Just read a nice interview with David Kemper, the executive producer/writer for Farscape, over on the Sci-Fi Channel's website. I love this guy. I love his writing, I love his whole attitude towards the show. There's a great quote from him in the interview: "Our model is to do exactly what everyone's done before, but do it in a different way." I'm not sure I could have summed up the primary appeal of the series any more succinctly. That is, in fact, exactly what they do, and the result is something that is at once comfortably familiar and yet surprisingly new and fresh.

Something else he said that was interesting is that he thought they could very well have expanded the final four episodes of this season out into a six-parter. I'm rather sorry they didn't go that route, actually. I've been enjoying the heck out of this story arc so far, but there definitely were things that were left out that really ought to have been included. E.g., at the end of the last episode before the long hiatus ("Fractures"), John is outlining his Cunning Plan, and only two of his shipmates express any desire to go along with it. The rest of them think it's crazy and suicidal and want no part of it. But, come the start of the next episode, apparently everybody's on board. For most of the characters, it's not that difficult to figure out why they changed their minds. But we really should have seen John talking them around. I can only assume that the reason we didn't is because there simply wasn't time, what with all the other important plot stuff the next few episodes had to do. But, hey, other than that, there ain't a whole lot to complain about... Well, OK, that and the annoying aliens from episode 3.19...