"It had too much of that kind of vibrant flexibility, the "let's just run with this and see where it goes" storytelling vibe."

Scorpius was around from the pre-production days as an insect-like alien who was supposed to be the Spock to Crais's Captain Kirk; smarter than the humanoid and angry that's he's not the one in charge. They ended up delaying his introduction and changed him quite a bit.

This wasn't originally conceived of as a very serialized or arc-y show, or at least O'Bannon hadn't really thought it through much beyond the initial premise. I think they said that the Scarrans were conceived of for the "Look at the Princess" arc, and from there Richard Manning(?) kept pushing for them to come back…

In the commentaries and special features everyone takes it as a point of pride that they were making everything up as they went along. I think they specifically point out they didn't have all the wormhole mythology stuff in mind from the start, and that it was originally just a way bring Crichton to another part of…

Last week, someone brought up that "I.E.T." isn't a better episode than "Exodus", but it's more memorable. I feel the same about these.

This is a good explanation, but my pedantry means I have to point out it's dren, not drell.

Early in Season 2 they replace the current composers with Guy Gross who is much, much, much better. It becomes one of my favorite scored series, actually. They also come up with a better version of the title theme starting in Season 3.

Farscape had a rather large budget for basic cable and the Sci-Fi Network, and it was a big part of the reason it was cancelled. I have no idea how it compared to a Star Trek series though.

Season 1 is about 50 minutes, from 2 on it's about 46.

So… this is a thing now?

I love that Vicks has become an AV Club institution. She should be our mascot.

People who have only seen one episode and don't understand the strong opinions either way club?

But to succeed on network TV you need to appeal to the widest audience possible. If anything, Glee's inaccuracies (I'm neither a theater geek or a Glee watcher, so I can't speak to them) probably help it appeal to non-theater people, while theater geeks who are watching it just because it's about theater will probably…

@avclub-01855f0cb9a656fa40d4b59ae484a8ae:disqus Family Guy?

I'm usually fine with them randomly rotating the top pick for clickbait reasons or whyever the hell they it do it they way they do. But when they chose The Following they're going too far.

If I'm restricting this to the live action space operas I'm familiar with…

I kind of like "Coup by Clam". If only because of

Yeah, there's really good stuff before it, but "A Human Reaction" is the first episode I'd consider an all-timer.

"That Old Black Magic" is one of my least favorite episodes too. But the sort of sequel is pretty great.

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