Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:45 pm
The first negative review of FarScape!!
Yep, that's right-the first negative review of Farscape , in the Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail by its TV critic John Doyle:
That, in a nutshell, is what he said about the show and the fans.
If you're all pissed off, post away.
Silly sci-fi meets loony, on-line love
By JOHN DOYLE, GLOBE AND MAIL, February 7, 2003
........(edited to get to the salient bits).....
Farscape (tonight, Space, 9 p.m.) is a big deal, I am informed. A sci-fi show with a small but fanatical following (there are 19 Web sites devoted to it), it starts its fourth and final season tonight. The announcement that this was the final season brought mail from people who wanted my support to keep it going. Alas, I wasn't what you'd call intimate with it.
It's the darndest thing, actually. This astronaut fella Crichton (Ben Browder) accidentally moseyed through a wormhole, as so often happens. He found himself at the far end of the galaxy, in the middle of a war between factions of funny-looking people. He has many adventures.
Now, you probably know that all of these lost-in-space shows have a babe. (The Canadian show Lexx relied entirely on the boobs of a female character to generate interest and keep geeks watching.) Well, Farscape has three babes -- a blonde, a brunette and a redhead. Thus it has all the bases covered for keeping geeks enthralled. The blonde, a character named Chiana (the charmingly named Gigi Edgley), is the star. Oh, there are guys with three eyes, but Chiana is still the star. Farscape is idiotic, but if you've got a taste for sci-fi silliness, you should know about it.
That, in a nutshell, is what he said about the show and the fans.
If you're all pissed off, post away.
