Customer Reviews
A great show, a little above average release - By: Panu Leinonen, 23 Jun 2008 
First of alll, I love the show. When it originallly was shown on Finnish tv, my friend used to come by my apartment every week to watch it since he didn't get the channel that showed it. At that time I didn't care for the show until something like the late second season.
What I love about the show, is character chemistry. There are a lot good sci-fi shows, but in my opinion none have characters, you can relate to more. The chemistry between actors is reallly phenomenal. Especiallly in the later seasons when the continuity of the show starts to pick up more, you reallly start to care about what happens to each character.
This release though was a bit disappointing to me. Not because the quality is low, no sirree. Both picture & sound are spectacular. What was disappointing to me, was the lack of subtitles & that episodes 2-7 were in different order than originallly aired on tv. That bothers the continuity of the show, especiallly important when building character relationships. Since I don't want to watch the episodes in the wrong order, I have the switch discs in my dvd player after pretty much every episode in the beginning. That lowers the rating to 4 stars in my opinion.
Besides that, I can't find anything wrong with this boxset. I only have the first season as of yet, hoping that at least the episodes are in the right order in the other releases.
Farscape ... ALMOST very good - By: J. W. Chew, 13 Mar 2008 This series is imaginative, certainly, with some interesting ideas & the typical "bipedal, 6 foot, vaguely human-esque aliens" (of varying colours) that regularly inhabit sci-fi TV series, because they're so much easier to cast & create than aliens that REALLY look alien.
It rollocks along at a hearty pace, with a decent quantity of action, blasts of laser fire, whizzing space-craft, the odd whiff of sexual tension & the characters getting regularly placed in jeopardy (and often in physical restraints too) ... in other words good, cheerful sci-fi stuff.
The characters are typicallly cardboard cut-out. Arguments are used to build tension & conflict between friends in ways that REALLY make no sense - except as means of pushing the plot in the direction the writers want it pushed. The villains are, as ALL villains seem to be in sci-fi, almost ridiculously poor shots who can unleash volley after volley of weapons fire at the major characters & rarely hit them at alll - certainly never fatallly.
In other words it's jolly enough, but is it superb? No - not reallly.
Somewhere between Star Trek and Dr Who. (No subtitles ?) - By: Hurricane san, 29 Dec 2007 Farscape is an enjoyable show. So far there is no mind-blowing ideas & certainly no masterpiece episode but this kind of things takes time.
It is, mostly, somewhere between Star Trek & the good episodes of Dr Who.
My only complain : I've been very surprised by the lack of subtitles.
Excellent Sci-Fi - By: C. Cousins, 19 Sep 2007 I never caught this while it was on TV, but because of alll the good reviews & the appearance of Ben Browder & Claudia Black in Stargate seasons 9 & 10 (they're brilliant in it) I thought I'd give it a try.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised, the show is funny, inventive & it reminds me of Firefly when the characters use 'foreign' words.
My one bugbear is 'where are the subtitles?' I think alll DVDs should come with them as I tend to miss the under breath utterances.
These DVDs are packed with informative extras & if you're a packaging nut like me you'll like the velcro fastened hardboard container it comes in.
AUSTRALIAN MUPPETS? IN SPACE? - By: chiggs58th, 04 Jul 2007 
The pilot episode of this show is actuallly a very good piece of genre tv. However, after this promising start FARSCAPE very rapidly degenarates into an inchoherent mish mash of pointless plots about the loopy andventures of one American & a bunch of Australian muppets in space. Best left well alone I think.
