I give it a 5 - mainly because I'll watch most science fiction, and Farscape gave it a good shot.
But after a good first series, the story started to fall apart.
One of the good things about the first series was the interraction between the characters. A lack of trust, but pulling together despite their own selfish goals.
From Season 2, the characters became too 'human'. In fact, apart from the makeup, they were human..............at least other sci-fi shows maintain some alien characteristics (even Star Trek tried to elaborate on Vulcan or Klingon characteristics).
Whereas in Farscape, there's little exploration of the characters heritage or backdrop. So seeing them start to exhibit human characteristics is dull to put it mildly..........rather than science fiction it becomes science soap opera.
It probably didn't help that I found the Crichton character to be annoying as hell. Not the actors fault, but you'd go for virtually a whole season just hearing him shouting, making obscure earth references and acting like a complete idiot.
Yet we were expected to believe this was an astronaut (generally highly trained) and a scientist to boot. Most episodes he just came across as the kind of person you'd go out of your way to avoid. Can remember an episode where he was imagining looney tune representations of the crew - which probably summed up his intellectual level (probably 5 judging by some of his actions).
I didn't manage to get into this series when it was originally shown, and watching again on Netflix hasn't changed my opinion.
It says it all when my favourite characters were the 'muppets' - Rygel and Pilot. The only real characters I had any time for were Crais and Scorpius - ironically, the 2 'bad guy types'.........but acted perfectly, and with many more layers than the rest.
Other characters were killed off, and only my opinion, replaced with far lesser characters - a guy in a mask who comes across as loopy as Crichton and a screamer (literally). Neither of whom seemed to add anything to the show.
It just saddens me that far better shows have been taken off before getting anywhere near to Farscapes number of seasons.
But after a good first series, the story started to fall apart.
One of the good things about the first series was the interraction between the characters. A lack of trust, but pulling together despite their own selfish goals.
From Season 2, the characters became too 'human'. In fact, apart from the makeup, they were human..............at least other sci-fi shows maintain some alien characteristics (even Star Trek tried to elaborate on Vulcan or Klingon characteristics).
Whereas in Farscape, there's little exploration of the characters heritage or backdrop. So seeing them start to exhibit human characteristics is dull to put it mildly..........rather than science fiction it becomes science soap opera.
It probably didn't help that I found the Crichton character to be annoying as hell. Not the actors fault, but you'd go for virtually a whole season just hearing him shouting, making obscure earth references and acting like a complete idiot.
Yet we were expected to believe this was an astronaut (generally highly trained) and a scientist to boot. Most episodes he just came across as the kind of person you'd go out of your way to avoid. Can remember an episode where he was imagining looney tune representations of the crew - which probably summed up his intellectual level (probably 5 judging by some of his actions).
I didn't manage to get into this series when it was originally shown, and watching again on Netflix hasn't changed my opinion.
It says it all when my favourite characters were the 'muppets' - Rygel and Pilot. The only real characters I had any time for were Crais and Scorpius - ironically, the 2 'bad guy types'.........but acted perfectly, and with many more layers than the rest.
Other characters were killed off, and only my opinion, replaced with far lesser characters - a guy in a mask who comes across as loopy as Crichton and a screamer (literally). Neither of whom seemed to add anything to the show.
It just saddens me that far better shows have been taken off before getting anywhere near to Farscapes number of seasons.