There is love and then there is LOVE...

"Boy meets girl" is my favorite kind of story. Add in "boy and girl can't be together until they save the world or the universe", and you have a really fun ride with romance, a lot of action with everything and everyone at at risk.

Two of the best such high stakes series are both from the SyFy Channel.

 HAVEN, comes out of the brain of Stephen King, not so much the horror side of his brain, but more the odd, unusual and disconcerting side, where the residence of Haven, a sea side fishing hamlet in Maine are conflicted with "troubles" in bad times, such as being stalked by their now alive taxidermy animals or the whole community being affected by their stormy moods...

and the only one who can save them is Audrey Parker,or Lucy Ripley or Sarah, all played by Emily Rose
(ER, JERICHO) ...

The true "Haven Saver" has had many identities over the years and  each has had a great lover that has fought along side her but  in the end had to let her go back to where she came to end the troubles, until now, when Nathan Wuornos, a local cop, played by Lucas Bryant, in his first starring role...

decides not to let Audrey go, sending Haven and the world spinning, all in the name of love.

Now in its fourth season, Colin Ferguson (EUREKA) has joined the cast to stir things up a little bit more, claiming he is actually Audrey's true love and she is not really the "savior" everyone thinks she is.

In the name of love, also defines the now completed SyFy series, FARSCAPE...

A Buck Rogers-esque story..

In this take of the classic comic strip, John Crichton, testing a new maneuver, is slingshot from our galaxy to one far, far away and a whole lot weirder, often defying and reinventing the laws of physics and convention and  Crichton often making references to BAYWATCH, BUFFY and classic movies such as HARVEY...

Coming out of the mind of Rockne S. Bannon, the series came to realization thanks to the Jim Henson Company, creator of THE MUPPETS, his son Brian a producer on the show with two of the main character being basically puppets...

Like HAVEN, FARSCAPE centers on the love between Crichton and Aeryn Sun, a peacekeeper deserter who in the first episode, Crichton inspires to "be more". It takes about three episodes for the two to "fall" for each other, but then will be kept apart through four season by well...aliens, warring factions and a worm hole weapon of mass destruction that everybody knows resides deep inside Crighton's head, along with his black leather version of "Harvey". 

Yes, FARSCAPE  is that weird and yes, you either love it or hate it, much like HAVEN. Both shows are asking you to suspend your understanding of the universe as you know it. 

Right now you can view the whole series of FARSCAPE on hulu.com...

and on tor.com you can read episode commentaries with a lot of pics,  by FARCAPE expert, Scott K. Andrews.

HAVEN is also available on hulu.com, but it is delayed a few weeks in the episodes you can view. You can catch a few current epido on the SyFy Channel's HAVEN website , along with pictures and behind the scene stuff. Seasons 1-3 are available on netflix.com Like I do often, not good at waiting, I bought HAVEN season 4 on amazon.com and now get the current episode right after it airs.