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tynin writes:
"After more than a decade, Farscape is coming back in what is likely to be a TV movie. The film would follow John and Aeryn's son, D'Argo. Because their baby was exhibiting a set of interesting powers that made him a magnet for galactic villains, we find that John and Aeryn hide their son on Earth to grow up. Now the kid is 19 and ready to go into space with his parents."
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(Score: 1) by carburraetor on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:47AM
A non farscape viewer here from India, Sounds suspiciously like superman. I have seen a lot of my american friends go ga ga on farscape, anybody care to fill the rest of us in on what makes the series awesome? Awesome enough to rent DVD's of back episodes?
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:26AM
It has Claudia Black in skin-tight leather. Also, muppets.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1) by snick on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:29PM
That's pretty much all I remember. (except I had forgotten about the muppets)
(Score: 1) by MSC_Buff on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:56PM
This...x10! The muppet angle was pretty cool too.
(Score: 1) by glyph on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:25AM
I'm not sure I get the Superman reference, but if "American" is your beef, Farscape is not particularly so. It's more Australian then anything else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:17PM
>I'm not sure I get the Superman reference
I presume that he was reffering to that whole "son gifted with "interesting powers" hiding on earth" thing for the article.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by tynin on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:19PM
I suspect he is referring John and Aeryn leaving there son on Earth to grow up. Kinda Superman'ish.
For me, the shows strong points were the characters. The interactions between John, Harvey, and Scorpius completely make the show for me, but you have to work your way up to those. At points it feels like a D&D game in space. The show provides the bad guys, teaches you to hate them, and then makes them your friend in a round about way. The fun and often crazy insane interactions between the shipmates make them all oh so likeable.
The one thing I didn't care for was all of the monster of the week episodes. It helped flesh out some characters, but they always left me wanting them to get back to the story arch. Granted, I've rewatched the series ~4 times now, and these bother me less now than the first watch through.
Scorpius: Kill her. Then we'll have pizza and margarita shooters. Go on, John. Kill her. Do it. Do it.
John Crichton: [aims gun at Scorpius instead] Nobody has margaritas with pizza.
(Score: 1) by lcklspckl on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:13PM
I'd forgotten how delightfully gruesome and fruity Scorpius was! I'm thinking now I might queue it up again just to see his craziness all over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:20PM
I suspect he is referring John and Aeryn leaving there, son on Earth, to grow up.
Or did you mean "I suspect he is referring John and Aeryn leaving their son on Earth to grow up."? I ask because "For me, the shows strong points were the characters" left the apostrophe out of "show's". Spelling and punctuation are important in written communications. There's a reason that there, their, and they're are spelled differently.
(Score: 1) by tynin on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:30PM
What a fantastic milestone! My first grammar nazi troll on SN! This place is shaping up to be a real /. contender!
(Score: 1) by SMI on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:13AM
Agreed.
Or did you mean "I suspect he is referring to John and Aeryn leaving their son on Earth to grow up."?
FTFY.
(Score: 1) by Hyper on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:28PM
Buy the whole Farscape boxed sets of all seasons and the Peacekeeper Wars. It is well worth it I assure you. This is one of those times when you don't need a review or any other information other than knowing that you have seriously been missing out.
It's like being given the Firefly series on DVD not knowing what it is. :)
Then dying a little at the end knowing that there is no second series and being consoled by there being a movie completely optional.
For Farscape there are lots of episodes before this happens
(Score: 2, Interesting) by BananaPhone on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:17PM
At first what I saw was...too friggin' weird and loopy.
The intro after each commercial break was the worst. (Probably filler for TV)
I couldn't get into it until saw enough to get some key bits of the story.
Only after you get some of the story you understand why it was cheesy and Muppets were involved. The story and seemingly trivial details are not trivial. They chose to work on the story over production value much like they did Dr. Who. It's not as slick as Star Trek but at least you care about the characters. whereas in ST:Voyager, you wished they would just get home or assimilated already.