I had forgotten just how weird the queerness was in Farscape. In my mind it was subtle, but no. A few episodes earlier we had another male actor stroking another's crotch while pinning him against the wall.
It's bringing up memories of how strange the vibe was in the 00's I'd just kind of memory holed too. Some of this is admittedly Farscape weirdness, but it's channeling a genuine element of gay repression and expression of the time.
EDIT: Everyone in this episode is bi as hell. Right after the character in the OP screenshot starts making out with a woman, then later that woman is making out with another woman. I loved this show as a kid, I am starting to think this show was a lot more formative for me than I gave it credit for lol.
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Episode aired Aug 18, 2000
I honestly didn't realize the term was in pop-cultural usage that far back, god damn
That one goes waaay back.
The term "gaslighting" was coined from the 1938 British play called Gas Light, in which a husband manipulates a wife into thinking she is crazy by slyly changing the intensity of the gas lights in their home when she is left alone. He does this in an attempt to make her believe she cannot trust herself or her memory.
few episodes earlier we had another male actor stroking another's crotch while pinning him against the wall.
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Though to be fair, the 00's "no homo" cop out in this scene is they've body swapped and that's a woman inside the alien at this point. It does lead to this line though:
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This show has something really weird going about race. Cast is very white, but we constantly get lines like this:
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Yeah but fuck crackers
Edit: woops, didn't realize this wasn't on a hexbear sub. Ahem. Fuck ypepo who are afraid of brown people.
no, it is there
also
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(this time he's actually talking about the food)
Goddamnit, I saw your username and assumed that was the com host also, my bad
lmao yeah I figured, I like you guys the most on lemmy for being gay and cool but keep my account elsewhere because I don't want to deal with defeds and people screaming boring politics at me for my instance when I just want to talk about sci-fi
Club crackers are ok, but they're the only ones. Saltines can get wrecked.
actually the show sucks, i just got to where the introduce Jool
my ears are fucking bleeding send a doctor
Whoever came up with the idea of Harvey is absolutely brilliant. They figured out a way to have the main antagonist interact regularly with the protagonist (and it being absolutely hilarious), while also keeping the real main antagonist a distant and ominous deadly threat.
Sorry was slow on dropping a comment, it's Farscape. A show where a cornfed american boyscout gets lost in a kinky australian polycule and gets increasing more deranged
I loved that so many costumes and props were straight out of BDSM stores.
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trying to imagine someone explaining to a producer why the charges from a sex shop were work related and how buying the weirdest nipple clamps they could find was necessary for the art
Imagine how much fun it was being a costumer on the show. Imagine toiling away on some legal or medical or cop drama, doing the costuming equivalent of microwaving pasta at Olive Garden - then getting the chance to play with S&M gear all day as your job.
Can't forget the incredible puppet work created by The Jim Henson Company.
I think that's a big reason Farscape aged well. Between the muppets and the top-tier makeup, there were lots of actually-alien-looking aliens, not just people with funny noses.
That, and it being a legitimately funny show. I never really get watcher fatigue because there's always something that'll catch my eye or ear.
It's structure is also pretty good. Though most episodes are just an adventure of the week format, things are not forgotten between episodes. They are constantly cross referenced and characters develop across them, even in the most formulaic and seemingly throwaway episodes.
It's still far from the modern serialized standard (thank god I much prefer episodic shows) but it lacks one of the biggest pain points of shows of it's era.
EDIT: Except literally in the second episode, which I remember being the worst episode and so far (two seasons in) it's remained true.
Farscape was so much better than it had any right to be, a perfect showcase of what you can get by putting a motivated bunch of people together and letting them cook
also I've been wondering how I didn't remember that Claudia Black is the most gorgeous woman alive while watching season 1 and have now worked it out in season 2
She puts her hair up for the rest of the season. Wild how something so small makes me go from being jealous and wanting to be her to Ben Browder being the only eye candy. Really needs it down to frame her face properly.
