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Farscape: Season 1 [Blu-ray]
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Flung through a cosmic wormhole, American astronaut John Crichton finds himself fighting for his life in the middle of an alien prison break, inside a Leviathan a living space ship on the far side of the galaxy. Hunted by the relentless Crais, a commander of the galactic enforcers known as Peacekeepers, Crichton joins forces with the alien convicts hulking warrior Ka D’Argo; blue-skinned Priestess Z’haan; diminutive Dominar Rigel XVI; the giant symbiote Pilot and the irreversibly contaminated Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun. Each desperately seeks a way home, but first, they have to find a way to trust one another. Daring escapes and selfless acts of courage forge a measure of loyalty, friendship and even love.
The first season’s breakneck action heats up with the introduction of the coquettish thief Chiana and the sinister Scorpius with his dreaded Aurora Chair. Arrival and departure, birth and death, rescue and betrayal, all lead up to a season finale cliffhanger that is, literally and figuratively, breathtaking.
This groundbreaking first season of FARSCAPE presents all 22 groundbreaking in spectacular Blu-ray for the ultimate sound and picture experience.
Special Features
- Two Archival Documentaries: In the Beginning: A Look Back with Brian Henson (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES) and Making of a Space Opera
- 14 Audio Commentaries
- Farscape in the Raw: Director’s Cut Scenes for 2 Episodes
- Behind-the-scenes interviews with Anthony Simcoe, Jonathan Hardy, and Lani John Topu
DISC 1: Premiere / I, E.T. / Exodus From Genesis / Throne for a Loss / Back and Back and Back to the Future
DISC 2: Thank God It’s Friday... Again / PK Tech Girl / That Old Black Magic / DNA Mad Scientist / They’ve Got a Secret
DISC 3: Till The Blood Runs Clear / Rhapsody in Blue / The Flax / Jeremiah Crichton / Durka Returns
DISC 4: A Human Reaction / Through the Looking Glass / A Bug’s Life / Nerve / The Hidden Memory
DISC 5: Bone To Be Wild / Family Ties / Bonus Features
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : s_medPG PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 6.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 6.4 Ounces
- Director : Rockne S. O'Bannon
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Box set, NTSC
- Run time : 17 hours and 40 minutes
- Release date : November 15, 2011
- Actors : Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe
- Studio : A&E Home Video
- ASIN : B005CXOG3W
- Number of discs : 5
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This is the 'Anti-Star Trek'; a dystopian, nihilistic romp into another quadrant filled with Peace Keepers (PK) that aren't, a myriad of boogeymen with tentacles and often shifting loyalties. Technology is off the charts, psi-ability is not uncommon, the Scarrans are your worst nightmare and they are coming to a quadrant near you. The PK's are pooping their pants and here comes a half-Scarran/half-PK that is one of the best 'Villains' I have had the pleasure to meet... from this side of the tv thankyouverymuch. The dude totally creeps me out.
So John Crichton (JC) is sucked into a wormhole and lands right in the middle of a magnificent space battle between a few escaped prisoners aboard a living ship imprisoned by the PK, who want that ship and it's escaping prisoners. JC looks just like the species that are PK and that is not a good thing for JC. AND... so starts the fun and games.
If you like alien creatures, plot twists, awesome costuming (for the most part), great sets, excellent script writing with lots of silliness and pathos, love stories and betrayals, a certain way of leading you in one direction and dropping you into another dimension and a healthy dose of cynical reality about the attitude of humans towards 'Aliens'. Did I mention that Moya (the ship that's alive) and crew visit earth? It doesn't go well but what do you expect from humans, hm?
We have watched this series start to finish at least five times and we still love it. At the end of the series, there was such an outcry from its fan base (I was one) for it to continue that they made a movie so the story could have a good place to end... and it is a GOOD ending!
Highly recommended, buy it... you won't be sorry!
Without going into details, the primary "villain" is one of the most interesting characters I've ever seen. Initially an evil monster he turns out to be incredibly complex with a humane side competing with an all-consuming goal that is not evil. I've never seen a character, particularly a bad guy, turn out to be so impossible to judge morally. I don't remember if he shows up in the first season, but he is in most of the rest of the series and is a primary reason to stick with it, even beyond the great main character.
The bad guys and girls are totally vicious and malevolent. The good guys pull out of the fire at the very last moments always and the show always has time to be sexy. There are more push-up bras than at JC Penney's. Aside from the obvious unlike Star Trek; you have a bunch of thieves, killers, ex-prisoners and maniacs on a living ship with a symbiotic pilot that becomes a target for every criminal in the galaxy. Like I say a good mix of action, violence, good guy to the rescue with consequences and throw in a liberal amount of sexy and you have "Not Your Mother's Star Trek! Good stuff. Unfortunately the transfer to DVD is not the best and all but the fourth season and the Peace Keepers War are in the 4:3 screen format. This is a Sci-Fi event that collectors must have.
Farscape is the story of John Crichton (Ben Browder) who has been sucked through a wormhole and into a different part of the galaxy where a war is raging between a group of fugitives who have stolen a living spaceship and the galactic Peacekeepers who are supposed to represent order. Through 22 episodes Crichton and his fellow travelers encounter new problems and races of aliens that must be dealt with.
If you are a fan you are familiar with the premise of the show so this review will focus on the box set released by ADV Films. The set released in a number of editions has been long out of print. This has created a seller's market that is finally stabilizing. I bought my set for over 300 dollars but now the price is around 150.00. The episodes are presented two per disc with both Dolby 2.0 and Dolby 5.1 sound. While the surrounds are impressive sometimes the soundfield overwhelms the dialogue making individual episodes hard to understand. The picture quality is superb and makeup and black levels come across almost perfectly.
The extras are a series of video profiles of individual characters and crew and are well worth watching. The commentaries on eight individual episodes are also well worth a listen. Because of its cost this is a box set designed more for fans than for casual watchers of the series but it is well worth seeking out.
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Farscape is absorbing, fantastic, brilliant and well thought-out, the CGI at that time was very well done. You can easily forget that some characters are puppets. The characters are unforgetable, each have their own unique personalities that are easily related to; Zhaan the mother/big sister-figure, D'Argo the attack-first-never-ask-questions-later, Rigel the pompous, Aeryn the miliary who's never known anything else, Pilot who you don't always see and John who is clueless at times but always finds solutions in the end for everyone's problems.
I love(d) season 1 from start to finish, now I have the whole collection I will start tonight and watch them all^^ If you love series like Stargate, Star Trek (that I don't watch anymore) and... (well, actually I don't have any other references for this type since if I don't like the 1st episode of a series, it's highly unlikely I'll watch the rest) but I've heard that Battlestar Galactica has been referenced, then you'll love this..
You just have to keep an open mind about Farscape, look past its faults (like "it's Muppets in space" - it's not, at all) and remember that this was made years ago so the CGI and prosthetics aren't up to scratch, then you'll have a great time watching this.
Enjoy!
Some people say that the first season is boring and recommend watching the pilot and then moving to the last few eps, usually starting again with A Human Reaction. That, I think, is missing the point of this season completely. How can Family Ties be so moving if you haven't watched the entirety of the season and don't know at what price the Moya crew bought their friendship?
I recommend Farscape to all science-fiction fans and anyone who wants to watch a truly original show.
It's funny and sexy, well directed, reasonable scripts (even though the forced hate relationship between the villain with the bad hair do and the hero is pretty lame), the CGI is very good; the puppets are the best of Henson's workshop.
It is a must have for Si-Fi fans. Very good special features within a great packaging box set with 22 episodes at a very good price.
FOR ALL NON-ENGLISH VIEWERS: This DVD box set doesn't have any audio options besides original English (no problem here); BUT (and this is unforgiving): no subtitles available (not even English for the hearing unpaired). Making it really difficult to understand if you are not a very well English language tutored person: names and Sci-Fi terms are really difficult to catch, so as when aliens speak up (this makes me think twice before considering purchase further seasons; and let me say, modesty apart, I think I have had pretty good tutoring). Hence the 4 stars general rate (4 for the show and 1 for communication options, maybe the DVD producers don't want to make more money with it).
For me this is Sci Fi at its best it blows all your star treks, stargates and battlestars outta the water.....

