It's been weeks since I finished my Farscape rewatch, but Ben Browder's portrayal of John 'Fine, you want a wormhole weapon? Here's a wormhole weapon, you fuckers' Crichton is still haunting me.
Spoilers:
I rewatched Farscape the Peacekeeper Wars for the first time in a long time, and I’m going through the tags trying to find analysis of this specific scene because it’s so devastating. A theme of Farscape is the cost of Empire, and the looming threat of war between Empires and how few options someone on the fringes has.
So we get John just shoving in the Imperial leaders (or as close to) faces what the eventual end result of this race to the top is, and it’s Nothingness. It’s a lack of future. It’s a lack of legacy. It’s The End. Which he and his friends and prepared to face because they’ve been facing it every day for years, if not their whole lives.
And Shakespearean trained actor Ben Browder acts his absolute ass off, of course.























