Some further thoughts and a rant about the script of the Farscape episode Coup by ClamI was surprised to find this was written by a woman, Emily Skopov. There were some very good bits--the shellfish containing neurologically-linked bacteria which gave the people who ate them the same symptoms, and Crichton in drag which had me laughing out loud--
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I mean, Chiana's society isn't sexist, just repressed.
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I don't mind the sexist society per se. Yes, it is a cliche, and a rather tired one, but Farscape has used a lot of other tired cliches and done interesting new things with them, or used them as good springboards for humor or character drama, or whatever. (And it's not like an extremely sexist society is a really out-there SF plot device, sadly.) It really isn't very well-developed in that ep, though, so as anything but an excuse for some goofy humor, it's really not very satisfying. You know what actually bothered me about it? The "drag" thing. Because, yes, Crichton in drag is priceless, but my suspension of disbelief snaps painfully at being asked to believe that the standard of dresses, long hair, bright colors, and makeup for women vs. short hair, trousers, and sober colors for men are galactic universals.
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It does actually seem fairly in-character to me for Jool to wear ridiculously impractical high-fashion clothing. It makes slightly less sense for Sikozu, although I guess her leather gear, although scanty, is actually pretty serviceable. Aeryn, IMHO, tends to leave a bit too much skin showing for a soldier, but given that she's a Sebacean and probably tends to overheat easily, it's forgivable. :)
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