Farscape season 1

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I've rewatched most of this on Netflix recently. I forgot how good and imaginative it was. I'll give it overall maybe a 4/5. Brian Henson definitely inherited his dad's puppeteering skills (or at least his people). I totally buy the puppets as real--far more so than CGI characters. Speaking of that, the cgi moments can be a little too clean (but this is 1999, after all). I love the unique characters on the show. I love the bickering amongst the cast.

It only gets a 4, though, because the writers seem to be all over the map on the character interactions (yeah, the ones I just praised). One episode they all seem to like, or at least tolerate, one another, and on the next they practically hate each other for no reason. Also, I expected a little more imagination in the breadth of alien species from Henson, but most look human. Though kudos on the creepy eye work. Maybe it's intentional (it probably is), but I hate how Crichton solves the mystery of the week like every episode, yet they still call him stupid and inferior.

Overall, if you haven't seen it, give it a go. If you have, it's worth a re-watch 11 years later. I watched it the first time around, but I found I hadn't committed any of it to memory, so it was like an all new show.

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Also, I would totally do Aeryn and Chiana. Especially Chiana.

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[Rubicon]

Farscape is still one of the best scifi series ever made. I was pissed at them ending Season 4 on a huge cliff hanger.. then canning the series Peace Keeper Wars was good but it only clocked in at around 3 hours.. It wrapped up the story but it did feel rushed, they had a lot to cram into 3 hours.

I hated like the first 5 or 6 episodes I saw, then I watched all of season 1 and loved it. Keep in mind this was back in like, 2004ish, so I torrented the hell out of all 4 seasons cause I had to see it and no tv station in America was reruning it And back then, the dvds were rare, most stores didnt carry them and if they did, they were the Season X Volume X ones not full season box sets ;\

Great stuff. Moya is one kick ass ship man. Pilot was great. Even Rygel grows on you. Even got a fond spot for 1812, the DRD that sings lol. The whole Crichton/Harvey dynamic was great.

I'm waiting on the full series box set to drop in price some more. I own the Peace Keeper Wars, got it as soon as it hit dvd cause I wanted to see the ending.

 

[Philosopher B.]

I've seen a bunch of episodes but I have by no means seen all of the show. I always liked its sense of humor. I gotta get back to it one of these days.

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:drool:

 

[CynicismKills]

I love what I've watched so far, but somewhere in season 2 (I think) I stopped watching. When the show is good it's amazing, but sometimes it just drags and the episodes are practically sleep-inducing.

 

[Wyrminarrd]

Farscape is my number 1 favorite sci-fi show of all time. It was simply a lot cooler and more imaginative than most other sci-fi series and the characters were fantastic.

It really shows how stupid the syfy execs are that they cancelled this series when they did.

 

[Covar]

When I first saw season 1 I nearly gave up on the show. I found it beautiful to look at, but boring as sin. Fortunately it really picked up for me by the end of season 1 and season 2 is great so far.

Rewatched some of season 1 recently and really found myself loving it now that I actually cared about the characters. Talk about a slow build, but I'm glad I stuck through it because the show is awesome now.

 

[Fun Size]

I decided to watch it once when it was on TV. I didn't realize that it was the last episode.

Yeah, that kind of ruined it for me.

 

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I've seen a bunch of episodes but I have by no means seen all of the show. I always liked its sense of humor. I gotta get back to it one of these days.

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For real. I like thin and athletic women, though I feel like I'm alone in that on HF. (of course, I don't mind most other types of women, either)

I agree with the comments about boring episodes. She does tend to drag between the good parts. Sometimes it feels like they had a good episode idea, but it wasn't quite enough to fill 50 minutes. I usually watch TV while I'm doing something else, though, so I just switch mostly to the other thing in those parts.

 

[SpecialKO]

I recently re-watched everything up through season 3 and am slowly making my way through season 4 as my netflix queue permits. Love it even more than I used to, though I would also give it a 4/5 stars, just because of their inconsistency between individual episodes. While some of their filler is spectacular (Crackers), a lot of it feels like they just raided Jim Henson's closet for old Storyteller costumes and sets and screwed around for 45 minutes at a time.

 

[twitchmoss]

Farscapes one of my all-time favourite shows. the characters, the feel of the show, the humour, the fact that every alien species in the universe has an australian accent, everything is awesome. and scorpius is one of the best scifi villains ever.

 

[Gryfter]

Season 1 is slow because they were really just establishing characters and the universe. The series really takes off at the end of Season 1 with the introduction of Scorpius and the reveal of the worm hole tech buried in Creighton's sub-conscience. Hands down my favorite Sci-fi TV series of the last decade and one that was cut down in it's prime.

 

[General Specific]

Farscape had a number of good looking women.

Chiana, Gigi Edgely

Aeryn Sun, Claudia Black

Zhaan, Virginia Hey

Sikozu, Raelee Hill

Jool, Tammy McIntosh

 

[Hailey Knight]

1999?

Goddamn... I never realized so much time had passed.

 

[Frank]

I've seen a bunch of episodes but I have by no means seen all of the show. I always liked its sense of humor. I gotta get back to it one of these days.

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For real. I like thin and athletic women, though I feel like I'm alone in that on HF. (of course, I don't mind most other types of women, either)[/QUOTE]

I'm with you here Fade, though I prefer the Gigi Edgely kind of thin (still cute and feminine) over the Claudia Black thin (gaunt and malnourished looking).

 

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What? Claudia Black is larger bodied than Gigi Edgley! I can't say I ever found her malnourished looking.

 

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Also, Gilayna (Jillayna? whatever the spelling is).

And Scorpius's dominatrix assistant.

 

[coolsteel]

I think Rygel was the character that made me want to keep watching even when it got slow, when he had that guy's head on a stick I just about died laughing.

 

[Gryfter]

I think Rygel was the character that made me want to keep watching even when it got slow, when he had that guy's head on a stick I just about died laughing.

Pissing essentially napalm (only in one episode) and farting helium make Rygel one of the most memorable sci-fi characters ever.

 

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You know, I hate to say this, but I'm losing momentum about 3 episodes into season 2. I don't think it supports marathon re-watching very well. Probably because of the aforementioned dragging that happens occasionally.