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Summary: And so begins one of the best SCI fi Shows EVER
Review: There are 22 episodes of Farscape Season 1 on here. What more can you ask for. This wonderful show mixed action adventure, comedy, suspense, and romance into science fiction. It is easy to get into and fun to watch. It's a shame what sci fi channel did. They let a wonderful series (their "flagship" show go away and brought scare tactics, and tremors?!) John a human, doing an experiment in his module get launched into a wormhole and spat out at the other end of the universe. There is an accident when he comes out that causes another craft to crash and kill the pilot. John comes aboard Moya a living ship escaping from the Peacekeepers (a corupt law in the :uncharted territories:) One of the Peacekeepers: Captain Crais wants to kill John beacause his son died in the accident. So now John is with escaped prisoners, and is being hunted my a psycho peacekeeper...and he just wants to go home! You owe it to yourself to get this! The start of an excellent four seasons that will keep you on the edge of your seat for all 88 existing episodes!
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Summary: 22 shows of garbage.
Review: This aired on the sci-fi channel (or as I call it, the Internet Geek cable outlet) which this show was full of bad CGI, creature/puppet effects that made Land of the Lost Look good, and some of the worst writing ever done. The whole thing looked like an infomerical for bad TV movies of the week, This show got the axe, and it deserved that.
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Summary: Wonderful show too bad it was cancelled
Review: This show features stunning special effects and well written stories. It really doesn't resemble land of the lost in anyway except in the minds of cynical fanboys. The show is very good towards the end with the stories about scoriupus and the birth of talon. An excellent show with great production values!
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Summary: words cannot express my love for farscape....
Review: Too much to say, and sadly, not matter how flowery or refined my words will try to be, they will never do justice to the greatness of this show.
I'm a recent addition to the 'Scapers' movement, meaning that unfortunately, while the series was on Sci-fi, I was unable to watch it. Mostly because I was away in College, and their cable package did not include the Sci-fi channel. I always did hear good things about it, but I never got to see this beautifully done series.
I'm a lover of Sci-fi in general, and after having purchased the Babylon 5 series, I started looking around for other great Sci-fi series to buy. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I saw that Farscape was now available as box sets- I was jumping up and down in glee, when I realized I could watch the entire run of the series-another reason to love DVDS.
Needless to say, I bought the entire Farscape run in one swoop (It was probably the best half grand that I've ever spent). I also got the Peacekeeper wars.
The moment the first episode began to play, I was sucked immediately into the world of Farscape, I knew then, that I would never regret buying this series. The quality of it was just so amazing, considering that it was a TV show. The characters were interesting and fluid, Rygel was just so freaking funny, I always forgot he was a puppet- the Henson company did a tremendous job on animating him and giving him a personality and character of his own.
And then, there was Claudia Black. She captivates me like no other female character in Sci-fi has ever done. Her eyes, her mannerisms, and the way she acts, Aeryn Sun is the archetype of the sci-fi female heroine.
I'm also, for the most part, a hopeless romantic, so the instant chemistry you see between Aeryn and John told me that this was going to be a Sci-fi romance for the ages. They way the two actors play off each other makes you get involved in their struggle to understand each other, and their own initial denial to what they are both feeling is just so enticing. The fact that Aeryn is a Sebacean, an alien who looks a lot like a human, makes their interaction all the more interesting. She's a genetically bred warrior, a PeaceKeeper, who has been raised in a society where she only knows how to fight but not feel. It must have been exasperating to John, trying to figure her out- no more so, when in one episode he asks her, "what about compassion?" It's not a surprise that there is no Sebacean word for compassion, as Aeryn tells him, and that she's never felt the feeling he's trying to describe.
So far, I've only completed season 1, but already I'm seeing how John's humanity is starting to affect Aeryn, and how maybe, they'll find that they aren't so different after all, and that love can cross all boundaries....
I'm sad that this show only had 4 seasons, and while I'm glad it got closure with the follow-up mini series, The Peacekeeper Wars, I do hope that they will make either a feature film, or somehow, someway, get funding for season 5. It's been almost 2 years since it went off air, I think, but you never know, sometimes miracles do happen. Although it's getting harder and harder to believe it will, since Ben Browder and Claudia Black are now working on Stargate Sg1 (another show I love, but it's not the same.)
Buy this series, if you have any love for sci-fi, you won't be disappointed. Yes, the boxsets are expensive compared to other shows, but you know what? After seeing season 1, and hoping that by supporting Farscape with my wallet so that somehow Farscape comes back in some form or another, I would gladly pay the price ADV is asking.
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Summary: At last, a Farscape Season Boxed Set!
Review: Well, well, it has taken over a year for ADV to finally realize that it needs to release a season of Farscape all at once in a boxed set. Instead of 11 cases of 1 disc each with 2 episodes per disc, this boxed set will have 6 cases with 2 discs each with again 2 episodes per disc. I'm guessing the 6th case will have a additional disc loaded with extras. But don't hold me on that until the specs are released. Now I'm calculating that this box set with ... displayed price it comes out to be that the price per episode will between 40 and 53% cheaper than if you were to buy them separately. Not bad really. That is the very reason why I refused to buy the 2-episode discs. Insane marketing ploy. Anyway, with this set and the apparent new way they're marketing Season 2, I think I may join the Farscape Fanbase. Now with the Farscape premise. Farscape is the story of an Earth space explorer who gets transported through a wormhole into an alien interstellar war. He encounters and docks with a living spaceship called Moya who is carrying a band of escaped outcasts. They join forces and experience a myriad of stellar space adventures against the evil forces of the alien system. I haven't watched Farscape since the start of the series and I lost the time for it and interest about it. But now with the advent of these series making it onto DVD, now's the time to jump back in. Come join Chriton and Moya in a hellava ride.
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Summary: An amazing show.
Review: When Farscape first came on the air, I remember catching a few episodes. It seemed highly entertaining, and the Henson involvement only added to it. I would catch an episode here or there. But then I got Season I for Christmas. It's an amazingly well done show, highly captivating. And the season ending cliff hanger was awesome. I can't wait until I can get season 2!
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Summary: Brilliant since the beginning
Review: When Farscape premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1999, there was something about it that set it apart from other original shows that aired on the cable channel: it was good. Working from conventions associated with Star Trek and Babylon 5, Farscape took leaps and steps beyond the grain by having vast production sets, amazing and imaginitive make up and effects, and superb writing. As the series begins, we are introduced to astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), whose experiment in wormhole technology sling shots him to the other side of the universe where he finds himself in the middle of an interstellar prison break. Now, John is a passenger on board a living ship called Moya, and he finds himself allied with the convict alien beings on board including the warrior Dargo (Anthony Simcoe), a blue skinned priestess named Zhaan (Virginia Hey), and an exiled diminutive king named Rygel who is brought to life via Jim Henson's Creature Shop. John is also the target of the Peacekeepers, a group of intergalactic, fascist cops who are similar to humans, and renegade Peacekeeper Aeryn (Claudia Black) is also a passenger on board Moya, as John finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Later on in the season, we are introduced to who would become Crichton's arch nemesis, the nefarious Scorpious (Wayne Pygram) who will do anything to get the wormhole technology that a whole war will develop over. This is just skimming the surface of the series however, as there is much more to be had as revelations are abound, and the season finale will have you salivating for more. All in all, the first season of Farscape marked the way sci-fi TV should be: intelligent, amusing, cerebral, and full of brilliant ideas.
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Summary: FARSCAPE ROCKS!!!
Review: Why is it on a very rare occasion we are able to catch a series that doesn't completely suck, and just when you get used to television that isn't mind-numbingly dumb they take it away from you? Ahh, another disappointment. Farscape Rocks and this DVD rocks along with all their other DVD's. It's a shame the SciFi channel has sold out and replaced Farscape with crap like Scare Tactics. It's tragic. I love Farscape!
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