I’d like to thank Virginia Hey for providing the first naked blue bottom in tv science fiction history. (Though you have to rent the DVD of that episode to see it properly.)
I also liked a crew with no command hierarchy (until they decided they needed to designate a captain), thrown together by circumstance and gradually bonding.
I would have liked to see an episode where they actually had a peaceful day, just to see what life could be like aboard Moya without somebody trying to kill them.
{Delurk}
Wanted to “bump” this thread to agree with bafaa about the final season being poor in compared with the previous seasons and that leaving that final, cliffhanger ending on in post-production, once they knew they’d been cancelled, was IMHO, really annoying. So I cut that last bit out of my tape of the ep and let it end on the “happy” bit. Yep, I’m a sap. 
Frankly, though, I think the entire season suffered from the show’s production staff becoming too in love with their own cleverness. There got to be more “twists” and “surprises” than actual story, and when it takes me two viewings AND a read of the official Farscape website’s summary of the ep to figure out what happened, someone’s not doing their story-telling job correctly. They also took way too many “side trips” and then crammed a bunch of resolution into the final 6 eps or so (which were the only ones I particularly liked). So while I’m annoyed at “Sci-Fi” (Ha!) Channel for cancelling the show AFTER all that hype about having renewed it for 2 years, I’m not terribly sad to see it go. I’m actually happy it ended before things got worse and it turned into another X-Files or Buffy. I’m so ending my Farscape DVD collection with season 3.
{/delurk}
It was quite lame indeed. Leaving the kind of cheesy cliffhanger season ender as the series ender was a bad move. Just another slap in the face of the long suffering Farscape fans.
Best bet is to pretend it never happened, like Season 5 of Babylon 5, or any of the truly craptastic follow up series they tried to cram down our throats. Or the last 2 years of the X-Files. Never happened.
My fingers are in my ears. [loundly] NAH NAH NAH, I CAN’T HEAR YOU! [/loudly]
Okay, now that you’ve figured out how to use the spoilers tag, can you fill some of us in a bit more on what exactly happened throughout the rest of the episode? I really liked this series for the first three seasons, but then I lost cable, and now I catch one every now and again. The last one I saw was number T-5, so I’m really curious as to the specifics of how this show ended. I admit, what I saw of the last couple seasons was a little wacky, but it was still one of the best Sci-Fi television series ever produced, and Scorpius is the best villain I’ve ever seen.
Having saved Earth from either Peacekeeper or Scarran domination by destroying the wormhole leading to Earth, John and Aeryn are spending a quiet interlude together while Moya heals. Aeryn reveals that her baby has been released from status (don’t ask, it’s a peacekeeper thing) and that she will soon be having John’s baby. John is ecstatic and proposes marriage. Rigel comments “Idiot”. Show should have ended here. Instead, random alien shoots out of the sky and ‘neutralizes’ John and Aeryn in such a way to make the viewer believe they are dead. To Be Continued, they say, right before thanking the cast and crew for their efforts. Of course, they never say when it will be continued, but I guess that’s a minor point to a cliffhanger ending they could have avoided.
Well I had to laugh. I was just flipping through the channels and I saw them sitting on a boat.
Married? Yay!
Uh-oh! Poof!
That constituted about two minutes out of the fifteen minutes I’d ever seen of the show.
So yeah, I laughed.
Okay, since it is the last episode of Farscape, I gotta throw in my 2 cents.
The episode was okay. Some great moments and great lines, but I thought the ending kinda sucked. Why does Rockne O’Bannon feel that he has to end the season with Crichton being really happy, then being completely (and I mean completely) frelled? He’s done it for several seasos now… The mere fact that he felt the need to “terminator 2”-ize John and Aeryn just irritated me. (Although I did like D’argo’s grieving bellow; very heat-felt.)
So, yeah, I concur, I’m sorry to see Farscape end, 'cause it has had the best moments that I’ve seen on TV, but I also think that it’s good that it is ending now, because it has definitely gone downhill in the last season or two.
But, on the plus side, maybe now they can do a Farscape movie!!! Yeah, that’d kick @ss! I wouldn’t mind seeing the battle between the Scarrans and the Peacekeeprs on the big screen…
Vengeant
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Lost souls of little understanding and fierce deeds
rise as the enemies of the world for its destruction.
– The Bhagavad Gita, 16:9
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OK, so this episode was apparently not meant to be a series finale when shot. That means it was part one of a cliff-hanger that would be resolved next season. And that means that the writers had presumably already figured out how to resolve the cliff-hanger.
Would it kill the creators to simply tell us what the proposed resolution would have been had they been allowed to have another season? Or are there some sort of confidentiality rules against that sort of thing?
I have, of course, come up with my own resolution:
Note that the pilot of the attacking ship said he was going to “neutralize” John and Aeryn, not kill them. Assuming that was not just a euphemism, I’m going to assume that they are not actually dead. No, what REALLY happened is that the beam that hit them was some form of transporter ray and the two were beamed aboard the attacking vessel. This particular type of transporter beam happens to only work on organic material, however, and anything inorganic caught in the beam is reduced to a crystaline residue. What we saw collapsing and disintegrating on the boat was their clothing and equipment, not their bodies. Alternatively, the transporter works by making an exact copy of the object and recreating the object onboard the attacking vessel. The “original” is reduced to dust, but since the copy is an exact copy, this doesn’t matter. The concept of exact copies was already raised in the series, what with the John clone and all, so it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch to accept.
Just a thought…
Regards,
Barry
The answer was obvious:
What was left in the boat was, obviously, Instant Crichton and Instant Aeryn. Just add water (especially the healing water of the planet) and presto: they’re back.
There is no doubt that the “solution” to the problem was going to be as lame-ass as the entire show had been all season.