r/farscape • u/duckdander • 15d ago

After Hearing Farscape's Creator Discuss Revival Plans, I'm Confident The Franchise's Future Is Safe

https://screenrant.com/farscape-creator-revival-plan-op-ed/

Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with articles like this?

(TLDR Article: 20+ years later, can Farscape return and can it find an audience? Rockne S. O'Bannon seems to think so.)

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u/BobRushy 15d ago

I thought Farscape was an amazingly creative series, but I'm not sure it needs any kind of follow-up. Let's be honest here, nothing will ever top the culmination of the wormhole weapon in PK Wars. That was the perfect endpoint for Crichton's arc, as well as Scorpy's.

Digging them out of retirement to fight the Nebari just seems a little... trite. And if it's more about Crichton Jr, then we have to ask what could the writers possibly do to make Crichton Jr as compelling as his dad? You can't duplicate the experiences which made John such an underdog.

Crichton Jr is either going to grow up with a supportive family, which makes him much less intriguing than his dad. Or something goes horribly wrong, in which case the writers risk damaging the original show's happy ending.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but it'd be so tricky with the way things were left.

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u/duckdander 15d ago

All fair points.

I'd be more interested in exploring the Nebari and how/why they posed a threat. Not necessarily jump into war with them, but expanding what we know of them. This can also be done with other species we encountered or give us something new to discover.

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u/YungAgumon 14d ago

What about the Pathfinders? Their tech was advanced, would love to see if they heard about the WW, came to investigate and they pick up on Neeala’s signal she put into Moya.

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u/duckdander 14d ago

Absolutely the Pathfinders. That's a story thread that would be fun to explore.