There seems to be a couple of these at the moment, but here's mine.
If you haven't come across one of these threads before, I plan to go through Farscape episodes for the first time and post my thoughts on them. I currently have season 1 on DVD, I'll decide when I get to the end whether or not I want season 2.
I have watched the following episodes, please do not spoil outside of them in this thread (will be updated):
Premiere
This episode was fairly weird, I'm not sure what to think of it.
I find John's reaction to his situation a little bit too unbelievable, he accepts it too easily. He walks onto the bridge and sees the blue woman and the guy with the beard (they shall be known as this until I learn their names) and just says something to the effect "What the hell's going on?". He later deduces he was sent through a wormhole to God knows where and has it's unlikely he'll get back. Even if he's in denial and hasn't realised he might not return to his life on Earth he should have been very confused and had a lot of difficulty accepting everything. Maybe they just wanted to get on with the story but it felt a bit rushed to me, they could have really done with a part 2.
Perhaps a more realistic reaction to his situation would be to have a panic attack, which might not make very interesting TV, but what would have made interesting TV is at least some kind of reaction rather than "oh, I've been sent through a wormhole and here are some aliens...ok". I think of "There But For the Grace of God" where Daniel is, very understandably, quite confused by his situation. The way Crichton reacts you'd think that he was sent through a wormhole to a different part of the Universe just last month (meh, maybe he's secretly Cam Mitchell).
The conversation between the blue woman and the bearded guy near the start was a bit hard to follow being unfamiliar with the Farscape universe. Though I think I got the general gist, I'm not sure if should have been included right at the start, at least get your audience to understand what's going on.
I liked the humour in it, especially the helium fart. Aeryn and John seem like interesting characters
When they first translated the alien speech into English, it seemed it was dubbed in English (which would make sense). Was this intentional? It didn't happen for the rest of it so I wonder if it was just my DVD player acting up at that time.
Also, what year was the start set in? I get the impression it was the near future (from 1999) but is the year specified?
Throne for a Loss
When this first came on I felt it didn't follow on very well from episode 1, the crew seem to have developed relationships off camera. Then I checked the wiki page for the episode order and realised why, the DVD (and broadcast) order is messed up. I had just watched episode 4. I can understand why the broadcast order would be messed up? But why the DVD? How are you supposed to know what order to watch them in w/o checking online. Another confusing thing is that while this is actually 4, it was 3 in broadcast order and then they go ahead and put it on 2 on the DVD. (I have UK region 2 DVDs). From now I'll trust you guys/wikipedia
Order mess up aside, this episode was fairly fun. Rygel provides good comic relief, though I can see that he might get annoying after a while. The action was good too and I liked how they reacted to the arm thingies. The sub plot involving the attacker and the blue woman was a little bit odd, she's creepy.
Unrelated to the episodes, is this the kind of show you need to watch episode after episode (like 24) or can you just watch random episodes from time to time. Episode 4 seems to imply the latter. I ask because my girlfriend may want to watch it with me from time to time, and we need to know whether I can just watch them myself and she'll occasionally join me, or whether should she watch the whole season to understand it. (If she needs to watch it all and decides to then these updates will be very infrequent)
I'll try and at least one or two episodes a week, but no promises.
If you haven't come across one of these threads before, I plan to go through Farscape episodes for the first time and post my thoughts on them. I currently have season 1 on DVD, I'll decide when I get to the end whether or not I want season 2.
I have watched the following episodes, please do not spoil outside of them in this thread (will be updated):
Spoiler:
Premiere
This episode was fairly weird, I'm not sure what to think of it.
I find John's reaction to his situation a little bit too unbelievable, he accepts it too easily. He walks onto the bridge and sees the blue woman and the guy with the beard (they shall be known as this until I learn their names) and just says something to the effect "What the hell's going on?". He later deduces he was sent through a wormhole to God knows where and has it's unlikely he'll get back. Even if he's in denial and hasn't realised he might not return to his life on Earth he should have been very confused and had a lot of difficulty accepting everything. Maybe they just wanted to get on with the story but it felt a bit rushed to me, they could have really done with a part 2.
Perhaps a more realistic reaction to his situation would be to have a panic attack, which might not make very interesting TV, but what would have made interesting TV is at least some kind of reaction rather than "oh, I've been sent through a wormhole and here are some aliens...ok". I think of "There But For the Grace of God" where Daniel is, very understandably, quite confused by his situation. The way Crichton reacts you'd think that he was sent through a wormhole to a different part of the Universe just last month (meh, maybe he's secretly Cam Mitchell).
The conversation between the blue woman and the bearded guy near the start was a bit hard to follow being unfamiliar with the Farscape universe. Though I think I got the general gist, I'm not sure if should have been included right at the start, at least get your audience to understand what's going on.
I liked the humour in it, especially the helium fart. Aeryn and John seem like interesting characters
When they first translated the alien speech into English, it seemed it was dubbed in English (which would make sense). Was this intentional? It didn't happen for the rest of it so I wonder if it was just my DVD player acting up at that time.
Also, what year was the start set in? I get the impression it was the near future (from 1999) but is the year specified?
Throne for a Loss
When this first came on I felt it didn't follow on very well from episode 1, the crew seem to have developed relationships off camera. Then I checked the wiki page for the episode order and realised why, the DVD (and broadcast) order is messed up. I had just watched episode 4. I can understand why the broadcast order would be messed up? But why the DVD? How are you supposed to know what order to watch them in w/o checking online. Another confusing thing is that while this is actually 4, it was 3 in broadcast order and then they go ahead and put it on 2 on the DVD. (I have UK region 2 DVDs). From now I'll trust you guys/wikipedia
Order mess up aside, this episode was fairly fun. Rygel provides good comic relief, though I can see that he might get annoying after a while. The action was good too and I liked how they reacted to the arm thingies. The sub plot involving the attacker and the blue woman was a little bit odd, she's creepy.
Unrelated to the episodes, is this the kind of show you need to watch episode after episode (like 24) or can you just watch random episodes from time to time. Episode 4 seems to imply the latter. I ask because my girlfriend may want to watch it with me from time to time, and we need to know whether I can just watch them myself and she'll occasionally join me, or whether should she watch the whole season to understand it. (If she needs to watch it all and decides to then these updates will be very infrequent)
I'll try and at least one or two episodes a week, but no promises.
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