Sell Me On Farscape

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Sci-Fi has just started from the beginning on the show and I've seen the first 4 episodes so far. I like it for the most part but I just want to know if it's worth my time and stays good all the way through.

[Guest El Satanico]

It's definately worth your time. I don't like many hardcore sci-fi shows, but I loved this one.

[BlackFlagg]

this is one show I've been meaning to check out for awhile...will probably toss it in my netflix queue once I finish up with CSI

[bobobrazil1984]

Sci-Fi has just started from the beginning on the show and I've seen the first 4 episodes so far.  I like it for the most part but I just want to know if it's worth my time and stays good all the way through.

Absolutely. It gets better. MUCH BETTER, it really takes off towards the end of Season 1 and never looks back, with a big arc storyline.

 

There's the feeling that ANYTHING can happen, the show will take all kinds of twists, the kinda stuff you would never ever see a show like Star Trek do. It constantly takes cliche sci-fi storylines and give them a fresh spin. I'd give examples but I don't want to spoil anything for you, but I can say that if only looking at the first 4 episodes, there's no indication of how far the show will really go, but it WILL go far, occasionally off the deep end.

 

Basically if you've ever looked at sci-fi shows and thought: "boooring" or "stale" or "sterile" or "lame looking aliens" or "why is everybody act like they have a stick up their ass," you'll love Farscape. Its the opposite of Trek, its a very creative, passionate series. If you're someone who is big into order and things being a set way, you might hate Farscape. If you're someone who thrives on creativity, and emotion, and trying new kinds of things, a visual person, I think you'll love Farscape. If you really enjoy technobabble and scientific explanations for everything, you might hate it. Sometimes Farscape goes too far, or gets a little too silly, or tries too hard to be 'wild and unpredictable', but even when it fails, it's always a SPECTACULAR failure, if that makes sense. It's never ever dull.

 

It brings the EMOTION in spades. As a matter of fact... there it is. Many other sci-fi shows operate on Logic of some kind (maybe their storylines aren't "logical", but things are a certain way. People will only go so far. They react to situations by logic (because I guess in the future people don't really have emotions, i dont know)... Farscpae is all about Emotion over logic. It's character storylines have emotional resonance. Crichton/Aeryn is the one of the only sci-fi romances that's ever felt... COOL, rather than mushy or sappy.

 

Oh yeah, and the series is more action oriented than other sci-fi shows, but it always feels right rather than gratuitious, like it's channelling the spirit of Luke/Han blasting away at stormtroopers in the halls of the Death Star or Cloud City. As a matter of fact, imo Farscape at its best (just wait till you hit the season 2 trilogies) really channels the SPIRIT of the original SW trilogy like no other series (hell it channels the spirit better than SW Prequels).

 

 

(in case you can't tell, I really love this series. It's my favorite sci-fi show ever)

[Anakin Flair]

Metr0man: the RavishingRickRudo of Farscape

 

I always thought I'd hate the show, but onec I gave it a chance I grew to love it. I'm now slowly building up my collection of the DVD's.

 

Give it a shot. You might like it.