One of the reasons behind the dodgy issues with the first half of season 1 is that they were actually producing two episodes at once. By which I mean filming. This made life very difficult for everyone, and everything suffered. Given that, I'm pleased season 1 starts as strongly as it does.

Claudia Black, by the way, was simultaneously also shooting Pitch Black: there's a reason she looks so tired in that movie.

Not only two episodes, but two non-consecutive episodes, which really baffles me.

Yeah, their production schedule for the first half of season 1 must have been insane.

In Farscape, Aeryn is a badass and Crichton is a geek.

Watching weekly, it's very interesting to see Crichton turn from freshly-scrubbed, albeit geeky, BMOC into a traumatized freak, thence into realpolitik. The color-coding is really obvious, when you're watching in a marathon: he puts on the black leather one day, just putting on a costume to play a role, and he never changes back into the khakis he wore aboard.

(And then he gets a bad haircut, but that is not directly indicative of his mental health, or anyway I hope not.)

(And then he gets a bad haircut, but that is not directly indicative of his mental health, or anyway I hope not.)

Is so. Every season after S1 he starts out insane and with bad hair. It's a thing.

He starts Season 3 unable to speak English, even.

I watched most of season one of Farscape, and I liked it, but honestly, all the talk about the POV character going insane has me worried that I should skip the rest. What I've seen of later seasons was too weird to believe, coming at it without context. I'm debating buying the DVDs so I don't have to wait for Netflix to deliver.

It's best seen in order; the buildup to crazy makes plenty of sense that way.

Okay, I trust you. At least, I've already seen the last episode, so I won't be totally heartbroken when I get there.