Farscape

[fajrdrako]

Numerous people recommended Farscape to me, but all I'd seen was part of Th Peacekeeper Wars, which I'd watched with people who had never seen the show before, and I found the show both uncomprehensible and dull. I was told I should watch it from the beginning.

Truth to tell, I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch another show with funny-looking aliens.

But I was ready to try it again, and accepted Tasia's invitation to a Farscape video-party. I made salmon mousse and devilled eggs - which was fun, and the mousse turned out particularly nicely, though it turned out that one of the party hated eggs and Tasia can't eat salmon. The rest of us had a great time.

And guess what? I liked the show. Not with the passion I feel for Firefly, not with the edge-of-my-seat involvement I feel with Battlestar Galactica, but I thoroughly enjoyed the four episodes we saw. We saw the Premiere, I, E.T., Back and Back and Back to the Future, and... one other.

I never did come to like the use of puppets and alien make-up, especially with Rygel, but they became tolerable as I started to learn their personalities and to (at least partly) see the personalities rather than the looks. Aeryn Sun and John Crichton grew on me, and started to see quite attractive after a couple of episodes.

It's enough to make me hope I get a chance to see more.

Comments

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're seeing them in order: future episodes really do build on past episodes, to the point where I know people who didn't bother watching by the time third season had rolled around as they'd missed too much to truly appreciate and understand what was going on. Thank heavens for the DVDs! And the shows really do improve, the ones you mentioned aren't considered very good, even by people who love Farscape. They hadn't even come close to hitting their stride yet! Farscape didn't show in Australia until a year after the US got it, despite being shot in Australia, and Ben Browder used to go on talk shows there to warn people that the first few episodes weren't that good, and the viewers had to hang in there for a bit longer. ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

uture episodes really do build on past episodes

Yes. There was an episode on SPACE today that I watched. Obviously the story had become complex and I could only guess at the relationship, and what was gong on. I'll have to try to get the DVDs - some time after Malta - or hope Tasia will show me more.

I don't know when they started showing Farscape in Canada but I know it was much later than in the States.

I thought the first episodes weren't bad - but I like the idea that it gets better.

[aprilmoon08.livejournal.com]

I love Farscape. It is one of the few SciFi shows that I could watch, and not want to run screaming from the room. Now you have inspired me to go and watch it again.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I really haven't been impressed with most SF shows in the past few years, except Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, both of which I thought magnificent. It's nice to know there's another dcent one that I haven't seen yet.

[lmondegreen.livejournal.com]

We'll definitely have to have a Farscape day sometime soon!

Farscape

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I would certainly like to! Let's find a day.