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Sikozu, confusing character motivation?


I have to say, I'm very confused by Sikozu's character, maybe someone can help explain it.

First she's working with those pirate people who try to take Moya apart, that's how she's introduced. We then find out she was a specially genetically engineered version of her race, designed to free her people from the Scarrans...and then in the Peacekeeper Wars we find out she's spying for the Scarrans.

Maybe I missed something. I've only watched through the series once so something might have been explained that I missed.

Anyone else know why she'd be working with those pirates? And then why she'd be working for the Scarrans when she was designed to fight them?

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I'm very confused me

I'm very confused me, too.


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Lol! Typo fixed ;-)

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Yeah, I was never satisfied with the explanation that Sikozu was the informant, too arbitrarily resolved, especially considering how she saved the lives of everyone with her genetically modified hot body. If she truly worked for the Scarrans she could have easily allowed everyone to be killed rather than save all their lives. But of the only two possible suspects (she and Scorpius) Sikozu was obviously voted by the writers to be the least likely to remain loyal to keeping Crichton safe, being as how they wrote themselves into a corner by revealing that the group had a spy in their midst. Maybe Sikozu didn't know where her loyalties lie. Maybe she really did feel a kinship to the group's cause, to her own people, and it was only a matter of survival that kept her chained to the Scarrans. After all, that was the excuse Scorpius used to explain his own duplicitous actions.

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IMHO she would have if the Scarrans would have found out more details about her involvement with Scorpius... and got to her with new threats against her people, especially if they used more than till then force/brutality/... against her people too.



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To have something important in common does not exclude betrayel, if someone puts e.g. your people in a concentration camp and start to kill them as a leverage or via neglet... like it happened e.g. in South Africa's 2nd Boer War ~ 1900 someone might get 'accessable'




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There were a number of nonsensical events in Peacekeeper Wars, her betrayal being among them. I too assign this to poor writing. But as a character she did seem to suffer from being someone given things to drive the plot. Remember when she suddenly announces her anti-scaren powers as a mightily convenient time? That was awful.

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You are assuming people have control over their lives. We all think we do and we only miss it when we run into problems that we can not solve.

The pirates is already explained. She was too good at her job and the pirates wanted to make sure no one else found out her methods. They could also save some money by not paying her if they killed her off.

So she was a Trojan horse and there have been many people throughout history who have killed many of their own people to get to their objective. Like everyone and their mother knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl harbor.. Considering the Japanese codes were broken many months before hand and all their codes were broken soon after as well. The German codes took longer but they were also broken very early in the war. Yet many tens and even hundreds of thousands of lives were lost because The British did not want to indicate they knew how to break the codes. They even gave the Soviets tid bits about what the Germans were planning but not that they broke the code. So the Soviets had to create elaborate defenses because they only knew an attack was coming in a sector but not the strength and objective and exactly when. It cost millions of Soviet lives.. There are also far better examples where undercover british officers were actually in the SS who would kill and torture undesirables. After the war they could not be fully rehabilitated and lived he res of their lives in wards and alone. They did this so they could inform their superiors what the units were doing and planning. IE the allies knew almost everything the Germans did in WW2 before even the Germans did.



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This is one of the best examples of that. Her character is a complete and total mess. In addition to everything you said, I'm pretty sure it's also revealed in Peacekeeper Wars that she's also Scorpious' personal spy.

You can't play the double agent/double cross angle more than once. It loses impact when done too much. In addition to being confused, you just stop caring because of the overuse of the plot device. It's like asking the reader to care about Jean Grey's 10th death. Really sloppy writing.

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True. Of course I doubt there's is any show that is absolutely 'perfect'. Perhaps she would have made more sense if they had had a full 5th season...but I doubt it. I've read somewhere...I think on the Farscape wiki page, that the comics explain somewhat why she was a spy for the Scarrans when she was designed to fight them...something about a deal in which she helps them against the peacekeepers and the Scarrans help her people....I don't recall exactly.

Either way, I still find her character baffling in the Peacekeeper Wars.

In general I thought the Peacekeeper Wars did a pretty good job of wrapping things up but there were a few head scratchers. Such as her and also Jools who had a bit of her own bizarre character switch...acting very differently then we had previously seen. It wasn't as noticeable since she had a much smaller role but it still seemed odd.

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True. Of course I doubt there's is any show that is absolutely 'perfect'.


It's not even about that. I like Farscape. I like it a lot. But it's a very poorly written show at times. It goes well beyond "no show is perfect", it's actually bad writing quite often. Luckily it's funny and entertaining.

Jool's character did change a lot - the whole Crichton crush was weird - but it made sense because she was living in a remote place and we had not seen her for sometime. Sikozu's was just a mess.

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But in order for the story to work we have to have them behaving inconsistently.


What? No. You were right in your first post, it was simply bad writing.

The ending is not entirely clear and is not addressed in detail. Did the singularity consume Qujaga and the entire Peacekeeper and Scarran fleets except for the flagships, and Moya, and Jothee's ship as it appeared to be?


I haven't seen the movie in a few years, so I looked it up and the whole thing is actually on YouTube. If you watch that scene and read the wiki, it appears the planet was destroyed.

http://youtu.be/xdgiPAiryKs
http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/Qujaga

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Yes, PKW did what it was supposed to do, and to get it done, it really abbreviates things. There are ideas that would have taken one or two seasons to develop, maybe that's part of the reason why Sikozu seems so inconsistent.

She identifies with Scorpius, but ultimately betrays him (not to mention the rest of the group). It doesn't make sense for it to happen 60 days after S4, but if it had happened 1 or 2 cycles later, it might make sense, after the Scarrans had a chance to identify and approach her, and coerce her. In PKW, her character is shown as changing drastically in appearance, but not growing (even going backwards): she is attracted and you could say she loved Scorpius, but she still thinks of terms of superiority, of conflict and domination between them, rather of coming together.

Jothee is the other character that suddenly appears with the right resources to solve the problem at hand, with even less development. The resolution of Jothee's conflict with D'argo is quick and uneventful, but over an actual season, it would probably have been much more satisfying.

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She was actually a rather sheltered elitist - ironically forced into "Survival Mode" - when she first arrived. She had a lot of "book knowledge" but not a lot of life experience. She was clearly intelligent - which had to made her inability to take translator microbes a really cruel twist of fate. I like to think that she eventually became aloof regarding the Moyans simply due to the fact that she was kinda bored with them. She would do a "mental inventory" whenever a Power Player blipped her radar. Her allegiance would shift to whoever she felt could best ensure her survival wherever she happened to be. Helping save different characters along the way was not because she cared - it was because she needed them.

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She explain why she spied for the Scarrans in the farscape comic (the comic is canon)

She made a deal with the Scarrans, promising to aid and spy for them in exchange for her people's freedom

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