I always thought they should have had one of those “blue bitches” have a child with “yellow baby daddy” resulting in a green “love child”.
Love the series!
As the show goes on you’'ll get some recurring characters that become quit fun/interesting.
I’ think “Harvey” was my favorite.
Would love to say more about the series but don’t want to spoil anything.
FWIW, she was the long-haired, attractive blonde warrior woman at the refinery in “The Road Warrior”.
As for Farscape… I never could get into it. Considering all the other sci-fi shows on TV at the time, Farscape is one that just didn’t do it for me. There was something… goofy about it that I couldn’t get around- it seemed that there were a lot of things that were intended to be funny to the audience, but that weren’t actually funny in-universe. That, and I just couldn’t ever get enough back-story to understand what was going on fully; it seemed kind of convoluted and weird.
For what it’s worth, LEXX felt the same way to me; I never could really get into that show either, although it’s eye candy was a little sweeter.
I have that problem with modern SF writers in general. Peter David comes to mind as a frequent offender. I like his writing style, but just when I’m really getting absorbed into the story, I’ll run headlong into an out-of-universe reference (nudge-nudge, wink-wink, this is funny, right?) and I’ll be knocked right out of the zone.
The basic premise of Farscape was simple enough. On Earth, John Crichton tests a space ship and in true Planet of the Apes fashion gets thrown across the universe to a distant galaxy. As he arrives - out of control - at his destination he accidentally causes a small space ship to crash killing the pilot.
Crichton ends up as a "Guest"of some fugitives (from the militaristic ruling force called The Peacekeepers) who have taken control of the sentient prison space ship - Moya. Unfortunately the space ship Crichton caused to crash contained the brother of a senior Peacekeeper - Captain Crais.
Crichton wants to go home to Earth. The prisoners want to go back to their worlds. Crais wants to track them down; recapturing the prisoners but he particularly wants vengeance against Crichton.
As the show continues motivations and loyalties change but the initial set up is easy enough.
As for Lexx? I loved it but that REALLY was a Curate’s Egg. The original four TV Movies were two good and two rubbish (in my opinion.) Once the show went to series it slowly drifted downhill but along the way it had highs and lows.
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I agree with RealityChuck that the last season came down with a serious case of The Stupids. When a character gains a significant new capability, that character should use it. It might turn out to not be what he or she actually wanted, but at least show the character trying it and discovering that.
I was also a bit bugged by a trope that they re-used (nonspecific spoiler, but you may want to avoid it anyway):
Using one villain as a setup for another, bigger villain
When they did it the first time, it worked quite well. But that’s the sort of thing that just doesn’t work if you try to do it twice.
Before that, though, it was good fun.
I’m partway in Season 2. It’s a good show, but not so good that I feel the need to binge watch it. I do find it amusing that the two human (well, I guess one wasn’t really human, but some identical cold blooded race, not in alien makeup is really what I meant) leads both wound up as regulars on SG1.
Speaking of cold blooded, did they get that cold blooded thing with the Peacekeepers’ race (sorry I can’t spell it) wrong? Don’t cold blooded creatures LIKE the heat? I’ve seen enough pet reptiles sitting on a rock under a heat lamp to be all “wha?” when they get all frelled up in the heat on the show
I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be grey. Several times Chriton describes Chiana to people as ‘little grey girl’.
Farscape’s major appeal was often that Chriton was one of us. Often making sci-fi and other Earth references that the audience would get but the other crew members wouldn’t (Eryn once commented that her translator microbes had to have messed up). Even though as time went on they picked up some of his comments (Chiana outright says ‘screw the pooch’ in a later season.
Yes. That was pretty strange. Though the actress was more of an outsider in SG-1, a thief and outlaw, brought into the fold… Taken in to replace O’Neil, and I think Carter took a bit of a back seat too (I think maternity leave)…
I think they wanted Ben Browder to star in Stargate Atlantis but Farscape was still on it at the time, so it was more of a next gig after Farscape, and thus could take Claudia black…
And who remembers the special 200th episode of Stargate (by now including Ben and Claudia in the cast) where the Stargate team come up with suggestions for a TV show and parody, amongst many other things, Farscape?
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Nebari (Chiana’s species) are gray skinned, males generally have black hair, females white with black roots, their eyes are black, an interesting bit of trivia is that they don’t get sunburned or even tan, even though they’re very pale, almost “albino”
Nebari society is a strange combination, the adults have a nearly Vulcan level of emotional control (unable to elaborate without spoilers) yet young or outcast Nebari are passionately emotional
Yeah, I am not exactly sure what they were thinking, but my leopard gecko loved his heat lamp. He also had a heating mat under his cave which we switched on in the winters (it gets cold up here in Albany and we don’t turn the heat up high).
But then he also had a place to move to when the heat got too high. I guess Aeryn had no place to go, at least in the one episode I saw - all of Moya was too hot.
Sebaceans (virtually all Peacekeepers are Sebaceans) aren’t actually cold blooded are they? I don’t recall that. They are generally treated in the show as human like but stronger and generally physically better. Although unable to tolerate raised heat levels as well.
The only ‘cold blooded’ thing is their generally unemotional, ruthless nature although, as we see, that is an attitude they adopt for social and professional reasons if they become, or have been bought up as, Peacekeepers.
Other, non-Peacekeeper, Sebaceans display a full range of emotions.
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The Eidolons in S4 elaborate on the apparent commonality between Humans and Sebeceans, personally I saw it as one of the weak, stereotypical plot devices
I also thought Chiana would have been a much better match for John than Aeryn, but John sees Pip as more akin to a “little sister”
No their society is like Vulcan’s kinda, and they outcast those unable to conform to the norm. Like Chiana and her brother.
There is no spoiler here this is covered in the exposition in the first Chiana episode.
I loved the show but I had a little trouble getting into it because I started watching somewhere in the middle of season 1 or so. It helps to get in at the beginning and make more sense that way as the show strays quite a bit from the then-conventional episodic nature of shows.
Sebaceans weren’t cold blooded as much as they had a weakness to hotter temperatures. I think that this was specifically engineered into them but I can’t recall how much that was elaborated on.
I think some of the alien abilities get a little too wacky like metal-melting screams and flaming pee, but the one that makes the least amount of sense to me is having to punch a wound until the blood runs clear. On a warrior race. So you have to stop in the middle of a giant battle to punch your buddy’s cuts. Or a mom has to punch her kids when they get owies. Despite that, the aliens shown on the show run a real wide range of interesting types without really falling into Star Trek’s “human with slightly different forehead” races.
And all the characters and interactions are really good. You can see the relationship develop between Chrichton and D’argo, ferinstance. Plus it’s fun to see Aeryn Sun and Chrichton get thrown at each other somehow just about every single episode.
Yes, they were a slave race of enforcers and had this weakness engineered and then their masters died out.
'Mika, have you seen the episode with the Tavloids yet?
Yes, that was only episode 4, so I saw it night before last.
I will not be reading your other thread, btw. 
Yeah, I really liked the bit with how everyone else started off completely ignorant of English and Earth culture, but gradually learned and assimilated it as the show went on. I thought it was most noticeable with Aeryn, though.
“She gives me a woody”
“What did you just say!?”
“It’s an Earth expression-- I’ve heard you use it. She gives me a woody: I have a bad feeling about her.”
“That’s willies! She gives you the willies!”
And in a later episode, “Oy, she’s speaking English! I know this is trouble.”
Oh yeah that was hilarious.
And just now in one of the episodes there was a joke about Mad Max 3 and the Thunderdome. When Rygel expresses confusion, Crichton responds “Don’t worry, nobody saw the third one anyway”.