TL;DR – This is a show that is bold, funny, weird, and heartwarming, one of the best Science Fiction shows I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
Review –
Last year I had some time and sat down to write about my love for Star
Trek Deep Space Nine and the impact it had on my like and joy of film/TV.
Since then I have been looking for the next subject to write about and it never
quite worked out. However, with the announcement that Farscape is about to drop on Amazon and a whole new generation of
people will be able to understand what frell
means, well sometimes life lines it up
for you. With this in mind, today we will be exploring what makes Farscape so special
for me, and why you should check it out.
So to set the scene, John Crichton (Ben Browder) is an astronaut from Earth,
from a family of astronauts. He is testing a new slingshot engine on Farscape-1
hoping to use the Earth’s gravity to send astronauts across the Solar System.
Only on this test flight he accidentally stumbles across a wormhole that flings
him across the galaxy and into the middle of a war. On board the prison transport Moya, the prisoners Ka D’Argo (Anthony
Simcoe), Pa-u Zotoh Zhaan (Virginia Hey),
and Dominar Rygel XVI (Jonathan Hardy) have escaped and are trying to remove
its control collar. While captain Bialar Crais (Lani Tupu) is sending Prowler
fighter crafts to take the ship back before it could escape. The prisoners
detect John’s unusual ship and bring it on board not before John accidentally
crashed into one of the pursuing Prowlers sending it crashing into an asteroid
(it may have had Crais’ brother on-board). Everyone was able to get the control
collar off with thanks to Moya’s pilot Pilot (Lani Tupu) and she starbursts
away, dragging one the Prowlers with then containing Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black)
a Sebacean that looks very human. Aeryn is declared contaminated and has to go
on the run with the rest as they flee pursuit by an insane military commander while doing everything to find a way
home.
