness and extra-academic hope strongly imply a desire to flee the professing profession. One is curious - is this because you're starting to find academia inherently unappealing, or because the local opportunities are a bit crap?

Verbiage: What is it about your posts that means I don't comment frequently, but when I do, I tend to write a small essay?

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

I used to watch Farscape religiously in my daggy little room in Cambridge in between my 65 hour work week as a chef. I had to do some serious shift shuffling to make sure I never missed it...toffy Cambridge students were deprived Tempura prawns on more than one occasion!

In other news: Two of the main actors from Farscape now appear in Stargate: Atlantis....soul selling has gone on, me thinks. Then again maybe they actually liked being paid...if I remember correctly Farscape finished frustratingly in the middle of some major action, due to budgetry problems...then again that could just be scurrilous rumor...I had less internet access then.

Captain Jack is more fun (in Doctor Who) when he isn't having to deal with all those Welsh hangers on!

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Farscape: I watched a season and half of it, got bored, though it does have its moments. It suffers a lot from "guest writer syndrome" AKA "Episodia Startrekia" - many of the episodes are contractually obliged to put things back by the end of the episode to exactly where they were were at the start.

Dream: .. must ... resist ...