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[meganbmoore]

Ever since I followed telophase's link when she posted on it, Amazon has been pushing Deborah Chester's The Pearls on me. It is on the front page. It is in my "recommendations" list. It has invaded my Gold Box. Make it go away.

ANYWAY!

POLL!

[Poll #1225726]

Comments

[havocthecat]

YES. SCC IS WONDERFUL. I am beyond gleeful over what they did with it. (There are moments where I go, "erm, yes, poor choice," though. Fair warning.)

Plus it has Tony Amendola in one ep. This is always a bonus.

I notice Farscape isn't in your tags. Have you not seen? You may want to consider rectifying this.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

OMG BRA'TAC!

I have seen and liked the first season of Farscape, and plan to watch more. There should be a tag somewhere. tv: Farscape, I think. As a warning, I watched it when "SF is better than fantasy and fantasy is stupid because of magicmagicmagic unless it's Harry Potter" was going around a lot, including with some people who recced Farscape to me, and much of the first season is high fantasy in space and not afraid to admit it(not a complaint, btw) and my irritation over that attitude kinda colored my posts.

[havocthecat]

YES, BRA'TAC! *LOVES*

Oh, I probably missed it. And I don't blame you for being irritated with that attitude. I would be too. I probably ignored it at the time, given that I'm an equal opportunity fangeek most of the time.

I love that it's high fantasy in space. I mean, guys, this isn't really science fiction, it's just set in space. (I flail with a lot of glee over FS, so clearly I'm going to have to go and check out your tagged posts.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH BRA'TAC!!!

In all honesty, the only space sci-fi I can really get into (Farscape, Star Wars, Deathstalker...Firefly if you substitute "fantasy" with "western") is all about embracing its fantasy roots. (I don't really count SG-1 as space sci-fi, even though there are more and more spaceships as the series progresses, but I haven't really made up my mind about SGA in that regard.)

It wasn't one of those big "everyone on LJ is voicing their opinions on this" things (we seem to reserve that for massive sexist and racist wank, and the removal of basic accounts) it just went around in a few circles. Though, I have to say, anytime someone complains about fantasy being too long or having too much magic or having too many of the standard fantasy conventions, but they love Harry Potter I...I have a hard time not letting that affect my opinion of them. Because that series? Worse than 95% of the genre in those regards.