Every show I like starts off with what could be termed "MOTW"- Monster of the week episodes, and Farscape is no different than The X Files in that regard. In fact, my favorite seasons of both X Files and Farscape are its 1st seasons.
They also both have very similar Mythos arcs: so that by Season 2 of both shows, there were several Mythos stores peppered into the storyline. By the final seasons of the shows, it was all one story being told in every episode.
Farscape had revealed a direction for it's Mythos when John Criton meets "Ersatz Jack", who plants secret wormhole formulas into John's brain.
John Criton: any other human would have been carted away to the alien funny farm shouting "They Jiggle! They Jiggle!", but Criton takes the alien translator microbes and rolls with the punches.
With great sadness I just binged this show, there was more story here than what we were given. And John Crichton was the only person other than Elwood P Dowd to have his own, personal "Pooka" named "Harvey"- even though John's Pooka was not 6' 3 1/2" tall and resembled Scorpius, rather than a large rabbit. Consider Farscape to be a sequel of sorts to that 1950 James Stewart film...
When I first watched the series finale and it said "To be continued" and I understood that Syfi had just cancelled the show, it was a blow too much for me to bear.
But then we got "The Peacekeeper Wars", which joined the temple of Arnessk to the Alien whose face came apart in Bad Timing, the "Eidelons", and explained a few more things while not explaining others.
In fact, as well as TPW had been done, the story did not translate well from episodic TV to movie/Mini Series. Just like the X-Files, and just like Star Trek: TNG. All 3 shows did not work well in the longer timeframe format.
Why? Because all 3 shows had ensemble casts of some sort, story was always dependent on many people being highlighted, not just John and Aeryn, Picard and Data, Mulder and Skully.
By the time season 3 came out, introducing Jool, and then splitting up the cast for most of the season with some really horrific events happening, it was all one story, not much room for many MOTW episodes. And not that I did not really like the Farscape Mythos, it was crazy! I always thought the MOTW's were the meat of these shows.
So with TPW, we had no more MOTWs left, it was all Mythos, and the solution to the series, which should have been much more, was only what we got in TPW and no more.
Oh, what a 5th season could have given us!
But season 1 starts building the story, from one madman chasing Criton to someone even worse: and so it goes until John and Aeryn's only valid escape was to jump down a wormhole and end up in... Stargate SG-1!?
Long Live Ka D'Argo, Za'an and Jonathon Hardy. And Grunchilk/Toecutter...
If you need more Farscape, there are a lot of Farscape influences in Guardians of the Galaxy, and John Crichton even shows up in Vol 2 as a "sovereignty admiral", equipped with a peacekeeper accent and everything!
They also both have very similar Mythos arcs: so that by Season 2 of both shows, there were several Mythos stores peppered into the storyline. By the final seasons of the shows, it was all one story being told in every episode.
Farscape had revealed a direction for it's Mythos when John Criton meets "Ersatz Jack", who plants secret wormhole formulas into John's brain.
John Criton: any other human would have been carted away to the alien funny farm shouting "They Jiggle! They Jiggle!", but Criton takes the alien translator microbes and rolls with the punches.
With great sadness I just binged this show, there was more story here than what we were given. And John Crichton was the only person other than Elwood P Dowd to have his own, personal "Pooka" named "Harvey"- even though John's Pooka was not 6' 3 1/2" tall and resembled Scorpius, rather than a large rabbit. Consider Farscape to be a sequel of sorts to that 1950 James Stewart film...
When I first watched the series finale and it said "To be continued" and I understood that Syfi had just cancelled the show, it was a blow too much for me to bear.
But then we got "The Peacekeeper Wars", which joined the temple of Arnessk to the Alien whose face came apart in Bad Timing, the "Eidelons", and explained a few more things while not explaining others.
In fact, as well as TPW had been done, the story did not translate well from episodic TV to movie/Mini Series. Just like the X-Files, and just like Star Trek: TNG. All 3 shows did not work well in the longer timeframe format.
Why? Because all 3 shows had ensemble casts of some sort, story was always dependent on many people being highlighted, not just John and Aeryn, Picard and Data, Mulder and Skully.
By the time season 3 came out, introducing Jool, and then splitting up the cast for most of the season with some really horrific events happening, it was all one story, not much room for many MOTW episodes. And not that I did not really like the Farscape Mythos, it was crazy! I always thought the MOTW's were the meat of these shows.
So with TPW, we had no more MOTWs left, it was all Mythos, and the solution to the series, which should have been much more, was only what we got in TPW and no more.
Oh, what a 5th season could have given us!
But season 1 starts building the story, from one madman chasing Criton to someone even worse: and so it goes until John and Aeryn's only valid escape was to jump down a wormhole and end up in... Stargate SG-1!?
Long Live Ka D'Argo, Za'an and Jonathon Hardy. And Grunchilk/Toecutter...
If you need more Farscape, there are a lot of Farscape influences in Guardians of the Galaxy, and John Crichton even shows up in Vol 2 as a "sovereignty admiral", equipped with a peacekeeper accent and everything!