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Farscape follows the trials of John Crichton (Ben
Browder), a switched-on scientist who heads off on a space
shuttle to test his gravity-bounce theory in a nifty little
spaceship he designed himself. Things are going swimmingly,
however, during the experiment he runs smack-bang into the
middle of a wormhole.
When he comes to, Crichton finds himself in the middle of
an unknown sector of space and in the middle of a war. He
collides with one spacecraft, killing its pilot, and then
seeks safety on board a huge mothership of some kind.
Just when he thinks himself lucky, he discovers it is actually
a prison ship and its inhabitants are aliens. There's a big,
bad-tempered Luxan warrior called Ka D'Argo (Anthony Simcoe),
a small ex-politician, Rygel XVI, who has been kicked out
of office, a priestess (Virginia Hey) who despite being blue
and scaly is a bit of a looker, and an also-just-arrived officer
of the ruthless Peacekeepers Aeryun Sun (Claudia Black).
Being completely out of his territory, not to mention depth,
Crichton has to not only win the respect of his new-found
colleagues, but also avoid the clutches of the Peacekeepers
- whose general is a might peed off at his brother dying after
crashing into the earthman's spacecraft.
Farscape mixes extremely well done monster puppetry
and real life characters seamlessly and very soon into the
show you don't regard them as being anything other than very
good CGI efforts.
The script is good, the interplay between the main characters
is engaging, and the adventures they get into - all 22 in
this series - are very entertaining. As said before, there
is a strong taste of Star Trek in Farscape,
but also nice little bits of homage to Aliens as well.
The video transfer is superb and the sound will keep your
ears nicely attuned to both the events and the dialogue.
A very impressive production and a very impressive series
that runs to a gentle 1100-odd minutes of screen time.
The Episodes:
Premiere, I, E.T., Exodus from Genesis, Back and Back and
Back to the Future, Throne for a Loss, PK Tech Girl, Thank
God It's Friday, Again, That Old Black Magic, DNA Mad Scientist,
They've Got a Secret, Til the Blood Runs Clear, The Flax,
Rhapsody in Blue, Jeremiah Crichton, Durka Returns, A Human
Reaction, Through the Looking Glass, A Bug's Life, Nerve,
A Hidden Memory, Bone to be Wild, Family Ties.
Conclusion: Movie 85%, Extras 60%
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