Created at least in part due to popular demand, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars will provide some closure to fans who were dismayed by the demise of the popular science fiction television show in 2003 and campaigned mightily to bring it back. Indeed, this miniseries (originally broadcast over two nights on the Sci-Fi Channel) will likely appeal primarily to the Farscape faithful, as the somewhat convoluted storyline may prove baffling to the uninitiated.

A brief bit of backstory explains how John Crichton, an astronaut from Earth, went through a wormhole and ended up on Moya, a living spaceship, with a motley group of aliens, including D'Argo (Anthony Simcoe), Chiana (Gigi Edgley), various puppet characters (designed by the Jim Henson Company), and Aeryn (Claudia Black), Crichton's love interest, who's expecting their first child. As The Peacekeeper Wars begins, our heroes find themselves in the middle of a war-to-end-all-wars between the lizard-like, implacably evil Scarrans and their rivals, the Peacekeepers. Crichton is the lynchpin in all of this, as his knowledge of "wormhole technology" is coveted by all, including his old nemesis Scorpius (Wayne Pygram), who captured and tortured Crichton back in season 1 and with whom Crichton must now form an uneasy alliance against the Scarrans.

Watched it last night it was great

It is only 10 dollars folks, and this is 3 hours of action packed excitment. They bring in a lot of different characters from the past eposides, and do a great job bringing the series to a close. There are so many other shows I wish they did this with that I watched and then the show just ends in the middle of a scene.

If you even watched 10 eposides or less of this show while it was on the air, spend the 10 dollars, and sit back and enjoy the 3 hours. I had missed a few eposides and it still mades sense to me.

Peacekeeper Wars Frelling Rocks!!!!

First off I must say the 'Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars' was an awesome ending for an awesome series. When the last episode of Farscape ended with the words 'To Be Continued' I was like how could they end it like that. When The Peacekeeper Wars finally came out I was so relieved.

I became a Farscape fan near the end of it's third season. I had been hearing about it for a while so I decided to check it out, I was hooked instantly. Farscape had it all, Action, Drama, Horror, Comedy and Suspense. I quickly bought up all of the previous seasons on DVD so that I would be up to speed when season 4 began. I was later shocked to find out that Season 4 would be that shows final season. When the show ended I was heartbroken but then I heard about The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries. Farscape lives again!!!

I highly recommend you pick this up, but first I suggest that you get the first 4 seasons of Farscape. Now with the Starburst Edition DVDs that can get each season on three 2 disc sets and they are pretty cheap. So what are you waiting for.

One season compressed in 3 hours!

I'm sure most of you reading this are familiar with the off-camera saga of Farscape, namely the SciFi channel undercutting and cancelling Farscape prematurely.

Thankfully the creators of the series were given the opportunity to finish the story and to do that they had to compress a whole season of story into just three hours (four hours when broadcast on TV with commercials and promos).

Obviously it would have been nicer if we had a whole season for this story to unfold but we didn't. The mini-series may not be perfect, but given everything I said already, the creators/directors did a pretty good job in compressing as much as possible in such a short period of time.

Fans of Farscape will no doubt love this. For those not familiar with Farscape, the best thing to do is start from Season 1, 2, 3, and 4 and then this DVD. The DVD sets are available here on Amazon at reasonable prices or if you are patient you could watch the reruns on TV, but that's a slow pace (one episode per week).

The story itself has been discussed by other fellow reviewers, so there's no need for me to go into that.