I appeciated the 2001 homage at the end. They even had a monolith!
I must admit I wept like a baby when D’argo died.
Did anyone else get the feeling that Chiana was a little “off” throughout the miniseries? It felt like Gigi Edgely forgot how to play her.
The beginning certainly felt that way. It seemed like she was getting back into it at the end. But the voice sounded off for the whole thing to me.
I loved it. I can’t watch it again right now, but that’s just because I don’t want to go back and start picking at things while I’m still thrilled with how they did it. I’ll give it a more critical eye later (I was exhausted last night, plus I was PMSing, which explains why I cried for forty-five minutes straight), but for now, I’m just pleased with seeing how it ended.
Ava
The final half was spotty – some very good moments, and some bits of maudlin crap. Overall, I’d say it was OK – nowhere near as good as the series was in the beginning, and not as godawful as it became in the end.
Good bits – the standoff with the wormhole weapon. Definitely first-class. Bad: D’Argo’s death. Man did they drag that out. Also the cheap theatrics of “is Chricton dead?” Of course he wasn’t. Why pretend otherwise? And you could spot the traitor a mile off.
One bit I found amusing was that during Aeryn’s labor she kept trying to participate in the battle going on around her. At one point she was firing a hand weapon over Chricton’s shoulder and he tried to get her to stop. She told him “But shooting makes me feel better!” 
I thought it was fun, not brilliant but at the same time not a hideous pushing crap down the fans’ throats mockery of the series either. I thought it was obvious during the first episodes that
D’argo was going to die. I mean, he only had two more days until retirement!
I thought it was a decent if hectic conclusion to the series. End with some authority and finality. The big issues have been resolved. Some major characters died, some minor characters died, enough so that it was a painful victory, or if not victory, then conclusion. Our heros can retire and make their own way through the universe now. Which is nice. Ending with hope and a new dawn. Every crisis and victory need not lead to a bigger, badder evil.
The miniseries wasn’t bad, if you don’t mind swallowing some Moya-sized improbabilities, like:
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a. A Hynerian can somehow support a hybrid Sebacean/Yuman offspring.
b. A Leviathon can survive under an ocean.
c. Scarrans, who we've previously seen to be pretty much indestructible, are as wimpy as Imperial Stormtroopers en masse. Crichton was picking them off right and left with Winona. (I think we can call this the "Aliens" phenomenon, although we also saw this in Buffy with the uber-vamps.)
d. The whole resolution was based on wormhole weapons being inevitably doomsday devices that would engulf the galaxy. But in the series, we saw Crichton help build a wormhole weapon that transferred a sun's plasma to a Scarran battleship. No end of the universe. So in reality, once the monster black hole vanished, the Scarrans and Peacekeepers would simultaneously have either blasted Moya out of the ether or would have immediately broken the peace agreement and started the Crichton chase all over again.
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I kinda missed of lot of the later parts of the series; what happened to Crais, the original bad guy? And that ship he piloted that I think was Moya’s offspring?
I love Farscape, and yes I’m one of those fan geeks that petitioned to get this made.
It was awsome and I forgive every little mistake they made.
Except the Dargo & Chiana floating in space part.
But I love this series.
Only read this if you’re not going to watch the series all the way through, because it’s one of the last really great things in this series.
Talyn goes nuts, killing many innocent people and shooting his mother. Shortly thereafter, he and Crais sacrifice themselves to save the others.
I liked it - it wasn’t perfect, but it was good. Aeryn in labor (“I’ve killed men for less”) was great. Scorpius was in fine devious, ruthless form.
I would just like to say that mivonks is my favorite word ever.
I like frell and dren, and does it make me a geek if I actually use these words in everyday speech now?
Mivonks is good too, but I never actually hear the “n.” To me it sounds like “meevocks.”
Did anyone else have any difficulty with the sound during the show? Sometimes I had to rewind a couple times to understand things. It wasn’t the Ozzy accents. I couldn’t understand Crichton sometimes either.
Finagle a lot of those troops (namely the ones in helmets) were not Scaryn, but are a part of the slave-race of shock troops. They lack the toughness of Scaryns but are more numerous.
That said, Scaryn invulnerablity is a bit variable, but hey, nobody’s armor is perfect.
I especially like how Chriton killed two of them by putting Winona right their heads and firing off a few dozen shots. They are also only somewhat immune to shots (Scropius’ armor seems much tougher), and can certainly seem to be annoyed by them. Qualta blade shots seem to slow them down more.
Overall, this was well done…if somewhat hurried. You could tell they took a lot of the "filler/character development’’ episodes and reduced them to minimal entries. I suspect that “Chiana gets new eyes” was a whole episode to itself. The Mercenary ship attack had the feel of a hour-long episode being reduced to a 5 minute plot point
(that there are now some holes in Moya).
I’m almost surprised they didn’t at least mention Zhaan during the show. She was a fan favorite, and AFAIK, Virginia Hey isn’t opposed to working on Farscape again.
Zhaan sniff 
While it would have been a terrible ending, the romantic in me was hoping that somehow Zhaan would show up and be the one to finally marry Crichton and Aeryn. 
But there’s that whole “She’s Dead!” thing…not that it stopped Crichton and Aeryn. Or Aeryn before. Or…
I was kinda thinking Stark could channel Zhaan’s spirit or something, so maybe she could bless the baby. Or as you said, bless their wedding as a Pa’u. She’d have been the perfect person for it.
It almost seemed like, who on this show can’t preside over this wedding? For heaven’s sake, just pronounce yourselves man & wife!
sob - that’s what I was waiting for. I was convinced she was going to show up. It was one of the few things I was disappointed with in the show.
Between Farscape, the Broadway miniseries, and the playoffs, I haven’t gotten any freakin’ sleep this week.
Ava
I am so glad they kept the “nattering old witch-lady” screentime to a minimum. I couldn’t stand her, and they found a way to keep her busy and useful to the plot.
Farscape is one of those shows that I always watch with the closed captioning on. It really clears up that frellin’ confusion.
Is Pilot considered the de facto captain of Moya or his status more of a permenant helmsman? Cause he might have been able to marry them off.
(I don’t know if you wanted a real answer to this or not, but this Farscape geek is going to give it to you anyway.)
Pilot is the pilot. He is not the captain. For a while in the first season, there was no captain, Pilot and Moya took orders from whichever one of our heroes could shout the loudest and convince them to do what they wanted. Finally, Pilot and Moya decided enough was enough, and that the gang had to choose a captain. For a while, they switched off being captain, but eventually (of course) Crichton became the de facto captain.
So can a captain preside at his own wedding?
Actually, wasn’t Dargo elected Captain by the crew?