I Have a Theory About Sikozu [Farscape Continues]
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Sikozu's character doesn't make much sense, but I have a theory.
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Rygels wisdom makes him one of the most important characters of the series he’s like everybody’s daddy his talks with every character brings them down to Earth
And sometimes he´s like a child. He´s great!
"The Anti-Farscape Character" Great take. Apart from her personality and goals being a mystery it felt like the show piled too many extra-natural quirks on her character. She can reattach limbs, walk on walls, hover in the air, radiate heat and, in PKW, throw fireballs. If the characters of Farscape were D&D characters Sikozu would be the overpowered player character piloted by the dungeon master.
Great perspective. Yeah, she does do too many things, changes a bit too much.
Right! And it´s a contradiction that she radiates energy, but claims that she could not survive being x-rayed - unless she lied about that, perhaps an x-ray would set off her secret radiation thing ...
I see where you are going with this. Her reaction when the Grudecs are going to give a bad review to her employer. Having her reputation sullied is more important to her. Also when she speaks to Ayren in PKW, she let's on how she thought Scorpius was her intellectual inferior. Ah, the folly of youth. She is a "wise fool". Thanks again for another thought provoking piece.
Excellent points, yes. Sikozu is interesting when I think of her as that kind of pointed satire.
Man, Rigel was the best! He played dumb but he was way more intelligent and much wiser than he seemed at first impression.
Yeah, Rygel was great. People are too harsh on how he was in the early seasons. How would any of us be if we'd been imprisoned and tortured for over a hundred cycles?
Ok- in all honesty- I thought he was a Trump cameo... like in the Simpsons.
Pre- Presidency ... you know...
Bad humor...
Rygel's lines after Sikozu is questioning the situation is beyond cool.
That's one of my favorie scenes.
Sikouza and Rigel's spat reminds of when I was using my G.I. Bill dealing with the occasional Seniors and Graduates.
It's really interesting how some people feel more compelled toward Sikozu and some more towards Jool. Obviously it's about preference here, but it's still interesting that these two are (probably) the most unevenly liked characters on the show.
I agree totally. Would be interesting to have some sort of formal survey on who dislikes which charcter and why.
I adore Sikozu. She's tough, beautiful, and full of immense intelligence and confidence. I find her superiority complex overwhelming at points, in a good way.
I like Jool because she got over herself.
Never liked either of them myself. I never really warmed to any of the "new" characters. But Stark is definitely my least favorite character on the whole show.
@@rogueguru2509 Yes, her character grew and changed, in a way that made more sense than Sikozu´s shifts of agenda.
Sikozu is the most hard to figure out (nebulous) character on Farscape. If anything, that's what I like about her. You can never really get to know her or her motivations. Keeps you guessing.
I do not count PKW Sikozu. Regrettable, as I have so much respect for Farscape, but I just don't.
I don't have issue with her abilities. The floating in air is probably only when her anti-Scarran heatwave is about to go off. And the wall walk is something her species can do. No telling if her reattaching limbs is a bioloid thing or a kalish thing. I feel like we put up with more superpowers from Zhaan though.
As a bioengineered operative, her personality makes sense. Lots of data, but not much experience. Ruthless and self-assured. Disagreeable but curious. Allies herself with the enemy's most serious enemy...
It's when she's isolated from advancing her objective against the Scarrans that we see her nacent personality come out to explore the world and herself, like in 'A Perfect Murder', or her time on Earth. If it sounds like it would suck to be her, it's because it would.
She always came off to me like one of those students who were driven by obsessed parents into all study and no life, until they know a lot- but not quite who they are. That's maybe why her reputation and self-image are so important to her, because she's suffered so much for whatever she is now that falling short of amazing would feel like a wasted life.
I like your description of her. So sure of herself until she got into the real "world." But there was always a biiterness inside her. I wonder if her arrogance was a cover for what was causing that bitterness. When she met up with Scorpius, that allowed her bitterness to harden and take over.
Sikozu fits in because she is a misfit among misfits. But otherwise I think your theory is correct.
Perhaps we would have learned more if Farscape had a 5th Season.
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but I know the frelling fact when it hits me in the face..Rygel the Wise
The whole crew of Moya did not like sikozu special chiana
Season 5/Peacekeeper War make a hack job and many plot lines that would have been so much better treated.
Yes, it's a frelling shame we will never get to see the full treatment of so many great plot developments. Instead we got full episodes reduced to a few minutes over and over. Still, credit to the writers--they did very well with the severe time limits placed on them.
I choose I believe Peacekeeper War takes place in a different reality to the proper seasons we got.
@@khaxjc1 I´d go there in an instant!
When Crichton repeats "she's too smart" multiple times shortly after meeting Sikozu, I always kind of wondered if that was possibly Ben Browder's secret commentary on the character being overdone. They gave that character everything. She wouldn't be out of place in a superhero movie.
Only that she´s not a hero.
I think part of the problem is that she was introduced so late in the series. When Chiana was introduced, they took quite a while to somewhat awkwardly figure out her character and motivations, but they were able to focus a couple of solid character-development episodes on her and on cementing her relationships with the crew. Sikozu had a similarly ambiguous start, but her character never got that chance. In the last season, there was so much foreground plot and so much going on with the established characters that it seems they just couldn't spend the time on her. They tried to plant the seed of an interesting story that might have played out in the next season, but instead it just became a dangling plot point that went nowhere. I imagine if we'd had another season her character would have gotten more interesting.
I like your thinking on that. Several characters would have received some in-depth looks if a full Season 5 had been allowed.
I agree mostly, only that I don´t think they meant for her to become a hero. She was never supposed to be liked. That´s what made the 4th season more interesting. Jool was annoying, which was refreshing, too. But Sikozu was really meant to be hated. Yes, she is (too) smart and pretty, but don´t forget: she´s the one who set up the crew and the Eidolons with the Scarrans. So she´s responsible for their death and Dargo´s.
That's so pathetically petty it just might be true.
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as to sikozu, (what what ive seen in the show) she is a weapon/agent of the kalish. it makes sense to me. an intelligent and technical race, oppressed by the scarrans, they would know all about the bioloids and be able to to think about using them in an offensive way to end the scarran oppression. would make sense aswell why she only ever looked out for things that fit her agenda (freeing the kalish)
Yes, I agree. She was a singularly focused person, like Scorpius, which is why they got along.
@@FarscapeContinues definitely although I do agree with what you said about the writers making a point with her personality.
sikozu was my FAV character ...also i have all her flaws ...so i related ....she was epic...except her liking scorpius ....he had little class ..what kind of life could he have given her? nada
I so wish that she didn't die a needless death in the comics, Sputnik was one of my favorites honestly.
It did seem like they were just getting rid of the character. I loved that Farscape TOS never gave into cliches, and I wonder if because the comics were fleshed out by people in the comics industry (Rockne only gave them a basic grand story arc) that those people added the pathos of her ruin and sacrificial death that gives into that cliche. It really does nothing other than contrive that needless death,
@@FarscapeContinues I think that the comics (at least the first series of comics) were basically what the writers wanted for a season 5, so I think she still maybe would have died, but undoubtedly it would've been in a more fitting and less "useless" way for a lack of a better term.
Sparky my boi
Oh you have a point with the technic-obsessed scifi-fans. I know one. Totally ruins the joy of watching for others, so I´ll never watch anything with him around. I talked to him about him not liking Crichton´s space walk in season two. I argued that at the time (early 2000) it was a common conception that a human, exposed to space, has a couple of seconds before dying (as in 2001 or Star Trek Enterprise season 4, even Stargate in season 10). He got angry and said: "Impossible, you´d be dead in the very first split second."
Me: "Why?"
He: "The pressure differential tears you apart immediately and your eyeballs pop."
Me: "Couldn´t the extreme low temperature compensate for that?"
He: "No." (He´s not a scientist)
Me: "How do you know that? Has any human ever been exposed to open space?"
He: "Challenger?"
Me: "No, they dropped into the ocean and drowned, as far as I know."
He: "It´s impossible."
Me: "Did this happen to any human so far?"
He: "It´s impossible."
At that point I ended the discussion, because it had become pointless.
Yep, the tech bro wannbees, who insist they are smarter than everyone else and then whine about how everything is "woke" now.
@@FarscapeContinues tech bro wannabees? I like that! Must memorize it!
Rygel is Yoda without the Force.
How about: anti-Yoda?
OR the Anti-Mary Sue, the character that thinks they are much more than their true limits.
Bring it back please 😜😂☺️
While Rigel isn't wrong, i fully understand where Sikozu had trouble rationalizing being shrunken. That aside, her character is simply yummy on a variety of levels.
Oh yeah, we'd all be asking the same questions Sikozu asks, but I so love that scene for how much it shows us the core of Rygel and Sikozu's characters.
I think in some ways that sums it up. Sikozu became Season 1 Chricton, in terms of being a fish out of water and trying to get a grip of things that are currently beyond her.
Crichton eventually adapted to life in space and dealing with the strange and new.
@@rogueguru2509 OK, but Jool fits that pattern, too. She had to adjust to the rough ways on Moya. Didn´t even know violence (that´s why I was so surprised that it turned out later that she was some kind of Indiana Jones, which seems a bit of a contradiction, too! ... Perhaps she was Indiana Jones´ apprentice, in her first cycle?)
Makes total sense to me. That last season is when the writers let it all hang out in most shows.
Man, I haven't watched the show in a few years and forgot about her superpowers later on. Were they just rolling a die and consulting a table for her story beats?
Sikozu did seem to be a wildcard character--serving whatever purpose the plot needed at the time. Like I say, I don't understand her character at all. Seems un-Farscape to me.
I am doing a Farscape rewatch and i am in season 4,imo Sikosu is on the show for one reason.to add unneeded conflict.at this point the crew is a family and they added her to disrupt that,imo.i dont like her either.
Will there be a video on Grayza?
I wasn't planning one, though I could be convinced otherwise. I suppose she is the last recuring character who I haven't explored. But I feels she's the least developed character too. But, hey, maybe that's worth exploring.
I have my own short theory.
I think the Sikozu, as a more advanced biorobot model than we see in the show, was send from a future that uses the wornholm weapon. Her goal was to stop it and stop PK forces, who are researching these weapons. Sikozu has knowledge of the past and finds (Sikozu was identified as an employer in S04E01) and saves John Crichton to get closer to Scorpius through him. I also think that Sikozu is actually shaping reality to its advantage with the advice that most seem to be wrong.
Interesting. That might explain the seemingly senseless shifts in her agenda.
I feel like Sikozu was just a hastily made replacement for Jool. They even look similar
I would hate to think that's the case. I hate the idea that the creators of Farscape would make fun of the viewers that way. :( When we first meet her she says she's on her first mission, so I agree she is literally a baby. I see Sikozu as a rebel weapon who's entire life was ruined by the gang on Moya and now she is a lost little girl whose entire reason for existing is getting further and further away, until Katratzi. In my head cannon when Sikozu gets there she is briefed by her rebel group to stick by Crichton because he's demonstrated a good knowledge of wormholes by then. Then in the LaBomba eps our Sikozu gets caught and a scarren controlled bioloid of our Sikozu bioloid continues on with the Moyans after that. Which is the only way I can make sense of the drastic shifts in demeanor she shows including becoming a spy for a race she is literally a bomb against.
I don't think the creators are making fun of Farscaoe viewers, but that they were tweaking those anti-Farscape peeps who derided the show for not being hard sci-fi.
I like your theory about the bioloid. It would explain the weirdly disparate Sikozu of PKW. The only problem is there is no firm evidence for it as much sense as it makes. In the comics, we see a chastened and emotional Sikozu that we only saw the briefest glimpses of in the original series. Regardless, I just can't buy the idea that she would make that deal with the Scarrans. IMO, probably the biggest plot hole in the whole of Farscape.
Interesting. I always wondered if she might have been captured at that commerce planet where they rescued Grayza. She was separated from Aeryn for a while, so she could have been exchanged by a bioloid.
There is also a moment, later, on Moya, when John´s finds out it´s not Aeryn. The Aeryn bioloid at one point looks at Sikozu, as if looking for help. But Sikozu couldn´t blow her cover ...
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Her being a spy was the only thing I found interesting about this character, and the only noticable character development about this character as far as I could tell.
I did like that it was Foreshadowed before the reveal though
She becomes the love of Scorpius. She abandons so much logic and falls in love with him. In the Peace Keeper Wars she and Scorpius make a great fighting team. I think Scorpius was hurt the most by finding her helping the Scarrans. He's actually fallen for her. I think she loved him too, but she was bound to free her people no matter what.
It is a shame the writers never had the cchance to explore their relationsip. I agree with you that Scorpius was hurt by what she did, just as he was hurt by Crichton's betrayals in "Into the Lion's Den" and "We're So Screwed." Scorpius was evil, but he wasn't a monster without feeling.
Yes, when they broke up, she lost much more than her job.
In the show, they even played a demented version of the John+Aeryn theme music when Sikozu and Scorpius are together at times, so they definitely fit the role of Bizzaro John+Aeryn well. In the comics, Scorpius gets some pretty drastic breakup revenge on her if I recall, after which they seemingly finish her storyline. They are making a new 25th anniversary comic that will have new story, so I do wonder if they'll revisit that. The original comic run ended on a fairly open ended note that left the door open for them to continue the story.
She was my least favorite character on a show that I otherwise loved.
You had to try REALLY hard to get a young teenage me to not like an attractive redhead.
She didn't fit in because Sikozu was never supposed to be a character on Farscape. Raelee Hill initially auditioned for the role of Naranti - the producers decided she was not right for the part, but they were so impressed with her that they created the role of Sikozu for her. So she really was just "tacked on".
That would make sense. Another angle to look at is when Zhaan was killed off, Jool took her role on the ship as "smart person who can do medicine and some science stuff" like Zhaan did. When Jool left, Naranti took the medicine role, but she was more shaman than scientist. In a way, it almost feels like they decided to split Jool's character into two people in terms of role and what they do: Naranti in the Zhaan "healer" role and Sikozu in the arrogant but smart/science role that Jool also used to play.
I really try to like her character but she was just too annoying. And the whole " super weapon " thing against the scarran was blah:(
Jool ( she has a moments ) = yes
Sikozu = NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think she's a robot. 😉
It was never entirely clear what her being a bioloid meant. Fully robotic or a cyborg or a modified person?
That seems about right to me although I was disappointed in both redheads but for entirely teenage reasons
I watched farscape from the beginning and watched it again a few years ago . A great show. Nothing new there for all the people here. What is strange to me is that you talk about Farscape on Amazon prime. It is not on all Amazon prime. It's not on focking Amazon prime France so please stop talking about Amazon prime.......
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