Welcome. I only discovered Farscape myself in January 2010, so I too am a comparative newbie, who binged and got through all four seasons in about five or six weeks, because I could NOT stop watching once I started. Totally addictive.
I don't think it's spoilery to say that indeed, Aeryn Sun is every single kind of awesome rolled into one leather-clad, gun-toting, ass-kicking package. ALL the characters are awesome on toast, but I think most of the fandom has an extra special soft spot for Aeryn's particular brand of awesome.
I also don't think it's spoilery to say that Season 1 is kind of...uneven. But if you've already hit the parts where John meets Gilina and later, Zhaan cuts off Pilot's arm, you've already hit the part where everything starts clicking for the show and the average quality of the episodes goes up. The end of Season 1 is awesome, Season 2 and Season 3 are both ridiculously awesome on a weekly basis, and then Season 4 starts getting uneven again.
There are some incredible, amazing episodes in Season 4, don't get me wrong, but the show is less *consistently* awesome in that season. The consistency picks up again in a big way towards the end of Season 4 (it's kind of like Season 1 that way, with most of the wobbles concentrated in the first half of the season), and the miniseries is pretty awesome too.
I'm not trying to ruin your buzz, but I know when I was mainlining the show a year and a half ago, nobody warned me that the first half of Season 4 is kind of wobbly, so I was completely confused when we got several episodes in a row that I felt were below the high bar the show had set for itself. I finally asked someone, and got the response of, "Yeah, the quality drops off for a while. Just keep watching and know that the show DOES get back on track."
Oh, and late in Season 1 there's an absolute stinker of an episode called "Jeremiah Crichton", which you should only watch when you're drunk. It's seriously that bad, in every way. Although the DVD commentary track for it is hilarious and must be watched, because everybody commentating (cast, writer, producer) acknowledges that this is the single worst episode the show ever produced, and they totally make fun of its hilarious badness, even though it means making fun of themselves. I don't *think* the commentary track is spoilery for later in the season or later in the series, although I couldn't swear to it. I'm not saying don't watch that ep, just saying don't watch it sober.
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I don't think it's spoilery to say that indeed, Aeryn Sun is every single kind of awesome rolled into one leather-clad, gun-toting, ass-kicking package. ALL the characters are awesome on toast, but I think most of the fandom has an extra special soft spot for Aeryn's particular brand of awesome.
I also don't think it's spoilery to say that Season 1 is kind of...uneven. But if you've already hit the parts where John meets Gilina and later, Zhaan cuts off Pilot's arm, you've already hit the part where everything starts clicking for the show and the average quality of the episodes goes up. The end of Season 1 is awesome, Season 2 and Season 3 are both ridiculously awesome on a weekly basis, and then Season 4 starts getting uneven again.
There are some incredible, amazing episodes in Season 4, don't get me wrong, but the show is less *consistently* awesome in that season. The consistency picks up again in a big way towards the end of Season 4 (it's kind of like Season 1 that way, with most of the wobbles concentrated in the first half of the season), and the miniseries is pretty awesome too.
I'm not trying to ruin your buzz, but I know when I was mainlining the show a year and a half ago, nobody warned me that the first half of Season 4 is kind of wobbly, so I was completely confused when we got several episodes in a row that I felt were below the high bar the show had set for itself. I finally asked someone, and got the response of, "Yeah, the quality drops off for a while. Just keep watching and know that the show DOES get back on track."
Oh, and late in Season 1 there's an absolute stinker of an episode called "Jeremiah Crichton", which you should only watch when you're drunk. It's seriously that bad, in every way. Although the DVD commentary track for it is hilarious and must be watched, because everybody commentating (cast, writer, producer) acknowledges that this is the single worst episode the show ever produced, and they totally make fun of its hilarious badness, even though it means making fun of themselves. I don't *think* the commentary track is spoilery for later in the season or later in the series, although I couldn't swear to it. I'm not saying don't watch that ep, just saying don't watch it sober.