Farscape http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:32:18 -0500 10 The Old Farscape Thread http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=2902743
One thing I've always wondered, though - how exactly is it that their bodies accept the translator microbes without any hassles?


Well, we know that some species can't tollerate them, although the only one we've seen is Sikozu and the Kalish...


I only recall Sikozu saying *her* body could not accept the translator microbes, and don't remember anything about other Kalish not being able to accept them. Perhaps Sikozu's inability had to do with the genetic enhancements she'd received.]]> Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:23:27 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=2902743 <![CDATA[Newbie Impressions: Share The Wonders We've Seen]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136910 New to the series? And you really want to talk about it without being spoiled? Well then, welcome to the insanity, and post away! Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:31:40 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136910 Meet Market: The Center Chamber http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136767 Talky! (sorry for the lame thread title, I know nothing of this show you call Farscape) Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:03:28 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136767 Farscape in the Media: The Infamous Crichton Gang http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3142206
By necessity, a shoutout in the Chicago Tribune (thanks MissMo).

By choice, thanks from me to all the writers and columnists and media folk who ever said something about Farscape and it's crazy fans. It meant a lot and helped keep us going.]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:12:06 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3142206 Merchandise: The Commerce Planet http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136928
I've been a little disappointed with the lack of extra commentary on the most recent Starburst volumes. 2.3, I believe, didn't have any commentary tracks at all. 3.1 and 3.2, IIRC, didn't have any that previous box sets lacked. I mean, I appreciate the hell out of the Starburst discs, but it'd be nice for them to pack on a few more extras.

There are never enough Ben/Claudia commentaries, either. I'd love for them to do the whole series.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:27:54 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136928 <![CDATA[Season Four: Season of Crichton's Ass (S4 Spoilers)]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136958 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:25:23 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136958 Castmembers in Other Roles: Uncharted Territories http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136853 Stargate SG1.

I just have to say, I vehemently disagree with the people who are saying that Ben Browder is playing the same character on Stargate SG1 as he did on Farscape. About all they have in common is the fact that both are pilots (and for Crichton, piloting was secondary to other skills) and have contact with aliens.

Cameron Mitchell is first and foremost a soldier, and is actually a pretty laid back guy. In fact, he's sometimes almost too laidback, as he's not always interesting to me. John Crichton? Scientist first and foremost, and a big, giant SPAZZ and occaisional drama queen. I don't know. Maybe the differences are too 'subtle' for anyone to see. (snork)

I've heard that "the reason people say that is because Ben Browder will always be Ben Browder. That there's so much of him in his parts that it's easy for people to see them as the same. The character details that make them quite different are background noise when compared to the presentation of "IT'S BEN BROWDER!" that he puts forward. (quote from pseudopagan at LJ)

I disagree.

I do think the IBB!F (It's Ben Browder! Factor) may have influenced early estimations of the character, but after a time I was able to settle into accepting him as Mitchell. But as such, I immediately was established with the understanding that Cam isn't John and John isn't Cam, purely from the nuances of performance, especially in terms of line delivery.

The dynamic of how he works with Claudia in the context of scenes on Stargate fascinates me as well. Their connection is to intense and immediate even when they have her character paired off with Daniel. They have one particular exchange in 'Crusade' where for a minute the intensity (though NOT the characterization) of John and Aeryn was in the moment for me.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:58:05 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136853 Farscape and Other Sci-Fi: I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash, or Arthur frelling Dent http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3137894
I was prompted to do so because it just occurred to me last night that John Crichton is Buck Rogers! I'm sure this isn't a revelation to most of you smart folks, but I had a "duh!" moment. Farscape is Buck Rogers in the 25th Century on acid! :-D

The revelation was prompted by viewing some of the cheese-tastic Gil Gerard Buck Rogers. Mr F has been watching the DVDs; he has a nostalgic fondness for the show, and he was telling me last night that he was surprised, upon watching it now as an adult, at how progressive some of its themes were, particularly with Wilma Deering, who's a colonel and a competent, kick-ass woman. (In the first season, at any rate. Apparently the show completely changes for the worse in the second season.)

It was the opening narration that really made me sit up and take notice of the similarities:
In the year 1987, at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA launched the last of America's deep space probes. The payload, perched on the nose cone of the massive rocket, was a one-man exploration vessel - Ranger 3. Aboard this compact starship, a lone astronaut - Captain William "Buck" Rogers - was to experience cosmic forces beyond all comprehension. An awesome brush with death: in the blink of an eye, his life support systems were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ranger 3 was blown out of its planned trajectory into an orbit a thousand times more vast, an orbit which was to return the ship full circle to his point of origin - its mother Earth - not in 5 months, but in 500 years.

Not all the details are the same, of course, but it had never struck me before how similar John Crichton's early story is to Buck Rogers'. While flying a one-man vessel for scientific purposes, an astronomical event blasts them into a strange new world: the future, for Buck, and another part of the universe, for Crichton. In their new circumstances, they make pop-culture references that no one understands; they use their unique knowledge to help their ostensibly more-advanced colleagues; they encounter a strong woman with whom they have a sorta, kinda, not really romatic relationship (at first, anyway).

I'm quite sure that the Farscape team were aware of the similarities. I'm just dumb sometimes, so I never picked up on it until now, and I get a kick out of it.]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:21:47 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3137894 Season Three: Season of Death (S3 Spoilers) http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136957 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:22:32 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136957 Farscape Episode Elimination Game http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3140861
It's pretty simple; vote your 4 (as of Round 69) least favourite episodes, and after both 24 hours have passed and at least 5 people have voted, the round will end, I'll tally up the votes, the episode with the most will be eliminated (with tiebreaker rounds as needed), and a new round will begin. This will carry on (with changes to the number of votes as we get down to fewer episodes) until only one remains.

I'll post a list of all episodes here and edit to debold eliminated episodes to make it easy to keep track of what's been eliminated.

Season 1:

Premiere - Eliminated in Round 66
I, E.T. - Eliminated in Round 9
Exodus From Genesis - Eliminated in Round 28
Throne For A Loss - Eliminated in Round 36
Thank God It's Friday, Again - Eliminated in Round 15
Back And Back And Back To The Future - Eliminated in Round 12
PK Tech Girl - Eliminated in Round 55
That Old Black Magic - Eliminated in Round 16
DNA Mad Scientist - Eliminated in Round 53
They've Got A Secret - Eliminated in Round 11
Til The Blood Runs Clear - Eliminated in Round 34
Rhapsody In Blue - Eliminated in Round 18
The Flax - Eliminated in Round 43
Jeremiah Crichton - Eliminated in Round 8
Durka Returns - Eliminated in Round 49
A Human Reaction - Eliminated in Round 86
Through The Looking Glass - Eliminated in Round 58
A Bug's Life - Eliminated in Round 61
Nerve - Eliminated in Round 85
The Hidden Memory - Eliminated in Round 74
Bone To Be Wild - Eliminated in Round 19
Family Ties - Eliminated in Round 82

Season 2:

Mind The Baby - Eliminated in Round 62
Vitas Mortis - Eliminated in Round 4
Taking The Stone - Eliminated in Round 1
Crackers Don't Matter - Eliminated in Round 80
The Way We Weren't - Eliminated in Round 83
Picture If You Will - Eliminated in Round 6
Home On The Remains - Eliminated in Round 14
Dream A Little Dream - Eliminated in Round 5
Out Of Their Minds - Eliminated in Round 87
My Three Crichtons - Eliminated in Round 20
A Look At The Princess Part 1: A Kiss Is But A Kiss - Eliminated in Round 47
A Look At The Princess Part 2: I Do, I Think - Eliminated in Round 59
A Look At The Princess Part 3: The Maltese Crichton - Eliminated in Round 51
Beware Of Dog - Eliminated in Round 22
Won't Get Fooled Again - Eliminated in Round 75
The Locket - Eliminated in Round 32
The Ugly Truth - Eliminated in Round 10
A Clockwork Nebari - Eliminated in Round 46
Liars, Guns And Money Part 1: A Not So Simple Plan - Eliminated in Round 70
Liars, Guns And Money Part 2: With Friends Like These... - Eliminated in Round 54
Liars, Guns And Money Part 3: Plan B - Eliminated in Round 79
Die Me, Dichotomy - WINNER!

Season 3:

Season Of Death - Eliminated in Round 69
Suns And Lovers - Eliminated in Round 30
Self Inflicted Wounds Part 1: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a - Eliminated in Round 21
Self Inflicted Wounds Part 2: Wait For The Wheel - Eliminated in Round 24
...Different Destinations - Eliminated in Round 57
Eat Me - Eliminated in Round 23
Thanks For Sharing - Eliminated in Round 35
Green Eyed Monster - Eliminated in Round 44
Losing Time - Eliminated in Round 13
Relativity - Eliminated in Round 56
Incubator - Eliminated in Round 17
Meltdown - Eliminated in Round 26
Scratch 'N' Sniff - Eliminated in Round 65
Infinite Possibilities Part 1: Daedalus Demands - Eliminated in Round 67
Infinite Possibilities Part 2: Icarus Abides - Eliminated in Round 76
Revenging Angel - Eliminated in Round 50
The Choice - Eliminated in Round 42
Fractures - Eliminated in Round 27
I-Yensch, You-Yensch - Eliminated in Round 38
Into The Lion's Den Part 1: Lambs To The Slaughter - Eliminated in Round 71
Into The Lion's Den Part 2: Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - Eliminated in Round 84
Dog With Two Bones - Eliminated in Round 68

Season 4:

Crichton Kicks - Eliminated in Round 37
What Was Lost Part 1: Sacrifice - Eliminated in Round 31
What Was Lost Part 2: Resurrection - Eliminated in Round 40
Lava's A Many Splendoured Thing - Eliminated on Round 33
Promises - Eliminated in Round 25
Natural Election - Eliminated in Round 39
John Quixote - Eliminated in Round 72
I Shrink, Therefore I Am - Eliminated in Round 41
A Prefect Murder - Eliminated in Round 7
Coup By Clam - Eliminated in Round 3
Unrealized Realities - Eliminated in Round 60
Kansas - Eliminated in Round 63
Terra Firma - Eliminated in Round 64
Twice Shy - Eliminated in Round 29
Mental As Anything - Eliminated in Round 2
Bringing Home The Beacon - Eliminated in Round 48
A Constellation Of Doubt - Eliminated in Round 45
Prayer - Eliminated in Round 52
We're So Screwed Part 1: Fetal Attraction - Eliminated in Round 73
We're So Screwed Part 2: Hot To Katratzi - Eliminated in Round 77
We're So Screwed Part 3: La Bomba - Eliminated in Round 78
Bad Timing - Eliminated in Round 81

My votes:

They've Got A Secret
Jeremiah Crichton
Vitas Mortis
Taking The Stone
Picture If You Will
Meltdown
Coup By Clam
Mental As Anything]]> Thu, 18 May 2006 13:31:18 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3140861