I just finished watching Farscape in its entirety from season one to the miniseries (season 5 sort of).
Thought I'd share my impressions of it here.
Farscape started off slow in season one. Early on it felt just like another space show, and to me it was lucky to get out of season one. Perhaps if its first series run was shorter it may not have, but it ran a hefty 22 eppies and by the end it proved itself a good show. I think early on many of the characters were just 2 dimensional and it took time to flesh them out and make them more 3 dimensional and interesting.
The main ship on the show was developed slowly over time and similar to L&K, they teased putting them together and then pulled them apart. However as time went on unlike BSG, the ship got tied into strongly with the main story lines and at the end was a big part of how things turned out like they did. So instead of the ship being damaged in service of the main storyline, it got enhanced.
Farscape paid off people who invested into that ship for so long, and they got a great payoff for it.
To be fair there are things that BSG did better then Farscape. Farscape at times buried itself in technobabble and I think you could listen to parts 10 times and still not be really sure exactly what happened. For all the things the characters suffered there seem to be little lasting damage to any of them. Still it was the way it was from inception to the end. It didn't strive to be realistic and then toss that away when it became inconvenient. It was never meant to be realistic so you could roll with that.
Overall Farscape wasn't a better then BSG, but yet had a more satisfying journey . So while BSG achieved greater heights, Farscape didn't deviate from its original course and in the process utterly fai unlike BSG. Farscape stayed true to itself and its story and in the process it told its story well from beginning to end.
RDM should have watched how Farscape ended and learned a valuable lesson.