And it's really bugging me because it's really loud.

BUT GUESS WHAT?

I HAVE IT! I! HAVE! IT!

IT being the Season Four DVD Box Set of Farscape which I have been waiting ages for the release date. Then ages more because the shipment got delayed but it's here. It's finally here but... I haven't watched it yet.

*shock* *horror* *supreme unjustice of the Universe*

To be fair I only haven't seen Crichton Kicks, What Was Lost double, A Prefect Murder and I Shrink, Therefore I Am but still... Must watch soon. Must watch soon and make icons which is an inevitable fact which cannot be denied or stopped. But I'm working full time till Christmas. Then it's Christmas. Bugger.

And mylildementor has most graciously uploaded the Peacekeeper Wars for me which I am downloading as we speak. SO THANKYOU! And then I will be up-to-date with Farscape which I suppose is something of a Christmas Miracle because this is Australia and despite the fact that Farscape was made here, we seemed to get shown very little of it... and at bad times... and not according to the TV Guide.


SciFi and Fantasy never seem to get a good showing here in Australia on free to air TV and since my parents won't buy Foxtel am kinda screwed. But I'm serious here. At the moment the only good show shown at a decent hour is Stargate and we will be getting the rest of Season Eight before the States and that truly is shocking (YAY! YIPPEE! For us but still...) And that I think is only because it is the off season at the moment so all the <finger quotes> popular shows </finger quotes> have all finished.

However SciFi/Fantasy shows never get given a decent start. Example: Farscape (surprise, surprise). The first season was shown in three parts. The second season in two was a scattering of episodes in between. The third, half the season, an episode two months later then the rest of the season either squished into about three shows a week or one show a fortnight. Basically they were using the show as a filler and we haven't heard a hint of Season Four (this, however, I think was because Channel Nine sold Farscape to Foxtel and as my friend has it she taped most of Season Four for me). Also the TV station showed the program when the TV Guide said it wasn't on yet didn't show it when the Guide says it was on. Now I understand about ratings and such but it just doesn't make sense to me to never give a show a chance in the first place and WHY OH WHY and teh stations just show a whole frelling season at the ONE time. Is it really so bloody hard? Seriously. They did it to Stargate as well (different TV station though). Here in Australia, we got the second half of season six and the first half of season seven all at once (that was the whole glowing squid!Daniel wasn't it?) and while I am grateful that we didn't have to wait a whole year between season, they are meant to be shown separately for SUSPENSE!

Is it purely the fact that it is SciFi/Fantasy? Magic? Not real? Make believe? Using your fucking imagination that makes stuff like this so abhorrent to people! Like the whole devil worship thing associated with Harry Potter. What about cop shows? Don't they deal constantly with death? Couldn't it be said that people who like these shows have an unhealthy obsession with death? It could be but it isn't so what (WHAT!) is so bad about Fantasy and SciFi? What turns people off? Is it the geekdom? Is it the cult followings? Or it is the fact that the shows portray something that people simply cannot fathom to be real?

But isn't that what TV, Movies and Entertainment is about? Escapism. Who wants to watch a reality show? It's reality. It's your life, you've been there, done that, you're doing it right now. So what's so special about it. SciFi/Fantasy is different. It's imaginative and exciting. It's stuff you have never come across before, never believed possible. So are people scared of it? Hell, all those Scifi shows could be real some day. Personally, I believe alien life has to exist (the joke that proof of intelligent life exists because they haven't contacted us aside). Imagine the billions of stars out there. The possibility that not one of those stars has a planet with life on it is so slim the value is neglible. Theoretically it is impossible that alien life cannot exist. So my point here is that because fantasy and scifi shows have some slim possibility of actually having the ability to become truth does that mean that people automaticially shy away from them? Are people so self consumed in their own lives that they can't possibly comprehend something beyond?

Shit, this rant really has gotten away from me and has verged in so many different directions that I am going to stop now.

CONCLUSION: PUT SCIFI AND FANTASY SHOWS BACK ON THE AIR, TV PROGRAMMERS OR MOBS OF RAVING FANS WITH PITCHFORKS AND FLAMING TORCHES (while I realise this is the 21st century and guns would be far more effective you cannot have a mob without pitchforks and flaming torches, it's tradition) WILL COME AND POKE YOU TILL YOU SCREAM FOR MERCY or alternatively scream that you will put our shows back on air. Thankyou.


*looks suspiciously at lj-cut*

Damn, I can ramble and hopefully make sense. Excellent talent in exams.

Hmm, I am getting icon ideas... with really HAWT! pictures on them and pertinent captions. Excellent! *cackles evilly*

Must go.