The SO’s birthday was last week. We’d recently chatted about TV shows, and she remarked that Farscape hasn’t been rebroadcast in a while; so I bought her the full series (except for the wrap-up movie) on DVD for a birthday present. She loves it.
She told me about Farscape when it was being broadcast, and I started to watch it. At first I thought it was a bit silly. I had, and have, a little problem with muppets being presented as ‘real’ (as opposed to movies where muppets are meant to be muppets). Rigel is the biggest offender. (Or the smallest. Whatever.) Crichton’s constant poop-culture references are a bit overdone, but you know what? In his place I’d be doing the same thing. Heck, I do it now and have to explain to people what I’m talking about. (Note: It doesn’t really work when you have to explain it. But I at least amuse myself.) Sticking with the show, it grew on me. I recall liking the show more as it went along.
So now we’ve been watching from the beginning. I fell asleep last night during S2.ep6 ‘Picture if You Will’, so we’ll have to start that one again. Personally I’m looking forward to S3.ep16, where they go all Looney Tunes.
My wife’s been watching that on Netflix streaming. I look in once in a while, but haven’t got into it yet. One thing I know I don’t like is the theme music they play during the closing credits. Wow. It sounds like a dozen Yoko Onos being tortured to death.
I watched it on and off when it was initially run, and I thought it was pretty good.
Nothing on the order of BSG (the new one), but still pretty good. Full disclosure: I’m a sucker for SciFi, and probably am more forgiving than the average viewer.
I always quite liked the theme tune. It sounds properly alien and seemed to fit the show.
It was an excellent show. It takes about half a season for all the characters to gel, but once it finds its feet, it keeps on delivering. The muppets are a bit distracting, but no more so than the bumpy headed aliens that Start Trek churns out every week
I was just watching this very same episode this morning, along with a handful of others from the end of season 3. I hadn’t seen the show in a long awhile, but enjoyed it seeing it again.
I much prefered the muppets to the rubber-forehead aliens. Farscape is the only live action TV show I can think of that really tried to have non-humanoid aliens as regular characters. And they had a really good explanation for having aliens that look exactly like humans & can interbreed; much better than anything on Star Trek.
The show was actually created for that very purpose. The Jim Hensen workshop has sold the Muppets to Disney and wanted to do something that was both fun, but more emotionally involving, while showing off their puppeteering skills. And boy, did they.
As an aside, Henson Workshops doesn’t technically consider the creatures on Farscape to be “Muppets”. Muppets have a stylized, almost cartoonish, appearance, with things like ping-pong-ball eyes. Henson creations that are intended to look like real, non-stylized things are called “Creatures”.
Been a long time since I’ve seen some Farscape, what was that reason again?
I remember from a couple of episodes that Erin’s race, Sebatian’s I think? Were missing something in their make up that made them vulnerable to high temperatures?
The Eidelons created them ago to serve as instersteller peacekeepers. 30K yrs ago they visited Earth, abducted a bunch of primitive humans, brought them back to there homeworld on the other side of the galaxy, and genetically modified them (some modications were rather questionable). So Sebaceans aren’t the quite same species as humans, but they are in the same genus.
Too Muppety for me. I don’t always hate artificial life forms and I’m a big Muppets fan, but those were shaped, moved, and sounded so much like Muppets that I couldn’t get past it. I’ll put it this way: Farscape was broadcast when I should’ve been doing housework and I chose housework over it.
Farscape is my favorite sci-fi of all time. They explored ideas others shows couldn’t or wouldn’t and presented alien life through beautiful costumes and puppetry. Pilot is a gorgeous character.
I personally love the theme music.
I like that it was more dramatic and fantastical than, say, Star Trek. I love Trek to a degree, but it can be dry. For me, that sold it. When Harvey comes into it, the dialog becomes nothing short of divine snark.
I’ve tried to watch and like it more than once; it has an overall sitcommy shallowness I can’t seem to get past. I can’t think of an episode among the half-dozen random ones I’ve watched that had any real sense of drama or gravitas.
