Farscape - Season 4, Collection 2 (Starburst Edition)

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Farscape is an enduring sci-fi franchise, thanks to thrilling yarns, plenty of space opera, and a menagerie of captivating aliens, courtesy of the Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Now, thanks to the Starburst Editions, fans can load up on the ultimate Farscape experience, packed with brand new extras at a low low price!

Customer Reviews:

Farscape is great!.......2007-04-02

I started watching Farscape in Season 3. I watched all episodes and reruns I could get my hands on. I think they were INSANE to drop it from television.

I eventually bought the entire collection at once.

The only reason I gave this a 4 out of 5 stars, is because of the quality of the DVD. The inner clips of the box break very easily. The DVD always defaults back to subtitles between episodes, which is really annoying.

Even with the problems of the DVD, I love this set.

Still One of the Best.......2007-01-04

This series, all of it, is still one of the most original, well-written, well-acted science fiction adventure shows to come along in years. I've heard it said it picks up where the "bar scene" in Star Wars left off. But it goes way beyond that! It's a show that can be watched over and over yet always please visually, and stories are seldom predictable. Superior writing, excellent acting, and easily some of the best special effects seen anywhere. I only wish there had been a season five.

Best...show...ever!.......2007-01-04

The whole 4 seasons are fantastic. Season 3 was, imho, the best ever, but, season 4 was heartbreaking and breath-taking and second only to season 3. Buy it and watch over and over.

Sex, Chocolate and Farscape.......2006-11-10

. . .even when it's bad it's still pretty good.

If you love Farscape, why are you even reading this? Buy the DVD and beat yourself for waiting so long. If you don't have the money, get off of Amazon and get a job. It's worth having and if you don't have this one, how are you going to have all 12? "Gotta Catch 'em All"

Some of my Favorite Episodes of the Best Series Ever Put on TV.......2006-09-08

The Best? I don't know, but it's up there. Season four of Farscape starts out a little unevenly and without the intensity of season three, but here in collection two something starts. It begins in "A Perfect Murder," continues in "Coup by Clam," then it goes into overdrive in "Unrealized Reality," and it never looks back. I'm not going to try to judge which episodes of Farscape are the best, but the second half of season four, begining with "Unrealized Reality," together with "The Peacekeeper Wars," are the episodes I watch over and over and over and I never get tired of them. That is why it was such a tragedy that there was never a season five. Yeah, there's only one commentary; I'll live. This is Farscape, and this collection has some of the best episodes Farscape produced.

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Moya gets attacked four episodes in a row and other fun
Brilliant - totally frelling brilliant
A GREAT SET
A GREAT SET
A collection of good episodes (but not the best...)

Farscape - Season 4, Collection 2
Director: Tony Tilse , Geoff Bennett (II) , and Ian Watson (II)
Manufacturer: Adv Films
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Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2004-01-27

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Episodes 6-10 of Farscape's fourth season continue the themes set at the start of the year while concentrating on one-off adventures. John Crichton is still upset that Aeryn Sun has not confided in him about her pregnancy; Aeryn is still trying to cope with the loss of his dead copy; Chiana is trying in her lascivious way to get them back together; Scorpius and Sikozu are gradually becoming integrated into the life of the crew, and John and the others are trying to learn to trust their former arch-enemy. In "Natural Election," the process of choosing which of the crew shall be captain becomes more urgent when the living ship Moya is attacked by a space-dwelling plant that hangs around wormholes; "John Quixote" has Crichton and Chiana trapped in a surreal gameworld full of old friends and enemies; in "I Shrink, Therefore I Am," Crichton has to rescue his friends from bounty-hunters who have shrunk them and hidden them in their heavily armored bodies. Aeryn finds herself compelled to homicidal violence in "A Prefect Murder" and time goes wonky on her; Crichton has to get into drag and Scorpius has to vomit a lot to save their crewmates from getting caught in the cross-fire of "Coup by Clam." These are enjoyable albeit routine episodes of the most imaginative space opera ever to hit the TV screen, though they only hint at the wonders that were to come later in this final season. --Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews:

Moya gets attacked four episodes in a row and other fun.......2004-08-01

The common denominator for four of the five episodes collected on volume 2 of the fourth season of "Farscape" is that Moya gets attacked. Usually that is the subplot for these episodes, but it is starting to get to the point where Pilot is going to leave the crew stranded somewhere and take Moya to a safe quadrant of the universe:

Episode 406, "Natural Election" (Written by Sophie C. Hopkins, Aired July 19, 2002) begins the attacks on Moya when a large organism attaches to hull and starts eating her skin and penetrating her systems. All this is after Crichton successfully predicts the opening of a wormhole, which is going to be a handy talent down the road. The crew also finally picks a captain for Moya (and I guessed right!). So the beginning and ending have some importance and the middle gives the crew something to run around and do in between.

Episode 407, "John Quixote" (Written by Ben Browder, Aired July 26, 2002) is a wild episode where Chiana gets Crichton trapped in a virtual reality simulation and have to win a game run by an unstable Stark to get out alive. This is another one of those "Farscape" episodes where things get totally weird. D'Argo is the Wicked Witch, Aeryn the Princess that needs to be rescued, Rygel the Black Knight, and you have to see what happened to Zhaan. Meanwhile, Moya is in danger of being attacked from within by Scorpius, which is not going to be a good thing. There is little to do with the fourth season story arc here, but the absurdity does comment on the characters and their involved relationships.

Episode 408, "I Shrink Therefore I Am" (Written by Christopher Wheeler, Aired August 2, 2002) is another fun episode as a gang of ruthless bounty hunters seizes Moya to capture Crichton and shrinks the crew. Then they can slip the wee folk into their body armor as a way of protecting themselves from Crichton. But then it turns out that Axikor, the head bounty hunter, turns out to be something other than he pretends and with a different agenda from the rest of the gang. Things get a bit silly in the end, but that is what happens when people can change sizes at the punch of a button. Still, there are some key developments with Scorpius, who is obviously going to play a role in something important this season, but at this point we have no clue of what it might be.

Episode 409, "A Perfect Murder" (Written by Mark Saraceni, Aired August 9, 2002) has the crew trying to get assistance on a world ruled by warring clans. The peace process gets derailed when Aeryn is accused of assassinating the next leader of the clan while Chiana cannot help but say the wrong thing pretty much every time she opens her mouth. This one gets a bit convoluted and to no great end in terms of the larger picture.

Episode 410, "Coup by Clam" (Written by Emily Skopov, Aired August 16, 2002) finds an alien doctor named Tumii has poisoned Moya's crew with deadly mollusks while they are being held in quarantine and will not give them the anecdote unless they pay through their collective noses. Things progress to the point where Aeryn and Sikozu have to go into a club for "gentlemen," but before you get excited about that you need to know that this one ends up with Crichton and D'Argo in drag. Of course, in the context of "Farscape" this is actually a good thing.

These are entertaining episodes, which is pretty much a constant for the "Farscape" series, but collectively they are just treading water. However, things pick up big time with the third DVD in this series as Crichton discovers that apparently you can go home again.

Brilliant - totally frelling brilliant.......2004-02-19

I'm British and I get the region 2 DVDs, but I CAN say that these episodes, while not being the best of the seasons, are a welcome return to the season one stories. Although many think that season four is the weakest, while I agree to a degree, Farscape still remains as the best written, best acted SF show on telly.

And to that guy who thinks that A Prefect Murder is edited wrongly by ADV, maybe he should watch the episode again. The first four scenes are repeated over and over for the first ten minutes of the show from the different character's perspectives. It's an artistic thing, a different way to tell a story, it's EXPERIMENTAL, and it's one of the reasons why I love the damn show.

A GREAT SET.......2004-02-17

This is an incredible collection!

By the way, another review on this page - "Farscape is great but this collection has problems" written by "a viewer from peeksill" COMPLETELY misses the point of the episode "A Prefect Murder." There's nothing at all wrong with the DVDs. What's happening in the shots he describes is a PREMONITION. Aeryn is having a premonition of violent acts she later is compelled to commit. It's what the episode is about! The shots are repeated because she is experiencing the events again.

This collection is great. There's a wonderful and funny interview with Jonathan Hardy, who is the voice of Rygel, and LOTS more. FARSCAPE is an educated, exciting show!

A GREAT SET.......2004-02-17

This is an incredible collection!

This collection is great. There's a wonderful and funny interview with Jonathan Hardy, who is the voice of Rygel, and LOTS more. FARSCAPE is an educated, exciting show!

A collection of good episodes (but not the best...).......2004-02-02

For this collection of episodes from season 4 of "Farscape", we get a set of good episodes (not the best this season has to offer, but enjoyable nevertheless) which focus on the crew of Moya as their problems seem to get worse and worse. Crichton and Aeryn seem to be unable to connect, their nemesis Scorpius is now residing with them, and the tension from everyone else is noticeable. Episodes include the surreal "John Quixote", which features memorable faces from the show's run and enough references to Max Headroom and Monty Python to tide you by; "I Shrink Therefore I Am", which involve Crichton's attempt to save the crew from bounty hunters with the help of Scorpius; and "A Prefect Muder", in which Aeryn becomes an unwilling assassin. Of course, a few episodes later, things really pick up, but that's another story... The special features are good, and the video and audio aren't all bad. Recommended for fans.

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