[SPOILERS] Farscape "We are So Screwed - Part 3: La Bomba [03-14-03]

[John Crichton]

BOOM!

Man, what a great ep. Lots of Crichton, lots of Scorpy with a healthy helping of Aeryn, Sizoku & D'argo. Mmm, mmm.

The Good

• Braka grows a pair.
• Graza looses it.
• Scorpy looses it.
• Noranti's aim.

The Better

• Stark's real deal.
• Scorpy's deal.
• Sikoku's real story.

The Best

• John's "vote."
• Harvey's lie.
• John's meltdown and reaction to what he has done.

We all saw the end of this ep coming. Something was gonna get blowed-up real good. And it was quite entertaining as usual. While this wrapped up a few storylines dating back as far as season one I can't help but feel that this was a set-up episdoe (read: trilogy) for John's final and true test. One that we will never witness.

Please skip this last section if you want to avoid my small Farscape rant...

One more to go, I'm very sad to say.

My love and appriciation for this show is disturbing. Knowing that it will end unresolved troubles me more than I'd like to admit. Things on TV rarely get this type of reaction from me unless it is something that is a world changing event. This simply feels like a great injustice at this point. *sigh*

 

[jdavis]

The last ones have turned out to be the best ones. Aeryn saying that it was the female Scarran's hat that made her scary cracked me up. I am almost scared of the last episode, there is no way they can wrap up even a portion of what is going on. One of the better episodes ever.

I could of even accepted the canncelation of the show if they would of just let them know in time to do a actual last episode. The whole situation stinks, and this will be left hanging forever.

 

[Wolv0rine]

*Nods* It was a great ep.

I actually missed last week (they give us 10 episodes, and I missed one, great...), and misseds the very beginning of this one too. My lady comes in like 10 minutes or so into it, and all I can say is "They've all been captured by Scarrens, and John's got a bomb".

The hat, the vote, john's renegotiation with Scorpy, it was all fabulous. This is the best-written show on television, and it's onlky getting better, and there's only 1 more, and I'm right there with you JC buddy on the rant. Of all the sci-fi in space heroes (Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, etc), John Crichton has always (since he got his 'space legs') had the greatest ideas, the coolest reactions... and I will bravely go out on a limb and say that since like season 2 he's had the mostly stunningly wicked-cool outfits ever. All of his peacekeeper outfits have looked incredible on him, and the all-black + blk trench was just... I want these outfits.

But I want Farscape to continue beyond next week much more.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Henson Co. are working on a number of options, including an animated series, movies and producing more episodes. However, it will be 2 years before SciFi will likely release the episodes into syndication. The actors playing Chiana, D'Argo and Scopry have all gone on to other commitments in the means time. (Sigh).

Stupid office politics are ScFi.

 

[Wolv0rine]

<Nods> I'm glad they have work, they're good professionals, but it so sucks.

And I still have no idea what D'argo loks like under the makeup. hehe

Animation...animation wouldn't work (especially since the odds of getting all the right actors on-board, especially to do voice-over work in favor of normal work, never happen ya'know?). I mean, all the physical emoting would be cut (because animation these days is just that bad), nothing is awe-inspiring or impressive in animation, just a picture afterall.

I do hope, though, on the assumption that Farspace's not coming back, that Ben Browder gets a really good gig with a piece like Farscape on his resume. One way or the other, I'd like to keep seeing him, he does great work.

 

[John Crichton]

Animation...animation wouldn't work (especially since the odds of getting all the right actors on-board, especially to do voice-over work in favor of normal work, never happen ya'know?). I mean, all the physical emoting would be cut (because animation these days is just that bad), nothing is awe-inspiring or impressive in animation, just a picture afterall.

I have to disagree. There are plenty of very talented animators out there and there have been massive advances in both computer generated and hand drawn animation. If you don't like them, so be it, everyone is entitled to an opinion.

That said, I would take an animated Farscape over nothing. The voice-over works takes a small fraction of the time that live-action does. I'm not saying it's my number-one choice, but I would take it over nothing. I would much rather see the last season, a mini-series or a few Farscape feature films.

Besides, they already did an animated episode and it was very entertaining.

But either way, I hope the producers find a way to give their story finality and maybe even a bit more...

 

[jdavis]

<Nods>

Animation...animation wouldn't work (especially since the odds of getting all the right actors on-board, especially to do voice-over work in favor of normal work, never happen ya'know?). I mean, all the physical emoting would be cut (because animation these days is just that bad), nothing is awe-inspiring or impressive in animation, just a picture afterall.

Depends on who they get to do it and how it's done. The Japanese animate shows very simular on a daily basis and do it well. The probelm in America is that animation =cartoons = children. Animation could do Farscape very very well or it could be crap but the state of the art of animation is to the point where they could do wonders with it if they chose to, it's in the interpretation where there may be problems. Also voice acting would not take up near as much of the actors time and they wouldn't all actually have to get together in one place they could do their work at studio's where they were and send it to be edited all together. Most voice acting on movies doesn't even have the voice actors showing up at the same time, more-less recording at the same time.

 

[Wolv0rine]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I dislike animation (although I am saying I dislike it for this sort of usage). Anime has it's place, and it can be very advanced, but no animation anywhere's going to give you the kind of performance that live action will. Computer Animation is vaguely a different topic, it'd be better (it is amazing what they can do), but it'd still be animation, which has inherent shortcomings that live action does not (some of live action's shortcomings having already been mentioned). One of the two biggest, in my estimation, are;
1) Emoting. Even if it's computer animation, and even if it's the very best (which is silly, if they had that kind of money they wouldn't have to worry about animation), you're still dealing with an artform trying to replicate what live-action does naturally. It's pretty rare that you can actually read the full range of human emotion of the face of an animated cartoon. I have a respect for the artform (when well done, which really does seem to be about as common as baby smurfs, IMHO, and I have 3 kids, all of whom like Cartoon Network, at all hours of the day and night). Outside of feature film budget Comp. Animation, I really don't feel that american animation gives much effort anymore -- and I would sooner scoop out my eyes with a spoon than watch John Crichton jaunt around the universe with big, bright blue spiky hair. (semi-joke, hehe)

2) Wonder. Maybe y'all don't feel the same way, but as a cartoon the show would (for me, at least) go from a spectacular array of cgi and make-up wizardry, dazzling acting, and terrific writing to just another cartoon. For example, I love Crichton's wardrobe. I'd prace around in those outfits any day of the week. But as animation, that aspect of the show's as dead as it will be in 2 weeks.

I think it's a matter of not being prepared to want a lower-quality Farscape for the sake of having a Farscape at all.

 

[Hand of Evil]

What a wonderful show!

We have watched John grow from day one, change, becoming more than he ever was before, facing the great unknown and winning but each win scarring him.

First they gave us Criss, which John became, then they gave us Stark, which John became, then they gave us Scop, which John became. John sees what he has become and realizes that he has to live with himself. I always wondered why they brought in these people and then had them become grey/good, they used them to show the travel that John was on.

Fantastic TV!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The last 2 (3?) seasons did not air yet in Germany, but I hope they will do...

I am unhappy like everyone here that FarScape ended before the storyline could be finished, and I hope they will find a way to wrap it up somehow, be it via a movie, a animated series or even novels. Anyway, this probably wìll not feel like the "real end" if it is not made with the original cast (like it would be in a animated series or a novel) - without the actors acting their roles, it will be only half the fun...
Anyway, it is still better than it would be now...

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