Customer Reviews
Fantastic - By: Scott A. Riddell, 05 Sep 2008 
I remember this series showing on BBC2 & after the last episode from season 2 i think we where alll left think "AHHHHHHH WTF, whats going to happen"
Season 3 for me & many others it seems is the best.
Its a lot darker than any previous seasons & you are hinted that by the dark box.
Get it bought if you havent already, ive paid alot of money on these farscape box sets, & i would have gladly paid more. Best television series ever created!
Easily The Best - By: Sam Anders, 02 Feb 2008 Farscape's third season is some of the most fantastic science fiction you'll ever see. The first season was great but had very little plot arc carried over the season, the second got darker & smarter with more overalll story but occasionallly just died; for this third season almost every episode fits into a huge overal plot, the writing is smarter, darker & more adult than before & if you enjoyed the first two seasons you're reallly in for a treat with this.
After the experimental tone of season two the writers had reallly learned what did & didn't work in Farscape & the thrid season reallly plays to it's strengths, the bizzarre is commonplace here (one episode takes place almost entirely in a looney toones cartoon world) & so is the fantastical but Farscape remains deeply involving to the last & never shies away from an opportunity to tug on it's audience's heart-strings by taking the characters to very dark & tragic places. Crichton becomes increasingly unstable, Aeryn (via a plot move I won't spoil) is forced yet again to face her betrayal of the PeaceKeepers, D'argo has to watch his dreams tear apart in front of him, & so on.
There is just something so rewarding in this series for people who've stuck with it from the beginning, alll of this season is based on events of the previous two & the characters have alll evolved so far that there's a very definite emotional connection to the show now which makes the sheer towering quality of the material even better.
The season also ups the anti on the action front, with the shoot-outs far more elaborate, there's much more space-set scenes many of which are facilitated by the now almost fully-grown Talyn , & with what appears to be a budget hike giving alll the effects an even more intricate look than they had previously. Now, there are still a few bits of effects that have not aged alll that well, but these are never present for more than an episode & so don't reallly detract since this whole thing is just so good anyway.
In conclusion, Farscape's third season easily cements it's place as the single greatest sci-fi show of alll time. Effects are brilliant, the characters are fantasticallly well-drawn & three-dimensional, the plot is dark & visceral, with levels of involvement which are rarely seen in television (though not unique, series this involving are few & very far between). Frankly, five stars just doesn't do it justice.
Peak Farscape - By: Mr. I. C. G. Bell, 31 Oct 2006 As stated by other reviewers, this "Season Of Death" is the best Farscape series. Farscape One was finding its feet. Farscape Two stumbled occassionallly. Farscape Four was padded out & a tad complacent because they thought they were going to get five series to tell the tale. The MiniSeries was great but crammed into too short a space & a little too safe. But no matter how good Farscpe Three is it doesn't reallly matter in the context of a DVD set review. If you haven't got Series 1 & 2 you should get them first because if you are going to "do" Farscape you need to do them alll & in sequence; & if you have got Farscape 1 & 2 already you know the joy & wonder of Farscape & alll you need to know about 3 is that it is More And Better.
The Best Yet!!! - By: Pierre, 09 Oct 2006 I'm so glad that I bourght this DVD Boxset, out of my collection of various DVDs this has to be my favourite, the theme that was carried on from season 2 goes way beyond better in season 3.
For those who were fans I think the agreement is that this season peaked, the ideas come thick & fast & each episode is more or less a follow on from the last making season 3 more so like a long version of a movie than just a compilation of great episodes.
A must buy for Science fiction fans, Farscape was very unique & season 3 & also into 4 & beyond in the mini-series was some of the very best science fiction on TV in that the humour is so well tuned & the ideas & creativeness surpassed many other Science fiction shows before during & I'm not afraid to say after, after watching it is sad that the show was this good & was cancelled after season 4.....at least the entire show ended on a good note though!
Best show ever! - By: Ms. T. S. Trye, 30 Apr 2006 Farscape was an original, grown up & a fantasticallly enjoyable show. For me season three was the best season. If you buy this you will enjoy hours of first class entertainment.
