(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

[green-maia.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to watch Farscape next...

[deird1]

It's very worthwhile.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Given some of your reactions to Doctor Who, I would warn that the episode DNA Mad Scientist may be hard to take (it's puppet violence, but in Farscape, puppets are people too). And quite possibly The Hidden Memory (though the latter one is pretty essential to the series as a whole).