Infinitescape

I woke up at 3:30am in the mood to watch Farscape. Currently, the only way I have of doing that is watching the never ending marathon stream on Farscape's official YouTube channel. I caught the end of a first season episode "A Human Reaction", from 1999 and watched the next episode, "Through the Looking Glass", in its entirety. The title is obviously a reference to the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I guess it's sort of like the characters visit the looking glass house. In fact, there are three additional dimensions in the episode, each one having alternate affects on the senses. One dimension has a red light that makes most of the characters sick, one is filled with blue light and constant noise, and one is filled with yellow light that makes everyone laugh and tell stupid jokes. It's a nice idea and I like that the episode doesn't spend too much time explaining how these alternate dimensions are creating these effects. It's believable enough that they can. The only explicit reference to Alice is a line from Crichton, "Okay, Alice, once more through the looking glass," using the phrasing of the famous line from Shakespeare's Henry V, "once more unto the breach." I really liked that.

So this marathon stream was the 25th anniversary marathon last year. This year, it's the 26th anniversary marathon. It seems the Jim Henson company or Hallmark or whoever owns the rights has no desire to take it down. I assume the idea is to generate interest in the show enough to maybe justify a revival or new movie or something. Every time I check in on the stream, there always seems to be around 40 or 50 people watching. There ought to be a lot more, it's one of the greatest science fiction series of all time. If you like sci-fi and space opera, you should check it out. I'll embed the stream below. I have no idea what episode it'll be on when you click it. Maybe you'll be lucky and get "Crackers Don't Matter" or "Liars, Guns, and Money." But every episode is worth watching.