I understand this point. Both Doctor Who and Farscape smell and taste a lot like SF, albeit implausible SF.
However I would argue that in both cases this is not their primary goal - they are at heart rompy action-adventure-comedy-character pieces that happen to have chosen the trappings of SF because they're pretty and go boom a lot. They're often little more than a slightly more irreverent and psychological take on Flash Gordon. In both cases the fun factor and the characters excuse the flimsy disregard (or contempt) for anything resembling internal consistency or the known laws of physics. Didn't Farscape have the characters diving in magma with the help of some silly device?
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However I would argue that in both cases this is not their primary goal - they are at heart rompy action-adventure-comedy-character pieces that happen to have chosen the trappings of SF because they're pretty and go boom a lot. They're often little more than a slightly more irreverent and psychological take on Flash Gordon. In both cases the fun factor and the characters excuse the flimsy disregard (or contempt) for anything resembling internal consistency or the known laws of physics. Didn't Farscape have the characters diving in magma with the help of some silly device?