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Farscape was made by competent people, who wanted to create a memorable, enjoyable show. It has a great concept, a great cast, some great ideas, adequate special effects. The first two of the four seasons are well worth watching. There are 70 hours of Farscape and, starting with season 3, some episodes are quite a bit silly, sappy, repetitive. The Henson-touch fades away, no more phantastic muppets, just aliens who look like humans, most of the time with some stuff attached to the head. Regardless, all things considered this is still a classic science fiction show.
The key location is the space ship Moya that's said to be a "living ship". But it looks just like a regular futuristic space ship, not like something out of a Cronenberg horror movie. The pilot - called "Pilot" - is probably the most impressive muppet ever. There are some beautiful, iconic shots of this mushroom-headed creature. He is permanently attached to Moya, technically speaking, he is just a user interface.
In the first episode, five strangers meet on Moya. They all come from different planets and don't have much in common.
1) The all-American guy John Crichton, an astronaut, who, while circling the earth, got sucked in by a wormhole and ended up far away in the galaxy. He looks like a young Mel Gibson and evolves quite quickly from newcomer to alpha male. He is speaking in the poetic language of constant cultural references, like in episode 4-05: "Kryptonite, silver bullet, Buffy? What's it gonna take to keep you in the grave?" Thankfully, no one of the aliens share allusions to their culture. This show, even though it is set far, far away from Earth, with Crichton as the only human, is very Earth-centered, as it should.
2) The blue-skinned, bald humanoid alien Zhaan, a middle-aged female, aspiring to holyness, succeeding in healing, fighting against her deep-seated aggressions. The actress suffered from health problems, because of her alien-make-up, and left the show in season 3. Functionally, Zhaan was later on replaced by the witch Noranti, who is indeed a very strange and memorable character. In a way, she's a spiritual muppet.
3) Rygel. He looks like the genetical engineered child of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog. Like Pilot, he is a legless muppet. He is egocentric, pretentious, odious, whiny, hoggish. To have a mostly useless member in such a team is a bold move.
4) Ka D'Argo. A big, feral warrior, with a head inspired by lions and squids. His main weapons are his pointed and - when needed - very long and blazingly fast tongue, as well as his - that sounds so silly! - big sword.
5) Aeryn Sun. She looks exactly like a human, but isn't. She belongs to the ruling race of the galaxy, the militaristic and dictatorial "Peacekeepers". She was bred and raised to be a soldier, but was expelled from her army, her tribe.
Starting with episode 1-15, Chiana joins the crew. Except for her grey skin and hair, she looks human. She acts like a playful and malicious 16-year-old and is prone to awkward movements, as if she's still new in her body. Best nickname: "Miss Monochrome".
Scorpius, the main villain, joins the show in episode 1-19. This middle aged, thin, leather-clad humanoid is devious, cruel, manipulative, disgusting. He is sometimes an ally, always a great villain.
This ragtag group of misfits is surprisingly entertaining - as long as the scripts are good enough. Farscape starts with stand-alone episodes, later on it turns into a single continuous storyline. It starts with the Moya crew trying to get away from the Peacekeepers, it ends with them saving the galaxy. The solid science fiction feeling gets weakend by hallucinations, magic and unlikely relationships. The treatment of sex in Farscape is far from scientific. Moya, the "living ship", gives birth to a child - with the technical infrastructure already included! That's childish, or just stupid. As is: Two aliens, different species, different planets, spawn common offspring, without the help of mad scientists (giving false hope to cats and catfish in love).
Increasingly, wormholes become the dominant topic. Powerful aliens want them, are obsessed with them. Wormholes, wormholes, wormholes. At the end of the last episode, The Peacekeeper Wars (2004), everybody is most likely just glad it's all over.
In conclusion: The characters in Farscape are relatable, because they just act in ways humans could and would act. It's "Peepz in Space". Actual aliens are probably so unintelligible that they'd bore everyone to death.
The key location is the space ship Moya that's said to be a "living ship". But it looks just like a regular futuristic space ship, not like something out of a Cronenberg horror movie. The pilot - called "Pilot" - is probably the most impressive muppet ever. There are some beautiful, iconic shots of this mushroom-headed creature. He is permanently attached to Moya, technically speaking, he is just a user interface.
In the first episode, five strangers meet on Moya. They all come from different planets and don't have much in common.
1) The all-American guy John Crichton, an astronaut, who, while circling the earth, got sucked in by a wormhole and ended up far away in the galaxy. He looks like a young Mel Gibson and evolves quite quickly from newcomer to alpha male. He is speaking in the poetic language of constant cultural references, like in episode 4-05: "Kryptonite, silver bullet, Buffy? What's it gonna take to keep you in the grave?" Thankfully, no one of the aliens share allusions to their culture. This show, even though it is set far, far away from Earth, with Crichton as the only human, is very Earth-centered, as it should.
2) The blue-skinned, bald humanoid alien Zhaan, a middle-aged female, aspiring to holyness, succeeding in healing, fighting against her deep-seated aggressions. The actress suffered from health problems, because of her alien-make-up, and left the show in season 3. Functionally, Zhaan was later on replaced by the witch Noranti, who is indeed a very strange and memorable character. In a way, she's a spiritual muppet.
3) Rygel. He looks like the genetical engineered child of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog. Like Pilot, he is a legless muppet. He is egocentric, pretentious, odious, whiny, hoggish. To have a mostly useless member in such a team is a bold move.
4) Ka D'Argo. A big, feral warrior, with a head inspired by lions and squids. His main weapons are his pointed and - when needed - very long and blazingly fast tongue, as well as his - that sounds so silly! - big sword.
5) Aeryn Sun. She looks exactly like a human, but isn't. She belongs to the ruling race of the galaxy, the militaristic and dictatorial "Peacekeepers". She was bred and raised to be a soldier, but was expelled from her army, her tribe.
Starting with episode 1-15, Chiana joins the crew. Except for her grey skin and hair, she looks human. She acts like a playful and malicious 16-year-old and is prone to awkward movements, as if she's still new in her body. Best nickname: "Miss Monochrome".
Scorpius, the main villain, joins the show in episode 1-19. This middle aged, thin, leather-clad humanoid is devious, cruel, manipulative, disgusting. He is sometimes an ally, always a great villain.
This ragtag group of misfits is surprisingly entertaining - as long as the scripts are good enough. Farscape starts with stand-alone episodes, later on it turns into a single continuous storyline. It starts with the Moya crew trying to get away from the Peacekeepers, it ends with them saving the galaxy. The solid science fiction feeling gets weakend by hallucinations, magic and unlikely relationships. The treatment of sex in Farscape is far from scientific. Moya, the "living ship", gives birth to a child - with the technical infrastructure already included! That's childish, or just stupid. As is: Two aliens, different species, different planets, spawn common offspring, without the help of mad scientists (giving false hope to cats and catfish in love).
Increasingly, wormholes become the dominant topic. Powerful aliens want them, are obsessed with them. Wormholes, wormholes, wormholes. At the end of the last episode, The Peacekeeper Wars (2004), everybody is most likely just glad it's all over.
In conclusion: The characters in Farscape are relatable, because they just act in ways humans could and would act. It's "Peepz in Space". Actual aliens are probably so unintelligible that they'd bore everyone to death.
Apologists might call "The Surfer" surreal or Kafkaesque. The psychological drama of a man who lost his family and can't cope with this realilty. They might call it a surfing-as-a-metaphor-for-life movie - the surfer himself (Cage) nearly does so at the very beginning. But this surfer never surfs.
The most obvious problem is the irrational behavior of the surfer. Why does he return to the beachside parking lot, instead of taking care of the most important business transaction of his life himself? Why doesn't he just leave? The whole plot depends on him making stupid decisions. The sense of danger and fear vanishes, replaced by growing boredom and indignation. The final twist makes it abundantly clear that "The Surfer" needs the safe spaces of art house cinemas or film festivals. Otherwise it will very likely be considered as just another far-fetched, pretentious, annoying cop-out.
The one good thing here is of course Nicolas Cage. Right now, he is the biggest movie star. While people would still watch Tom Cruise movies with another lead, many Nicolas Cage movies - including "The Surfer" - would hardly find an audience without him. Nicolas Cage is the best investment a film producer can make.
The most obvious problem is the irrational behavior of the surfer. Why does he return to the beachside parking lot, instead of taking care of the most important business transaction of his life himself? Why doesn't he just leave? The whole plot depends on him making stupid decisions. The sense of danger and fear vanishes, replaced by growing boredom and indignation. The final twist makes it abundantly clear that "The Surfer" needs the safe spaces of art house cinemas or film festivals. Otherwise it will very likely be considered as just another far-fetched, pretentious, annoying cop-out.
The one good thing here is of course Nicolas Cage. Right now, he is the biggest movie star. While people would still watch Tom Cruise movies with another lead, many Nicolas Cage movies - including "The Surfer" - would hardly find an audience without him. Nicolas Cage is the best investment a film producer can make.
Just read the synopsis. It sounds like made-up nonsense, but it's accurate. The plot of "Accountant 2" is insane. Quite obviously there are no longer any grown-ups in Hollywood, who could have stopped this childish project.
The heroes are people who murder for a living, assassins, who'd probably prefer the less discriminatory term "exitus worker". They are next level private investigators, trusted by high level bureaucrats. Autism is a superpower that turns kids into computer whizzkids, who can solve every problem in next to no time. Modern surveillance technology gives them godlike powers. An AI, only fed with Hollywood slop, would come up with such ideas. The script writer Bill Dubuque is as good as the current AI.
The storytelling is abysmal, with lots of pointless scenes and daft dialogs. No fun, no thrills, willfully muddled, oftentimes boring, sometimes annoying. The main protagonist is the charmless Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Ben Affleck plays a deadpan cyborg, Jon Bernthal slips into his usual jerk-persona, J. K. Simmons is only in it for the first few minutes. For him it's been just an easy paycheck, but what's wrong with Affleck? He's the producer of this trainwreck!
In the beginning he, his character, takes part in a strange dating event, where women line-up to talk with him. He tricked them into doing it, but has no idea why, what he is looking for. It's humor in the vein of the "Big Bang Theory" - look how stupid intelligent people act, haw-haw! Embarrassing. In the end Jon Bernthal kidnaps a churro, a red haired cat from the desert. He might be a killer, but he just needed some love. See, he found it. Awww, so cute. Even these lovable, murderous, misanthropic brothers can find real love.
The devastations in "Accountant 2" are justified by the need to save some random kid, hopefully the threatened sequel will be all about cats and dogs.
The heroes are people who murder for a living, assassins, who'd probably prefer the less discriminatory term "exitus worker". They are next level private investigators, trusted by high level bureaucrats. Autism is a superpower that turns kids into computer whizzkids, who can solve every problem in next to no time. Modern surveillance technology gives them godlike powers. An AI, only fed with Hollywood slop, would come up with such ideas. The script writer Bill Dubuque is as good as the current AI.
The storytelling is abysmal, with lots of pointless scenes and daft dialogs. No fun, no thrills, willfully muddled, oftentimes boring, sometimes annoying. The main protagonist is the charmless Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Ben Affleck plays a deadpan cyborg, Jon Bernthal slips into his usual jerk-persona, J. K. Simmons is only in it for the first few minutes. For him it's been just an easy paycheck, but what's wrong with Affleck? He's the producer of this trainwreck!
In the beginning he, his character, takes part in a strange dating event, where women line-up to talk with him. He tricked them into doing it, but has no idea why, what he is looking for. It's humor in the vein of the "Big Bang Theory" - look how stupid intelligent people act, haw-haw! Embarrassing. In the end Jon Bernthal kidnaps a churro, a red haired cat from the desert. He might be a killer, but he just needed some love. See, he found it. Awww, so cute. Even these lovable, murderous, misanthropic brothers can find real love.
The devastations in "Accountant 2" are justified by the need to save some random kid, hopefully the threatened sequel will be all about cats and dogs.