WIth farscape, the feminist sensabilities are not the real problem. Do you care about spoilers? In short, there are two plotlines going on at once point, and the plotline with the hero SUCKS SO HARDCORE and the plotline with the heroine is UNMITIGATED AWESOME and they're about to join up, and we're headdesking because of choices the writers made/are making.

SPOILERS BELOW:









Due to sci-fi things happening, there were two version of the hero existing. Both the same character, except due to the situation, the hero with the heroine was AWESOME and the hero not with the heroine was A WHINY, SELFISH, SELF-ABSORBED ASS WHO WE HATED AND COULD NEVER DESERVE THE HEROINE and the flawed but awesome hero was the one who got killed off.