#john & scorpius

[seapotty]

Farscape leftovers love & peace

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

I like to imagine that, due to his time digging around Crichton's brain for the wormhole technology knowledge, Scorpius has become the only member of the cast who understands what John Crichton is talking about when he makes pop culture/historical references.

John: (makes an obscure reference to Earth popular culture/history)

Scorpius:

I also believe that Scorpius makes those references to himself all to time, much to his own chagrin.

[roennq]

Farscape premiered on Sci-Fi Channel on 19 March 1999. Starring Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Virginia Hey, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Lani John Tupu, Jonathan Hardy, Tammy Macintosh, and Wayne Pygram, the show ran for four seasons and concluded with a two-part miniseries in 2004.

Opening and Closing Themes for Seasons 1 and 2 (by Braedy Neal) and Seasons 3 and 4 (by Guy Gross)

"My name is John Crichton, an astronaut. A radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole. Now I'm lost in some distant part of the universe on a ship – a living ship, full of strange alien life forms. Help me. Listen, please. Is there anybody out there who can hear me? I'm being hunted by an insane military commander. I’m doing everything I can. I'm just looking for a way home..."

Happy 25th Anniversary, Farscape! 💖

[raggedlyshorn]

zero effort was put into this anyways back to studying for finals <3

[table-top-horror]

Farscape 1999-2004

[come-chaos]

I just finished Farscape S1 again and I think I'm gonna cry. First I was gonna say that they just don't make shows like this anymore, but then I remembered that they never made shows like this in the before either, except for that time when they made Farscape.

It's so weird in such a powerful way. The design choices alone will never leave me alone ever. I'm obsessed, I can't stop staring. Everything is batshit and John Crichton the human, whom we initially expect to chiefly relate to, responds to the batshitness by going increasingly batshit himself, which allows us to view him from the perspective of the alien characters. Suddenly, we see the human as just as alien as everyone else, and this happens again and again, and it's so well done. At the same time, he only becomes more endearing. Aren't we all lost in the chaos? When he chooses gentleness and kindness again and again, I'm overjoyed.

Aeryn is. Aeryn is everything. I love her so much. She's everything, I don't have the words.

And gods, D'Argo has so much soul. Nothing but your standard warrior stereotype on the surface, but underneath, he has such a complex and vulnerable heart. And he's so young. So, so young.

I love Zhaan as a Pa'u and my heart fucking aches for her. I so wish she could have remained happy. I get so angry with the show for taking that from her, but somehow it only seems to increase my obsession with it.

Chiana, who only knows how to engage with the world as an object of desire. It's the oldest story in the book, and yet no one ever seems to tell it from the girl's perspective. Farscape does. Farscape lets her be a real person.

And Farscape does all of this so subtly. You can miss all of this and still enjoy the show, but it's there, and it's incredible.

I haven't mentioned Pilot or Crais yet, but gods, I love Pilot so much, and I'm so weak for the kind of plot twist the end of S1 has in store for Crais. I also haven't mentioned Rygel. The truth is that he annoys me deeply, but I'm also acutely aware that he's essential to this story that I'm so obsessed with. He's one of the many, many mosquito bites of this show, and I just can't stop itching, and it's frustrating as hell, but it feels damn good.

Last but not least, Scorpius. Scorpy Scorps, my man, my sexy, soft-spoken, disgusting blorbo. Oh you tortured torturer in your shiny black fever dream of a fetish outfit. What a backstory you have. I'm gonna stop writing this post now and start watching S2.

[freckleslikestars]

inspired by the comprehensive rygel bitch compilation by @gayspock, have the total farscape bitch tally. 88 episodes and a 2 part miniseries lead to 70 instances of the word bitch.

[isharaneith]

My YouTube playlist with fan videos for Farscape. This is the oldest playlist of mine. I've started it before Google bought YouTube. So many videos disappeared in the meanwhile :(. Fortunately, it still grows. Sometimes with new videos, sometimes with some old gems I just haven't discovered before. The vast majority are general Farscape and John/Aeryn, but I think every character and relationship is somehow there. It's just hard to track specific themes with older videos.

I'm going to repeat myself, over and over. But I think, the following, applies to all fandoms.

In my opinion, playlists are currently one of the best ways to find fan videos on YouTube. Especially for less popular or older fandoms or smaller creators. If you have one created for Farscape, I encourage you to reblog or comment under this post with the link. Let's spread the love for vids and vidders and help each other find hidden gems.

Also, please, if you like any of the videos, don't get discouraged by the fact that they're old. Like, save and make comments. I have yet to find a creator who isn't happy when people interact with their older creations. It can make someone's day. Who knows, maybe it will motivate them to dust off their skills and love for the fandom, if they have time.

[1000-worms]

farscape posting

[hetchdrive]

Sorry to post about Farscape only to talk about whatever the hell is going on with Scorpius-that-lives-in-John's-brain but what. Oh my god. You expect me to just be normal about that? John's voice of self-preservation which he himself deliberates on calling his guardian angel is an evil guy who tortured him? And also he's a genetic mistake who is only allowed to continue existing in this militaristic culture because he's developed a specialized skillset and made himself useful? Huh? You expect me to be normal about this weird little freak of a man who shouldn't exist and who put himself inside someone else's head so he could continue to subconsciously interrogate him? But then that version of him protects John (so that the real Scorpius can someday collect the information he's been collecting from John's brain) from certain death and from somebody else torturing him??? Hello??? Can anyone hear me??? Is there anybody out there who can help me--

[vertigoartgore]

Farscape's John Crichton & Aeryn Sun by Jason Palmer.

[seapotty]

Farscape studies.. Rumors say season 5 was going to write off Scorpius for good, meeting his end at the hands of crazed spaceman John Crichton as he is gassed and thrown with little afterthought into the mechanical mouth of the Zaglo-max (earth eng translation: The Juicer)

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

One thing I really like about John Crichton is that he is 100% willing to kill anyone that tries to kill him, his ex-fascist lady love, his not-a-Klingon platonic life partner, his blue mom, his blue stepdaughter, his aristocratic Muppet frenemy, his blue tentacled Muppet pal or the giant whale starship they all travel in, especially if that person is Captain Ahab in space or a half-lizard leather fetishist space Nazi.

[rockjjing]

revenging angel if it was good

[thecraischronicles]

[dracfields]

you can run but you cannot hide (x)

farscape + it's no good by depeche mode