Why exactly is FARSCAPE so "good"?

POSTED BY: FURYFIRE
UPDATED: Sunday, March 16, 2003 21:40
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RUSTYSLINKY

Thursday, March 6, 2003 4:41 PM

A News-Flash out to any Farscape viewers and their VCR's!
For everyone that's missed out on any of the last Four seasons of Farscape:

All 88 episodes will be rebroadcast in (mostly) chronological order every midnight, for three whole months.

The *Series Premiere* kicks-off on March 31st, on the Sci-Fi channel.

Here's the schedule:
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?program=FARSCAPE&x=133&y=4
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Thanks!
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Also: For hard-core Science Fiction fans: *Children of Dune* and *River World* premiere on March 16th and March 22nd respectively!

WRONGARTURO

Sunday, March 16, 2003 7:51 AM

Woo-hoo! Glad to see they're finally putting Farscape back in the daily reruns.

I can understand why people have a hard time getting into this show. I hated the first episode I saw. But people kept saying great things about it, so I watched another episode. I didn't like that one either. But it continued to be acclaimed by people whose opinion I respect. So I kept trying.

Finally, after seeing about 5 episodes in the course of 8 months, I saw the second-season finale, "Die Me Dichotomy." Whoa. Now the series had my attention, and I watched it almost every week after that.

Any new viewer should start at the beginning when the episodes start airing as daily reruns. They don't need to watch every episode, but starting at the beginning is the best place. And they should make sure not to miss hilarious episodes like "Crackers Don't Matter," "Out of their Minds," and "Won't Get Fooled Again." And as someone else said, the third season as a whole is just phenomal, with heartbreaking episodes like "Relativity" (possibly the show's best) and "Different Destinations," and entertaining shows like "Green Eyed Monster" (written by series star Ben Browder) and "Revenging Angel."

In the fourth season, the show seriously lost its way. In an effort to improve ratings, a villainous character was added -- I don't remember her name, but I just call her Cleavage, because that's why they brought her on board. There was a lot of sleazy sensationalism like this. Meanwhile, on Moya, a lot of great, interesting characters (like Stark and Crais) left the show, in favor of characters that were generic rehashes of those we'd already seen (the new redhead is just a slightly less brash version of Jool, and the mystic is a cheap version of Zhaan). These new characters were not as interesting as the ones they replaced. And while the show had always tried to fight its "Muppety" stigma because the characters were made by the Creature Shop, this season they really went overboard with making the aliens so gross that it was just unpleasant to keep the TV on. Plus, there were major continuity holes that one could drive a bus through. The writers never explained how Scorpius could survive being shot at point-blank range, and being buried in the cold ground in front of everyone! In fact, both Scorpius and "Harvey" have come back from the dead so many times, death has lost all meaning.

The only two great episodes this year were the loopy, fanciful "John Quixote" and the fun "Unrealized Reality," both of which reunited some of the characters from previous seasons, in a sense. (I still haven't seen the rest of the 3-parter where John returns to Earth circa 1985. Aargh!)

Anyway, just because the show was bad in Season 4 doesn't mean it couldn't have rebounded in Season 5. The series as a whole was good, and I'm disgusted that they never got the chance to rebound. I'm just hoping the last episode is a good sendoff.

Danny's written some funny, insightful stuff about Farscape. I wasn't expecting to see a review of his here -- small world!

And Furyfire, I saw the same article Nate did, so he's not making it up.

And that's all for now, I guess.

Wrong Arturo

BRTICK

Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:20 AM

muppets. plain and simple.

Keep Flying!

TALRIUS

Sunday, March 16, 2003 9:39 PM

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In an effort to improve ratings, a villainous character was added -- I don't remember her name, but I just call her Cleavage, because that's why they brought her on board.

Commandant Greza. She is supposed to be a polar oppisite of Scorpy and Crais. Using suduction in stead of brawn(Crais)and pain(Scorpy). Very poorly done though. The black wig scares me.

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Meanwhile, on Moya, a lot of great, interesting characters (like Stark and Crais) left the show, in favor of characters that were generic rehashes of those we'd already seen (the new redhead is just a slightly less brash version of Jool, and the mystic is a cheap version of Zhaan). These new characters were not as interesting as the ones they replaced.

Didn't like Stark. Sad to see Crais go and Talyn. Hated that they kicked Jool off. Granny, I was secptical about but she turned into a funny character. Sikozu, hated her until her alliance with Scorpy and in the last few episodes.

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This season they really went overboard with making the aliens so gross that it was just unpleasant to keep the TV on.

Their supposed to be in tortured space. So the aliens are supposed to be tortured and weird looking. Cop-out.

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The writers never explained how Scorpius could survive being shot at point-blank range, and being buried in the cold ground in front of everyone!

He's half Scaren(Spelling) they have heat glands that make peacekeeper weapons useless. Thats why Sikozu did that levetating thing on the Skaren soldiers in the last episode. So the shot to the chest did nothing to him. It's sorta implied. I think.

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I'm just hoping the last episode is a good sendoff.

All of us 'Scapers are.

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SIMON:
Oh yes, he's a real beast.
It's a wonder you're still alive.

JAYNE:
Looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

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