Hold on and pretend it's a plan

I've since chalked the whole Farscape fan incident to the intellectual insecurity that walks hand-in-hand with the social retardation common to so many sf/fantasy/comic book fans. They need to constantly emphasise their own intelligence, because they consider it to be their strongest personality trait. Unfortunately it tends to manifest itself as a sense of unearned superiority, essentially telling other people that they're dumb. Which just leads to further social alienation. They need to feel smarter than everyone else, because it's all they've got going for them.