Farscape: The Illustrated Season 2 Companion

Farscape: Novels & Guides

by Paul Simpson

Farscape has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting and original sci-fi shows in years, mixing great scripts and characters with state of the art special effects. Following the huge success of the first volume, Farscape: The Illustrated Season 2 Companion provides in-depth coverage of the show's amazing second season. With unprecedented access to the show's stars and production team (including Farscape creator Rockne S. O'Bannon), the book takes an exclusive, detailed look behind the scenes, and also includes an episode guide to the whole of season two, with a look ahead to season three... It's a book no Scaper can be without

Genres: Nonfiction, Media Tie In, Tv

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Deena Wilde · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good one! Explains everything that occurred during the second season along with behind the scenes goodies from the actors to the makeup artists and directors. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Jaime K · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first rule of Farscape is that Farscape has no rules.

Indeed, the writers, actors, and directors broke the bounds that were science fiction television.

- I forgot that John was slowly going crazy throughout the entire second season, a fact that was never actually said until mid-way.

- I love learning that some scripts were 5-15 years in the making, with the latter being before FS was even a though.

- "My Three Crichtons" was put in after the Princess Trilogy, not before as was aired.

- We learn that many characters went through costume/makeup redesign for this season - including Rygel!

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is like the first season companion as it contains information on the various episodes along with one or more photos and quotes from them. There is information on how things go from a script to the screen, information on various characters and information on the special effects. There is one thing that caught my eye and that was the book saying, in the section The Creature Shop, that the character in the episode where things looked like the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal were not that at all. This contradicts other things I have read which said those characters were the Skeksis from the movie but spiffed up a bit. Otherwise it's a good companion as usual.

[Wendy]

New read. Another in-depth behind the scenes of the making of Farscape Season 2. Loved it.