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.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
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.
Nutty - Mar 17, 2005 10:09:47 am PST #314 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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?
DXMachina - Mar 17, 2005 10:12:47 am PST #318 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
cue gasps of No, really! from long-time Farscape fans
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2005 10:13:18 am PST #319 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Look, any society that decorates in red and black and puts its soldiers into black leather ... is okay by me.
Nutty - Mar 17, 2005 10:43:29 am PST #320 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Can't complain about the leather. Also, The PKs got their decorating ideas from a school of Soviet art (constructivist? Something-ist). So they come by their disciplinarian aesthetic honestly. Sadly, we never got to actually read any PK propaganda, because I find propaganda (especially in translation) about the funniest thing evar.
killing your senior staff tends to give you senior staff who are afraid of saying no
Anyway, even if you kill off some of your senior staff in a tragic, unintentional bathtub accident, you're likely to have drowned some good staffing talent. When I am arrested/entering a diplomatic conference/testifying before Congress, I want my wingman to be a wicked smart lawyer, not my second cousin.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 17, 2005 10:47:51 am PST #321 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Look, any society that decorates in red and black and puts its soldiers into black leather ... is okay by me.
Doesn't hurt that said soldiers looked like Claudia Black and Alex Dimitriades, either.
Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2005 10:49:14 am PST #322 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
And Lani Tupu.
All I have to say, is if they're more dangerous than they are pretty, then damn!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 17, 2005 10:51:24 am PST #323 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe that played into their strategy... opposing troops would be so busy gawking at the sexy leather-clad soldiers that they'd forget to fire until it was too late?