Farscape Season 1
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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(First watched 2009-12-14) So after watching this episode, my immediate comparisons go to things like Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, and even Futurama. Star Wars because of crazy aliens and ship dogfighting, as well as the Peacekeepers' orderliness and genetic humanness reminds me of Imperials. The Dark Crystal because of all the Henson creatures, and since there's no David Bowie a Labyrinth comparison would be inapt. Futurama because it's about one guy from modern Earth (though not exactly an everyman) being flung away from everything he knows to a strange world where he's thrown together with a crew of various weird persons.
And even with all that weirdness, probably the most fantastical thing was how that lead Peacekeeper kept viewing the footage of his brother dumbassedly smacking into Farscape One and spinning into an asteroid, and blamed the event on Crichton.
Actually, the city they're in for a while was also pretty fantastic. Dense, detailed, and varied alien cities aren't something you see too often in sci-fi shows. Even ones that explore strange, new worlds often find themselves in cities not very inhuman at all.
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(First watched 2009-12-14) DAMN! Main characters in other shows just don't bite off chunks of each other! And swallow!
So it is not exactly an uncommon thing in space sci-fi show for them to do an episode where they go to some planet similar to Earth (or even Earth itself) and our heroes play the role of extra-terrestrial visitors who are trying to escape detection (or just escape). In that way, this episode was kind of old hat. HOWEVER, this may be the first time such a story has been done with a guy who himself had only met aliens for the first time a day or two prior?
It was partially the makeup for the people of this planet and partially the guest actress, but I was reminded of the Ocampa of Star Trek: Voyager, particularly Kes.
So Crichton made a reference to Dagobah, but I was already thinking it. Star Wars-ish show, sudden appearance of a swamp planet in the second episode? Pretty obvious reference and I'm sure many other viewers thought the same. However, this at least helps us categorize Farscape into the "sci-fi shows which feel free to reference other sci-fi shows out loud" group.
I know Crichton is supposed to be the big hero, but it still seems kind of out there that he'd be so adamant about rescuing D'Argo. They barely know each other, and what exists of their relationship hasn't exactly been smooth.
So hey, those microbes or whatever that work as this series's universal translator... they're effective in both listening and speech, even when the natives of this planet don't have the microbe? Impressive microbe.
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