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So glad this thread is here. I'm a big stargate fan and folks always gripe about Ben and Claudia's Farscape days. So, I thought I might buy the DVDs - which weren't available except at HUGE prices. So, I checked out my local library - all there - for FREE!! Very cool.

Anyway - I'm just up to season 4 now. I totally see why the series was cancelled. The production values and editing got pretty bad during season three and only seem to have gotten worse at the beginning of season 4. Too many (way too many) episodes had a dreamy or unreal feel to them - so it was impossible to tell if anything was actually happening or accurate. Too many episodes seemed to have no point to them - like the lava episode at the beginning of season 4.

Still, I totally get why it has so many loyal fans. I adore Claudia Black from Stargate. She's amazing!!! I love seeing her in Farscape - such a different character too. Like someone said above - Ben and Claudia have fantastic chemistry. I loved Valla and Daniel on Stargate but after seeing John and Aeryn - Valla and Daniel don't hold a candle to them. (Daniel was too mean to Valla - he doesn't deserve her. LOL)

I find puppets annoying - but, they did as well as they could. Obviously with Henson's company being the main guys, puppets will be front and center whether I like them or not. The puppet characters were well fleshed out - I give them that. But seeing Pilot get upset one more time is going to kill me - I can see all the $%*@% underneath him poking sticks up and down randomly. Ugh.

Sticking Mr All American in weird, foreign, space was also a great hook. I'm totally rooting for John the whole way. Ben Browder often over acts. I think Stargate edited more of that out - Farscape left too much in. Still he's highly likable - I'd watch him in other stuff too. I also think they did a great job of creating a Sci Fi world quite different from other shows. Living ships. Plant based technology, etc.

I know Claudia Black has kicked out 1 or 2 kids in the last few years - but if she's in anything else, I'm there. I'd watch her in anything.

(BTW - the full series DVDs are now available - just became that way - at a very reasonable price. Still, nothing beats the library price - FREE!!)

ETA - I suck at editing - I should have left well enough alone.

After plugging my local library - it turns out they are missing a few disks. I went ahead and bought the few the library didn't have at iTunes. $2 bucks a piece. Worth it for a few but not the whole series. The quality (definition and music) is WAY higher at iTunes but no special features and I can't watch it laying in bed like I can the TV.

The library doesn't have The Peacekeeper Wars either, I think I will go with iTunes again - Amazon has it on back order. $105 bucks is difinitely worth it for the entire series. Anyone know if it will have more/different special features than the original packaging? On the DVDs I got from the library, there was very little commentary compared to most series - only a few eppies a season had any.

And yes, Ben Browder is WAY HOT!!!