Far and away, one of my favorite shows. The characters, the writing, the sets and the puppets are all top notch. Of course there's campiness. Of course there

Far and away, one of my favorite shows. The characters, the writing, the sets and the puppets are all top notch. Of course there's campiness. Of course there are bad episodes and tropes, but the thing taken together is a well done work of art. I'm supremely impressed that they were able to pull together support for The Peacekeeper Wars to wrap it all up. One of the things that I find most novel and appealing about Farscape is that the human might be the lead character, but The Humans are not the galaxy's bad-asses. Quite to the contrary. If not for the circumstances of Crichton's transport, he would have just been some (galactic) low tech monkey from a backwater planet. I've always found the Hollywood trope of "plucky current era humans face off against pan-galactic force and save the day" to be abused and absurd. Farscape gave that a pass by making Crichton "The dumbest smart person in the room" who didn't want to dominate. He just wanted to be left alone. Additionally, Farscape did venture a bit into the idea that if aliens exists, they likely don't look like us. There were a lot of bipeds walking around with heads on top, but there were also a good number of extremely different types.