(Harvey! And Talyn! And Gilina!)

[deird_lj]

I saw someone on the internet this morning saying that Farscape's aliens were basically:
"...Proud Warrior Race Guy, Greedy Nobleman, Space Buddhist, Spock, Action Girl..."
...and concluding that the characters weren't all that original.


No. Wrong.

This show has D'Argo - the Proud Warrior Race Guy... who wants to stop fighting, settle down, and have a farm.

And Zhaan - the Space Buddhist... who is completely psychotic on her bad days.

And Aeryn, who was raised to be a soldier and nothing else, and Pilot, who is mostly calm and logical but also stubborn and snarky, and Jool, who is intelligent and resourceful and also a spoiled brat, Crichton, who is the American Hero and is not the action guy, he's the scientist! - and he's completely out of his depth...

And everyone else, too.


There are a lot of complaints you could make about Farscape. Lack of original characters is not one of them.

Comments

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Lack of originality is not a problem for Farscape. It samples a lot of things and ties them up in an emotional, epic story that is also funny as hell sometimes.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I can already agree about the funny as hell thing. The body-swap episode had me FLAILY WITH JOY. So much! I thought I was going to die of fangirly glee!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Teaching Rygel to pee! And, of course, they had to check out each other's parts! LOL!