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I love Farscape but damn it has a some unanswered questions...

posted 18 years ago by Kuato_and_George
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I'm not talking about things open to interpretation because I don't mind those. But Farscape is notorious for being something up, only to never mention it again. Or completely bring something out of nowhere.

Shikozu a Scarren spy? What? The Kallish hate the Scarrens. And her death? I mean I assumed she died but it was confusing Scorpious mentions "her last mission" and never explains that. And nobody else even asks where she is (or ever finds out she's the spy).

Grayza pregnant? Since when?

Jool had a thing for Chriton? Since when? In her last episode she apeard to be interested in D'Argo.

I'm sure I'm missing a few too.

I love this series but oly hell do they leave some errors.

[–] addnamehere 18 years ago

Shikozu was constantly stabbing people in the back for higher profits pretty much from what I could see. Anything that would be profitable for her, she would do.

Grayza got pregnant after season 5 lol

About Jool... hm... well she does like Dargo more I believe, but I think she still liked John too.

[–] tajshan 18 years ago

Jool had a thing for Chriton? Since when? In her last episode she apeard to be interested in D'Argo

Yeeeahh, I was scratchin' my head about that one too.... They never explained how Interions have same DNA as humans unless they're the result of the genetic altering done on the humans that the Idolons abducted eons ago that produced the Sebacens(Peacekeepers).

[–] Betsyb-1 18 years ago

farscape always has unanswered questions. And the Jool thing annoyed me too. She never even seemed to like him that much never mind want him.

Sikozu had to be a spy. If Scorpy found John and used wormholes the Kalish would all die. Wormholes don't discriminate. The Kalish are everywhere the Scarrens are. She had to betray Scorpy to save her people. Also they had promised her people freedom in exchange. She only had one loyalty from day one. Her people. She did what she had to do.

The Grayza thing is annoying but Rebecca Riggs was pregnant in real life. They had no choice but to work it in.

[–] Calypso_sanny 18 years ago

The Grayza thing annoying? Why? Did she never have sex before or something?

Moya's crew always had doubts about Sikuzo's loyalty from her arrival on board Elack, probably right up until she wasted the Scarran assault squad in the Chrysterium cavern. Even then Scorpius always plays his cards close to his chest and is unlikely ever to trust anyone. However it does seem uncharacteristically
naive of her to believe a Scarran promise.

Jool was a galactic slapper who would have allowed anyone to hump her.

Farscape wouldn't be Farscape without the discontinuity.

Why do Crichton and Einstein maintain that the human can't make wormhole weapons when Talyn John destroyed a Scarran Dreadnought with Furlowe's copy of his pathetic module?

Why was it that until the Peacekeeper Wars Scarrans were extremely difficult to kill yet we see them being taken out by single pulse blasts.

Luxans, including D'argo were considered fairly useless when it came to fighting despite their warrior code - especially when Natira captures D'argo at her Shadow Depository, yet Luxans manage to track and board the Scarran Decimator undetected - destroying most of the Scarran guard and escaping virtually unscathed.

[–] jberning 18 years ago

I think a lot of the soldiers were actuall charrid warriors. They had the same look as other charrid soldiers we had seen before and the faces were extremely short to be scarrans. The only short face scarrans were the higher ranking ones and they would not be the ones fighting.

Also, for a lot of the spoilers keep in mind that they had to wrap up an entire season in 4 episodes. A lot of this would have been explained more fully in detail if they could have had the full season. And the pregnancy could have come form anything. Sabeceans can keep their child without being "pregnant" for along itme. That's why aeryn did not know who the father of her child was at first.

[–] monkeyversusrobot 16 years ago

Why do Crichton and Einstein maintain that the human can't make wormhole weapons when Talyn John destroyed a Scarran Dreadnought with Furlowe's copy of his pathetic module?

The Moya Crichton couldn't make wormhole weapons because he did not have the knowledge unlocked. He had the potential to eventually create them, but he wasn't going to tell Staleek that. He travels back to Einstein later and has him unlock the knowledge.

[–] raf-33 16 years ago

Yep, Talyn John gets unlocked by Jack-the-ancient in the same episode he uses the wormhole to destroy the dreadnought. I'm not sure that was a "wormhole weapon", more just the fact that he suddenly had the ability to understand the knowledge he had more clearly and used that knowledge to manipulate a wormhole into bringing the energy of a star back through it. The Moya John gets unlocked during Peacekeeper Wars and creates a true weapon, some kind of self-sustaining vortex capable of infinite magnitude. Man, I think I've used up my entire quota of big words for this week.

And Jool was not a slut, anything but. She had spent 6 months on an isolated planet with only priests for company then suddenly the intruder she was about to disembowel turns out to be Chrihton. That kiss was just affection, if a little carried away...

Hell, she was constantly referring to Chianna as a 'trelk' and even Sikozu let more aliens grope her t*ts. Nah, she was just exceedingly pleased to see John.

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[–] PKBitchGirl 16 years ago

Grayza pregnant? Since when?
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Er, since the actress had sex and conceived a child?

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[–] Kuato_and_George 13 years ago

since I watched this movie? I didn't realize that. Been watching season 4 with the intentions of watching this afterward. Took me longer than I realized.

I still have some questions, but some things (in a way) seem to have been answered. After watching the movie, I watched one of the documentaries. It was the one about the movie itself, not the effects, sketches, and what not. Apparently Farscape has something of a history with last minute edits. They even call it a "Farscape kind of day." That explains why things have sometimes come off as sloppy with this show.

Shikozu was clearly NOT a spy from the beginning of her appearance on the show. I don't even think they came up with tie idea of it until sometime during the filming of the miniseries. It's sloppy and bothers me, but to satisfy my inner nerd, I see her turning sometime in between season 4 and the miniseries.

Truth be told, I think she was playing both sides. She was a Kallish resistance member (and truly believed in it) for a while. But when she thought the Scarrens would win the war, she opted to side with the winning team. I think Aknar even mentions getting info from an "unlikely source", which makes me think she turned late in the game. But would gladly still side with the Kallish if they won.

Was Rebecca Riggs pregnant during filming? Some of you mentioned that. If they were forced to write it it so be it, but they could have at least attempted to explain it (though they may have by having Chricton mention he was raped).

The Jool thing was total BS and made no sense. No excusing it imo.

Overall, I enjoyed the hell out of it again. But some of the plot holes and occasional boring/matter of fact action (Shikozu and Chianna vs those mercenaries) bugs me.

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[–] The-Merovingian 12 years ago

Sikozu actually tells Scorpius that the Scarrans had promised to free her people in exchange for her spying. This sounds like a strong deal for any dedicated Kalish to make.

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[–] Schmacky1 12 years ago

She probably reasonably knew that they wouldn't stay true to their deal. But, it was a chance. And a better chance than what was happening with Scorpius.

The PKs weren't going to win the war against the Scarrans, her people would suffer and they would die.. she did what she had to do even if it didn't have the best odds.

[–] Strazdamonas 13 years ago

Well sikozu character wasp retty much ruined in the peacekeeper wars so i wont put much there. grayza could be pregnant for many reasons, manipulation of chricton, others, way to be kept alive by the coucilor after failing because he obviuosly loved her and so on, though its not well explained.

jool ALWAYS had a thing for chrichton. yes she did was intrested in Dargo but even in her goodbye it is clear she would want chrichton to stay with her. she is not so striag forward like Chiana though.
but generally i agree there are many questions left unanswered, but farscape were always like that.

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[–] Beastgirl2 13 years ago

Yeah, I think the thing that bothered me most was how they ruined Sikozu's character. It was so disappointing because just a couple episodes earlier they had made a big deal about her having this special power to kill the Scarans. And as others have said, she was always the smart, cynical one who wouldn't have believed Scarans would keep a promise.

Jool didn't even seem like the same character. I understand that she was stuck on that planet for a while and that might have made her tougher, but it just seemed like she had lost her essence.

D'Argo was my favorite character, so I was really disappointed when he died. It felt out of place to me, like they just had to have a main character die to make it sad and dramatic. We'd already seen plenty of tragedy and characters sacrificing themselves during the series; it wasn't necessary to have D'Argo die, in my opinion.

I was glad that at least John and Aeryn had a happy ending.

[–] KthulhuX 13 years ago

The Jool thing was completely random.

The Sikozu thing was also pretty damned random. It's made worse by the fact that there were plenty of other times that she could have betrayed them to far better effect. Most notably in "We're So Screwed" or pretty much any time PRIOR to when she was exposed in PKW. Really, it just felt like they wanted another twist, so they randomly threw in Sikozu being a Scarran spy for no real reason.

Sikozu's new look in the mini-series was a downgrade as well.

[–] Schmacky1 13 years ago

The Jool thing was weird, but whatever, they wanted some funny sexual tension thing with Jool/John/Aeryn../Rygel. "Get your own fantasy, they're having MY baby!" Come on, that line was funny!

As for Grayza.. I don't see how it's weird and out of nowhere. Peacekeepers have sex and babies too ya know. Grayza either A) was impregnated by whomever or B) John and had the fetus released after he fell off the radar in the S4 finale. Or, she really did get pregnant by the Grand Chancellor, using the heppal oil and then the pregnancy to secure her spot in PK politics.

[–] Talamasca2 10 years ago

Shikozu a Scarren spy?

Shikozu was outed as a Scarren spy when Einstein sent John worldhopping in Unrealized Reality. Later, John went back to one of those worlds to get information on Katratzi from Shikozu/Stark. If the Katratzi in John's reality was in the exact same place as the Shikozu/Stark's Katratzi, it does make sense that other details between the multiple realities were in alignment.