The ethos of Farscape was pretty much anything goes, which for a writer is extremely liberating. It was actually tough for some freelancer [writers] that came in to give in to that anarchy, that free willingness.

We learn to write television in a certain way, a very artificial television way, and we don't even realise that we're doing it until we're challenged to break out of that mould, to not write the standard clichés and not write the standard scenes with the standard buttons on the end and the standard ad breaks and all the things that television tells you to do and all the things that television also tells you you can't do.

It's like, "Well you never do this in television so you can't write it here," and we'd be saying, "Oh go ahead and write." It's a thought process to get beyond saying, "Okay, they actually want me to go in this direction instead of pushing me in this other direction."

So it was a lot of fun in that regard, and like no other show that I"d really worked on, it was constant encouragement to push the boundaries as far as you could, and even fall on your face if necessary.

Do you think you have fallen on your face anywhere?

Oh now and then certainly, but I would defend our batting average against most anything else I've worked on. I think we've got enough pretty good shows to forgive us our less than pretty good shows.