Farscape

Before this class, whenever I'd thought of the term "sci-fi," this show would have been the epitome of my thoughts. It has everything: aliens, space travel, robots. The only thing missing is dinosaurs. This episode, to me, was really entertaining to watch for those reasons. In this series, the "humans" (the peacekeepers, I'm not too sure if they're human or something that just looks like a human) are the heels and the aliens are the baby faces, which is a really neat idea in itself to reverse the point of view so that the audience can see what's going on from the "monster's" (the alien's) POV. The episode starts off with a human getting sucked into a wormhole (I personally think it would've been neater if it were a black hole, that way we could get someone's opinion as to what happens after being sucked into one) and he is in this alternate universe of sorts, where the aliens are odds with the peacekeepers.


In comparison to the other sci-fi episode that we watched in class, I like a dislike this series more than the others. I like it because it's more than just humans flying in space sorting out problems in their lives and the lives of everyone else on board their ship, but it's another race doing those same things and trying to coexist with different races and learning from each other. I dislike it because the plot (in this episode) didn't seem as thick as it was in the other series.' Again, switching it up so the audience sees what we might have perceived as the bad guy's point of view is something that the other shows didn't have. We always saw the good guy, what they did, and why they did it, but we never saw what had motivated the bad guys to fight back. I think that, with a better plot line, this show could have the potential to be better/ more entertaining than the other episode that we've watched.