{"id":3066,"date":"2013-08-08T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T00:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2013-08-08T20:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T00:18:02","slug":"farscape-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/farscape-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farscape (season 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;May your afterlife be almost as pleasant as mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Way We Weren&#8217;t&#8221; it&#8217;s revealed that Aeryn was previously on Moya when she was a Peacekeeper &#8212; when the previous pilot was killed and the current Pilot was brought on board. In &#8220;Out of Their Minds&#8221; the ship is attacked and everyone on board finds themselves in someone else&#8217;s body. In &#8220;My Three Crichtons&#8221; a sphere of energy penetrates the ship, eventually producing two sort-of duplicates of John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farscape<\/strong> season 2 originally aired in 2000-01. It starts up where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/farscape-season-1\/\">season 1<\/a> left off, with the main characters separated and in danger from Scorpius and Crais.<\/p>\n<p>I heard that season 2 was better than season 1 so I gave it another shot. But it continues to be mediocre, even the 3-part episode in the middle of the season. I watched more than half of season 2 before I gave up.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of the show that doesn&#8217;t do it for me is the humour. It tries to be humorous much of the time, but I don&#8217;t find it that funny.<\/p>\n<p>The look of the show is great, and the actors are probably great, but I didn&#8217;t find the stories as compelling as I wanted them to be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a bad show &#8212; it&#8217;s just mediocre. I want to watch great shows.<\/p>\n<p>If this series grabs you more than me for some reason, go for it. But I&#8217;m moving on. I&#8217;ve already found a better show &#8212; it&#8217;s called <strong>Wonderfalls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;May your afterlife be almost as pleasant as mine.&#8221; In &#8220;The Way We Weren&#8217;t&#8221; it&#8217;s revealed that Aeryn was previously on Moya when she was a Peacekeeper &#8212; when the previous pilot was killed and the current Pilot was brought on board. In &#8220;Out of Their Minds&#8221; the ship is attacked and everyone on board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,11],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}