Way to make HR's job harder than it already is!
To start with, the PKs were evil.
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A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
DXMachina - Mar 17, 2005 9:54:09 am PST #308 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nutty - Mar 17, 2005 9:56:52 am PST #309 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Woof. Their annual reviews had to be hilarious, in that ritual suicide involving intestines way.
But, like, there is evil and then there is instutitionalized cruelty to your own employees. I much prefer my evil to be a united front, you know?
Yes, my wish is to be a shareholder-employee of evil.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2005 9:56:55 am PST #310 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The SciFi channel is reshowing Mansquito tonight, in case you missed the magic and the love....
Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2005 9:58:20 am PST #311 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
of. Their annual reviews had to be hilarious, in that ritual suicide involving intestines way.
This is the thing I don't get. I assumed Crais's offing his second-in-command was routine personnel management: the Darth Vader school of HR. God knows Scorpius is continuing in that fine tradition. So why did Crais have to hide it?
Dana - Mar 17, 2005 10:01:23 am PST #312 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Wasn't Crais at some point ordered to stop pursuit of Crichton, but was attached to his vendetta and refused? That's why he killed his second, IIRC.
Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2005 10:02:24 am PST #313 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That's true. So it wasn't so much the killing his second as the killing his second to cover up disobeying orders. It wasn't the act, it was the motivation.
Nutty - Mar 17, 2005 10:09:47 am PST #314 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Although, generally speaking, when you off second-in-commands, you're not doing your power structure any favors. Then again, I've always been secretly convinced that the other underlying plot arc of the series should have been the wild implosion of the entire PK society, with concomitant wackiness destined to ensue.
Dana - Mar 17, 2005 10:10:58 am PST #315 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
One does get the sense that the writers sort of made up the society as they went along.
t cue gasps of No, really! from long-time Farscape fans
Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2005 10:11:05 am PST #316 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Although, generally speaking, when you off second-in-commands, you're not doing your power structure any favors.
It certainly didn't do Hitler any good. (I am NOT invoking Godwin's Law. Just pointing out that killing your senior staff tends to give you senior staff who are afraid of saying no.)
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2005 10:12:15 am PST #317 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just pointing out that killing your senior staff tends to give you senior staff who are afraid of saying no.
But if you're always right -- where's the problem?
Certainly works for the Goa'uld.
Dana, I'll caution you to not try and bust my carefully-crafted-world bubble on this show, okay?