Oops.

[icepixie]

I didn't quite realize before starting exactly how difficult Harvey, "Revenging Angel," and Farscape in general are to explain in an academic paper. Er, yes. How to do this without a whole lotta summary...

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[alorarose.livejournal.com]

Farscape, the reader's digest condensed version.

Man gets shot through a wormhole. Gets abducted by evil bad guy alien. Bad guy puts chip inside Man's head. Neural clone results. Man was already insane but now is more insane. Friend tries to kill him. Man hallucinates looney tunes.

[icepixie]

If you can work "trope," "liminal," and "hermeneutic" into that, I'll give you a dollar.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

i don't even know what those mean...

[icepixie]

Well, they're useless outside the vocabulary of literary theory, so you're not missing much. ;)

[cheapevilgirl.livejournal.com]

I thought the first two seasons voice overs by John did it well.

[icepixie]

I'm totally quoting that VO for general series explanation, but Harvey is proving more difficult to capture in non-convoluted sentences.

[cheapevilgirl.livejournal.com]

That could be a problem trying to explain Harvey to someone with out their brain exploding. Considering when I started watching and John just started talking to scary looking guy in his head. I was like WTF?

[icepixie]

Indeed. I have about 1500 words now, of which at least 500 are plot summary, mostly to explain Harvey. This is not a good ratio of plot summary to analysis.

[cheapevilgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I can't be more help but without actually explaining the whole Scorpy thing which would mean you have to explain how wormhole knowladge got in John's head I don't know.

[icepixie]

Yeah...right now I have somehting along the lines of, "So there's this guy, Harvey, who's sort of a miniature version of John's mortal enemy, except he's really just a hallucination that's been planted in John's head that he can't quite get rid of, and he's trying to keep John alive, but John keeps running off to this animated world of his..." Only in academicese, so longer and more boring.

[cheapevilgirl.livejournal.com]

I think you might be better with this is your brian this is your brian on Farscape.