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Season 1, Episode 4 — Throne for a Loss YAY! Thank you for posting mails in response to this thread. It is nice to be encouraged! During a botched exchange of goods, Rygel is kidnapped by a gang of steroid abusers Tavloids Tavleks. They plan to ransom Rygel back to his "six billion subjects."  Because Rygel stole a gem from Moya, which is actually an integral piece which influences her flight capabilities, the crew can't just leave him to deal with the consequences of his choices.  The Tavloids (Aeryn, D'Argo, and Zhaan shout "TAVLEK" in unison) have bulky armor, and mottled skin with messed up scars. Most importantly, in a literal interpretation of "plot armor," they have a bracer which injects them with addictive, super-strength drugs, and creates a force screen... and bolts of energy. It's a super-soldier serum and weapon all in one! It also requires serious come-down time for its literal "users."  One such user, a young Tavlek, is...

Season 1, Episode 3 — Back and Back and Back to the Future I remember disliking this episode so much that I nearly skipped it for this re-watch, but I wondered what I might see this time that I had previously missed. I got ⅔ of the way through it, looked for an episode guide, and am unsurprised to see many people give this a "DON'T WATCH" rating. Here's one :  Back and Back and Back to the Future: Skip it. Definitely skip. There are alternate realities and timelines, but they don’t count and we don’t learn anything essential about anyone except the Australian guest stars’ willingness to emulate ’80’s aerobics gurus. The only notable thing is Aeryn in a sports bra. Long story short, it's a time-loop episode, where Moya finds an imploding anomaly, and an escape capsule flees the wreck.  Moya picks up the survivors: Alien John Romero and his spandex-and-leather clad sex assistant. I mean assistant. The sex is separate, but implied, with every male member of the cas...

Season 1, Episode 2 (on Apple's box set) —  Exodus from Genesis   Is this about Peter Gabriel's departure from his prog-rock band, only to be replaced by Phil Collins, then the band turns power-pop?  Maybe.  It more reasonably appears to be the trope-y "Aliens tribute" episode that every SF show eventually does. Except... it's not? Not entirely? We learn that Aeryn, like all Sebaceans, is unable to regulate her body temperature against heat.  The crew is being pursued by Crais' (rogue?) Peacekeeper faction, and flies into a nearby nebula-cum-anomaly to hide from them. Unfortunately, they pick up a passenger entity: an alien lifeform. It releases chitin-covered critters (they move like DRDs) that stay hidden and occasionally stab the crew from cover. Not a great guest for Moya's hospitality. It also start ramping up the heat onboard, blocking ventilation shafts, and Aeryn starts to overheat.  The alien lifeform starts cranking out doppelgangers of the crew,...

These meaty sculptures are fabric art, from Tamara Kostianovsky. The artist also has an instagram . ( Make Zine )

Starting with fresh eyes, it's surprising to see how dated the CG already appears. Crap, "already" but it's actually been 25 years.  Holy mackerel.  The space battle has telltale graphics limitations that are clearly predating the proliferation of Physics (or Physically) Based Rendering (PBR). At this point, every recent videogame has more realistic graphics in real time than Farscape's pre-rendered sequences. Still, these are beautiful for their time.  Probably the more interesting element is, of course, the collaboration with  Jim Henson's Creature Shop , and the use of puppets of main characters in a post- Return of the Jedi  landscape.  Season 1, Episode 1 —  Premiere John Crichton takes off from Earth, his dad is  the cop from Adam-12 , and his bestie is  the Hotel Manager from White Orchid s1 ; that's a really interesting drama, by the way! Very human in its portrayal of each character. Crichton takes off to perform ...