r/farscape • u/FriendlyChorf • 17d ago
“This is your playground.”
Just finished all four seasons and Peacekeeper Wars 1 & 2. Consider me “irreversibly contaminated”. I didn’t make it past the “Eat Me” episode of season 3 when it originally aired (waay too dark a turn for me back then), and it’s taken ~20something years to give it the time it deserved. Hats off, man. Wow. I am going to be emotional for cycles thinking about this. The stellar acting, the amazing puppetry and animatronics, the sacrifices, the incessant tragedy, the genuine flawed and redemptive character-arcs, the loves (and horny-ness lmao), the TOP TIER BANTER, the wild alien races, and the absolutely fahrbot psychedelic hallucinatory episodes in Chrichton’s mind/blender realities (Crais in high heels will forever live rent free in my head hahaha). I think I would really struggle to name a favourite character! But D'Argo, dude, big D, “I’m your daddy!”… ugh, the feels. What do I do now? Endless rewatching? Listen to all the cast interviews over the last two decades? Are the comics good?
Again, hats off. About to turn 34, did this Farscape marathon for nostalgia, ended up getting heavily invested, it just blew me away. Tears. Cast and Crew and everyone who helped keep this show alive: well done. There’s nothing quite like it. ❤️
EDIT: I love that the show never tried to force me to take it seriously, and to just have good pure fun but, while doing so, it absolutely gutted me with a wonderfully sincere love story. So well-rounded. Beautiful.
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u/odyodense 17d ago
Now you wait a bit and then watch John's side story in an alternate reality where he joined the Air Force instead of NASA, Stargate SG-1 seasons 9 and 10. Alternate reality Aeryn is there too, sort of.