Farscape - The Complete First Season
by Andrew Prowse, Brendan Maher, Brian Henson, Geoff Bennett, Ian Watson
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Actor: Anthony Simcoe, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Gigi Edgley, Virginia HeyDirector: Andrew Prowse, Brendan Maher, Brian Henson, Geoff Bennett, Ian Watson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Section 23
Movie Reviews of Farscape - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: words cannot express my love for farscape....
Summary: 5 Stars
Too much to say, and sadly, not matter how flowery or refined my words will try to be, they will never do justice to the greatness of this show.
I'm a recent addition to the 'Scapers' movement, meaning that unfortunately, while the series was on Sci-fi, I was unable to watch it. Mostly because I was away in College, and their cable package did not include the Sci-fi channel. I always did hear good things about it, but I never got to see this beautifully done series.
I'm a lover of Sci-fi in general, and after having purchased the Babylon 5 series, I started looking around for other great Sci-fi series to buy. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I saw that Farscape was now available as box sets- I was jumping up and down in glee, when I realized I could watch the entire run of the series-another reason to love DVDS.
Needless to say, I bought the entire Farscape run in one swoop (It was probably the best half grand that I've ever spent). I also got the Peacekeeper wars.
The moment the first episode began to play, I was sucked immediately into the world of Farscape, I knew then, that I would never regret buying this series. The quality of it was just so amazing, considering that it was a TV show. The characters were interesting and fluid, Rygel was just so freaking funny, I always forgot he was a puppet- the Henson company did a tremendous job on animating him and giving him a personality and character of his own.
And then, there was Claudia Black. She captivates me like no other female character in Sci-fi has ever done. Her eyes, her mannerisms, and the way she acts, Aeryn Sun is the archetype of the sci-fi female heroine.
I'm also, for the most part, a hopeless romantic, so the instant chemistry you see between Aeryn and John told me that this was going to be a Sci-fi romance for the ages. They way the two actors play off each other makes you get involved in their struggle to understand each other, and their own initial denial to what they are both feeling is just so enticing. The fact that Aeryn is a Sebacean, an alien who looks a lot like a human, makes their interaction all the more interesting. She's a genetically bred warrior, a PeaceKeeper, who has been raised in a society where she only knows how to fight but not feel. It must have been exasperating to John, trying to figure her out- no more so, when in one episode he asks her, "what about compassion?" It's not a surprise that there is no Sebacean word for compassion, as Aeryn tells him, and that she's never felt the feeling he's trying to describe.
So far, I've only completed season 1, but already I'm seeing how John's humanity is starting to affect Aeryn, and how maybe, they'll find that they aren't so different after all, and that love can cross all boundaries....
I'm sad that this show only had 4 seasons, and while I'm glad it got closure with the follow-up mini series, The Peacekeeper Wars, I do hope that they will make either a feature film, or somehow, someway, get funding for season 5. It's been almost 2 years since it went off air, I think, but you never know, sometimes miracles do happen. Although it's getting harder and harder to believe it will, since Ben Browder and Claudia Black are now working on Stargate Sg1 (another show I love, but it's not the same.)
Buy this series, if you have any love for sci-fi, you won't be disappointed. Yes, the boxsets are expensive compared to other shows, but you know what? After seeing season 1, and hoping that by supporting Farscape with my wallet so that somehow Farscape comes back in some form or another, I would gladly pay the price ADV is asking.
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