What Kind of Hero Is Crichton? REMASTERED [Farscape Continues]
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Remastered now that my hardware and software are higher quality. An alanylsis of John Crichton, an Astronaut.
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John is an everyman hero, but also slightly tragic in that he never wanted to. be a ero, and was pused, shoved, and aurora chaired into it.
Yes. And one of his incarnations died. If that´s not a tragic hero, then I don´t know what is.
Bring back Farscape!
I have always thought of Crichton as a Cowboy/Paladin.
not your everyday kirk
I think he is closest to a Modern Classical Hero but I understand where people will miss that. His backstory is as a scientist, pilot, and astronaut. All 3 are held in very high regard in modern society and less than 1% of people will become any of them. And as you mentioned, his father is also an astronaut. Then you add his unique point of view and knowledge.
But I also agree with you in the sense that, the story is *trying* to make him an Everyman, it just keeps making him too special to be an Everyman.
Indeed, and how typical of Farscape to be complex and nuanced about everything. :)
Hail John Chrichton. Savior of Earth. He does shut down the wormhole to Earth. Cutting off his ability to go home. Or, did he?
Bet they will find another wormhole to Earth.
@@FarscapeContinues my thought exactly.
@@FarscapeContinues Yes, I´m afraid so. Hope they won´t use it too often. And make the best of it: I really hope they equipped Moya with a washing machine, they can´t let Chiana do all the laundry forever!
When O'Bannon wrote the grand story arc for the comics, that continued the action after the Peacekeeper Wars, he did not go back to the wormhole idea. We will see IF the show ever returns.
@@FarscapeContinues Thank you, will have to catch up and try to get the comics and read them. I really hope the show returns soon!!!!!
Another one of my favorite stories features an everyman hero: Stephen King's The Dead Zone. As if the protagonist's name wasn't a give away: John Smith.
Or Paul Atreides
i think crichton’s main objective is his friends but he tends to be one that cares the most about saving other people-including zhaan sometimes. like he’s doesn’t save the universe bc he’s meant to, he saves it bc he cares about literally everything 😂
Like always, Farscape is not simple, but complex. You cannot put him into one of these drawers, because he´s got elements of all sorts of heros:
Yes, he looks like an everyday hero and acts like one, but (for a human) he is quite gifted. He is scientist, engineer, test pilot AND astronaut. That alone makes him extraordinary!
He had an instinctive attraction to the wormholes, seen in premiere and in the teaser for "Till the blood runs clear", Einstein says that Jack must have entrusted him for a reason, so I think he has a natural, subconscious connection to the wormholes, a superpower of sorts. Jack said, that he had been on the right path already. And the talent is a gift, so that´s what enables him ("It´s an art!") to summon the wormhole with his head. So I´d say: superpower.
Plus in Science Fiction, other than in fantasy, it does not matter if the superpowers are artificial or inflicted on you. Think of Iron Man and Captain America!
He becomes a legend during the series, popular to all Peacekeeper-haters. And there are so many parallels with the Odyssee, so: Classic hero.
One of the Crichtons died, so if that´s not a tragic hero, then what is?
Did I forget one? Well, the video is awesome, great thing to make people think! 🙂
Right, forgot the antihero: In the second season he gets that tendency, because he loses his mind due to the chip. In "Crackers" he shoots DÁrgo, gets a bit too close to Chiana and knocks out practically everybody before saving them. In that episode, the others also remind him of his flaw: Among all these aliens with good sight, hearing etc., nothing in his physiology is special (tragic hero?) because he as a human is portraied in the show as a kind of Jack of all Trades, which enables them potentially to do a lot of things (not very good, but a bit of everything), which for example enables only him to switch through all four incarnations of Moya in "Into the looking glass".
Of course, the everyday hero is the best description of Crichton, yet in some sort and at some point I think he embodies all types of hero!
So many great thoughts, thank you.
I had wondered, when I wrote this, whether to consider Crichton's wormhole knowledge as a superpower. It makes him special, but not in the ways that the cliche superhero has some amazing power. Plus, Crichton spends a whole cycle figuring it out and even needs Einstein to unlock the final knowledge to build the wormhole weapon. But like you say, he has some kind of natural talent or connection with wormholes.
Also like you say, Farscape is never simple, always complex. That Crichton cycles through all the types of heroes then ends up being the everyman hero he always was is amazing storytelling.
I am very much looking forward to doing the deep dive recap of the "Into the Looking Glass" episode. I did a video on that episode awhile back. One of the best of the origina series.
@@FarscapeContinues Thanks. Like I said: Everyday hero is the closest. There´s something I forgot: The "spacewalk" Crichton does in the middle of the "Look at the Princess"-Tirlogy. I don´t think any human has ever been exposed to the vacuum of space, but floating through space for a many seconds, opening eyes and actually seeing something, holding onto the outside of the pod - probably not humanly possible. I always theorized the ancients did something to his physiology as well, to prevent him from dying and thereby protecting the knowledge he carried - for a greater cause, as Einstein later put it.