Your Reviews
Here's what you thought of Unrealized Reality - reviews picked from the many you sent in.
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Angela Dunn
The madness of Farscape continues - and it was not a pretty thing to watch! Lots of guest stars and the welcome return of familiar faces are usually the makings of a fab episode. Unfortunately the premise here was not strong enough to hold up a full episode.
To be frank this just screamed filler and set-up. The part where everyone’s characters swapped around was good, but that device has already been used before to much better effect.
Admittedly, this was a clever way of showing John’s backstory to new viewers, but Unrealized Realities, with its repeated technobabble about wormholes was dull to say the least.
No matter how brilliant an actor Ben Browder is, Farscape works best with the dynamics of all of Moya's crew. For the most part this episode did not have that, and so ultimately fell flat on its face.
Stephen Brennan
Unrealized Realities was a cleverly constructed episode which dealt with three seasons’ worth of backstory whilst adding a significant amount of new information.
From the outset this looked like being another rehash of 'John falls down a wormhole and something bad happens' but then the setting, and with it the tone, of the episode changed. The dialogue between John and Einstein was succinct and for the most part gave new viewers of the show a chance to understand key elements while re-highlighting main points for long term fans.
The interwoven documentary footage was an ingenious touch, and allowed Crichton to be viewed from different points of view, though it was over-used, and characters began to repeat themselves after a while.
The unrealised realities themselves were constructed carefully - probably ideas that never left the writer's room, but they gave a good idea of how things might have been.
This was a very good episode, with just enough energy to stop it going stale, while not over-exerting itself. The information relayed to both Crichton and the viewers, as well as an incredible cliffhanger, sets the way for a turning point in the series.
Mark Ivey
Ok, we all know that Farscape has hit us with some pretty good format-breakers in the past, but they are now becoming so commonplace that they're starting to bore me.
Unrealized Reality was fun to watch, and seeing a flashback to the first episode was nice, but this episode's problem was that it was so bogged down in technobabble (something which Farscape tends to avoid) that I couldn't understand half of it.
One only to be remembered for its surprise conclusion!
