I think all shows are that way to some extent. Whenever you bring on somebody you have a certain conception of what their character is.

Certainly with Farscape, even from the beginning the idea in Rock and David's heads was, we're going to start these characters at an almost stereotypical place. we've got D'Argo the warrior, we've got Aeryn the soldier, we've got Zhaan the mystic, the peacenik [and] so forth. We're going to start with that, so when people come and see all these funny looking people in funny looking make-up at least they've got something to hold onto right from the word go.

We knew the characters weren't going to stay there, they were going to get off that very quickly, but at least we have a common starting place. [So] now you're going to get a surprise, okay, D'Argo was a warrior but he's also got a wife and child, or had. Zhaan is a mystic and a peacenik but she's also got a temper. We'll let the writing take the characters where they want to go and we'll also see what the cast brings to it. If we see that someone has a great way of playing X we'll start writing in X.

There is that great � going to use a big word here - synergy that happens, or hopefully happens, where everybody's making music in one big happy family.