Now Farscape, Blade Runner, Men in Black and such are more of Cyberpunk than pure Sci-Fi.
And my problem with Farscape is that it throws me into complete confusion. If that was its goal, then I should give it 5 stars LOL.
Really: by the plot development etc it is supposed to be sort of "drama". But as you watch it, the most dramatic point (for me at least) is a complete and unpredictable stupidity of the protagonist's actions. He's a complete jerk and you're left to wonder how such person was allowed into space industry.... (well, what do I know!!!) In that sense he turns out to be the "most alien" among the craziest and most fantastic (well, cyberpunk-fantastic) characters and situations. Which puts it on the verge of farce...
The most painful in all this is that he is SUCCESSFUL in completely turning that crazy world upside down. Well, to keep us surprised, the protagonist every now and then gives to understand that he still IS human, with all human emotion and intelligence still there. The problem is (or perhaps the real merit of this farce?) that you never know HOW his humanity will demonstrate itself next.... It is all very well, but I wonder what the message here really is.
Every now and then all those crazy alien characters show unmistakably HUMAN traits. Good, that gives you a breath of fresh air to continue watching it -- all in vain. And once you've watched a certain amount of it, it is very difficult to stop LOL.... So, IMHO the series' shock value is about the only one there.
Not so with Blade Runner. I rather like it... but all that butchery makes me sick. And without that butchery the dramatism, I suppose, will somewhat vanish. On YouTube there are videos discussing all the "stupid" points about the movie. But these are the same points that make it what it is. So it is called CyberPUNK for a reason. The PUNK part of it is very clearly perceived. As such, I think the movie is a success.
EDIT: But then, of course, it's Harrison Ford there, whom I already knew as Han Solo, and that made me feel safe about his actions
And my problem with Farscape is that it throws me into complete confusion. If that was its goal, then I should give it 5 stars LOL.
Really: by the plot development etc it is supposed to be sort of "drama". But as you watch it, the most dramatic point (for me at least) is a complete and unpredictable stupidity of the protagonist's actions. He's a complete jerk and you're left to wonder how such person was allowed into space industry.... (well, what do I know!!!) In that sense he turns out to be the "most alien" among the craziest and most fantastic (well, cyberpunk-fantastic) characters and situations. Which puts it on the verge of farce...
The most painful in all this is that he is SUCCESSFUL in completely turning that crazy world upside down. Well, to keep us surprised, the protagonist every now and then gives to understand that he still IS human, with all human emotion and intelligence still there. The problem is (or perhaps the real merit of this farce?) that you never know HOW his humanity will demonstrate itself next.... It is all very well, but I wonder what the message here really is.
Every now and then all those crazy alien characters show unmistakably HUMAN traits. Good, that gives you a breath of fresh air to continue watching it -- all in vain. And once you've watched a certain amount of it, it is very difficult to stop LOL.... So, IMHO the series' shock value is about the only one there.
Not so with Blade Runner. I rather like it... but all that butchery makes me sick. And without that butchery the dramatism, I suppose, will somewhat vanish. On YouTube there are videos discussing all the "stupid" points about the movie. But these are the same points that make it what it is. So it is called CyberPUNK for a reason. The PUNK part of it is very clearly perceived. As such, I think the movie is a success.
EDIT: But then, of course, it's Harrison Ford there, whom I already knew as Han Solo, and that made me feel safe about his actions