How would Annalee Newitz Reboot Farscape for a Modern Age?
By loading it up with dreadful clichés and just generally miss the point entirely:
Get rid of the silliness with this plot and make it dark as pitch, with some real gothic horror elements. Crichton is losing his mind and being enslaved by a chip that can’t be removed. Also, let’s give Scorpius a makeover — no more campy leatherboy zombie guy. Instead of making his wormhole technology into his “take over the universe” technology, make the killer app his mind-control chips. He should be a smooth, scary politician who wants to gain power by “changing people’s minds” — literally. That way the Peacekeepers really can keep people peaceful, by chipping them all. The crew of Moya is fighting not just to free Crichton’s mind, but to keep everyone’s minds free.
Also, she wants to make Zhaan a sexy assassin.
Farscape is almost unique (the less said about the miserable Lexx the better) in its delicate balance of horror, sex, aliens, and comedy, so why would it need to be remade into a more depressing version of Battlestar Galatica to “make it relevant” to modern audiences?

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