Dear everyone who's been telling me to watch Farscape for years

[yendi]

Having just watched the pilot of Defiance, you've lost any chance of ever getting me to waste time on Rockne S. O'Bannon (no matter how cool his name is). Although in all honesty, Cult and the revived V had pretty much put the nail in that coffin.

SyFy would have done better greenlighting Megashark vs Crocosaurus: The Series than this crap.

(Okay, I did enjoy Alien Nation, but that's twenty-plus years ago.)

Comments

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Rockne is not why to watch Farscape. Brian Henson and the creature shop is why to watch Farscape

[ceal.livejournal.com]

I second this^

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Thirded. Although the middle bit drags.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, Alien Nation! I need to watch that movie again.

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

That's like saying because some of JMS's recent work is dreck, you should avoid B5 season 1-4. And even less fair, since B5 was really one man's vision, whereas Farscape was very clearly a group effort (per the various commentaries).

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Your loss man. About Farscape. I enjoyed the pilot, but I'll admit the only thing I found surprising about was that Graham Greene survived it...

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

Defiance had the desire to be Firefly but the production values of an episode of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. I only watched the last part of the first episode and I was picking and choosing the movies, TV shows and Video games they were snagging elements from. But who knows. Sometimes from a terrible start something fun can happen.

[lizlet.livejournal.com]

I didn't hate the Defiance pilot, so my taste might be suspect, but "Farscape" really does, in fact, not get its shit together until writer David Kemper takes a bigger role.

There is a Skip It/Watch It Guide available:

http://liztellsfrank.com/2012/04/03/farscape-the-complete-skip-itwatch-it-guide/

You'd get up to the good stuff pretty fast if you did the "Must See" track. :)