Farscape - anything I need to know?

[Shawnster]

My wife got me the entire series for our anniversary last year. She had to pay a pretty pricey sum for the first season on eBay. That was the only place she could get it. The rest she got fairly easily.

I've rewatched the first season up to and including "A Bug's Life." She got mad that I've started watching without her so I have to wait and let her catch up. Together we've just finished "PK Tech Girl."

She's not into it near as much as I am. I'm hoping she'll enjoy the show as the Chrichton/Aeryn relationship develops.

 

[RoJoHen]

I need to watch this series again. Anybody have any info about the 1st season on DVD? It's not available through Netflix or at my local library.

I know that my local Hollywood Video has the first season on DVD, but that's it.

They stopped making and selling the DVDs in stores.

 

[Sakrysta]

SO glad I bought the series on DVD when I did!

Always envious of those watching my favorite shows for the first time. Farscape is just such a rich, complex universe. Enjoy.

 

[Luckyflux]

I need to watch this series again. Anybody have any info about the 1st season on DVD? It's not available through Netflix or at my local library.

I know that my local Hollywood Video has the first season on DVD, but that's it.

They stopped making and selling the DVDs in stores.

RoJoHen, is that on Wilshire or Western? I work in Hollywood (Las Palmas Ave), and I would love to pick up the first season.

 

[RoJoHen]

Hollywood Video is just a chain of video rental stores, like BlockBuster.

I'm in Illinois, as is the Hollywood Video I go to.

 

[Luckyflux]

OH! I googled for the hollywood video closest to me in LA and I found two places. I called one of them and he had it for rent only. I might have to rent then burn.

Side note I was born in Illinois. Cook County Hosiptal. I've heard the neighborhood isn't very good, but it is my birthplace so I like it.

 

[SFRabid]

My only thought is when it ends the first time, stop. When they brought it back it struggled a slow death. Pretend those epeisodes don't exist.

 

[RoJoHen]

^Eh?

It ended at the end of Season 4, and then they brought it back to make "The Peacekeeper Wars" miniseries.

 

[Kryton]

You WILL believe a wee Muppety-man can live and breathe.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Ben Browder as Commander Crichton is one of the funniest action characters ever. He's a wise-cracking Southern tough guy with a penchant for quoting from 20th century movies and TV shows.

Agreed. Browder is a great actor and it's a shame he was so wasted on Stargate SG-1. (He had his moments but he wasn't nearly as interesting as he was on Farscape. Nor, for that matter, was Col. Mitchell as interesting as his Stargate counterparts, Jack O'Neill & John Sheppard.)

Rygel is a great character and always my favorite on the series. But honestly, I had a hard time getting into Farscape sometimes because it seemed like it was just beeing weird for weird's sake. "D.N.A. Mad Scientist" was the episode that kinda turned me off the series. It was gross & disturbing.

 

[Sakrysta]

^ I feel the same way about "DNA Mad Scientist" and several other episodes. There were times when they pushed the gross-out factor so far that it made the show unpleasant to watch. But that sentiment is so far outweighed by the overall awesomeness of the show that I just grin and bear it.

 

[RoJoHen]

The only episode I thought was a little too gross is Season 4's "Lava's a Many Splendored Thing." We need not go into detail.

 

[IcecreamLtDan]

Once you finish the whole series, be sure to pick up the comics as it takes up from where The Peacekeeper Wars ends. And the webisodes are supposed to pick up from them at some point.

 

[Orac Zen]

"D.N.A. Mad Scientist" was the episode that kinda turned me off the series. It was gross & disturbing.

^ I feel the same way about "DNA Mad Scientist"

For me, "DNA Mad Scientist" was one of the show's first really superior episodes. I enjoyed the hell out of what they did in / with that episode, and I also very much enjoyed it being revisited later (I'll shut up now to avoid spoilers). To each their own, however.

 

[Sakrysta]

Oh, I loved the story. It was the gross-out factor that bothered me.

 

[Harvey]

Once you finish the whole series, be sure to pick up the comics as it takes up from where The Peacekeeper Wars ends. And the webisodes are supposed to pick up from them at some point.

Have those been collected in trade paper backs yet? I loathe the purchase of individual comic issues. They get destroyed so quickly.

 

[Mr Light]

What follow up to DNA was there? "Way We Weren't"?

 

[Gary7]

Which seasons are considered the best and worst?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Which seasons are considered the best and worst?

Overall, the series varies enormously in quality from episode to episode.

S1 - Pilot episode is good. Took most of the season for the show to find its footing - seems like they were trying to make it appeal to kids too much at first. Several good episodes at the end.

S2 - First few episodes were iffy, but picks up.

S3 - Probably the strongest season overall.

S4 - Struggles and rambles a bit too much for my liking.

Peacekeeper Wars miniseries finale - Great way to go out.

 

[Plain Simple]

I'm about to watch this series straight through . . . anything I need to know before I start?

My sig says it all.

Going to watch 'Die Me Dichotomy' and then start season 3 tonight.

I hope you don't need your heart, because that episode is going to break it.

I just finished it. Probably the best episode I've seen so far.

It's the episode that got me into the show.

I always thought "Die Me" was an overrated episode.

Hey!