I stalled half way through season one of Farscape, because it is one of the worst TV shows I have ever seen. In fact I can’t currently think of another I hated more. Lame attempts at humour, shockingly bad dialogue, bad writing in general, poor acting. An unbelievably bad show.

And yet for some reason everyone is so positive about this show. I didn’t (and can’t) understand why it’s so hard to find a negative opinion about something clearly so abysmal. Far better shows have far more detractors.

What it does have going for it is an interesting premise and interesting (if rather clichéd) characters. I wanted to persevere so I searched and did eventually find a few people saying what I hoped – it starts off rocky, and only gets better later in the series.

So I came back to it, and I’m now a few episodes past half way. It is getting better, although it still has a long way to go before I’d be willing to pursue season two.

I can only assume (or hope) that the show gets so good that it wipes clean the memory of the first half.

I think this show should be called “Space Emergency!” Every episode has a fairly predictable trajectory and outcome: something terrible and space-related happens! the main characters’ abilities and/or the ship are compromised by space demons/viruses/evil wizards! Everything is fine! Yet every time it happens, they seem surprised, as if they have no long-term memory.

This is not to say that it is not fun to watch.

Up to episode 20. This is some really good TV. Shame that it was too expensive for the sci-fi chanel to keep

Consumed Up through Disc 3

Just finished 1st 2 episodes. Farscape has finally made its way up in my netflix queue