Stanley Tweedle
Hey thanX, FX.
But I unfortunately, being a straight white guy, have to watch everything I say so I can be a little pro-active sometimes.
Anyways, I use to be a Farscape fan. What turned me off was how inept all the other characters became to John Crichton.
Take LEXX for Xample, it has 3 main stars and up until season 3, it had 4 counting 790. But you never really felt any one star was the center focus of the show. Xev is not just eye candy, Stan isn’t just the comic relief, and Kai is a little more than a supporting character despite having no motivations of his own. A hard feat to pull off I think.
But John is the definitive star of Farscape. He always has the answer. He’s always able to beat Scorpious with his off beat “let’s get crazy Scorpious” Nicolas Cage like defying antics and always somehow beats him. That’s bad enough, but what really turned me away was that in season 2 it was like every episode or at least every other episode was to give the actor that played John Chrichton an Xcuse to play a different part ie: the body swap ep, the one where he was split into super smart John and cave man John, and don’t forget all those wonderfully believable Peacekeeper impressions he does.
Yes, I know LEXX can be accused of doing similar things with Kai but it was always played for either a comedic angle like in Twilight, for plot motivation like in Mantrid, or both in “Wake the Dead”. But in the usual LEXX fashion it was still inventive, fresh and not hard to stomach and obvisouly not done to gratify the actor Micheal McManus like they used to do for Nimoy on the old Star Trek just so he could deliberately show some range which is why I think they do it for the guy that plays John Chrichton.
So what does this have to do with Stan? Stan is the anti-thesis of John Chrichton and all those characters like that which is probably why I like him so much. He’s just a regular guy who always gets caught in all the wrong situations at all the wrong times yet somehow manages to survive in order to suffer through more and help cause more mishaps himself. Maybe I can just relate to Stan easier, although I am better looking [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
I guess I like Kai for similar reasons. He is the “living” dead mockery of the cliched hero type.
So, how does the rest of that joke go FX? [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
[This message has been edited by X (edited June 25, 2001).]