So, Farscape.
I'm only six episodes in, so it's too early to decide if I like it or not. So many of my friends rave about it that I'm sure it gets much better.
But so far, I'm having a real problem with Claudia Black's character, Officer Erin, or whatever. She's supposed to be this bad-assed soldier from the galaxy's most baddest baddasses, but damn... oh no, a fire-breathing bipedal toad is slowly lumbering through this derelict spacecraft, heading towards my friends, and I'm trapped up here safely out of harm's way in the catwalks, with nothing but this HUGE-ASS DEATH RAY! What am I to do? I can clearly see the toad as it slowly waddles along, and all I have is this gun that is easily capable of literally blowing it into teeny-tiny flaming bits! Oh noes, it's stopped in front of the door to the compartment my friends are in, and it's not moving at all as it slowly melts its way through the door with its fiery breath, with its back to me! However can I save my friends using naught but this long-range mutilation machine?!? I better wait until it breaks into the room and makes its first attempt to murder my friends before chain-rappelling down directly into its line of fire and FINALLY shooting it! Yes, this is obviously the best course of action!
Or even better... egads! This crowd of brain-washed red-skinned aliens wants to kill my friends and I, good thing I can hold them all at bay with my carbine and I OH WTF the biggest, most dangerous member of the crowd, the one I've been paying the most attention to like any good soldier would, just walked up and yoinked the weapon right out of my hands?!?! Damn, I suck at this!
I realize this is just poor writing, and not the actress' fault... but it's annoying the hell out of me nonetheless...
I'm sure it'll get better; I just hope that if they want to pretend someone is a badass, that they start writing them as a badass...
But so far, I'm having a real problem with Claudia Black's character, Officer Erin, or whatever. She's supposed to be this bad-assed soldier from the galaxy's most baddest baddasses, but damn... oh no, a fire-breathing bipedal toad is slowly lumbering through this derelict spacecraft, heading towards my friends, and I'm trapped up here safely out of harm's way in the catwalks, with nothing but this HUGE-ASS DEATH RAY! What am I to do? I can clearly see the toad as it slowly waddles along, and all I have is this gun that is easily capable of literally blowing it into teeny-tiny flaming bits! Oh noes, it's stopped in front of the door to the compartment my friends are in, and it's not moving at all as it slowly melts its way through the door with its fiery breath, with its back to me! However can I save my friends using naught but this long-range mutilation machine?!? I better wait until it breaks into the room and makes its first attempt to murder my friends before chain-rappelling down directly into its line of fire and FINALLY shooting it! Yes, this is obviously the best course of action!
Or even better... egads! This crowd of brain-washed red-skinned aliens wants to kill my friends and I, good thing I can hold them all at bay with my carbine and I OH WTF the biggest, most dangerous member of the crowd, the one I've been paying the most attention to like any good soldier would, just walked up and yoinked the weapon right out of my hands?!?! Damn, I suck at this!
I realize this is just poor writing, and not the actress' fault... but it's annoying the hell out of me nonetheless...
I'm sure it'll get better; I just hope that if they want to pretend someone is a badass, that they start writing them as a badass...