This thread has made me realized that becoming enmeshed in the furry fandom is pretty much exactly John Crichton‘s arc in Farscape
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he’s enmeshed in the slimy fandom
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Clean ethereal in season one, I have less experience with later ones where I think they try to make it hornier and dirtier but I think fail at it my limited recollection
GOD THERES SO MUCH LATEX IN FARSCAPE
like this thread is making me think about farscape more and every fucking thought is encased in latex outfits
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I’m mostly interested in giving SeaQuest a chance because the showrunner was also the showrunner on Farscape
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seaquest is hilarious because the first season is really centered around like near future plausible oceanography stuff where Roy Scheider talks to a dolphin and then the second season goes full on “There is a fucking million year old alien ship at the bottom of the ocean,” Dom DeLuise’s son shows up with gills, and there’s fucking time travel and shit. I think something insane happens like the entire ship gets abducted by aliens and then season 3 just starts with like them reappearing in a fucking cornfield 10 years later. Michael Ironside becomes the captain and he’s like a military fascist and when I was a kid I remember being really sad reading an interview where he vowed that his character would not talk to the fucking dolphin like the old pussy captain did
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so it has the same pure chaos, anything goes energy
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the writing quality never really recovers after season 2’s madness and im pretty sure they canceled season 3 midway through. the first season takes place in the NEAR FUTURE of 2018, i wonder how the climate disaster shit plays now
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OH its by the farscape showrunner well thats enough for me time to download seaquest
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There’s an episode where the government orders seaquest to sink a radical environmentalist who’s blowing up whaling ships (because everyone who isn’t the captain and cares about the environment is a complete nutjob on this show) and roy scheider just says fuck you and resigns. meanwhile the b plot is about a guy really wanting a cheeseburger but not being able to get one because they’re in a submarine and grow all their food. Maybe seaquest is awesome actually. It’s the only show on TV where Ted Raimi explains they outlawed raising cows because they produce too much methane!!!
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strong agree with these classifications. B5 is perhaps the dirtiest sci fi show I can remember seeing. I went back to look at old pictures of the show to see if it was really as dirty as I recall and all the flat surfaces in every photo are oddly textured to look dirty in the most random and unrealistic way, including people’s outfits. Everything has this kind of leopard print esque random dirtiness to it
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yeah its textured like a thief game wearing a smoking jacket
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earth final conflict is chaste ethereal
i remember seaquest dsv airing in the middle of saturday afternoon. i believe it was on after dinosaurs (the jim henson sitcom) and before baywatch. itv had a bunch of american shows, but it seemed to be ashamed of this fact, so they’d air in unwatched slots like saturday afternoon or in the dead of night in the middle of the week.
yeah, stargate is totally “building its masculine energy” by not cumming or something
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The way stargate sg-1 becomes a weird farscape reunion complete with self-aware jokes in the last few seasons is so bizarre
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Ben Browder’s character being named “Cameron Mitchell” is the best part of this
the spitting image
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I was always tempted to keep watching the show because it became a farscape reunion like you say, but it sucks so much that I couldn’t push myself to reach that point.
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genuinely clicked on this thinking it was about version 5 of the babylon.js render engine and was interested if the new version added anything note worthy
software dev has made my brain mush
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If we’re talking about weird 90s sf tv trash we gotta talk about Earth 2 and Space: Above and Beyond
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I fucking love Babylon 5, particularly the first and third seasons. You’re gonna have to strap in for some wildly uneven acting. It is rarely ever so bad that it makes the whole thing fall flat, but it gets pretty corny sometimes.
Lot of heart in this show. Also, it pays off absolutely everything it sets up, which is pretty much unheard of in my experience.
Lando and G’Kar alone will make the journey worth it. That story seriously goes places, it’s great.
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I did a re-watch of this last year and we got a huge kick out of every time they show the crime boys of Down Below, as it just cartoonier and cartoonier every time. I think by mid-season 2 a scene opens with some drifters roasting a lizard on a stick over a burning oil barrel.
Every bad guy in Down Below is straight out of an MST3K movie. I’m almost certain Robert Z’Dar is in this at some point.
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