Plot device in season 4 (spoilers for Farscape newbies)

[Han Solo]

Most of the sci-fi tv shows we've watch in the genre have used pregancy as plot device for a season or longer.

Xena had it for a bit then had to advance Eve's age cause you couldn't have a baby being towed around.

X-Files' Scully had it for a bit but then she had to give up the baby cause (which didn't make sense) again you can't have everyone after him and have the heroes have a normal show.

Voyager had the semi regular have the baby. Can't remember the girls name. DS9 I guess had O'Brien and his wife Keiko. TNG had Troi for one episode. Tucker had it on Enterprise.

My whole point is Farscape took a different take. Aeryn was pregnant in the season 3 finale but she had to release it from stasis. While it became a question for fans/then a possible weakness for Aeryn, Farscape took a different spin than some of the other shows. If we had seen a season 5, would we have seen her come to term by the end after releasing the baby from stasis in the finale. Here again is what separated Farscape from some of the other shows, it took a different spin on the pregancy angle for a crewmember than the other genre shows.

So what is your opinion on Farscape's take on it and have other shows used it too much?

[Bern]

Hmm. Interesting question. Well we know she had the baby released from stasis because she told John. So now it would depend on what the time lapse of Season 5 would be and how long Sebacean gestation lasts. Like if it`s close to a cycle but the whole season only covers a few months, then she would just be getting big. If the baby is meant to be a plot point (which would make sense given the Scarrens` interest in his/her DNA), they might have her come to term and give birth and then everyone`d be chasing after them to get the kid.

I was kind of wondering if they were going to have something weird happen when those aliens took them to "analyze" them. I mean we know they`d be reconstituted after a time, but since they were embracing when they were hit I thought they might mix up some bits, like put the baby in John or something. It`s been done before with the guy being "pregnant" on other shows, but if they went that road I`m sure they would have a different spin on it. At least I`d expect them to.

I also wondered if what the aliens did would be used as a convenient way to off the baby. They could write in that the fetus couldn`t survive the crystallization or powderizing or whatever they call it. But I tend to think not. I think they meant for the baby to be born. Kemper said something about the plot device of a baby in the last magazine issue (I think it was there somewhere). Something about how John can`t go home so they had to give him something to root him totally in this new life. Have to dig it up and find the bit where he mentions it.

[Stargazer Lily]

Interesting subject
I also wonder how different Farscape would be with the addition of the baby (when it was eventually born) - would they be chased across the galaxy for their kid? Would it slow them down? Would it have to disappear in some mysterious way and then come back as a sulky teenager (for instance)? I'd like to think Farscape would handle having a child around in a totally new and unexpected way.

[Bern]

Hi, Stargazer Lily!

I recall before the Crash the topic of a baby was brought up. Opinions were divided as to whether or not it would be a good thing. I agree with you that Farscape would handle having a child around in a new and unexpected way. They could even have a lot of fun with it. I remember thinking that it could be funny if they ran out of diapers or something and couldn`t find a commerce planet. And I would not want Rygel to babysit.

[Stargazer Lily]

Hey Bern!! I absolutely agree!

[ZachWZ]

I think School Lunch lady would end up as the nanny. mainly because she isn't that useful in battle.

As for the baby itself. i do not think it would be a typical human birth. That's all i can say. Farscape went so far off series TV charts with Crasis, Talyn, Zhann in their storylines i would see where this went.

[MattyGemini]

Farscape would take it to a new level. They always have a way of surprising me.

[Bern]

Okay, since we`re apparently getting some kind of continuation to the story, I went looking for old threads speculating on plot points and found this. So, have at it, People! Opinions?

[budo]

I don't remember what or even if I posted a thought on this on the original thread....but I now go on the record with this:

The whole baby thing made me afraid that the show was going to get kinda wishy washy. I will trust that the events surrounding the pregnancy will be handled in such a way that will be different as well as exciting.

Season 5...I agree Bern. The network that shows the mini-series WILL beg for more. In fact, they should air all the eps that lead up to that moment before hand, but I think Sci-Fi still holds the rights to them.

[Han Solo]

Originally posted by budo
I don't remember what or even if I posted a thought on this on the original thread....but I now go on the record with this:

The whole baby thing made me afraid that the show was going to get kinda wishy washy. I will trust that the events surrounding the pregnancy will be handled in such a way that will be different as well as exciting.

Season 5...I agree Bern. The network that shows the mini-series WILL beg for more. In fact, they should air all the eps that lead up to that moment before hand, but I think Sci-Fi still holds the rights to them.

Basically a lot of the scifi/fantasy genre shows have to have either someone gets pregnant or a main character gets pregnant episode or storyline. I just wanted to see what scapers thought of Farscape having a character pregnant as well.

[Space Gibbon]

Will Moya's crew be able to operate as a cohesive group with Aeryn pregnant? I mean, she really shouldn't be running around toting guns in that delicate state.

[ZachWZ]

They could have her play a "Princess of mars" and lay an egg.






The in joke is that martian woman reproduce by laying eggs and John Carter a human had a baby that way.