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** War Minister Ahkna has no qualms about {{spoiler|killing the last original Eidolon as well as planning to kill Aeryn and John's child.}}
* [[Crazy Awesome]] - By the end of the series, everyone has had their moments, particularly Crichton. Whenever things don't go according to plan (which happens most of the time), or even in the rare cases where things do (... doesn't really happen a lot), Crichton, Aeryn, D'Argo, Chiana, Pilot, Moya... okay let's just say nearly all of the main characters, end up running on [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] with a healthy serving of [[Xanatos Roulette]]. By the middle of season 3 you have entire ''episodes'' that are just [[Crazy Awesome]]. "Revenging Angel," anyone?
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Both of the theme tunes. Also, ''The Last Stand'' -- The—The music that plays during the {{spoiler|destruction of the Command Carrier}} at the end of season 3. Since the words are the "Dies Irae", it also counts as [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Sadness]]: YMMV but {{spoiler|Talyn and Crais's sacrifice at the end of season 3, where they blow themselves up to save everyone, Crais waking Talyn up for just long enough for them to die together}} might count as one. Especially considering the lead-up with {{spoiler|Talyn trying and failing to control his psychological problems to the point where he attacks his own mother}}.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Scorpius.
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* [[Growing the Beard]]: It began as a fairly generic [[Space Opera]] with outstanding special effects and above-average writing. Most fans would agree that the show grew the beard toward the end of Season 1, when Crichton first donned Peacekeeper clothing. From then on it [[Darker and Edgier|just got darker]].
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In the Season 1 episode "Back and Back and Back to the Future" (one of the earliest examples of a [[Darker and Edgier|dark episode]]), Crichton's forward-flashes in time depict [[Femme Fatale|Matala]] aggressively performing sex acts on him, and the scenes very much come across as though she's raping him. {{spoiler|Flash forward to the Season 4 two-parter "What Was Lost", in which Crichton is raped by Grayza.}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Lots of it, most obviously between Scorpius and Braca. Noted by Crichton in season four. "Yeah, feel the love, [[The Simpsons (animation)|Mr. Burns]]." Spoofed in "Scratch n' Sniff" with D'Argo and John denying they're a couple, while D'Argo later calls John (sarcastically) "sweetheart".
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Xhalax Sun was forced to kill her own lover and surrender her daughter to the torturous Peacekeeper training regime; following her only chance to see said daughter again, she was prompty shoved back into another twenty straight years of assassination- which she hates- in a process that slowly and inexorably destroys any trace of pity or compassion in her.
* [[Les Yay]]: Chiana and Jool get ''very'' touchy-feely in numerous episodes. Of particular note: their girl-on-girl dance in "Scratch n' Sniff", and their rather...intimate...placement of hands {{spoiler|when Jool says goodbye}} in "What Was Lost Part 2: Resurrection".
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* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Even by 2002 standards, the PC game is pretty much balls.
* [[Recycled Script]]: "Through the Looking Glass" (written by David Kemper) was based on a pitch he made to ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' years earlier.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Exactly who qualifies as ''the'' scrappy may vary a great deal from viewer to viewer, but a lot of people hated Jool -- includingJool—including the other characters... [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|at first, anyway]]. This was actually deliberate on the part of the writers, but Tammy MacIntosh stated in an interview that the hate Jool - [[Fan Dumb|and, in some cases, Tammy herself]] - received reduced her to tears.
** While much of the fandom found Stark's "quirkiness" amusing and his sadness woobifying, others found his constant screeching and endangering of the crew to be extremely grating and his constant wailing about whatever new sad thing he bumped into to be rather [[Wangst]]y.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Season 3 is generally less well-regarded than the others and saw the show's ratings steadily decline as a result. Season 4, which took the series' inherent weirdness and dialed it [[Up to Eleven]] in a variety of ways, is also sometimes seen as this.
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** In "Picture If You Will", it is startlingly obvious when Zhaan's collar and gauntlets switch from hard and shiny to the dull, rubbery-looking stunt ones.
* [[Stoic Woobie]]: D'Argo.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Many, including some of the most gut-wrenching [[Season Finale|Season Finales]]s known to man. And "...Different Destinations". Anything involving Talyn where Moya is desperately trying to get her kid to listen (and he ''just doesn't...''); anytime Moya is willing to sacrifice herself for her occupants; and when {{spoiler|Talyn commits suicide}}. The last one has left people in tears. Then there's {{spoiler|Zhaan's death}}. It's one for both the main characters and the audience. And the look of complete heartbreak on Stark's face is enough to make you cry.
** {{spoiler|Gilina's}} death. Especially her asking Crichton, "If things had been different, could you have loved me?" "Yes."
* [[Too Good to Last]]: And ''how!''
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** Harvey started out as another Scorpius who, by virtue of being in Crichton's head, could win a lot and be consistantly scary. By the end, he's cracking jokes about [[E=MC Hammer]]. He was also created to avert this trope in the original Scorpius - it allowed Wayne Pygram to show up as often as the writers wanted, without forcing them to have Scorpius defeated each week, letting him keep his menace for when the original ''did'' make an appearance.
*** Harvey's villain decay was most likely intentional, as well... he's essentially a figment of ''Chrichton's'' imagination, after all, which is established many times as a very silly and sarcastic thing. Him winding up as rather goofy was likely intentional, especially since it really ramped up the real Scorpius' bastardry in comparison.
** Almost ''immediately'' after her introduction, Grayza is getting stomped in the villain stakes by the Scarrans. Ironically ,<ref>Or at least, what Alanis would call "ironically"</ref>, this is what makes her so dangerous within the ''Farscape'' universe: the fact that she's got all the power of a Peacekeeper Commandant but consistently makes dumb decisions and punches above her villain weight, putting lives in danger ''by accident'' and allowing the real villains to cause far more havoc than they ever would have normally.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: YTV, a Nickelodeon-flavored Canadian channel was the first to pick up the show in the Great White North, probably misled by the fact that the show was made by Henson Studios. This did not end well, since they only bought the first season and edited the crap out of it
* [[The Woobie]]: Just about everyone on occasion, but especially:
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