Farscape - Season 4, Collection 4
by Geoff Bennett, Ian Watson, Tony Tilse
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Director: Geoff Bennett, Ian Watson, Tony TilseBrand: ADV Films
Cinematographer: Craig Barden
Editor: Mark Perry
Editor: Martin Connor
Editor: Neil Thumpston
Editor: Nicholas Holmes
Editor: Wayne LeClos
Producer: Andrew Prowse
Producer: David Willis
Producer: Doug Heyes Jr.
Producer: Emily Skopov
Producer: Justin Monjo
Producer: Lesley Parker
Producer: Mark Saraceni
Producer: Richard Manning
Producer: Sue Milliken
Producer: Tony Winley
Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Adv Films
DVD Reviews of Farscape - Season 4, Collection 4
DVD Review: A great investment
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband got me hooked on Farscape when we started dating, but neither of us had finished the fourth season. So imagine my pleasure and delight to find them on Amazon.com. This is a good investment and we have enjoyed all of our Farscape DVD purchases.
The episodes are well written and keep you on the edge of your seat.
Enjoy.
DVD Review: Good series, but don't get this edition.
Summary: 4 Stars
Simply put this is a great sci-fi television series and these episodes are worth watching. The thing is I don't recommend getting this DVD collection. Oh sure it has a great collection of episodes and some nice extras that put many other TV series on DVD to shame, but something much better is coming along.
The last three seasons have been released on what is called the Starburst Edition. These DVD collections put an entire season on three DVD sets instead of five. That means you get about seven episodes per collection as opposed to just four. Also the Starburst Edition DVDs have a retail price thats about 40% less than the standard collections. AND the Starburst Editions come with more extra features as well.
In other words wait for the Starburst Edition to come for this season. You won't be sorry.
DVD Review: Crichton actually asks Scorpius for help in finding Aeryn
Summary: 4 Stars
The end game for the fourth and final season of "Farscape" emerges in the four episodes on this DVD as Crichton and Moya's crew learn that one of their members has to be rescued. The four episodes here pair up, with the first two dividing the crew by gender and giving each an opportunity to get away by Moya for what is supposed to be fun but ends up being much more serious. The second two establish a new and surprising relationship between Crichton and Scorpius:
Episode 415, "Mental as Anything" (Written by Mark Saraceni, Aired January 31, 2003) finds Scorpius taking the boys to a training camp to learn a little mental discipline from Katoya. However, they discover that also there for the training is Macton, the Peacekeeper who murdered D'Argo's wife, Lo'lann, and then framed him for the killings. Of course, D'Argo wants to kill Macton but there are doubts about what happens and we are treated to a series of flashbacks about what may or may not have happened. Providing closure like this for D'Argo is certainly an indication that the end of the show is in sight.
Episode 416, "Bringing Home the Bacon" (Written by Carleton Eastlake, Aired February 7, 2003) gives the women of Moya their time away when they visit a space station in order to get a camouflage device for Moya. Their surprise is that they also discover a secret meeting between Commandant Grayza and the Scarrans. With the threat of a Scarran Dreadnaught on their tales, Moya's crew needs to discover the beacon on board their ship, which leads to another great "Farscape" shock.
Episode 417, "A Constellation of Doubt" (Written by David Kemper, Aired February 14, 2003) begins the search for Aeryn while Crichton is watching a videotape of an expose from Earth television about the alien crew's visit. This episode was filmed after the cast found out "Farscape" had been cancelled by the Sci Fi Channel and it adds a certain poignancy to the performances. Fans are either going to love this episode or find it an unwarranted digression, but I like the issues raised by the faux documentary, which does a good job of covering the range of responses humans would have to the aliens while giving Moya's crew their own chances to comment on the ways of Earth. It was nice to see the usual paranoia and delusions of supremacy of Earthlings is confronted with the prospect of advanced alien technology showing up in sub-orbital space.
Episode 418, "Prayer" (Written by Justin Monjo, Aired February 21, 2003) reveals that Aeryn is on a ship on its way to the Scarrans secret base at Katratzi, where she is being interrogated by Jenek, a Scarran of the Ruling Order. Meanwhile Crichton and Scorpius make a return trip to the alternative reality of "Unrealized Reality" to try and discover Katratzi's location so they can rescue Aeryn. But the chief part of this episode is that Aeryn is being tortured and her baby is being used against her, because we know that even bound to a gurney you do not bet against Aeryn.
At this point we have reason to believe that all of the elements for the endgame of the fourth season are in place. Crichton has a purpose and being allied with Scorpius is going to make things pretty interesting. I pity the Scarrens when Moya catches up with them, but I also am not stupid enough to predict a happy ending for this series and its characters.
Description of Farscape - Season 4, Collection 4
Studio: Adv Films Release Date: 05/18/2004 Run time: 200 minutesThe fourth volume of Farscape's fourth (and final) season does all those things that the later stages of any season should do: individual episodes play interesting games with how we think television works, while the tension of the overall story arc builds and builds. Of the individual episodes here, "Mental as Anything" is an ensemble piece for the male members of Moya's crew: D'Argo's back-story gets some sort of resolution and Scorpius puts John Crichton through hell for the best of reasons. "Bringing Home the Beacon" is rather more fun--the women of Moya frustrate a Sebacean/Scarren peace treaty--but ends in stark tragedy. In "Constellation of Doubt," Moya picks up, and the crew obsessively watches, a documentary from American television about their recent visit to Earth: Crichton gets to see human paranoia and wishful thinking through cold, intelligent alien eyes. Finally, in "Prayer," Aeryn suffers terribly at the hands of her Scarren captors and Crichton makes a devil's bargain with Scorpius to save her. By this point the season is building to the surprises of its last episodes: Farscape was about to be canceled, but it never lost its edge. --Roz Kaveney
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