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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Adv Films
Salesrank: 78721
Released: July 13, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Studio: Adv Films Release Date: 07/13/2004 Run time: 200 minutes
Description of Farscape - Season 4, Collection 5:
This final sequence of Farscape episodes is as effective and powerful a climax as those of earlier seasons. The three-parter "We're So Screwed" starts with "Fetal Attraction," in which the crew of Moya attempt to rescue the pregnant Aeryn Sun from her Scarren captors and end up starting a dangerous epidemic on a space station. They get Aeryn back and lose Scorpius; in "Hot to Katratzi," the necessity of saving his worst enemy--who just knows too much to be left a captive--forces John Crichton to gate-crash the Sebacean-Scarren peace conference and bluff his way to success. Seemingly betrayed by Scorpius, John snatches victory in "La Bomba," striking another deadly blow against the Scarren empire. The title of the last episode, "Bad Timing," refers both to the show's cancellation--the cast and crew felt real bitterness towards the SciFi Channel over this--and to the cliffhanger ending; the crew of Moya have to prevent a Scarren ship finding its way through the wormhole to Earth. Farscape was perhaps the best-ever television space opera and certainly the most sexy, stylish, funny, and dramatic. It will be greatly missed. --Roz Kaveney
Farscape - Season 4, Collection 5 Reviews:
Great episodes, but wait for the Starburst Editions 
2006-05-24 - This 2 DVD set gives you the final episodes of the Farscape series, and what a great series it is. Since there are enough good reviews on the actual episodes that you can find here I'm going to get to the point. If you can you really want to wait on getting this.
You see this DVD set has the final four episodes and some nice extras, but something better is on the way. As of this writing the previous three seasons of Farscape have been collected in sets called the Starburst Edition. These editions put seven episodes in one collection, digitally remaster the picture and sound, and throw in even more extras.
Mark my words. The Starburst Editions for the fourth season will come soon and you will have a chance to get the entire season on just three DVD sets instead of five for a good deal less money (30%-50% depending on where you look). Save space on your shelf AND save money at the same. All you need is a bit of patience.
PeaceKeeper's War 
2005-01-12 - I really want farscape to continue, when Zan died I cried, then it got more painful when Dargo died and now we see Aeryn and Crichton with their child and I want to see more, I want to see what happens now!
Crichton-Ben Browder is a real kick! I just love his one liners, especially when Aeryn trys speaking like crichton it cracks me up cause she's so serious when she says
The original run of "Farscape" comes to a too early end
2004-09-02 - With "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel on October 17th my timing was pretty good for finishing the fourth and final season of "Farscape" on DVD. After seeing John Crichton (Ben Browder) and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) in the trailer talking about "unfinished business," the 5th and final collection for Season 4 explains exactly what they are talking about (in fact, that clip comes from the series final first run episode).
But before the cliffhanger finale we have the three-part "We're So Screwed," which begins with Moya's crew attempting to rescue the pregnant Aeryn from the Scarrans and then escalates into something bigger and better. Episode 19, "Part 1: Fetal Attraction" (Written by David Peckinpah, Aired February 28, 2003) has Scorpius playing the front man in the rescue attempt at a Scarran Border Station when the ship holding Aeryn is docked. Rygel pretends to have the deadly disease Hynerian dermapholiica, forcing the station's medical officer to order a lockdown. But when the pretense is about to be broken, Utu-Noranti Pralatong makes the disease real, which is another threat to Aeryn and her fetus. So Jenek decides to transplant the fetus into Chiana, who is immune to the disease because she is a Nebari. This is not exactly the sort of complication we need this close to the end.
Episode 20, "Part 2: Hot to Katratzi" (Written by Carleton Eastlake, Aired March 7, 2003) has Moya's crew heading for the secret Scarran base because when they rescued Aeryn they ended up leaving Scorpius behind and he has all that wormhole information in his head. As if that were not enough of a problem when they get to Katratzi they find Commandant Grayza in the middle of peace negotiations with Staleek, the Scarran Emperor. Crichton shows up and declares he has come to sell knowledge of the wormhole to the highest bidder and that he is wearing a nuclear bomb that will explode if he gets hurt or worse. Meanwhile, his crewmates are trying to save Scorpius, or kill him, before he breaks. Exciting, huh?
Episode 21, "Part 3: La Bomba" (Written by Mark Saraceni, Aired March 14, 2003), reveals there are plans within plans within plans. Crichton has rescued Scorpius only to be betrayed, but Scorpy is not really after Crichton. He wants to use the wormhole knowledge to destroy the Scarrans and their invasion fleet, while Crichton is still walking around with a nuclear bomb that could come in handy at the right moment. I was reminded of the second season of "24" by this episode in that if you are going to make a nuclear bomb a big part of the plotline then you should not cheat and avoid having the thing go boom. There are some wonderful character moments in this one when the crew think they are once again facing death.
The final episode is entitled "Bad Timing" (Written by David Kemper, Aired March 21, 2003) not only because it takes a shot at the Science Fiction channel for canceling its signature series when clearly there was a fifth season's worth of stories needed to resolve everything, but because the usual Farscape bad luck applies to Crichton and Aeryn when they finally try to sit down and have a quiet little moment where they can deal with their relationship. Of course there are other problems. Moya's crew learns that Scorpius is working with Captain Braca, so they strand Scorpy and Sikozu in deep space so they can go back with Braca. Then there is the fact that the Scarrans are about to send their invasion fleet through a wormhole to Earth and the only hope for Crichton to collapse the wormhole and save his home planet is if his module is flown by Pilot.
"Bad Timing" could have served as the ultimate "fini" for "Farscape" given the Earth invasion plotline and a final scene between Crichton and his father, but then the very last scene gives us another "Farscape" cliffhanger at Crichton and Aeryn's expense. If I did not know we are getting a mini-series to continue the story next month then I would have been as outraged and agitated as all the other "Farscape" fans who suffered through the shock of cancellation. The four episodes on this final DVD really do focus on the Crichton-Aeryn-Scopius (fill in the blank) triangle, with everybody else left pretty much in the background (although Pilot gets a big moment for once). While "Farscape" did not have the master five-year plan of "Babylon 5" it certainly did have a sense of progression through each year, something the original "Star Trek" could not claim. This series should still be the crown jewel of the Sci Fi Channel. "Stargate SG-1" is a superb series, but you need lots of flashy aliens in a galaxy far, far away to be your signature show.
FS sucks? I don't think so!!
2004-08-15 - No offense to C. McCorkle "daddeo" - PUHLEASE FS is way better than Andromeda!! FS is a thinking person's show...maybe that's why so many don't like it...they have to think a bit while watching it.
FS is the best scifi show ever. Action, adventure, wee bit o' romance and cool puppets! I have always like the fact that the eps weren't ever wrapped up in a nice neat little package with a pretty little bow at the end of each one. Meaning, unlike any incarnation fo ST, FS characters were not all happy and "everything is right with the world" at the end of each and every eps. FS is more like reality than any "reality" show out there. The characters are real and it has been a joy to watch each of them develop into better people/aliens/whathaveya and into a working, caring team.
Long LIVE FS!!
Farscape: One of the best!
2004-08-13 - I will admit that I didn't watch this show until the sixth or seventh episode when both my brother and boyfriend insisted that I watch. As a die hard Babylon 5 fan, I thought nothing would engage me in the way B5 did. I was wrong. In the four years that Farscape ran, we saw these characters grow and change and become the crew of Moya, as well as a family. we cared about them and understood them. It was serialized, as was Babylon 5, which is why it was so good. Situations triggered future events, and gave it a sense of continuity. These last few episodes show how much they changed. At first all John wanted to do was go home, but made the ultimate sacrifice in the end to save his planet and both Peacekeepers and Scarrens.
If you want something that is just standalone episodes, go watch Outer Limits. Serialization works because it brings the viewer into the storyline, even the latest Star Trek has become more serialized.
