Farscape Week: Farscape Season 2

Howdy folks and welcome back to Farscape Week.  We last we left our escapees and captive human, the Peacekeepers were in hot pursuit and several of the backwater planets seem to be less than hospitable.

Crichton is left without a change of new undies, some football and no Star Trek shows.    This is Farscape Season 2.

Gentlemen cosplaying stormtroopers is lame!

John Cricthon: You wanna have a mid-life crisis? Fine. That- Just…ditch the firm, head off to Maui, shack up with a supermodel, but you do not get to keep the Spoiler.

Narrowly evading capture from the Peacekeepers our nefarious crew strives to avoid too many conflicts and get home.  John is paired up with his alien comrades: The Luxan warrior Ka D’ Argo (Anthony Simcoe of The Castle, Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking, BlackJack, Marking Time, Solo and Nim’s Island) former Peackeeper commando Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black of A Country Practice, City Life, Pitch Black, God of War and Stargate SG-1), Hynerian exiled ruler Dominar Rigel the XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy of The Devil’s Playground, The Mango Tree, Mad Max, The Delinquents and Bloodmoon) and Delvian priestess Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan (Virginia Hey of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Timeslip, Neighbours, Vietnam and Dolphin Cove) journey through the stars, visit worlds of unknown origin and get mixed up in more hijinks than the Scooby gang ever could. 

I said I am sorry I was motorboating you!!

 Their mode of transportation Moya is a leviathan, a living spaceship whose species is accustomed to transporting and serving others.  A means to the end in experiencing all the space has to offer.  Every ship must have its pilot and that is all the multi-tendrilled creature that interfaces with Moya is known as.

Aeryn Sun’s former commanding officer Captain Crias (Lani Tupu of Police Rescue, Heart of Fire, The Lost World, Green Sails and Lantana) hunts Crichton down well out of his assigned sector of space with a vengeance.   Enter our newest villain/lawman Scorpius (Wayne Pygram of Doing Time for Patsy Cline, Big Sky, Risk, The Lost World, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars and All Saints) who assumes command of Crais’s ship but allows Crais to appear in charge. 

Yes I have observations to share.  This season we get to see a truly noteworthy character in that of Scorpius.  Initially you get the Sithlord feel from him but you find that he is so much more than a Lord Vader archetype in that he truly believes his cold and heartless exterior is needed to keep order in the galaxies but has vast depths to what made him the man he is. There is even some flashback sequences for Scorpius to better round out the character.     

EW the Luxan beefed!

We also become aware of the biggest Peacekeeper fear; the Scarrans.  A reptilian humanoid that can admit a focused heat wave to the point of 3^rd degree burns and even death, these monsters are by far some of the very best to come out of the Jim Henson Creatures production.   Upper body prosthetics, animatronic puppeteering with full facial and ocular movement; these nasties stand at about 7 feet tall, washboard abs worthy of 300 and overall menacing appearance.