>> and Peter
>>Hook (bassist for New Order, who flagrantly abuses his bass by playing
>>as if he were a lead guitarist instead :).
>
>The name rings a bell, but I can't say I've ever heard him play.

New Order was an 80s/early 90s tech-pop band which evolved out of the ruins of Joy Division after their lead singer killed himself - and at the risk of seeming direspectful to the dead, they were a lot more fun than Joy Division, not being bogged down by said lead singer's depressive personality. I say "were" because I don't think they've done anything much in a while - Truss would know better, he's a much bigger New Order fan than I am, though I'm fond of a good many of their songs.

If you listen to the radio, there's one connection that might be tickling your brain - Orgy, a current band that I guess I'd call somewhere between techno and industrial (and the band that did "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)", which was the Song of the Day here on the EPU forums once), did a cover of New Order's "Blue Monday" on their first album, Candyass. ("How does it feel / To treat me like you do / When you laid your hands upon me / And told me who you are?")

>It was mentioned that Detians have perfect recall; I imagine that it

Oh, I know it was mentioned; I'm just not sure it's true. Characters with perfect memory are a pain, because as a writer, I don't have it, so if I forget something, the character can't remember it, and then I'm up a stump. :)

>>I like it a lot, but don't watch it often - it has a similar problem
>>to Babylon 5, in that it has an ongoing arc and the occasional
>>major change happens, so if you miss chunks, you end up with that
>>"what the fuck is going on?" syndrome. :)
>
>For me, it's more like "So when did *this* happen" or "Who's that?"
>kind of responses. I can still sit down and watch an episode without
>being lost, and I read enough online to know where things are in the
>season, more or less.

My main problem is that it's hard to tell where in the sequence any given episode falls, so I'm always wondering, "OK, so is this before or after Important Development X?" Sometimes it's obvious and sometimes it's not.

>And I would watch Farscape even discounting that, just because the
>show looks like nothing else, ever. It's a brilliantly
>original and fun series; even somewhat cliche story ideas often get
>turned on their head. (See the time travel episode from this season,
>which, in fact, was the last episode I saw.)

Heh. My favorite episode of it that I've seen so far was one of those - it was the "Crichton wakes up in the hospital on Earth, with everyone saying, 'Whoa, lucky escape, dude - how's your head?' - only he doesn't buy it for an instant" episode. Had me laughing my ass off for a solid hour, and we got to see Chiana and Aeryn French kissing. :)

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