Can Peacekeeper Was be enjoyed without renting the whole Gorram Farscape series first?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, April 15, 2005 02:19
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Quote:Yep. Starburst 1-3 came out 3/15/2005. Don't know if S1 boxset or S2-1 is next. They've been coming out every 1-2 months?
I assume that the other seasons will be coming out the same way, right? I don't see why not...
Got Scape? http://www.farwhat.com/
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Wow, thank so much for the imput! I think I gotta hold of something to pacify me 'till the BDM in Sept!
Scapes away Chrisisall
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well... I for one think that FS would be a good sumthin'! Could be I'm biased. ;)
Browncoated Scapers... watchout 'Verse, that's a whole lotta passion!
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Starburst volume 4 comes out in June (21st, I think). It has the first seven episodes of season two. I would recommend going to deep discount dvd, they're only like 15 bucks and free shipping is available.
"Well, other than being shot at by the Electric Mayhem, I'm fantastic."
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As has been answered before, yes you can enjoy PK Wars without having seen the entire series. I only recently started getting SciFi, so I had only seen a handful of Farscapes (enough to know I liked it) before watching PKW. And while I know I missed some stuff, I loved it.
Last month I finally broke down and joined Netflix for the sole purpose of actually being able to watch all of them. I just finished season one.
If you can be an idiot, I can be an idiot. - D'Argo
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Much obliged, Frscpe1.
I can tell from your name that you know 'bout the show. Do you like it as much as Firefly?
Two reasons I could never like anything as much as I like Firefly: Mal Reynolds/Nathan Fillion.
Mal's character is great, complicated, funny, etc.
Nathan plays him perfectly!
Mal reminds me of Stringfellow Hawke, but with a sense of humour.
Chrisisall the neo scaper (soon)
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I saw two episodes a couple years ago, and the muppets scared me. Well, I ain't gonna be scared no more! I'm hungry for some more good sci-fi!
Muppets notwithstanding Chrisisall
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PK Wars is the culmination of the story. As with any truly stellar action movie/series/whatever, reading/seeing the last fifth should be exciting regardless, and it is. But there's SO MUCH subtlety you'll miss that way.
Go buy first season, and once you're done with that, Netflix the rest. You'll be happy you did.
(Oh, and, yes, further Starburst editions are coming, one disc every 2 months, so it'll be a long wait. Netflixing the rest in the mean time is what I did; I'll be buying those as they come out.)
Edit - and responding to some other posts I just noticed:
1) The muppets stop being "muppets" really quickly. The puppeteers are so good that they become characters in your mind by about the fifth episode (particularly the ship's Pilot - what an amazing creation!)
2) Ben Browder, the lead on Farscape, by the end is almost as good at his role as Fillion. Sacrilege, I know, but it's true - the character on Farscape is much more difficult to play with any subtlety, but Browder makes a magnificently layered person out of him. As with many other good things about the series, it isn't apparent until first season begins to draw to a close, but trust me when I say that character goes places.
3) This will certainly tide you over until the BDM. Peacekeeper Wars is to Farscape exactly as the BDM is to Firefly - it was cancelled, and then the rest of the story was condensed into a movie (in this case 3 hours instead of the theatrical 2, but whatever). And if the BDM lives up to expectations as well as PKW did, it just may be my favorite movie of all time.
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Well chrisisall, I actually like Firefly more. And I think one of the reasons is that Firefly pulled everything together and it seemed that we were brought in in the middle of a story that was already going, had already worked it's kinks out. With Farscape, it takes a little while for it to get rolling, but by the last eight episodes of the first season, the story got darker (better) and the goal of getting home wasn't all there was anymore.
Oh, to answer the PKW question, there is a very brief recap of the show during the mini, but even without it, you should do fine. It will be odd for you to watch the early eps after seeing the mini though, things changed, a lot. Enjoy.
"Well, other than being shot at by the Electric Mayhem, I'm fantastic."
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Originally posted by frscpe1:
Well chrisisall, I actually like Firefly more. And I think one of the reasons is that Firefly pulled everything together and it seemed that we were brought in in the middle of a story that was already going, had already worked it's kinks out. With Farscape, it takes a little while for it to get rolling, but by the last eight episodes of the first season, the story got darker (better) and the goal of getting home wasn't all there was anymore.
Oh, to answer the PKW question, there is a very brief recap of the show during the mini, but even without it, you should do fine. It will be odd for you to watch the early eps after seeing the mini though, things changed, a lot. Enjoy.
"Well, other than being shot at by the Electric Mayhem, I'm fantastic."
Everything you said is true, except I still think seeing PKW before the rest of the series is a bad idea.
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