Farscape Blog

Well I can definitely see why Leslie saved this show for last. Despite it’s very bizarre list of characters, I actually found this show very compelling and it kept my interest. I really liked the storyline of how they started out on Earth with a simple rocket launch test, and somehow John ends up in a wormhole and is transported to another end of the universe where apparently there’s life. I kept watching for an explanation about where is he or the better question when is he. Since the technology seemed so advanced, and there were some characters that resembled humans, my guess is he launched himself hundreds of years in the future. Overall, I liked the show, but I thought the alien characters acted and looked really weird. That short little green ruler guy was just plain ridiculous.

As for a comparison to the other sci-fi series, this one is obviously different. Based on the fact that it was one of the last series created, it seems like the writers had to be really different with this one or else it would be just like all the rest. They creators decided to use one human mixed in an alien war rather than a crew of humans like BSG, Firefly, and Star Trek (yes I know the crew on Star Trek isn’t all human but the point is they’re all on one team). John is just thrown into a situation where he doesn’t know what side to take. Also, the bizarre looking aliens were new as well. Every character looked either had 20 arms, or blue skin, or looked like a tauren warrior, or was a short green thing with a splitting head. The scariest character was definitely that monster thing with like a thousand teeth. Overall, I like the creativity of this series, I just wish they had better writers and a better set because everything looked so fake.