The Laughing Wolf

Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars

No spoilers, just a mini-ode to my geekiness. If you missed Farscape during its run on Sci-Fi, you truly missed some of the best writing, directing, production, and acting to grace the small screen. It often wasn’t cutting edge, it was sometimes delightfully bleeding edge, from turning the female warrior concept inside-out and rotating 90 degrees to giving a whole new meaning to tonguing. It was serious, it was funny, it was extremely well done, and it was killed by a bunch of REMFs that need to learn the meaning of unfriendly fire.

The Peacekeeper Wars is a wrap-up for the show courtesy of the Jim Henson group, that bought the show back along with their other stuff from the REMFs. From watching it, one gets the feeling that they tried to condense several seasons of shows down, so as to resolve things and give it a proper send-off. The movie is good, and it is vintage Farscape on many levels, but you can feel the rush, the compacting. I mourn what might have been had they been given the time to carry things on out. I rejoice in what was done and in the closure. Farscape has never been one to shy away from the costs of decisions, and I will say that more than one character dies, and we are not talking walk-ons here. Others live. Some die and live well, and others do not. There is complexity, there is pathos, there is joy, and there is reality in an unreal world.

Thank you to the Jim Henson Company and Hallmark for the send-off. Thank you to the actors, the writers, directors, producers, and crew in what was obviously a labor of love. I still mourn what might have been, but am reasonably content with what we got. I do wish the story did not have to end.

LW