Finished Watching It! Finally!
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deird_ljAs most of you know, I've been watching Farscape. As a significantly smaller number of you know, I bought the series pretty much sight unseen.
And last week I finished! Yay!
And last week I finished! Yay!
As I said, I bought all four seasons of this show after having seen half an episode, five years earlier. But it was cheap, and I was bored, so I bought the entire thing, and hoped I wasn't completely wasting my money...
This show is awesome.
Seriously!
Farscape is the kind of space show you dream of seeing.
The characters are well-rounded, believable, and go through extremely horrible situations (the kind of "horrible" that translates into "only makes you a stronger, better person" when you see it on tv).
The internal logic behind the different aliens and the translation-between-races is not only consistent, it's also used in the plot. As in, they don't just say "Oh, yes, we've got a special ability to translate languages, now please stop thinking about this." They actually refer to the translating on multiple occasions, use it for setting up jokes, have it not work sometimes, and think about the weird effects you can get when someone sounds like they're talking like you but isn't really.
They have half-breed aliens (much the same way that Star Trek has half-Klingons), but they remember that half-breeds might not just have enhanced abilities - they might also have biological problems.
And the writers are on crack.
Farscape has a character who farts helium when he's nervous (making everyone's voices jump an octave suddenly), bodyswapping, time travel, one character who lives entirely inside another character's mind, cartoon versions of the crew, ships who can stubbornly refuse to do what the crew wants, a guy who gets split into two identical versions of himself (for almost an entire season), and an episode where someone gets gassed, stuck in a room with a grenade, thrown into space without a spacesuit, turned into a statue, decaptitated, and has his disembodied head chucked into a vat of acid, and he STILL manages to survive!
Most of the main cast are gradually going insane. Some slightly less gradually than others.
If you haven't seen it yet, track down the dvds and watch them as soon as you can. They are very worthwhile.
This show is awesome.
Seriously!
Farscape is the kind of space show you dream of seeing.
The characters are well-rounded, believable, and go through extremely horrible situations (the kind of "horrible" that translates into "only makes you a stronger, better person" when you see it on tv).
The internal logic behind the different aliens and the translation-between-races is not only consistent, it's also used in the plot. As in, they don't just say "Oh, yes, we've got a special ability to translate languages, now please stop thinking about this." They actually refer to the translating on multiple occasions, use it for setting up jokes, have it not work sometimes, and think about the weird effects you can get when someone sounds like they're talking like you but isn't really.
They have half-breed aliens (much the same way that Star Trek has half-Klingons), but they remember that half-breeds might not just have enhanced abilities - they might also have biological problems.
And the writers are on crack.
Farscape has a character who farts helium when he's nervous (making everyone's voices jump an octave suddenly), bodyswapping, time travel, one character who lives entirely inside another character's mind, cartoon versions of the crew, ships who can stubbornly refuse to do what the crew wants, a guy who gets split into two identical versions of himself (for almost an entire season), and an episode where someone gets gassed, stuck in a room with a grenade, thrown into space without a spacesuit, turned into a statue, decaptitated, and has his disembodied head chucked into a vat of acid, and he STILL manages to survive!
Most of the main cast are gradually going insane. Some slightly less gradually than others.
If you haven't seen it yet, track down the dvds and watch them as soon as you can. They are very worthwhile.
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Date: 2008-05-25 06:53 am (UTC)One of the finest shows to come out of Australia, and another one to add to the ever-growing list of "I can't believe they cancelled that show!".
Next up, Stargate...shall bring you season 1 on Thursday :-)
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Date: 2008-05-25 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 08:39 am (UTC)Do you have it on DVD....? *hopeful winning smile*
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Date: 2008-05-25 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 01:35 pm (UTC)Also, I hear it's your birthday, doll. Hope it's the best!
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Date: 2008-05-25 08:14 pm (UTC)The wonderful thing about having friends in different time zones is that my birthday sort of gets stretched out... It's kinda fun.
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Date: 2008-05-25 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 08:15 pm (UTC)(also, see anonymous comment below about iTunes...)
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Date: 2008-05-26 03:15 am (UTC)It looks like trying to get the dvds in America is WAY more expensive than buying them in Australia ($300 a season compared to my local dvd store's price of $30 a season). If your dvd player can handle region 4, I'd say the best option is to buy them from an Australian supplier.
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Date: 2008-05-26 12:41 pm (UTC)Farscape
Date: 2008-05-25 05:56 pm (UTC)Congratulations on becoming a 'Scaper!
If you're interested in more Farscape discussion, check out the Scapecast podcast. We do character reviews, articles, interviews, news, trivia and listeners also send in answers to questions and other 'Scapery' stuff.
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