…and why is the correct answer these two goobers from “I-Yensch, You-Yensch”?

EDIT: Theme is a banger

Andromeda is often on as background noise and I am somewhat content with Dylan Hunt. I have seen or heard the show multiple times over.

I watch Star Trek a fair bit as well or have it in the background. I love Strange New Worlds. Mainly only watch TNG or DS9 though.

Avoided Farscape because I didn't feel like bothering with another old campy show. It was always recommended and I've been at this for years.

Episode one and two pretty much shit on Andromeda.

Rygel is great and Moya is fucking sick.

I just laugh to myself how much better it is than Andromeda right off the bat.

Thank you.

Because I don’t want to say too much as I have been hearing how some dark stuff happens towards the end of the show regarding its main characters, so I was debating with myself if I should continue watching the show if I know about that.

Screenshot of a post I saw recently. Reminded me of Chianna…

😂 I've never heard or noticed Crichton and Aeryn conversation about STD's. He said is it a Space Transmitted Disease.

That's def one of the fun puns he throws out there.

While I had heard about this because my brother mentioned it to me last year, I had totally forgotten until it arrived this morning! Can't wait to dive in.

Watching this episode and it suddenly struck me; Namtar is Ratman backwards.

I don't know if this needs it but obviously

SPOILER ALERT!

I will be talking about this series from beginning to end.

For me, it's got to be Aeryn.

She has no Peacekeeper friends left. Crais is dead. Her parents are dead. Zhaan is dead. Talon (who she was literally connected to) is dead. D'Argo is dead. Chiana is off the boat. She is a sebacean, so she could conceivably live up to 700 cycles. John is a human with MAYBE 40-50 cycles left. She just gave birth to a human/sebacean hybrid might have a lifespan of 200-300 cycles? So, she is going to outlive her one and only love AND her child and still have half her life left to live.

And where are they going to live? They can't stay on Moya. They can't reach Earth anymore with John's wormhole knowledge gone. Did Zhan or Star ever tell them stories about that one time they both lived their entire lives on a planet while the rest of them were stuck in time? In theory, they could find their way back to that planet, I guess, abandon Moya, and just live out their lives there.

Also, humans are anthropologically social. Sebaceans are evolved from humans and likely have an even greater social need, which would be evolutionally advantageous for Peacekeeper teams. She has also already admitted she misses that team structure. So, she is going to be incredibly lonely/sad as she outlives her husband, child, and (most likely) grand children and probably even great grandchildren. If they DO end up back on that planet, they didn't appear to have a very large or complex society.

Thoughts?

Heard a bit about Farscape and saw it recommended in other sci-fi discussions (and as a tone reference for some DnD modules) and decided to give it a go! (Recently rewatched SG-1 last year so didn’t need much convincing lol)

(Episode 20 was the episode where they escape Scorpius after he’s introduced in the prior episode with the base heist basically)

My god that was good tv.

Everything came together for it as well with the stuff pulled from earlier in the season. Crais’s return. Gilina. The wormhole aliens. Honestly felt like a season finale (not sure if they can top it later!)

Loved the Scorpius reveal -Crichton pulling off this badass ruse nearly getting caught but getting by by the skin of his teeth and right when he’s literally about to go up the stairs to leave- “That man… he is an imposter. Seize him.” That line is living rent free in my head right now. Just how cold and slow he delivered it, great intro to his antics, and he immediately seized focus as a huge menace. Master class in villain introduction.

Then the memory fakeout with John and Crais BOTH hiding memories from Scorpius (but not the ones he thinks lol).

So clever.

And Aeryn and Crais. Fucking brutal move officer Sun. Damn.

This show is amazing.

My girlfriend originally wanted to name him ‘Curly’, but I introduced her to Farscape about 2 weeks before we were able to take him home.

Most people see the name and say something like ‘critch-ton’, and I have to correct them by saying its ‘cry-ton’.

But today on our walk, someone asked to pet him and looked at his collar and nearly screamed as they saw his name.

Instant friends haha

Lol title

The ending of A Human Reaction (S1E16) seems incomplete. It ends with John looking out a door at water. No word about how everyone gets back and no discussion about what just happened. I expected others to say, "What a frelled up place Earth is, why would you want to go back?"

Then I heard the audio commentary with Claudia and Ben. It was near the end (about 43:42).

Claudia: We never talk about what happened to Aeryn. She just kind of disappears.

Ben: That's a hole in the script. She just disappears. But it's also because there's a missing scene in the tag which was the reunion scene where that was actually explained. We had another scene on the beach which isn't anywhere that I can find.

Has anyone seen this scene? Does it exist? Can anyone say what happened and why it wasn't included?

Anything I should know like “episodes out of order” like Firefly?

Isn't he cute?

I personally think farscape handles horror really well in a lot of small ways. I'm looking for which episode would fit best into the horror genre for a nice scary watch. Bone to be wild comes to mind but that's already my favorite episode lol

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I've been working my way through Farscape for a little while, and recently started Season 3.

There is so much to enjoy about the characters, the setting, the special effects, and the way the shit always hits the fan... but loosing Zhaan was a huge blow (she was, by far, my favorite character).

Now it seems like the most annoying character anyone could image has replaced her in the cast... And I find myself less interested in starting the next episode. Sure, I want to see the nutso situation the Farscape crew has found itself dealing with, and the oozing creativity of the costumes, sets, and puppets... But I just don't care to hear the redhead, with the spectacularly displayed bosom, screech and scream and complain again.

Please, Farscape fans, encourage me to push through! Tell me it gets better!

EDIT: Thanks for all the replies, folks! While I don't expect to learn to love Jool, I am more determined to continue despite how annoying the character has been so far.

I've mentioned Ubisoft's Beyond Good and Evil (2003) as having that Farscape-y mix of zanyness and darkness, but the four Oddworld games from around the same time are probably an even better fit. They feature cute and cartoony characters in a dystopic totalitarian world, and definitely wear some Henson influence on their sleeves with the character design. Just look at this opening cutscene of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (2005) and tell me Rygel wouldn't fit right in here: https://youtu.be/qRyTu87tuUg?si=K2wgD7qJcuvm69ZK

There's also the cult PC game Outcast, from the same year as Farscape's premiere, about a wisecracking American astronaut who gets transported to another planet and involved in their politics. It actually just got a sequel on modern systems the other year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast:_A_New_Beginning

It would probably work best if they added more humans... The crew makes it to earth again and they get several humans from 2024. This would fit well with the tone of the show. Here are some suggestions I'm spitballing.

-it would be really cool if a few of the characters had favorite podcasts. At least one character has to quote pseudopod. (Personal bias and pseudopod has a lot of good quotes)

-just general stuff to tie it to the modern day...

-Someone brings a cat onboard. The cat is perpetually ok.

-cellphones. Chiana gets briefly addicted to candy crush. (Girl needs her dopamine)

-Pilot getting along with an autistic character.

-John Crichton goes to a dispensary and loves it and they give him free weed. Him and his son smoke together.

-A brief cameo where a YouTuber makes a video about the aliens. Sort of in the style of that one episode with all the TV clips.. also other youtubers. They could bring a large audience and funding so the show gets the attention it deserves.

-Crichton is in horror of his father's political beliefs (Even more so than last time)

-they just straight up offer a random chef at a restaurant to come to space because she's an excellent cook.

-a journalist is there

-When Scorpius shows up the cat won't leave his lap because he's so warm. He gets really attached.

-Tech bro eaten by alien ants.

-It would also be fun if one human was a murderer and there was a whodunnit... And then the killer got away and Scorpius had to hunt them down. We get to see Scorpy being a super formidable hunter again and he loves the chase. Also more banter with him and Crichton.

I'd love to hear any weird ideas you guys have. I think about this all the time... It's almost like having more farscape sometimes 🥲

I’m sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn’t find much but….

Did it seem like Chiana acted differently in PK Wars and possibly season 4? I feel like she was much smoother in her actions and dialogue. A softness and confidence. Laughter…

I think an image the image that pops in my head is her first appearance. At the end of the episode, when she only smiles when Chrichton asked if she killed her captor. There was a subtlety there. Maybe it’s just in my head though.

Cleaning out my basement and came across my DVD collection I thought was lost in my move. Soooooo happy to have it frelling back!!