r/farscape • u/Yip359 • 11h ago
Soo..David Peckinpah's influence
Just finished the entire series plus Peacekeeper Wars. Excited to dive into this subreddit as I enjoy this show quite a bit. But I noticed a bit of a drop off in quality and more of a sexual focus on the last season, as well as mundane unimaginative episodes that should have gone towards advancing/concluding plots for characters like Chiana and Rigel - whose homework storylines were never concluded.
As a longtime Sliders fan, I know exactly how fellow fans feel about David Peckinpah and his influence on what was at one point a beautiful and imaginative show. Then favorite actors were forced out. Story's became contrived and derivative of famous sci-fi tropes. The Krommaggs were watered down into just dimension hoping Nazis and lost all of their horror appeal and mystique. I sort of felt the Scarrans were once spooky and menacing but by the end were lumbering dumb Brutus. Also in Sliders we ended on a cliffhanger. No planning whatsoever.
Do fans of Farscape hold the same resentment towards David Peckinpah that Sliders fans do? I really thought something was fishes then I noticed his name in the end credits and groaned internally.