Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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BSG is a much more cheery show if you find him as hilarious as I do.
High five!
To the surprise of nobody, Rygel didn't bother me. I don't really care if I like the characters as people. Which is lucky, since I rarely do.
And, well, if I do like a character it's probably because they're screwed up in ways I can relate to.
Rygel made me laugh and laugh. I liked having him around as a (mostly) comic foil, and two of my favourite bits in all of FS runs involved Rygel: Rygel in bondage gear in Won't Get Fooled Again, and the MPREG in the miniseries, which made me laugh until I cried.
If someone made a good Rygel plush toy, I'd totally buy one.
I don't have to like the character as a person. I have to feel there's an in universe reason for him to be part of the show. And I didn't.
The way I describe Farscape to other people is, "everything that you didn't realize was missing from Star Trek."
I think this was especially illustrated in "...Different Destinations." I remember being completely blown away by the ending, when Chrichton hears the voices of the nuns and realizes that not only were they slaughtered after all, but they they were killed while calling out his name, thinking "Star Trek would never have done that."
you know, I could not stand Baltar. My hate of the character GREW over the seasons. There is no point at which I liked the character.
I admire those of you who found him hilarious.
I hated him more than Dawn.
See, I thought Baltar was a thousand times better than the Baltar in BSG:TOS. That Baltar seemed to be one of those characters who are evil for the sake of being evil - plus they lit him from below to make him look more evil. The new Baltar at least seemed like a three-dimensional character to me. (Although the fact that he didn't change made him less three-dimensional.)
I think this was especially illustrated in "...Different Destinations."
Oh, yes. That one was just the quintessential anti-Trek episode. Because every time they tried to "fix the timeline" they just MADE IT WORSE. Heh. So awful.
A friend of mine once wrote a post-ep for that episode, in which a far-future college student from Earth discovers, to her shock, that the legendary murderer on that planet is also the legendary astronaut hero who brought space travel to Earth. It was really cool.
I think this was especially illustrated in "...Different Destinations."
Oooh, yes, that was such a great episode. I will try to concentrate on that when the bitterness comes.
If someone made a good Rygel plush toy, I'd totally buy one.
Ha, I like that it's described as "lifesize." Doesn't take much.
Oh, yes. That one was just the quintessential anti-Trek episode.
thinking "Star Trek would never have done that."
Well, except for DS9. They never quite went that far, but they came close. The episode where Sisko asks Garrick for help (I'm spacing on the details), and Garrick gets the result Ben wanted, but at a major cost (namely, successfully planting a bomb on a ship), comes to mind.