Our heroes on Moya are a family. A found family rather than a biological family. I am thinking about fathers in Farscape because my biological father died recently. I wasn’t close to my father because he was a distant, cynical man. On my other Web site InsertPhilosophyHere.com I wroteRead More →
A kind of a map of Farscape. Text Transcript: A Non-Map Map of Farscape Ever since J.R.R. Tolkien drew a map of Middle Earth it’s been popular to make maps for science fiction and fantasy universes. There are no maps for Farscape because part of its charm is the charactersRead More →
How far is 60 Cycles From Earth? How much do we know about the Farscape universe? I will explore this in my next few videos. We know the characters but what do we know about the distant part of the universe in which they live? So question one: where isRead More →
Embedded Video Below – Click to Play Text Transcript “<>” indicates video clip Farscape’s best character? Some people are into this guy. Others go for her or her. <I love a girl in gray> But with which character would you most like to party? <margarita shooters> <That’s not Scorpius,Read More →
Grayza is a manipulator. Embedded video below – click to view. Last of the character study series. Text Transcript: There are two things we can say about Commandant Grayza. No, not those two things. Get your mind out of the gutter. One, is that Grayza is a manipulator hungry forRead More →
Embedded video below – click to play I’ve completed character studies on every major character on Farscape save one—Sikozu. In this case, last is least because I neither like nor understand her character. Her actions and changes made little sense to me until one day, a theory came to me.Read More →
Embedded video, click to view Poor Pilot. So loyal. So dedicated. So underappreciated. Really? Well, yeah, Rygel doesn’t count. See, Pilot is, if you’ll pardon the pun, a sitting target for abuse. The British have a great term, “dogsbody,” meaning a lackey or grunt who does the menial, boring jobsRead More →
Braca’s Loyalties – Embedded video, click to view Text Transcript Farscape’s main characters each traverse a roller coaster of emotion and internal struggle. Not Braca. At least not as far as we know. His roller coaster is one of shifting loyalties as he tries to navigate Peacekeeper service. Now, BracaRead More →
What do we know about Farscape’s three stooges – Stark, Jool, and Noranti? Embedded video below, click to play. Text Transcript: After completing character study videos for Crichton, Aeryn, D’Argo, Rygel, Zhaan, Crais, Chiana, and Scorpius, I now turn to Larry, Moe, and Curly. Farscape’s major characters are allRead More →
Embedded video below, click to play. Text Transcript: “I’m Scorpius.” Of course he is! And of course, Scorpius is the most intriguing of all of the many incredibly intriguing characters in Farscape. Though not introduced until 19 episodes in, Scorpius becomes Farscape’s main villain and arguably one of the bestRead More →