42 Farscape and Space Opera

Farscape is one of my favorite shows of all time. Historically it went Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, then Farscape, then Battlestar Galactica. I've been moderately into Agents of SHIELD over the past however many years, but not to that same depth. Look! I'm a total sci-fi nerd! We know this. 

Farscape is space opera while the others are not. What is space opera? I get into that in the episode.

What does space opera do for you? That's a much more interesting question. 

I'm looking into this for the imaginary show that Becca is obsessed with in the Becca book. It matters so much what your character is super into, especially when she's going to get to meet the actors and writers and all. What are they making and why? So I did a lot of thinking about that here.

In the end I kind of talked myself out of using this type of show, though. I actually think she should be into a dystopian space opera, if that's a thing. I came up with two examples: Mad Max Fury Road and Jupiter Ascending. I'm not sure about the latter, though. And I haven't seen the former. But it's literally on top of the DVD player right at this moment, under the Battlestar and Farscape DVDs. 

I want her to have a dystopia because she has a very dark view of the world, what with how everyone has let her down all the time. And my students are heavily into the books of The Hunger Games series. This is a time when dystopias reflect our world.

I wonder if Andor is a dystopian space opera? I feel like there's generally a glam element to space opera, but I doubt it's a requirement. 

By the end of Farscape you had everyone in squeaky black leather and these insane aliens standing on tables and just the most outrageous things going on. It's a show very well worth looking into if you haven't seen it.

Also I think I called Scorpius "Scorpio" which is a ridiculous mistake to make but oh well!