Farscape Week: Farscape Season 3

Howdy readers.  Back for day 3 of Farscape Week and the seasons just keep the same drive as from the beginning.  Let’s just see how our gang of outlaw heroes is doing this time around.     Holster your blaster, prep your module and for the love of God use evasive maneuvers.   This is Farscape Season 3.

That sort of thing happens to men your age.

John Crichton: Well, you gotta know how deep the spoiler is, Ryg, if you’re gonna dig your way out.

Last season Scorpius experimented on Crichton finding deep within his subconscious that he has knowledge of the wormhole phenomenon or most specifically how to create one through artificial means.   The crew amassed another passenger name of Chiana (Gigi Edgley of The Day of the Roses, BlackJack, The Secret Life of Us, Stingers and Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars) and rescued a slave name of Stark (Paul Goddard of Sons and Daughters, Bullseye, Dead to the World, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars). 

This VR system kicks butt guys!

 On a frozen wasteland in the uncharted territories, a less than legitimate doctor attempts to remove a Scorpius device from Crichton’s brain and save his mind.   The Peacekeepers and Scarrans are mounting tensions in almost every sector of the known galaxies ranging from underhanded dealings to full on skirmish ground and space battles.    Planets are in fear of their very lives on which faction will ultimately reign supreme. 

The crew of Moya struggles to reunite with one another after parting the year prior.  6 months have lapsed and our team has gone separate ways to avoid Peacekeeper detection and agreed to meet back up, however each of them had different adventures and lives as well.   They start pining for their homes and make it back to their former lives.

Aeryn and John become…close and each cannot fully express the changes in their lives as they struggle with love, fleeing from capture and ensuring a place for each other.  Ka D’Argo and Chiana seem to be fascinated with one another regardless of the difference of their species.  Passions run deep in the halls of Moya as Moya has birthed a child vessel of her own but it is unlike any other leviathan for it has biological energy weapons and a temper that needs to be curbed.

Just a few points of observation for you this time around.   Between the green screen, CGI and amazing puppet creations of Jim Henson Creatures this show keeps pushing the boundaries of imagination and astound us further with this wonderful mesh of animatronics and computer generation.  The creatures and villains truly stand out by comparison to even the Roddenberry creations and those are difficult to match let alone surpass. 

Told you they wouldn't like that nun joke.

From the brilliant design of ships, settlements and this growing cast, the stories are clever, witty and dramatic.  From comedies to serious drama in a science fiction genre, this show manages to keep things fresh.  Shot mostly in 35mm digital these episodes are almost movie worthy in that regards.

Forgive me for this being a biased review but I am enamored with this series.