Space geek

Well, I watched Point Pleasant again last night, giving the stupid thing another whirl — my last whirl, mind you, It’s just as bad. There was more Dina Meyers, more Grant Show, but it wasn’t enough.

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Which is good, because I’ve been watching way too much TV. Sailor Boy’s mom has Farscape on DVD. now, I was always vaguely intrigued by the series when I used to catch it on the Sci-fi channel. After all, I like Muppets as much as the next girl. And, of course, I’m a big dork.

But it always seemed so COMPLICATED! I remember trying to watch a latter episode with Sailor Boy a few years ago, quite unsuccessfully. “Wait, what is the black and white one? A space slut?” “Sort of. A hedonist.” “But so is the little toady one?” “Yeah, but he’s mostly just a snob.” “And the guy in the gimp outfit is a bad guy?” “Sort of. It depends if he’s in the human’s head or not.” “In his head?” “yeah, where he wears the bunny outfit.” “And the chick is NOT human?” “No, she’s Sebacean.” “Subation? (I swear, that’s how I thought it was spelled.” “Yeah.” “What’s that?” “Basically a human.” “And the ship is alive?” At this point, Sailor Boy would turn to me and ask if he could explain it during the commercial.

So I’ve been glomming Farscape. Boy oh boy, is Ben Browder (the actual human human) H-O-T hot! I mean, really , really, limpid eyed, moist lipped, broad-shouldered, sighable poster boy of my teenaged fantasies HOT! I’m not usually into actors like this. I think the last time I went so ga-ga over a man on television was Canuck Nick Lea of The X Files (swoon swoon swoon). ooh, Ben Browder. Ooh, Ben Browder, who might just get me to start watchign my brother’s fave geek show, Stargate, becuase the Sci- Fi channel has thrown both Ben and his Sebacean boo Claudia Black a bone by putting them on Stargate. Unsurprisingly, they’ve cast Ben as a human and Claudia as a Stargated alien. Boy, is that a stretch.

Sailor Boy, of course, is reading this and is wondering why the two men I’m so gooey over are also the two who look least like him. (“Don’t you have a Heath Ledger obsession?”) he favors Aussie alien Gigi Edgely, who had this amazing spread in Aussie Maxim while we were there. And yeah, she’s scorching. Lucky D’Argo. (or he was. Whatever.)

Fortunately, the show is over, so I can’t showcase my geekdom on a regular weekly basis. I can just go watch scenes of Ben Browder being limpid and edible…. over and over and over again on my DVD…