Delnorin,
I thought Farscape had a great premise but after a few episodes, as you've found out, it sucked the big mango. Lexx was even worse; I couldn't stand that show from the get-go but I gave Farscape a few episodes, and it still failed to sucker me in (as any good tv series should do) and I'm really not that hard to please with tv sci-fi. I remember a review for Lexx, in the NYSlimes (which I was still reading at the time), which labeled Lexx 'cheap sci-fi porn'. For once, the Times wasn't far off the mark.
Now if I'm not mistaken, both series were Aussie originals imported here, like we do with a lot of BBC and Channel Four shows from Britain. But I made note in the more distant past of how Aussie shows rarely make a crossover move to the US and thought it odd at the time. Both speak English, different dialects and accents, but we can communicate. No worse than Brit English (which my ex could never understand). But after watching both Farscape and Lexx, I began to get a raging clue as to why Aussie shows don't seem to make the hop over the Pacific. Even Aussie movies rarely make a mark here though a rare few do, Mad Max, Gallipoli and The Year Of Living Dangerously being among that number. We may be great pals on the international stage, but the peoples of the US and Australia definitely have different tastes in television/movie viewing habits. And I still wonder why. Our starts as English colonies were quite different, of course, but somehow the distance in miles between our two countries has been a perfect example of Darwinism at work, of the same English people, thanks to distance and isolation, splitting off into two distinct Caucasian species each with their own distinct language, customs -- and humor.
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In looking up something (I forget what, which is why I looked it up in the first place), I came across an Aussie slang dictionary and learned a new word/acronym that I think is quite good when used as an insult, akin to our phrase 'Masters of the Universe', but much more snide: "Oh he's such a FIGJAM!" (Oh, he's such a "F*ck I'm Good, Just Ask Me"!) Figjam, I really do like it. You could call all the OccupySesameStreet morons figjams because they have no clue how horrid they really are. But they mean well, with the best of intentions (and we all know how much good intentions matter in the Progressive Church, as good intentions are the bedrock of the liberal belief system, on a par with carbon credit indulgences). OccupySesameStreeters are enlightened and know better than us, so they protest their ignorance, for all the world to see, by being figjams. Unfortunately for us, no one asked them.
