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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Adv Films
Salesrank: 33337
Released: August 9, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Don’t get your shivvies in an uproar! It’s the fifth collection in the Starburst Edition of Farscape -- the middle of Season 2! "I’m just looking for a way home." Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) is lost. Really, really lost. Shot through a wormhole during an experimental space mission, he’s in a distant part of the universe, far from everything and everyone he’s ever known. Yes, he’s made friends with a bizarre crew of alien ex-cons onboard the massive living ship called Moya. He’s even risked his life for them. But he’s made some powerful enemies, too. Especially Scorpius, an obsessed military leader – and sadistic horror – who wants a secret technology that’s hidden deep in Crichton’s subconscious. And nightmare of nightmares, Scorpius has implanted a neural clone of himself into Crichton’s brain to hunt down the information he seeks, even if Crichton’s sanity is destroyed in the process! An ordinary guy on an extraordinary journey, Crichton is doing his best… to survive. Home has never seemed so far away. Farscape is an adventure as broad and weird as the universe -- full of strange creatures, bizarre twists, irreverent humor, raucous action, passion, and romance! Produced in Australia with the incredible talents of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Farscape is the fantasy-scifi-drama-romance-comedy-adventure you will always remember!
Farscape - Season 2, Collection 2 (Starburst Edition) Reviews:
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2008-07-28 - Don't think that just because Farscape Starburst edition is now in the four disc single sided format that Amazon will ship the most currant edition to you. I have had to return half my order because they sent the double sided disc's. I even called before placing my order but they could not confirm what version they would be sending. BEWARE. The only postive thing is that returns ship free.
Kind of the bump in the road... 
2008-07-03 - The second season started with a bang but here, due to the Look at the Princess episodes, it slows down just a tad. We get into a lot of chatacter development and interaction while learning a little more about the Peacekeepers and their interaction with other planets and nations. In other words, lots of talking and little action.
Season 2 is when it all changed... 
2007-11-30 - I love Farscape. Even episodes I don't like, I still love because the show at its worst was still better than anything else I've found on television before or since.
This collection from Season 2 begins with arguably the best stand alone episode of the series. Out of Their Minds takes the conventional scifi tactic of having characters switch bodies and blows it out of the water. The entire crew switches bodies not once, but twice. As the episode progresses the audience is treated to some of the best acting of the series as the actors embody each other to perfection.
The Look At The Princess trilogy is the first three episode arc Farscape has attempted and the first of two this season. While not the strongest trilogy of the series, plot lines are advanced, characters evolve and in typical Farscape fashion the suspense, thrills and stakes are extreme.
In My Three Crichtons, Ben Browder gets to stretch his considerable acting muscles and play not one, but three different incarnations of John. That alone makes this episode worth watching. Throw in a very thought provoking ending and the episode is worth it.
Beware of Dog is an episode I love not for the main plot so much as the character development that effortlessly occurs with it. John and Aeryn's love story-which got a major boost in the LatP trilogy-gets a further nudge here. John's descent into madness as a result of the neurochip Scorpius implanted in his brain continues at breakneck speed.
Lastly, Won't Get Fooled Again takes us back to Earth, only something is very, very wrong. This time around, John immediately realizes he's not really on Earth. Familiar faces show up playing very different roles. The Scorpius Clone offers him advice and encouragement, letting him know what's really going on. The episode is darkly hysterical, with an emphasis on the hysteria.
All in all, this collection offers some of the strongest episodes of the season (and series) along with a few episodes I consider weaker. But as I said, any Farscape is amazing and every episode keeps me glued to the screen-even for the fifth or sixth viewing.
The Second Starburst of the Second Season
2007-05-14 - As a diehard Farscape fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this second Starburst into the Second Season. The 7 episodes contained are "Dream A Little Dream", "Out Of Their Minds", "My Three Crichtons", "Look At The Princess Part 1; A Kiss Is But A Kiss", "Look At The Princess Part 2; I Do, I Think", "Look At The Princess Part 3; The Maltese Chrichton" and finally "Beware Of Dog". You also get a 30 minute interview with Virginia Hey entitled, "Building Zhan" as well as Deleted Scenes and Bloopers from Season 2, The Farspeak Game which challenges your knowledge of some of the vocabulary used in the show,and Actor biograpies for Anthony Simcoe (D'Argo) and Virginia Hey (Zhaan), The Moya Menu, A segment of cool Farscape Facts, Alien Encounters and Alien Races Multimedia Gallery using cuts from the shows and a production design gallery of drawings. There are more things in there from this season as well as season 3, making this a rather busy 4 disc set from ADV Films.
I was very happy to be able to catch all three of the "Look At The Princess" episodes one after the other as it is almost like having a Farscape Movie before the "Peacekeeper Wars" came about. The episode of "My Three Chrichtons" was also a stretch for actor Ben Browder, playing three different versions of his character, each sharing characteristics but in some rather unexpected sideways slants. The Episode of "Out Of Their Minds" also is unexpectedly filled with some tongue in cheek humor as the characters are shifted about in their bodies one from another and take up the personalities of each other with some rather unexpected results as well as curiousities satisfied. If you can't afford to get an entire seasons' run, the Starbursts are a good value for the dollar.
Gotta love Farscape.
2007-04-17 - Weird critters, great characters, strange plotlines, and lots of things that go 'boom.' This set includes the "Look at the Princess" three-episode arc and "Out of Their Minds" (which, yes, includes the switching-bodies gimmick--but when you have as good an ensemble of actors as this, it works very well).
I'm really glad that ADV switched to four-disc/single-sided sets instead of the 2-disc/double-sided sets. I haven't had any problems with skipping or freezing.
