That quote immediately made me think of Joss, to be honest. (I haven't watched Farscape btw.) For instance, the references to comics (Dark Phoenix = Dark Willow, Nick Fury) that are built into the show. But it's also strange to me how often the references in the show are ones that the writers would know but I doubt the characters (or a lot of the audience) back in the day would be as familiar with. (I'm thinking of Warren's "she'll be tripping like a Ken Russell movie" in NA; or Xander and Willow's conversation about the Captain and Tennille at the start of Ted as if they'd grown up watching their variety show in the '70's. Buffy was born in 1980 and Xander maybe a year before so, no, really not. ) the positive side of that is that I can identify with those references.

Also the "then becomes annoyed" part reminds me of Joss' non-apology after Tara's death, his equally snippy "apology" in the last installment of the S8 comics; but also of Baz Luhrmann and - pretty much any "baby king" creator who is worshipped like a god. We all need someone to say "I love you but, no."