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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 197593" data-attributes="member: 3887">First off, Farscape is great sci-fi. Its also great a great hour long drama. All the special effects and puppet characters can't dimish the fact that Farscape pretty succesfully explores the roots of all dramatic storytelling: how people deal with love, death, desire, greed, ambition, justice, revenge etc... And it does it in an unflinching manner that's really quite new to science fiction. At least on TV. To me, sci-fi has often been 'Ideas for Adults, Characters for Children'. Authors were very intersted in the mechanics of articial rings around stars, but uninterested in the mechanics of personal relationships. Farscape is something else entirely. Its got the look and feel of pulp sci-fi, but the heart {and head} of a serious psychological drama. Its really part of a new species of genre show. Much like Buffy, which is way smarter, and better written, than a show about a vampire-slaying teenage hottie has any right being. Maybe its a little sad that Farscape abandons 'hard sci-fi' entirely. But I can't complain about the direction they're going. Not at all.</blockquote>