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		<title>Ahsoka: Rebels and the return of Thrawn in new trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rosario Dawson is the conflicted Jedi warrior Ahsoka Tano in new Star Wars series Ahsoka and the new trailer gives us a better glimpse of what we can expect (including the first look at Thrawn) when the show is released this August on Disney+. Check it out here&#x2026; &#60;span data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221; style=&#8221;display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow:</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rosario Dawson is the conflicted Jedi warrior Ahsoka Tano in new Star Wars series <em><strong>Ahsoka</strong></em> and the new trailer gives us a better glimpse of what we can expect (including the first look at Thrawn) when the show is released this August on Disney+.</p>
<p>Check it out here&#x2026;</p>
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<p>Set after the fall of the Empire, the series follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.</p>
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<p>Written by Dave Filoni, the series sees the return Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka. It also stars Natasha Liu Bordizzo (<em><strong>Day Shift</strong></em>) as Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (<em><strong>Birds Of Prey</strong></em>) as Hera Syndulla, Ray Stevenson (<em><strong>Vikings</strong></em>) as Baylan Skoll, Ivanna Sakhno (<em><strong>Pacific Rim: Uprising</strong></em>) as Shin Hati, Diana Lee Inosanto (<em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em>) as Morgan Elsbeth, David Tennant (<em><strong>Good Omens</strong></em>) as Huyang, Lars Mikkelsen (<em><strong>The Witcher</strong></em>) as Grand Admiral Thrawn and Eman Esfandi (<em><strong>The Inspection</strong></em>) appearing as Ezra Bridger.</p>
<p><em><strong>Lucasfilm&#x2019;s Ahsoka will launch exclusively on&#xA0;<a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney+</a>&#xA0;23 August. Find out more Star Wars news with&#xA0;<a href="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/category/news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SciFiNow</a>.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Ahsoka: Release date and first look stills released for Star Wars series</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Listen up Star Wars &#x2013; and Ahsoka &#x2013; fans! It has been announced that Lucasfilm&#x2019;s new live-action series, Star Wars: Ahsoka, will be released this August. Watch a new TV spot showcasing the series here&#x2026; &#60;span data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221; style=&#8221;display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;&#8221; class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221;&#62;&#38;#65279;&#60;/span&#62; Set after the fall of the Empire, the series</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen up Star Wars &#x2013; and Ahsoka &#x2013; fans! It has been announced that Lucasfilm&#x2019;s new live-action series, <strong><em>Star Wars</em>: <em>Ahsoka</em></strong>, will be released this August.</p>
<p>Watch a new TV spot showcasing the series here&#x2026;</p>
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<p>Set after the fall of the Empire, the series follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.</p>
<p>Check out some first-look images here&#x2026;</p>
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<p>Written by Dave Filoni, the series sees the return Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka.</p>
<p>It also stars Natasha Liu Bordizzo (<em><strong>Day Shift</strong></em>) as Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (<em><strong>Birds Of Prey</strong></em>) as Hera Syndulla, Ray Stevenson (<em><strong>Vikings</strong></em>) as Baylan Skoll, Ivanna Sakhno (<em><strong>Pacific Rim: Uprising</strong></em>) as Shin Hati, Diana Lee Inosanto (<em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em>) as Morgan Elsbeth, David Tennant (<em><strong>Good Omens</strong></em>) as Huyang, Lars Mikkelsen (<em><strong>The Witcher</strong></em>) as Grand Admiral Thrawn and Eman Esfandi (<em><strong>The Inspection</strong></em>) appearing as Ezra Bridger.</p>
<p><em><strong>Lucasfilm&#x2019;s Ahsoka will launch exclusively on <a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney+</a> 23 August. Find out more Star Wars news with <a href="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/category/news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SciFiNow</a>.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>“Visually, this is going to be a perfect marriage.” Aardman meets Star Wars in Visions Season Two</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Star Wars: Visions is back for Season Two and with it comes a whole host of new short animated movies set in the Star Wars universe, created by an array of animation studios from all over the world. Animation studios featured in the second series range from Cartoon Saloon in Ireland, to Punkrobot in Chile,</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Star Wars: Visions</strong> </em>is back for Season Two and with it comes a whole host of new short animated movies set in the<em><strong> Star Wars</strong></em> universe, created by an array of animation studios from all over the world.</p>
<p>Animation studios featured in the second series range from Cartoon Saloon in Ireland, to Punkrobot in Chile, to D&#x2019;art Shtajio in Japan and, closer to home, Aardman Animations in the UK.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128469" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128469" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-128469" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019874.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="450" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019874.jpg 750w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019874-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019874-616x370.jpg 616w" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128469" class="wp-caption-text">Aardman Animations has its very own episode in Season Two of Star Wars: Visions.</figcaption></figure>
<p>From award-winning director Magdalena Osinska, Aardman Studios&#x2019;<em><strong> Star Wars: Vision</strong></em> episode is entitled &#x2018;I Am Your Mother&#x2019; (we see what they did there&#x2026;) and tells the story of young pilot Anni, who is embarrassed by her sweet, but clingy mum, must team with her for a madcap family race at the academy. Along the way, their relationship is tested by the elements, their old ship, other racers&#x2026;and each other.</p>
<p>We spoke to Osinska about combining <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> and Aardman, working with stop motion animation and whether there will be any Aardman easter eggs in her episode&#x2026;</p>
<h3>How did everything begin for you with working on <em>Star Wars: Visions</em> Season Two?</h3>
<p>So Star Wars/Lucasfilm approached Aardman two years ago and asked to pitch an idea of Star Wars meets Aardman. And Aardman asked a lot of creative directors and writers to pitch their ideas. I presented about three ideas but this idea was the very first thing that came to my head.</p>
<h3>How would you describe &#x2018;I Am Your Mother&#x2019;?</h3>
<p>I would describe it as a love letter to all the mothers. I&#x2019;m a mother and when I was pitching, my son was four years old and now he&#x2019;s six. I constantly think about myself as a mum, I constantly analyse myself. I was thinking that there aren&#x2019;t that many films actually about mothers or mother/daughter relationships or that specifically concentrate on this.</p>
<p>In <strong><em>Star Wars</em></strong> a lot of mums are killed or they die&#x2026; There are some great mothers in <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> but I wanted to have a positive spin on the &#x2018;I am your father&#x2019; line and on mother/daughter relationships. So it&#x2019;s a love letter for the mums because I think that they are quite often overlooked in films.</p>
<h3>How did you go about combining that distinct Aardman vibe with the <em>Star Wars</em> universe?</h3>
<p>The thing about Aardman is that it is about relationships, and Star Wars is about relationships as well. So I could find a common link in there. But also I was very excited about stop motion.</p>
<p>Just imagining the <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> world in stop motion &#x2013; the original trilogy had the AT-ATs and the Tauntans. So this idea of bringing back this feel, the very tangible and handmade feel of the originals really excited me. So besides the story, I thought that, visually, this is going to be a perfect marriage.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128470" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128470" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-128470 size-full" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_04.jpg" alt="Yes, that's an Aardman Wookie!" width="750" height="450" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_04.jpg 750w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_04-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_04-616x370.jpg 616w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128470" class="wp-caption-text">Yes, that&#x2019;s an Aardman baby Wookie!</figcaption></figure>
<h3>What were your inspirations for the look of &#x2018;I Am Your Mother&#x2019;?</h3>
<p>It was a combination of Star Wars and Aardman and my style as well. We were trying to find a perfect balance between all of these.</p>
<p>We&#x2019;ve done things a little bit differently than we usually do in Aardman, because in Aardman we often use plasticine and maybe bolder tones of colour. But I really love the <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> universe and the detail of the textures, so I wanted to approach the puppets and the whole world that way.</p>
<h3>What is your favourite thing about working with stop motion animation?</h3>
<p>The best thing is that when you&#x2019;ve got a puppet, it&#x2019;s an object. It doesn&#x2019;t move and you can hold it. So it&#x2019;s very tangible.</p>
<p>Then the animators are working in their units (they work in darkness for a day or two) and they are just pouring their soul and heart into the shots to give life to these characters. Then when I see these characters now moving, it&#x2019;s like real magic. That feeling is amazing. And it&#x2019;s unlike any other. I&#x2019;ve tried different animations and I love all sorts of different animation styles, but this is very unique, very unusual.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128467" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128467" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-128467 size-full" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019857_crp.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="450" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019857_crp.jpg 750w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019857_crp-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANM-019857_crp-616x370.jpg 616w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128467" class="wp-caption-text">Magdalena Osinska says that working with stop-motion is very tangible and they&#x2019;re working with puppets</figcaption></figure>
<h3>What are your biggest challenges with working with stop motion animation?</h3>
<p>With stop motion, if something goes wrong with the animation, you can&#x2019;t really go back and correct it.</p>
<p>Once the animator goes for the shots, they are in the zone. They are in the unit and they&#x2019;re animating. And when they finish, that&#x2019;s it pretty much.</p>
<p>Because it was quite a tight schedule [on <em><strong>Star Wars: Visions</strong></em>], there was not much time to reshoot things, so I really had to be very precise on how to brief the animators and how we prepared the shots.</p>
<p>So we would do live action rehearsals and film each other. Then we&#x2019;ll look at their videos and decide &#x2018;oh, this is a nice moment, let&#x2019;s bring this into the animation&#x2019;.</p>
<p>One of the most challenging sets was the tunnel because it had to feel like it was quite long. We couldn&#x2019;t build this massive never-ending tunnel, so we had to film one part of it, then move it forward again. So there were a lot of technical tricks, and challenging things that we all actually enjoy doing. There were lots of problem-solving every day!</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-128471" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_11.jpg" alt="'I Am Your Mother' follows young pilot Anni. " width="750" height="450" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_11.jpg 750w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_11-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SWarsVisions_S2_IAmYourMother_final_frame_11-616x370.jpg 616w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"></p>
<h3>Now, did we spy the robot cooker from A Grand Day Out in the episode&#x2026;?</h3>
<p>Yeah! The robot cooker is there and the orange rocket from <em><strong>A Grand Day Out</strong></em> is in the kitchen area in the beginning.</p>
<p>Also, the Gammorean pigs, which are one of the alien species in <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em>, are suspiciously similar to the <em><strong>Shaun The Sheep</strong></em> pigs.</p>
<p>There are lots of <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> easter eggs as well&#x2026;</p>
<h3>What do you want audiences to take away from the episode?</h3>
<p>To appreciate the sacrifices that mums make and that actually they teach us a lot. I think we often forget about that and we just take it for granted. This is what Anni the character learns, and I wanted people to have a feeling of &#x2018;oh yeah, my mum taught me this and that as well!&#x2019;.</p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span><span lang="EN-US">: Visions&#x2014;Volume 2 streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning 4 May.&#xA0;&#xA0;</span></span></strong></em></p>
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		<title>The Mandalorian S3: Katee Sackhoff on Bo-Katan, Star Wars and The Clone Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 06:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>After voicing the character of Bo-Katan in The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, we saw Katee Sackhoff play the role in real life in Season Two of Disney+ series The Mandalorian. This week sees not only the return of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu in Season Three of The Mandalorian but we&#x2019;ll also</p>
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<p>After voicing the character of Bo-Katan in<em><strong> The Clone Wars</strong> </em>and <em><strong>Star Wars: Rebels</strong></em>, we saw Katee Sackhoff play the role in real life in Season Two of Disney+ series <a href="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/mando-and-grogu-head-to-mandalore-in-the-first-trailer-for-the-mandalorian-s3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em></a>.</p>
<p>This week sees not only the return of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu in Season Three of <em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em> but we&#x2019;ll also see the return of Bo-Katan herself.</p>
<p>We spoke to Sackhoff about seeing a different side to a character we all think we know, what it&#x2019;s like to wear that suit, why she thinks the enduring love of <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> goes on and&#x2026;erm&#x2026; knee slides&#x2026;</p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The Mandalorian Season Three will be landing on Disney+ on 1 March.&#xA0;</strong></em></span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Watch more trailers at the&#xA0;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SciFiNow YouTube Channel</a>.</span></strong></em></p>
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<p>After voicing the character of Bo-Katan in<em><strong> The Clone Wars</strong> </em>and <em><strong>Star Wars: Rebels</strong></em>, we saw Katee Sackoff play the role in real life in Season Two of Disney+ series <a href="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/mando-and-grogu-head-to-mandalore-in-the-first-trailer-for-the-mandalorian-s3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em></a>.</p>
<p>This week sees not only the return of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu in Season Three of <em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em> but we&#x2019;ll also see the return of Bo-Katan herself.</p>
<p>We spoke to Sackoff about seeing a different side to a character we all think we know, what it&#x2019;s like to wear that suit, why she thinks the enduring love of <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em> goes on and&#x2026;erm&#x2026; knee slides&#x2026;</p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The Mandalorian Season Three will be landing on Disney+ on 1 March.&#xA0;</strong></em></span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Watch more trailers at the&#xA0;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SciFiNow YouTube Channel</a>.</span></strong></em></p>
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		<title>Star Wars: Visions: What we know about Volume 2</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Good news everyone! The second volume of the animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions will be landing on Disney+ this May with nine new shorts from nine studios from around the globe.&#xA0; &#x201C;The reaction to the first volume of Star Wars: Visions&#xA0;blew us away,&#x201D; says James Waugh,&#xA0;Star Wars: Visions executive producer and Senior Vice President</p>
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<p>Good news everyone! T<span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">he second volume of the <a href="https://amzn.to/3jwQU0r" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">animated anthology series </a></span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>: Visions</strong></em> will be landing on Disney+ this May </span><span lang="EN-US">with nine new shorts from nine studios from around the globe.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<p><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#x201C;The reaction to the first volume of </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>: Vision</strong><strong>s</strong></em>&#xA0;blew us away,&#x201D; says James Waugh,&#xA0;<em><strong>Star Wars</strong><strong>: Visions</strong></em> executive producer and Senior Vice President Franchise Content &amp; Strategy at Lucasfilm. &#x201C;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">We were delighted that this project inspired and resonated with so many people, </span></span></p>
<p><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#x201C;We always saw </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>: Visions</strong></em> as a framework for celebratory expressions of the franchise from some of the best creators working today. Animation is in a global renaissance, and we&#x2019;re constantly staggered by the amount of creativity pushing the medium forward. With Volume 1, the imaginative minds of Japan&#x2019;s anime industry were on full display.&#x201D;</span></span></p>
<p>Check out some of what we saw in Star Wars: Visions Volume 1 with the trailer&#x2026;</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lle0NNmvIyU" width="375" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen">&lt;span data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221; style=&#8221;display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;&#8221; class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221;&gt;&amp;#65279;&lt;/span&gt;</iframe></p>
<p><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#x201C;With Volume 2, we expanded our canvas to take audiences on a global tour of some of the most talented creators from around the world,&#x201D; Waugh continues. &#x201C;We&#x2019;re so proud to be able to reveal the line-up of studios we&#x2019;ve assembled</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><b><span lang="EN-US">.</span></b></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;Every short is incredible, full of heart, scope, imagination, and the values that make stories distinctly</span><span lang="EN-US"><i>&#xA0;</i></span><span lang="EN-US">&#x2018;</span><span lang="EN-US"><i>Star Wars</i></span><span lang="EN-US">&#x2019;</span><span lang="EN-US"><i>&#xA0;</i></span><span lang="EN-US">&#x2014; all while opening up bold new ways of seeing what a </span><strong><span lang="EN-US"><i>Star Wars</i></span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;story can be</span><span lang="EN-US"><i>.</i></span><span lang="EN-US">&#x201D;</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">The shorts included in </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span><span lang="EN-US">:</span><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Visions</strong></em> Volume 2 were created by the following international animation studios: El Guiri (Spain), Cartoon Saloon (Ireland), Punkrobot (Chile), Aardman (United Kingdom), Studio Mir (South Korea) Studio La Cachette (France), 88 Pictures (India),&#xA0;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">D&#x2019;art Shtajio (Japan), and Triggerfish (South Africa). D&#x2019;Art Shtajio&#x2019;s short was created in collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd. (United States).&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Here&#x2019;s what we know about each short from <em><strong>Star Wars</strong></em><em><strong>: Visions</strong></em> Volume 2 and their filmmakers&#x2026;</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Sith&#xA0;</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> El Guiri</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><strong><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Writer-director:</span></span></strong><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;Rodrigo Blaas</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Rodrigo Blaas is an Emmy Award&#xAE;-winning director who has spent more than 20 years in animation. After co-founding Stromboli Animation in 1997, Blaas joined Blue Sky Studios in 2000, working on the feature film <em><strong>Ice Age</strong></em>, before transitioning to Pixar Animation Studios. There, he worked on such projects as <strong>Finding Nemo</strong>, <em><strong>The Incredibles</strong></em>, <em><strong>Ratatouille</strong></em> and <em><strong>Wall-E. </strong></em>More recently, Blaas partnered with Guillermo del Toro to develop the award-winning series <em><strong>Trollhunters</strong></em>, served as creative director for Mikros Animation Paris and, in 2021, created El Guiri Studios in Madrid with his partner, Cecile Hokes. </span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Screecher&#x2019;s Reach</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> Cartoon Saloon</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Director:</strong> Paul Young</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Paul Young is a co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an IFTA winner and Oscar&#xAE;, Emmy&#xAE; and BAFTA nominee. He produced the animated features <em><strong><a href="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/exclusive/my-fathers-dragon-cartoon-saloon-tigers-animation-and-irish-dancing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">My Father&#x2019;s Dragon</a>, </strong><strong>WolfWalkers</strong></em>, <em><strong>The Secret of Kells</strong></em>, <em><strong>Song of the Sea</strong></em> and <em><strong>The Breadwinner</strong></em></span><span lang="EN-US"><i>&#xA0;</i></span><span lang="EN-US">as well as award-winning TV series including <em><strong>Puffin Rock</strong></em>, <em><strong>Dorg Van Dango</strong></em> and <em><strong>Viking Skool</strong></em>.</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">In the Stars</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> Punkrobot</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><strong><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Writer-director:</span></span></strong><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;Gabriel Osorio</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Gabriel Osorio majored in Fine Arts at Universidad de Chile, later specializing in 3D animation. After working in commercials, movies and television series, he founded Punkrobot Studio. Since 2008, he has directed projects for children&#x2019;s television including <em><strong>Flipos, Muelin y Perlita, Soccer Girls</strong></em> and television spots. In 2016, his short film <em><strong>Bear Story</strong></em>&#xA0;became the first Latin American project to win an Oscar&#xAE; in the animated short category.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">I Am Your Mother</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> Aardman</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Director:</strong> Magdalena Osinska</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Magdalena Osinska is an award-winning director who has been with Aardman for eight years. She has directed stop-motion, CGI, 2D and live-action commercials including Wallace &amp; Gromit&#x2019;s <em><strong>The Great Sofa Caper</strong></em> and <em><strong>Share the Orange</strong></em>. Osinska directed development of the children&#x2019;s series <em><strong>Joyets</strong></em> and has also directed films including <em><strong>Spirits of the Piano</strong></em> and <em><strong>Zbigniev&#x2019;s Cupboard</strong></em>. A graduate of the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK, as well as the Polish Film School in Lodz and Art College in Warsaw, Osinska is currently developing the feature film <em><strong>Jasia</strong></em>, based on her grandmother&#x2019;s memories of WWII Poland.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Journey to the Dark Head</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> Studio Mir</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><strong><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Director:&#xA0;</span></span></strong><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Hyeong Geun Park</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Rising star</span></span><span class="x_x_x_apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Hyeong Geun Park&#xA0;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">had already made a name for himself when he entered the Korean animation industry in 2017, thanks to his strong drawing and animation sensibilities. He has directed animation for dozens of cinematic game trailers and has since expanded into animated series, working on projects including <em><strong>Dota: Dragon&#x2019;s Blood: Book 3</strong></em> and <em><strong>Lookism</strong></em>. <em><strong>Journey to the Dark Head </strong></em>is the first title he has executive produced from start to finish.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">The Spy Dancer</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> Studio La Cachette</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Writer-Director:</strong> Julien Chheng</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Julien Chheng is CEO of Studio La Cachette, an Emmy Award&#xAE;-winning French animation studio he co-founded in 2014 with fellow Gobelins school&#x2019;s alumni Oussama Bouacheria and Ulysse Malassagne. Chheng was trained in visual development at Disney and has worked as a character animator on acclaimed 2D animated features <em><strong>The Rabbi&#x2019;s Cat</strong></em>, <em><strong>Mune</strong></em> and the Academy Award&#xAE;-nominated <em><strong>Ernest and Celestine</strong></em>. In 2021, he won an Emmy Award&#xAE; as animation executive producer of <em><strong>Genndy Tartakovsky&#x2019;s Primal</strong></em>,</span><span lang="EN-US"><i>&#xA0;</i></span><span lang="EN-US">for which he also served as animation supervisor. In 2022, Chheng directed with Jean-Christophe Roger the Cesar-nominated feature <em><strong>Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia</strong></em>.</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">The Bandits of Golak</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> 88 Pictures</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Director:</strong> Ishan Shukla</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Ishan Shukla&#xA0;</span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">started his career as a CG artist in Singapore. For more than a decade, he spearheaded projects ranging from TV commercials to series and music videos. His 2016 animated short, </span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Schirkoa</strong></em>, was long listed for the Academy Awards&#xAE; after receiving dozens of awards. He then set up his own animation studio to work on adult-oriented animated feature films including a feature-length version of <em><strong>Schirkoa</strong></em>, set to hit festivals in summer 2023.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">The Pit</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studios:</strong> D&#x2019;art Shtajio and Lucasfilm Ltd.</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Writer-director-executive producer:</strong> LeAndre Thomas</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Co-Director:</strong> Justin Ridge</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">LeAndre Thomas is an award-winning writer and director from Oakland, Calif., whose most recent film won Best Director at the Pasadena International Film Festival. In addition to his independent films, Thomas is a part of the franchise studio team at Lucasfilm Ltd. where he has worked for more than 11 years being credited on recent titles such as <em><strong>Light &amp; Magic, </strong></em></span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/mando-and-grogu-head-to-mandalore-in-the-first-trailer-for-the-mandalorian-s3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>The Mandalorian</strong></em></a>, <em><strong>Obi-Wan Kenobi</strong></em>, </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>: Tales of the Jedi</strong></em>, and many more.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Justin Ridge executive produced the Emmy&#xAE;-nominated series </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong> Resistance</strong></em>. His credits also include </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em></span><em><strong><span class="x_x_x_apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span></span></strong></em><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Rebels</strong></em>, </span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Storks</strong></em>, <em><strong>The Cleveland Show</strong></em>, </span><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span></strong></em><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>: The Clone Wars</strong></em> and </span></span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Avatar: The Last Airbender</strong></em>.</span></span></p>
<h3 class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Aau&#x2019;s Song</span></span></h3>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Studio:</strong> Triggerfish</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Writer-Directors:</strong> Nadia Darries and Daniel Clarke&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Nadia Darries is a director, animator and co-founder of Goon Valley Animation, with an avocation for songwriting. Born in the Cape Flats in South Africa, Darries has worked on high-end animated film and motion design as an animator, project manager, creative director and director since 2015. Her experience includes animating at Triggerfish Animation Studios on the award-winning BBC films <em><strong>Stick Man</strong></em>, <em><strong>Revolting Rhymes </strong></em>and <em><strong>Highway Rat</strong></em>.&#xA0;</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Daniel Clarke is a Cape Town-based director and artist working in animation, film and illustration. He started his career in animation in 2008 at Triggerfish Animation Studios, where he has served as production designer, art director and director on projects such as the feature film <em><strong>Khumba</strong></em>, BBC&#x2019;s <em><strong>Stick Man</strong></em> and <em><strong>The Snail and the Whale</strong></em>. In 2018, along with James Clarke and Daniel Snaddon, he completed the graphic novel <em><strong>Kariba</strong></em>.</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_xxxxmsonormal"><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">&#xA0;</span><span class="x_x_x_contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US">Star Wars</span><span lang="EN-US">: Visions&#x2014;Volume 2 streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning 4 May.&#xA0;&#xA0;</span></span></strong></em></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pulled off air amid a mess of mixed signals (the Sci-Fi Channel said yes to Season 5, and then no), <strong><em>Farscape</em></strong> just missed out on the era of mass internet fan mobilisation &#x2013; the kind that has kept similar shows like <em>Firefly</em>, <a href="http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/top-5-ways-caprica-could-be-improved/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Caprica</em></a> and <a href="http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/five-big-feature-length-finales/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Stargate SG1</em></a> high on the cancellationoutrageometer.</p>
<p>Those who do remember its abrupt end &#x2013; a cliffhanger not entirely salved by the somewhat cluttered <a href="http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/five-big-feature-length-finales/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2004 miniseries <em>The Peacekeeper Wars</em></a> &#x2013; still mourn. For its mixture of knowing genre irreverence and crackin&#x2019; great genre tales, it was the sci-fi answer to <a href="http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/buffys-juliet-landau-writing-drusilla-comic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Buffy The Vampire Slayer</em></a> before <em>Firefly</em> turned up as the rightful heir, offering a similar ragtag crew, internal lexicon and Spaghetti Western aesthetics. The basic premise, with shades of <em>Blake&#x2019;s 7</em> can be entirely explained by its opening credits.</p>
<p>Created by&#xA0;<em>Alien Nation</em>&#x2018;s Rockne S O&#x2019;Bannon and Henson Company chief and king of muppets Brian Henson, <em>Farscape</em> was a fast-paced, melodramatic, frequently ridiculous slab of space opera that riled so hard against the limitations of its special effects budget, seemingly on a mission to depict the undepictable using only&#xA0;elaborate&#xA0;puppetry and enthusiasm.</p>
<p>But there&#x2019;s no need to describe why we like it so much here, when this snapshot of ten awesome episodes will do it for us&#x2026;</p>
<h2>10. A Human Reaction (Season 1, Episode 16)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123561" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/A-Human-Reaction-Farscape-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/A-Human-Reaction-Farscape-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/A-Human-Reaction-Farscape-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/A-Human-Reaction-Farscape.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>John</strong>: &#x201C;They have worlds out there, people out there you wouldn&#x2019;t believe! But they do not have chocolate.&#x201D;</p>
<p>Lost astronaut, proud Southern boy and POV character John Crichton (Ben Browder), thinks he&#x2019;s found a way home and the crew of Moya follow him down. Mankind reacts largely as you&#x2019;d expect it to and Crichton finds himself splayed between his new friends, and his old ones, including his father, Jack (played by <a href="http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/interview-dirk-benedict/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Galactica 1980</em></a>&#x2018;s Kent McCord).</p>
<p>After 15 episodes and with no conception of the show&#x2019;s future, this really did feel like it might be the end and things hadn&#x2019;t wrapped up quite the way we&#x2019;d imagined &#x2013; with&#xA0;comedy muppet sidekick and deposed monarch Rygel dead and dissected in the Australian equivilent of Area 51. Then comes the twist, laying seeds for an arc that outlives <em>Farscape</em> entirely.</p>
<h2>9. The Way We Weren&#x2019;t (Season 2, Episode 5)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123570" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Way-We-Werent-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Way-We-Werent-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Way-We-Werent-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Way-We-Werent.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Pilot</strong>: &#x201C;If I hadn&#x2019;t agreed to come, Velorek may never have found a replacement pilot. But&#x2026; but I just wanted so desperately to see the stars.&#x201D;<br /><strong>Aeryn</strong>: &#x201C;Do you remember when you first came aboard? Velorek stroked your cheek like this. Back then, I couldn&#x2019;t fathom why he&#x2019;d do a thing like that, and now I couldn&#x2019;t fathom not doing it.&#x201D;</p>
<p>An event from Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) and Pilot (voiced by Lani Tupu)&#x2019;s past comes back to haunt them, throwing Aeryn&#x2019;s place on Moya in doubt. We get told a lot about how evil the Peacekeepers are &#x2013; they&#x2019;re a sort of Empire-style organisation of English space Nazis &#x2013; but we only really understand that when we see the offhand callousness with which Aeryn and her squad executed the living ship&#x2019;s last Pilot to bring Moya into line. An emotional, shipbound episode &#x2013; both things <em>Farscape</em> does so well &#x2013; that not only ultimately brings Pilot and Aeryn closer together, but brings us closer to them too as we&#x2019;re pulled through the barbwire tunnel of their pain and guilt by the feet and made to see it up close and personal.</p>
<h2>8. Won&#x2019;t Get Fooled Again (Season 2, Episode 15)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123571" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Wont-Get-Fooled-Again-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Wont-Get-Fooled-Again-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Wont-Get-Fooled-Again-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Wont-Get-Fooled-Again.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Crais</strong>: &#x201C;I like your style, hombre, but this is no laughing matter. Assault on a police officer, theft of police property, illegal possession of a firearm, five counts of attempted murder. That comes to 29 dollars and 40 cents. Cash, check or credit card?&#x201D;</p>
<p>Crichton wakes up back on earth, and knows it&#x2019;s bullshit from the get-go. In response the pressure is piled on and old and new friends appear in increasingly daft scenarios, giving the cast a whole new Big Top in which to extend their talents &#x2013; Anthony Simcoe, who plays the Klingon-copypasta (initially, at least) Ka D&#x2019;Argo, in particular turns in an amazing display that frankly, defies description.</p>
<h2>7. Out Of Their Minds (Season 2, Episode 9)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123568" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Out-Of-Their-Minds-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Out-Of-Their-Minds-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Out-Of-Their-Minds-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Out-Of-Their-Minds.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Crichton</strong>: &#x201C;Have we sent the &#x2018;Don&#x2019;t shoot us, we&#x2019;re pathetic&#x2019; transmission yet?&#x201D;</p>
<p>What would be an otherwise dreary cheapo ship-based filler episode based around that old <em>Star Trek</em> standby of something mysteriously causing people to swap bodies is turbo-charged by that magical combination of gleeful acting (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkJ5CKcpJwo">Ben Browder and Claudia Black imitating not only each other&#x2019;s mannerisms</a>, but those of muppety puppety alien things Rygel and Pilot) and absolutely deranged scriptwriting.</p>
<h2>6. Revenging Angel (Season 3, Episode 16)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123569" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Revenging-Angel-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Revenging-Angel-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Revenging-Angel-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Revenging-Angel.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Crichton</strong>:&#xA0;&#x201C;I don&#x2019;t&#x2026; wanna be like other people. I don&#x2019;t wanna be like you. I don&#x2019;t wanna stoop that low. Kirk wouldn&#x2019;t stoop that low.&#x201D;<br /><strong>Scorpius</strong>:&#xA0;&#x201C;That was a television show, John. And he made Priceline commercials.&#x201D;</p>
<p>It&#x2019;s probably going to seem to the uninitiated&#xA0;that 80% of <em>Farscape</em> is just the cast going nutso on the ship and shouting at each other, which isn&#x2019;t true (it&#x2019;s more like 73%), but with the emphasis taken away from running around unimpressive looking alien planets/ships of the week, the ensemble prove their versatility and gurning prowess with cabin fever meltdowns.</p>
<p>D&#x2019;Argo and Crichton wind each other up something chronic, and John is knocked&#xA0;unconscious. His Scorpius (Wayne Pygram) brain-implant (the big bad put a &#x2018;neural clone&#x2019; of himself in John&#x2019;s head to try and weasel out his secrets), named Harvey in homage to the 1950 invisible rabbit movie of the same name, convinces him that revenge is the only way to regain conciousness. Crichton being Crichton forcibly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmccQoV45-Q&amp;feature=relmfu">turns everything into a&#xA0;riotous&#xA0;Warner Bros cartoon</a> and Roadrunners his way through his&#xA0;subconscious. Meanwhile, the ancient Luxan ship D&#x2019;Argo and Crichton accidentally turned on is counting down its self-destruct sequence&#x2026;</p>
<h2>5. Liars, Guns And Money (all three parts) (Season 2, Episode 19-21)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123566" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Liars-Guns-And-Money-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Liars-Guns-And-Money-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Liars-Guns-And-Money-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Liars-Guns-And-Money.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Harvey</strong>: It wasn&#x2019;t easy, there are vast regions of your brain that are filled with nothing but gibberish.<br /><strong>John</strong>: That would be high school.</p>
<p>Of all the arguments for officially recognising <em>Farscape</em> as the small screen <em>Star Wars</em>, two are the most compelling &#x2013; it&#x2019;s effort to create truly alien looking aliens through epic prosthesis and puppetry in an era when most sci-fi TV was content glueing ridges to people&#x2019;s faces and painting on comedy eyebrows, and its love of a good solid action/adventure space romp.</p>
<p>The three part epic of &#x2018;Liars, Guns And Money&#x2019; is like the first third of <em>Return Of The Jedi</em> impacting messily with <em>Oceans 11</em>. D&#x2019;Argo discovers that the son he never met &#x2013; he was arrested and imprisoned shortly after his birth &#x2013; is being offered up on a slave auction, but slaves, like toilet roll, can only be bought in bulk and so Moya&#x2019;s misfit inhabitants enlist a cross-section of rogues from across the first season to raid a seemingly&#xA0;impenetrable&#xA0;space vault. But, on no, snarling, sneering big bad Scorpius is also there and has a creepy S&amp;M love affair going on with the vault&#x2019;s owner, the eyeball-plucking scorpion-headed sadist Natira (Claudia Karvan)&#x2026;</p>
<h2>4. Into The Lion&#x2019;s Den (both parts) (Season 3, Episode 20-21)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123565" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Into-The-Lions-Den-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Into-The-Lions-Den-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Into-The-Lions-Den-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Into-The-Lions-Den.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Crais</strong>&#xA0;(<em>Over comm, to whole ship</em>): Scorpius, I am just making my final goodbyes.<br /><strong>Scorpius</strong>: Where are you, Crais?<br /><strong>Crais</strong>: I am standing in your heart, and I&#x2019;m about to squeeze.</p>
<p>If <em>Farscape</em> was <em>Star Wars</em>&#xA0;for TV, then the two part &#x2018;Into The Lion&#x2019;s Den&#x2019; was its <em>Return Of The Jedi</em> &#x2013; our hero finally comes face to face with his nemesis, who wishes to lure him to his own&#xA0;equivalent&#xA0;of the Dark Side, by getting John to help him decipher the wormhole technology needed to defeat the galaxy&#x2019;s even bigger bad, the Scarrans.</p>
<p>Obviously the crew have other plans, and there&#x2019;s no way they&#x2019;re handing the Peacekeepers&#x2019; deranged Mengele-meets-Vader any sort of leg up, and like the Death Star, Scorpius&#x2019; devestating Command Carrier is obliterated from within, and like<em> Return Of The Jedi</em>, there&#x2019;s an unexpected sacrifice in this masterful chess game between good an evil&#x2026;</p>
<p>I mean, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXcJ0Dvvhtg">just listen to how epic the music is</a>!</p>
<h2>3. Nerve/The Hidden Memory (Season 1, Episode 19-20)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123567" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Nerve-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Nerve-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Nerve-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Nerve.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Rygel</strong>: I&#x2019;ve conceived hundreds of progeny! And those are only official ones with my wives.<br /><strong>Chiana</strong>: Well then you should know something about this; you should be able to help us.<br /><strong>Rygel</strong>: I was never present at the birth!<br /><strong>Chiana</strong>: Not one?<br /><strong>Rygel</strong>: Well of course not! I think this is a trifle different, don&#x2019;t you? My progeny were tiny&#x2026; tiny and handsome, like their father.</p>
<p>To revisit that now somewhat strained &#x2018;<em>Farscape</em> as <em>Star Wars: The Series</em>&#x2018; thing, &#x2018;Nerve&#x2019; and &#x2018;The Hidden Memory&#x2019; is very much the Australian muppet answer to <em>A New Hope</em>. Our band sneak into a Peacekeeper superbase &#x2013; Crichton posing as an officer and the flirtatious Chiana (Gigi Edgley) his&#xA0;concubine&#xA0;&#x2013; in order to save Aeryn&#x2019;s life. Captured, Crichton undergoes a gruelling torture at the hands of the chilling Scorpius and the major plot arc for Farscape kicks off in earnest as Crichton is revealed to have secret wormhole technology embedded in his noggin by mystical beings.</p>
<p>&#x2018;Nerve&#x2019; was a terrifying&#xA0;escalation&#xA0;that took <em>Farscape</em> from the simple <em>Blakes 7</em>-style misfits-on-the-run premise into whole new complicated, high-stakes misfits-on-the-run territory. This is where <em>Farscape</em> stopped being merely good harmless fun, and became truly excellent&#x2026;</p>
<h2>2.&#xA0;Crackers Don&#x2019;t Matter (Season 2, Episode 4)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-123562" src="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Crackers-Dont-Matter-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" srcset="https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Crackers-Dont-Matter-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Crackers-Dont-Matter-616x370.jpg 616w, https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Crackers-Dont-Matter.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></p>
<p><strong>Pilot</strong>: How is your module?<br /><strong>Crichton</strong>: Checked out fine, I checked out fine.<br /><strong>Pilot</strong>: While vaguely concerned about you, I&#x2019;m much more interested in how this will affect Moya.</p>
<p>The undisputed king of <em>Farscape</em>&#x2018;s many crew-go-batshit-on-ship episodes! At the bequest of an obviously creepy alien engineer called&#xA0;T&#x2019;raltixx, Moya heads through an area of space littered with pulsars that begin to exert a mental pull of the crew, pushing them to hot headedness, paranoia and borderline insanity. Crichton appears to the suffer the least, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&amp;NR=1&amp;v=L7RzyMBtU-I">although haunted by Scorpius is pretty damn odd</a>.</p>
<p>Filled with extreme and controversial scenes that tested everyone&#x2019;s acting abilities, D&#x2019;Argo force feeding Rygel crackers is pretty harrowing, although it doesn&#x2019;t come anywhere near close to the implied near rape of Chiana &#x2013; pretty bloody dark stuff for a show with muppets in it. Witty, brilliantly-paced, and terrifyingly visceral in places, &#x2018;Crackers Don&#x2019;t Matter&#x2019; should be the first episode any prospective &#x2018;Scaper&#xA0;is shown to win them over.</p>
<h2>1. Die Me, Dichotomy (Season 2, Episode 22)</h2>
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<p><strong>D&#x2019;Argo</strong>: Aeryn, Crichton has often said he&#x2019;d rather die than fall to Scorpius. If you get the opportunity, don&#x2019;t hesitate.<br /><strong>Aeryn</strong>: What makes you think I would?<br /><strong>D&#x2019;Argo</strong>: Because if our positions were reversed&#x2026; I would.</p>
<p>Please don&#x2019;t be angry but I think this is our <em>Empire Strikes Back</em>&#x2026; someone is lost and someone turns as the Scorpius neural clone implanted in Crichton begins to take full control and he rushes to have it removed. To describe it in any detail is to do it an injustice, but if you have a proclavity for crying at films &#x2013; &#x2018;Die Me, Dichtomy&#x2019; will have you weeping. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z8ohwF9A0k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Especially this bit (major spoiler)</a>.</p>
<p><em><strong>Farscape&#xA0;<span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">is showing on the Horror Channel from April 4th showing as part of its Sci Fi Zone.</span></strong></em></p>
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