Farscape Week: Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

Hey there readers that cannot find something better to look at.  How do.   It is Day 5 of Farscape Week and well I am afraid I am out of seasons to review.  See the pudding heads at Sci-Fi Channel felt there were just not enough Nielsen ratings for Season 3 to warrant a Season 4.  After a massive e-mail and boards campaign Season 4 was created…but again Sci-fi had its doubts on a Season 5. Yup not a scrap left.  However…I do happen to have a mini-series that would be considered the finale of the Farscape universe.   So sharpen your Qualta Blade, charge your pulse pistols and take up defensive positions.   This is Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.

Give on to me some sugar, my dear.

The spoiler to victory, the violent path to peace…

With a rather nasty laz weapon that crystallizes its targets thus breaking down its molecular structure, it must mean curtains for John Crichton and Aeryn Sun…or does it? DUN DUN DA DUN!!!!    Well as luck would have it, the blatant bounty hunter attack of Season 4 didn’t turn out as tragic as we all thought. Our two wayward star crossed lovers are then decrystalized and brought back to carbon based life form selves.  Huzzah!!!   However… upon the collection of said nuggets of Crichton and Sun Dominar Rigel XVII accidently swallowed a particular element that tis a Crichton bun in the oven.  Yup you guessed it kiddies poor Rigel has to carry said baby almost to term.   For those just tuning in; the Peacekeeper and the talking money i.e. human have been bumping pelvises.

Oh jeez...Jedi cosplayers.

Commandant Grayza is committing all forces to engage the Scarrans and I ain’t talking a courtship.   As both Scorpius and Crichton are linked via device, Scorpius sets out to find John to once again persuade him to make the wormhole weapon deterrent.   Try as Moya’s crew may, they simply cannot find a safe harbor from this impending war.   John feels he cannot raise his child and love his new wife in a galaxy hell bent on destroying itself.

With the weight of multiple worlds on his back, his friends and lover’s lives in the balance John urges the crew on what can only be construed as an insane quest to bring both factions to a closure and ensure peace.

I have just a few points about this mini-series.  After Season 4 was begrudged on the screen, Sci-Fi channel wanted out of the Farscape business and for months the fans were losing their collective marbles, chomping at the bit waiting to see if we would have a Season 5.   Brian Henson refused to let this saga end on a flat note and lobbied for a mini-series instead to finish the story arc.  Many months of hand holding, courting and cajoling he finally got approved and Jim Henson Productions had not been idle in creating creatures, maintaining armors and prop weapons galore.  

Many Bothans died to bring us this information.

Brian Henson stated in a interview while he loved the creations his father had made and all the adventures that were given life he truly wanted to have that same luck of sparking imagination and capturing hearts.  While it took him twelve years to accomplish it, I think he managed rather nicely.