Farscape

[madrigalis]

MrM and I have been watching Farscape on dvd tonight, with Leela curled up next to us. I can't quite decide whether I like Farscape or not. I want to like it, and it often feels as though it's just about to be really good, but something about it just seems off - I'm not sure if it's the writing or the direction or the perfromances, but scenes

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[ti_met]

Which season are you watching?

The best seasons are the 2nd and 3rd. They where basically finding their feet in the first. I haven't seen much of the fourth to comment fully on it. What I found best about Farscape is the multi-episode stories in the second season. Farscape at it's best is a treasure.

[madrigalis]

We're watching season 1, and it's still pretty episodic, although there is a bit of a story arc starting to happen. I remember catching occasional episodes from later seasons when it was on tv some years ago, and thinking they were great, so I'm hopeful that if we just slog through season 1, things will start to pick up.

[clare_a_belle]

Tim and I have also been watching Farscape. Tim has already seen a quite a few episodes and I am seeing most of them for the first time. We are just up to the start of season three. When answering the question ‘do I like Farscape’ for myself, I think I started enjoying the episodes more when I realised I did not have to ‘like’ or trust characters to appreciate the drama and the comedy; while I often feel very sorry for Moya putting up with all the moments of others' self interests, I think it is characters’ flaws and dubious/complex relationships with morality that are on of the show’s points of interests. The dialogue does not flow as well as other Si Fi I enjoy. However, the show also includes regular reminders that all its characters’ are from different worlds and do speak very different languages. I wonder if the writers were trying to reflect something about the nature of day-to-day cross-cultural communication and that it may not always be as easy as the Start Trek universal translator trope may suggest.