(Harvey! And Talyn! And Gilina!)

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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

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, I like it already. It just hasn't grabbed me by the gut and demanded that I keep watching it already, not the way Buffy or...Veronica Mars did. It's more like BSG: I liked it, then I got distracted, then I went back and watched it some more, then I got distracted, then I fell in love with it, then it got bad. Only hopefully Farscape won't get bad.

I will definitely keep watching till then. Thank you! I like to have a goal in mind. Like with Buffy, you tell people to hang on until at least "Surprise"/"Innocence" (or is that reversed? Whatever).

I already love Crichton. A whole lot. But I'm willing to fall for him more! And I didn't love Buffy till she was clinically depressed, so I don't know what that says about me. ;)