Please tell me someone kills Zhaan

Zhaan has probably the most interesting backstory of the group. I really like the theme of her having to balance her faith as a sort of alien Buddhist with her past of killing people in the resistance against Peacekeeper occupiers on her planet, something that probably has some real life parallels to conflicts like China/Tibet. I'd love to find some official Farscape expanded universe stories that explore this past, or even fanfiction.

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I'm with you. I like Zhaan. I even liked Stark, although sometimes I laughed at him when I shouldn't.

Chiana is my least favorite character. She's so immature. I'm almost through Season 2 and I'm still on the fence with her. She's likeable, but seems like she could and would go off the rails on a whim at any given moment.

Edited: I have now gotten to Jool. OMG. Can't stand her at all. I thought Stark was annoying at times, but that scream. Ouch. And the whining....


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I'm on the episode Zhaan dies. S03e04


I really was indifferent to Zhaan up until about the end of season 2 and season 3. As the last few episodes I began to hate her more and more. Her character is such a *beep* The concept that you guys mention is interesting to some degree, but frankly they don't pull it off with her at all imo.

Her battle with the "dark" side is quite pathetic and feels more like spats of childish tantrums. Not that this isn't common with many characters on the show, but she is the worst of all I think because of what her character is supposed to be. She almost felt like she was ready to take any chance she could to get revenge, or sacrifice someone for the smallest things, but this had nothing to do with her darkness as it was much more petty than that in most cases. She became very judgmental towards the end of her run, and it was completely hypocritical as she had so many bouts of crazy contradiction. She would decide that someone deserved to die, and then later act as if she was the beacon of all that was great and that she was sacrificing so much for everyone.

Then say petty *beep* to other characters about little mistakes they made as if she were perfect. The episode she died for instance she had a line to John that was rage inducing. At one point there was something wrong with Moya that might cut Pilot off from the rest of the ship. John on his way to try and prevent this he was attacked by the wormhole snake and couldn't get there in time. Zhaan says to him right after this "Your excuses have once again cost him, John" like he was always letting Pilot down, when John is the least selfish of them all for the vast majority of the show when it comes to looking out for the benefit of others on the ship. I still don't see how none of them really felt any guilt for attacking Pilot and cutting off his arm for something as little as a MAP. She had that in her history well before she was broken again and open to the darkness too. That was when she was at her "best" and most pure after raising her Priestess level from reflection while a prisoner. It's not like her crime was one of darkness either. Then she had the nerve to drop a line like that on John who was one of those that didn't' attack Pilot?

Then later the rest of them made an actual effort, and did get Pilot back to connection with Moya, while Zhaan...prayed. She acted as if her "prayer" made the difference while everyone else actually did the work. I was so tired of her by this point that when I realized that she was going to die/sacrifice herself I was glad.

She felt incredibly inconsistent as a character. I didn't see any battle with darkness. I saw her as incredibly immature and emotional in all those instances. It wasn't a battle of desire for darkness. It was a battle of being an emotional child, which made the point of her character completely asinine at how often she had such childish emotional outbursts. There was no real inner struggle when these instances arose. It was a situation where she just caved into regular emotions.

Chiana of course is immature too and a pretty deplorable character most times. She isn't a hypocrite on the level that Zhaan was to me, however. D'Argo is a bit more of a dick as well than even she is based on him giving up his crew mates a couple times to escape some trouble himself (like telling that alien looking for something that was fighting Scorpy that Chiana had the info they needed, when she never did, and he knew it just so he could get out of the fight he was in. Then Chiana ended up getting tortured because of it WTF? lol). D'Argo's "rage" is a species trait of course, but he had some silly angst moments.

Take my AIDS, please!