2. (Fictional science.)

It's amazing how sci-fi TV has changed over the years. I'm sitting at home, watching Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and I can't help but marvel at how utterly bad it is. The acting, the camera-work, the stories, the robots--oh, fuck, the robots! How cheesy can you get? I mean, the fact that the women all run around dressed like tramps--eighties tramps, even--but the robots only add to the cheesiness. This robot has a clear, British accent! He sounds like a man in a robot suit! Look at that guy's body armor! Look that the helmet!

That was then. What's now? Even the crappy shows--Star Treks Voyager and Enterprise, specifically--look and feel better than this shit. But the good stuff? Farscape-caliber television? It makes Buck Rogers look like fucking garbage. The name of this episode is "Schgoraxtch!" What the fuck kind of bull-shit geek-pandering nonsense is this?

I won't rant about Farscape specifically, though. Not here. If you want to know what I think about Farscape, go digging around in my early devArt journal submissions and find the rant I posted the morning after the Season 4 finale.

Holy freaking crap. Midgets! There's a squad of fucking little people who are way too similar to the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz. They're speaking in sequence! The black one is trying to be a 'cool cat'! How common-denominator is this crap?

Ugh. Let the eighties stay dead, people. They're only cool in retrospect. From a distance.

Because the sci-fi back then was terrible.

Blame Star Wars. Everyone was jumping on the space-based bandwagon at the time. Well, at least the shit we're getting now is half-assed, and not no-assed.