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I've found something fascinating. This is a point-by-point breakdown of the the typical cliches found in science fictions tories, and how they compare to the plots/characters/themes of Farscape. It was neat to read, though it would ahve helped if I was more familiar with the Farscape episode titles.

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[elz.livejournal.com]

I love the way that Farscape and Buffy and Angel all take that same approach - they'll use the cliches but then twist them around and give them a distinctive spin. And it's particularly fun to see them put two (or even three) different spins on the same cliche.

Thanks for the link!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I love the way that Farscape and Buffy and Angel all take that same approach - they'll use the cliches but then twist them around and give them a distinctive spin.

I even think to some degree that Buffy and Angel have been more cliche than Farscape has, though not a lot. What works for B&A is that both shows draw form a well-established concept (vampires), so there's a lot of stories they can tell about vampires and demons and vampire hunters that aren't really "cliche"--like, is it clich to have an evil vampire as a villain? Maybe, but its a vampire show, so aren't you expecting as much? I like that Angel took a joke cliche-- the "evil lawyer"-- and made it literal. I think that was great.

What I noticed while reading the list in the link (I skimmed a lot) was that I was seeing cliches on FS and I didn't even realize it. The ones there were so twisted around and so blended into the story as a whole that I didn't seem them a, dn when I did, I didn't care. A few alien monsters of the week were obvious as cliche when the show first began, but the further the overall storyline has gotten, the less I've even noticed.

Nearly every episode of Enterprise seems cliche to me, which is sad because the show had such a great chance for being really good. ANd yet it makes me think of every other star trek show. But Farscape is just... different. Completely and utterly unlike anything else on tv.

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

And the Aliens in farscape! For once some truley wonderfully realised extra-terristral cultures (excapet perhaps D'argo still remind me of a kinglon somedays), not just single snippets fo humanity ("Oh look that Alien race is based on Japanese culture", that sort of thing.

Who isn't sorry to see farscape go?