Does anyone else find this episode's title extremely ironic given that it will be Farscape's last?

TUE

It's an episode I'm not looking forward to watching, TUE. Leaving the series on a cliffhanger is going to have me screaming as the final credits roll.

I wonder if the episode was retitled by the writers after the announcement that this would be the last episode ever, as a sort of protest to SciFi?

Oh man. I haven't cried this much at a final episode of a series since Babylon 5's 'Sleeping in Light.' I was actually crying even before the episode started but figured that it wouldn't actually be a tear-inducing episode in itself. How wrong could I be?

Was every single episode shown in the 'Previously' bit?

I absolutely adored the double-speak between John and Aeryn about commitment with Peacekeepers.

John reciting the opening monologue during the episode had me in floods of tears – then total hysteria at Harvey's interruption!

How did John dial a phone on Earth?

Would the cassette tape he left on the Moon survive in those conditions? And in order to collect it, Earth will have to build a new Apollo.

I could have lived with that ending if it hadn’t been for the "To Be Continued" tag at the very end. In view of John's statement at the end of the 'Previously' bit where he said, "And finally on Farscape ..." Ben Browder must have recorded that after they knew that this would be the final episode. I feel that TPTB deliberately left the tag on as a statement against Sci-Fi, and I really felt it was petty. Without the tag, the ending would have been much more tolerable, and would have worked much better.

And a thousand curses at the BBC for putting in a voice-over during the silent running of the last ever credits.

RIP Farscape. We all pray to Djancaz-Bru that you'll be brought back to us somehow.

Well, I wasn't expecting that for an ending! Makes you wonder how they would have got out of it, but I guess we'll never know now, unless they get novels licensed.
(Voyager gets 7 years, Farscape gets 4 - no justice).

Loved the scene between Harvey and John, absolutely hilarious.

Couldn't Pilot have taken Moya through to seal the wormhole? I missed the earlier episodes with earth, so apologies if something's already been said about it.

And was it just me, or was Stark really, really annoying in this episode?

Chris, since travelling to Earth and back, Moya has had a phobia of wormholes and so Pilot would never force her to travel through one again.

Potential visual nit: While John is working on his wormhole calculations, D’Argo squats down beside him and talks to him. At the beginning of the conversation there’s no physical contact between them but, after a couple of camera angle changes, D’Argo suddenly has his hand on John’s shoulder. It’s just possible he could have done it without moving any of the rest of his body but it looks clumsy.

Potential plot nit: Unrealised Reality (and other episodes) have established that John has a particular talent in a wormhole, in that he can find his way more easily than others. He kind of homes in on Earth. Moya got through safely because, presumably, she homed in on Lo’La's signal on her way to Earth and homed in on a signal from Scorpius’ pod on the return journey. The Scarrans, however, had absolutely no point of reference and pretty much dived in blind. What were the odds, therefore, of them reaching Earth? We know that John travelled the same wormhole to reach Bizarro Moya and she was nowhere near Earth, so there are lots of exits from the wormhole. I would have thought that Earth was fairly safe from Scarran attack!

OK, I let it go the first time but this time around I have to ask – where did they get a boat from?!!! My puzzlement is slightly enhanced by Rygel saying, “Crichton’s got Aeryn in a boat.” A boat, not the boat, which suggests that the boat doesn’t come from Moya. But the wide-angle shot of Moya floating in the ocean didn’t – to the best of my recollection – show them anywhere near land.

I think I’ve worked out how John and Aeryn would have survived. I watched the end of the episode again last night without sobbing quite so noisily all through it – though Jack’s tearful farewell to his son and D’Argo’s anguished wailing at the end both still set me off! When the alien refugee from Total Recall was talking to its controller/commander or whatever, the latter gave the command “Neutralise invaders for analysis.” You can’t easily analyse someone who’s been turned into tiny bits! So I reckon that J&A were encased in something which exactly took their form, then they were teleported to the alien ship from inside the casing and it was the casing that disintegrated. The ring was presumably left behind because the teleporter only takes live matter. That’s my theory, anyway.

After this ep I really hope Sci-Fi are rueing the day they decided to cancel Farscape.

I was almost convinced they had actually re-written the ending so we'd have some kind of closure to it all. A small surprise that they'd somehow managed to keep under wraps...but twas not to be.

"Couldn't Pilot have taken Moya through to seal the wormhole? I missed the earlier episodes with earth, so apologies if something's already been said about it. "

Moya did /NOT/ want to go through the wormhole. That was why there was that scene with Pilot being slightly in pain. Initially they both agreed they wanted nothing to do with wormholes but then Rygel managed to somehow guilt Pilot into doing it, Moya on the other hand was dead against any involvement in it. Hence why Pilot was disconnected from Moya.

I unfortunately had to tape it as I was busy during the Monday when it was shown. All I can say is I'm glad I did. A friend who did catch it told me that the Farscape website was impossible to get into after the show ended and all I can say is: I'm not at all surprised. ^_^


RIP Farscape the Sci-Fi scene will be much less richer than it could be with your departure.
And, just incase there's a small chance that someone involved with FS actually reads these boards - Thanks to everyone involved in making it. I hope you all had as much fun making it as I, and probably many others, had watching it.

The series finale won't air here until Friday.
I wonder since,as Callie says,there is a to be
continued line at the end of the ep. if that doesn't mean that the ep. was filmed PRIOR to the time when Sci Fi decided to give Farscape the ax.

If we're lucky perhaps there will be enough interest for a syndicated run of Farscape.

OK, now that the episode has aired, let me be the first to say

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Entertainment Weekly summed it up best - first we'd cry, then laugh, then stare at the screen, then scream. Both my wife and I did just that.

I forgot about Chianna's vision power. And it was good to see Stark as loony as ever. I still wonder what kind of can of whoop ass Scorpius will open up on Grayza.

Great effect of the two ships passing through each other in the wormhole.

One final comment about the frelling meatheads at the Sci Fi Channel who made this decision - to paraphrase Charlton Heston, "D a m n them all to Hell!!!"

I have NEVER been as emotionally involved with a series as I have been with this one.

I have to disagree with Callie about the "To Be Continued" at the end. I liked it. It's sort of a symbol that the story won't truly end. Think about how someone who didn't know what was going on would feel if he thought that's how the show was supposed to end.

I adored every scene in this episode. Even if it hadn't been the last episode, this would have been up in my top five. All of the characters were in top form. The plot was solid and exciting. Everything just seemed like perfect Farscape. In a weird sort of way, it's not that bad of a way for the series to end.

Next season would have been awesome! This season's ending had a big punch of an ending (like season two did) instead of an ending that had everything scattered around (like season three with Moya down a wormhole, the characters going away, and Crichton stranded).

Think about all that we've got now. Scorpius is back in power with Sikozu and Braca. Crichton and Aeryn are with these aliens (There's no doubt in my mind that they're not dead). Chiana is blind. The Scarrans are now major players in the story. Stark is back. It actually feels like we were really gearing up for the final run. It would have been fantastic.

Curse you Scifi.

But I have to give them some credit for taking on such a different show in the first place. The cast and crew and everyone involved did a fantastic job. They should be proud.

I'd also like to thank Callie for taking over my job as moderator of this board for the extra season.

Farscape is today's Star Trek. The show that was wonderful that got cancelled before its time by misguided network executives. It's a cryin shame.

Although who knows. Maybe "Farscape: The Next Generation" will be on in 20 years.

TUE

What more can I say than others have? Maybe the series can live on in written form, i.e. books, graphic novels? One thing would not be the same is the visual aspect. Maybe, like TUE has stated, the story can go on.

I was yelling at the TV Friday night when John and Aeryn were on the boat, discussing what is to happen, to end it! No fly by, no abduction, no screaming by D'Argo. (Wife and I did like the discussion between D'Argo, Rigel and Chiana of what J&A were doing on the boat, 'He just proposed marriage,' Rigel, 'Idiot.')

Maybe there will be a special, two hour (how about a three part series?) that will give some closure. Farscape - I enjoyed it the whole time and was entertained. I will miss it. Thanks to Callie for the moderation for the last season.

"Farscape is today's Star Trek."

In the sense that it pushed the boundaries of current science-fiction on television, and the expected boundaries of television in general, in a way other TV shows fail to do - yes.

In that 20 years from now someone will resurrect the series, and turn the franchise into dreck like "Farscape: Voyager"? God help us...

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll stop with Farscape: DS9.

I just watched this tonight. I already had heard about the end but I still ended up staring at the screen with my mouth agape. Wow. They really did do it.

While the ending didn't choke me up, I did know it was coming after all, Jack's goodbye to his done did. They were great.

And Harvey is the man. I'm so glad he was back for the last few eps. Great character.

Poor Chi. Listening to that guy from Prefect seemed to work for a while. But now, well, we'll see if she sees again in the mini. Though I loved her scream at Stark, causing him to calm. That was great.

I cannot wait for that to air.

But that final scene, wow, that was tough. The laughs as we got commentary from D'Argo, Rygel, and Chi, the touching moments between Aeryn and John on the boat, and horrible actions of an angry muppet in a space ship. Poor D'Argo. No wonder everyone hates Skiffy.

Is there a reason they just kept kissing when a hostile ship keeps flying by? Couldn't they have let it wait a few microts? Guess not. They just had to be disintegrated.

I think they knew there was no way they could get away, so they decided to go out together.

Against my better judgment, I flipped over to Sci Fi today and saw this episode again. It gives me another excuse to curse at the FRELLING MEATHEADS at the Sci Fi Channel for prematurely ending this great show.

I don't know about anyone else, but while I am looking forward to the movie, I am holding my nose having to watch it on the Sci Fi Channel.

"Was every single episode shown in the ‘Previously’ bit?"

Four scenes from each episode were shown in the order preferred by the producers. According to the DVD, anyway. Heh. That part of the episode had me laughing more than anything.

"Previously on Farscape" followed by EVERY FRELLING EPISODE!