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Farscape Season 3, Vol. 4

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This series is TOO much fun! In the mood for sci-fi, something totally different, PLEASE starburst to your nearest Farscape story, and enjoy the insanity!

This is Sci-fi at it's best. Always interesting, action packed, and mostly believable. It always has a very good plot and I enjoyed it immensely.

Farscape has always been the anti-Star Trek and the disk are no exception. Everybody has really strong personalities and are always butting heads with each other. Some of the scenarios are unique while others are very cliched but handled in a quirky way that makes them feel new and interesting.

In "Different Destinations" while visiting the site of one of the great battles in Sebation history, Chrichton and friends get transported to the past and get to live through the actual battle. The episode reminds me a bit of "Army of Darkness" with Crichton and Aeryn fighting to save a castle under siege. And, true to Farscape form, while trying not to disturb the past and therefore upset the future, the crew manage to get a key war hero killed before he can fulfill his destiny, leaving them and theur friends in the present in a heap of trouble.

In the aptly named "Eat Me," a madman who likes eating people's brains and a group of Sebation scavengers with the mentality of animals are on board and doing major damage to a Leviathan with a Peacekeeper control collar. Imagine if Hannibal Lector were written by the Farscape crew, and you might have some idea of what this guy's like. This episode also witnesses the death of not one but TWO of Moya's crew. Well, sort of.

In "Thanks for Sharing," there are two Crichtons. All testing indicates that they are identical. No original, no clone. They play rock-paper-scissors for hours, always ending in a tie. And Crichton finally begins to get why the others find him annoying at times when he starts to get on his own nerves. Meanwhile Moya's offspring Talyn is getting himself in trouble again, and Aeryn's mother Xhalax Sun is heading the Peacekeeper retrieval squad sent after Talyn.

The second and third episodes on this disk are key episodes in this season. If you skip ahead before watching these you will get lost.

Overall I'd say these episodes are typical Farscape. Nothing here is outstanding but it is all very enjoyable.