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Farscape Season 4: Pervscape! (SPOILERS)

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Tryphena Absent

14:14 / 25.02.03

Did anyone video yesterday's episode? I completey forgot to watch it and I'm kicking myself because I've been following this season so closely. What makes it worse - I sat through an episode of Hollyoaks instead.

18:11 / 25.02.03

So, tonight's episode! Fun, fun fun! And we saw it before the US.

Here be Spoilers:

So, Stark interrogating Scorpius in a phlem-heavy revenge stylee. No idea how he got to be there, but it doesn't really matter. Did he hide when John and Aeryn came in? Does he know they are there?

Scorpius a spy! Neat-o. That guy plays everyone.

Sikozu a "Bi-roid", was it? What the hell is that about?

The coolest-looking Skaaran so far, their Emperor! (Is that how you spell it?)

John and Aeryn shaggin' in the Skaaran garden. Fun!

John's "...because I...Am An American!" speech was great. He really is mental.

Surprised Rygel managed to control himself around the Charads. He stabbed the last one he met to death.

And, uh, yeah, a general air of grooviness. Only two episodes left!
*sniff*

Regrettable Juvenilia

06:52 / 26.02.03

Stark still doesn't make any sense to me, in fact he makes less sense than he ever did. I know he used to be a 'goodie' but was pushed over the edge somewhat in season 3, and presumably his hatred of Scorpius is so great that he's willing to work with the Skarrans, but hadn't expected Moya's crew to show up. We have had foreshadowing that he might be back, and as a threat, in that episode with the virtual reality style game John and Pip got stuck in, where a malevolent version of Stark was God.

Scorpius a Skarran spy "for the last 10 cycles" - what the fuck? I can't believe he's actually working for the Emperor, his hatred for the lizzzzzzard people has always been the point of his character, so unless they're retconning him completely then I reckon he's been feeding disinfo etc to them. But what's his plan now? His last line to John this episode: "If you trust me enough to live, you may yet learn the truth." If we don't learn the 'truth' in the next two eps I will have to scream...

He got the best line again: "I've waited my entire life for a female like you!"

Can someone tell me what happened to the 'Chianna has weird see-the-future powers but they're sending her blind' sub-plot? When did she get this fixed?

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:11 / 26.02.03

Gaaaaah! I forgot it was on yesterday. My lfie sucks. What happened?

Morlock - groupie for hire

12:39 / 26.02.03

Quick recap of last ep. for Tann. So SPOILERS then.

Aerynn rescued, Scorpius captured. Harvey V2.0 claims he has been feeding him wormhole knowledge, so he has to be rescued. Chrighton builds a mini nuke which he links to his vital signs before the whole crew wander into Katratzi. In essence, if anything nasty happens to him it goes boom. Grazer (sp?) is already there, and Chrighton offers all his wormhole tech in exchange for any offer which would get all the bad guys off his back.
While they are negotiating, the Skarrans are torturing Scorpius for his knowledge, without much success. Even Stark has a go. Before he can get anywhere, the crew manage to stir up a riot between the mercenary type Charads (?) and the mostly administrative species Sikozu belongs to. In the confusion, they try to sneak everyone (including Scorpy) off the planet, but at the last moment Scorpius knocks out Aerynn and wrestles Chrighton to the ground. While the nuke's sensor package starts going mental Scorpius mutters the line Flyboy mentions about trusting him.

Throw in the revelation that the Skarrans believe Scorpius is working for them, and that Sikozu is a Bio-roid (android/cyborg, liket he one Aerynn was replaced with briefly a couple of episodes ago) and the usual fistful of gags and references, and you've got the essence of it.

God only knows how they're going to resolve the cliffhanger and still set things up for the end of season episode. Or is this gonna be a four-parter or something?

Morlock - groupie for hire

12:58 / 26.02.03

Oh, and the thing with Stark's character is that every time he helps someone die he shares their emotions, which is why he was never entirely stable. Not that the Aurora chair helped any, of course.

Then when Aerynn died at the end of season 2, Zhaan brought her back but caused her own death in the process, sending Stark even further round the bend. He left to look for a way to resurrect Zhaan as well, and we haven't really seen him since. Since it was the Scorpius clone that killed Aerynn, Stark's hatred is not entirely surprising.

I don't think Chianna's precog has been dealt with. The blindness only sets in when she uses the ability, so she's got time.

Obsessive, moi?

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:42 / 26.02.03

But Chianna didn't always seem able to control the process during the first half of this season, did she? Confused now.

As far as tying up the plot goes: it's my understanding that this series was originally intended to end on a cliffhanger, as a fifth season was promised. The show was cancelled at very short notice and I have no idea whether the scripts have been rewritten to take into account the fact that this might be *the end*. The Skarrans/Peacekeeper plot is clearly coming to some kind of head, but let's not forget we've still got the "how did Scorpius get out of that grave and rescue Aeryn?" and "why won't Aeryn tell anyone about why she became an assasin?" stories to be told.

Just like to say how good the character interaction has been this show - I particularly like the gentle flirting between D'Argo and Chianna (with the suggestion that they may get back together but could easily stay good friends who used to be lovers); Rygel managing to not annoy me anymore (he's a wily little fucker, innee); D'Argo and John's comradely relationship - actually D'Argo in general, he's just a bad-ass. And best of all this episode, the way that Aeryn seems to have full confidence in the necessity of John's plan, and even relishes the madness of it all - "He's insane!" "Isn't it fun?"

Tryphena Absent

16:16 / 26.02.03

Warewullf - the 'I am an American (and I want to be paid)' speech was fantastic! I came close to tears of laughter, I might have to buy the DVD for that one moment. Oh and D'argo's 'shall we try it a third time' and punching the guard in the face. I'm really going to miss this show.

07:56 / 27.02.03

Flyboy, you're right about the end of the season in that the show was cancelled at very short notice having been written as a cliffhanger.
Basically, the network promised 2 more seasons at the end of the third and so they started writing the show on the understanding that they had 2 years to play with.
2 days before they completed filming on the final episode of season 4 the call came cancelling the show and that was that. No time to change anything, the last episode finishes with a cliffhanger, the whole thing's frelled. How much they could have changed in 2 days they had I've no idea but I suspect not much at all from my understanding of how television is made.
There was some talk of Sci-Fi funding a one-off 2hour episode to wrap things up but that was rejected by the writers as unfeasible and now there are hints at a feature film (which surely will not wrap things up in a satisfactory manner) and an animated series (which might). Failing all that, there will probably be comics and novels a-plenty, all of which might finish the story and as a last resort, David Kemper (chief writer/exec producer) has said he'll write the story and post it on the net if need be!
One way or another, although it might take some time, we should get to see how it ends.
Still gutted it's all about to be over though....

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:07 / 27.02.03

You know, I keep telling people that a comic would be the best way to continue Farscape, because the number of people who would pick it up may not be big numbers in TV terms, but must be in comics-buying terms. Sadly the people I keep telling this to are geeks down the pub, not willing comics company executives. Doubt they'd let me write it, either...

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:57 / 04.03.03

As Keanu would say: woah.

Either I was completely wrong again, or this episode sets Scorpius up as being not so bad and he'll be the cause of next week's cliffhanger and the set-up for season 5...

Highlights:

"I've been in your hands. There's no peace there - only power."

(This coupled and contrasting with Cryton's admission of what Greza did to him a moment later and confronting her with the blunt ugly truth of it - "Raped.")

Pip and D'Argo! So lovely.

Sikozu and Scorpy - also oddly sweet.

Rygel's answer when Granny asks him who Stark is: "Another lunatic with the wrong number of eyes."

And John's guilt at the end - yeah, he's killed a *lot* of people now. Does it make it okay that many of them were lizzzards? Moral quagmire. Irony: Scorpius once tried to literally make John into his image, and now we see how similar they've become in some ways - doing whatever's necessary for the "greater good", no matter how much manipulation and death is involved...

It occurs to me that if this had been the last episode of the series, things would have been tied up reasonably well, with only a few threads left dangling. Will be interested to see the next one, to say the least.

17:44 / 10.03.03

So it's over.

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The Skaraan Emporer and big hat Skarran-Security lady survived the nuke.

John kicks Scorpius and Sikozu off Moya and straps a bomb labled "Dear John" to Scorpy's chest.

Scorpius, Sikozu and Braca share a slashalicious moment.

Poor Pilot gets severed from Moya, but re-attatched without much incident.

Chiana goes blind, permanently. Nice to see they remembered sub-plot.

John and Pilot close the wormhole to Earth after an oddly touching goodbye phonecall to his Dad from Earth's moon.

Cool ships-phazing-through-each-other moment.

Aeryn's pregnant with John's child!

John proposes!

Aeryn says yes!

And finally, John and Aeryn are seemingly killed by cool head-splitting alien and D'argo screams in anguish.

Wow. Good ending. Although the alien's boss (on the radio) said something about neutralising the targets for examination, so I'm not sure how believable their deaths are supposed to seem. Although, the crew on Moya didn't hear that so they must think they're dead.

And the real kick in the teeth? At the very end it said:

"To Be Continued."

*sniff*

I miss it already...

19:03 / 10.03.03

*sniff*

I miss it already...

Me too.

Morlock - groupie for hire

12:02 / 11.03.03

More...need more...

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