#like why was farscape able to pull off homages like this with such fucking aplomb

[ophelia-thinks]

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

#like why was farscape able to pull off homages like this with such fucking aplomb #when other SF shows do it and look like pandering cgi zombie vultures #it's because the homages were /part of it/! #when we get these visualizations of john's decaying brain they're set on stages like this one #because the scifi heroes that came before him are his guides #and the dark cosmic joke that premises the whole series is that #he's in a scifi universe that doesn't adhere to scifi logic #consequences carry over from one episode to the next #no federation comes to save you; alien women want to have sex with you in nightmares #no one speaks your language or follows your rules #there's no God no singularity no monolith #no true vision of the future #just some poor bastard hallucinating the 2001 louis xiv bedroom #'this is my world meat. you're just walking through it for a very long time.' #mankind's greatest contribution to the absurd