I'm interested to see how they resolve the Pam/Erik gladiator cage fight. Because Pam is not at all a physical threat to Erik, and probably wouldn't choose to kill him even if she could.

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Yeah, there really is a disappointing lack of misery in the world.

Yes! A thousand Likes (well, unfortunately only one)! You've hit the nail on the head on what's so offensive about MTC. It's probably been 10 years since I've seen it, and I have absolutely no desire to ever see it again. After having read your post I'd probably (provisionally) rate it as the worst Farscape episode,…

That does seem to be the neatest way to resolve it, as it neatly sidesteps the question of why Futuro doesn't fairly quickly notice the presence of the chip in his head (if he in fact did have the chip in his head).

"No! His choice—that you supported—to go to Z'ha'dum cost him his life! If not for the barbarian attack all of us would have been made agents of the Shadows!"

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus Yes. This brings to mind one of BSG's biggest missed opportunities (in my opinion anyway, this is admittedly a bit more subjective). BSG had the opportunity to make the Cylons a thoroughly non-human and machine based society. Other than the functional immortality allowed…

I'm always momentarily confused when I hear that line about whether Delenn is referring to Sheridan or Sinclair. Because they both technically fit her statement (okay, Sinclair never reached Captain, but whatever).

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I'll agree with all of that. My problems with Farscape are mainly confined to the back half of season 4. The clusterfuck at the end of season of season 3 was awesome, and possibly the show's highest moment. The clusterfuck at the end of season 4… not so much IMO.

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus Yeah, the timing of that seems right. Although the Final Five stuff, a retroactively huge element of the mythology, wasn't invented until the last minute as far as I recall (so, late season 3). It angrys my blood just thinking about.

@avclub-c94e0c7586468b6e0c684e65e4fa0231:disqus Well, as I mentioned in my post, I think it fell apart as soon as Admiral Kain was killed. The show had a narrative throughline and sense of momentum up to that point. Afterwards, it didn't. It didn't help that in the next episode they killed off Kain's second in command…

It's interesting to me that you identify B5 as painfully 90's. I can't really agree or disagree because I don't have a clear picture of how the 90's is distinct from it's surrounding decades. For that matter, apart from 9/11 the noughties doesn't really have a distinct identity to me either. What parts of B5 seem…

I think Babylon 5 gains enormous value from having being mostly planned out in advance. It means you can trust the foreshadowing. You can have some expectation that the various dreams and prophesies are not just random nonsense. It means that the various mysteries have a general solution that has been thought out in…

Lemon curry?

Is this a gimmick account? I can't tell.

Well, if the silver was having any effect on Warlow I would've expected there to be smoke and sizzling like when silver effects other vampires, even if the effect is diminished because he's only half vampire.

Okay, maybe I'm just being dumb here but I think Sookie's rooting out of Warlow with the silver laced chicken was a bit unclear. Sookie already knows or strongly suspects that Ben is Warlow from the blood drop she found earlier in the episode. Presumably the silver laced chicken was to confirm her suspicions. However…

I think the cow bisection bought the pilot a lot of good will.

I honestly suspect it's completely meaningless. They just wanted to establish that trig-kid is a Math Wiz (tm), a trait I'm sure will come in handy later on.

The "enough with the crazy jargon" exchange is one of the most offensively stupid elements not only of this show but in all of modern fiction. I can't imagine what kind of audience member it's aimed at, other than someone who didn't graduate from primary school. It always sounds to me like "shut up uppity science…