Wow, I miss it already!! I need more Farscape!!! So over the past few months, I came into the farscape world, not knowing what I was about to get into. I saw a part of the movie a few months back, and turned it off because it grabbed me and I wanted to know more. So, I turn it off and proceed to buy season 1 to test it out. WOW, instantly hooked, this show grabs you and takes you into a series that has had no equals before or since. This show is a unique delve into amazing storytelling, not from a SCI_FI point of view, but simply wonderful stories and characters. (a round of applause is deserved to writers and actors alike for bringing this to life) The overall show has something for everyone, honor, trust, lies cheating stealing, love, romance. It grabs your heart and soul, and brings you in. The only person who could ever have cancelled this show was someone who never watched an episode.
Buy this series, start from one-go through 4 then buy the mini-series Peacekeeper wars. Trust me, though you may be intimidated by the price, look past it, you will be very gald you did. I find myself now looking into more, I am hoping someway somehow they find a way to get another miniseries or movie made with Farscape, it is simply an amazing journey.
farscape I'm a big farscape fan, this came fast and made for a great christmas. Try watching any farscape, you'll be hooked
Farscape - The Complete Fourth Season It is a pity that Sci-Fi took lessons from Fox on how to kill a show. This season was even better than the third and I was looking forward to the fifth with bated breath. Too bad another great Sci-Fi show was executed.
THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION SERIES EVER MADE I'm always shocked when people have not heard of this series. It had the unfortunate effect on me of making everything else not quite good enough. The acting, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Gigi Edgley (and everyone else in Australia) is fantastic. The design is mind blowing and the stories individually and over the whole arc are so amazing. At first I thought I would be thrown out of the story by the animatronic characters( Jim Hensons creations)-- just thought they would make it too young and hard to suspend disbelief, but the guy who voiced Rygel -- can't remember his name but he really sold it. I stopped looking at a puppetty thing and was totally engaged in his character. This isn't really a fourth season review, this is the whole shebang. Get it. Eat it.
Season 4: The John and Aeryn Show While Season 4 definitely had it's exciting, fun Farscape moments, and still added to this fantastic series as a whole, as compared to the other seasons, it only rated 3-stars for me.
I know I will be branded the scourge of the Earth for the this review. But I've watched every Farscape episode and I've got to tell you that Season 4 was a huge disappointment for me. In that, the majority of the focus was on John and Aeryn to the near exclusion of the remaining characters. Everyone but John and Aeryn simply stopped evolving to an appreciable degree.
Instead of the storylines being tributaries meandering through the lives of all the characters, there was only one steady flow raging through the lives of John and Aeryn. Quite frankly, it got very old, very quickly for me. Season 4 consisted of: Tune in next week to see John pining for Aeryn or Aeryn pining for John. Tune in next week to see John looking for wormholes or Earth. After 21 episodes, I was over hearing about the lovesick John/Aeryn, and even sicker of those frelling wormholes.
We never got to know more about D'Argo or visit the Luxan home world. We never got know more about Rygel or visit the Hynerian home world. And that goes for all of the other characters too. The series ended with the Peacekeeper Wars, yet we barely got to see the animus that brewed between the factions. Apparently there was a whole universe of interesting storylines out there but we rarely got to see any of them. Why?
Because for some reason, the PTB thought we needed to see show after show of "John loves Aeryn (and vice versa)" and "John/Scorpious love wormholes". Reminiscent of wasting three entire episodes (during the first season) on the absurd "Princess loves John, demands to marry him, and suddenly the battle-hardened Farscape crew who have escaped from everywhere else are not even bothering with an exit strategy." Yes, I can see how these stories would be more interesting than powerful, warring factions plotting to destroy each other, along with any other species who get in their way.
Sorry folks, I cannot drink the Farscape kool-aid for Season 4. It was a huge let down for me considering it was the last season of the series. It was stagnate and missed an opportunity for the fans really enjoy ALL of the characters, including Pilot, in more than just supportive by-product roles.
I put on hiatus viewing my other sci-fi shows so I could devote my time to viewing all of the Farscape episodes. It was a refreshing relief to get back to watching Stargate Atlantis, in which the action storylines drive the show instead of the passions of one or two specific characters. Although, Rodney is quickly becoming the Crichton "all about me" focus of Atlantis...which is slightly bothersome. But I'll save that critique for another day.
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