Crais is the stupidest character on a television show.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Farscape
fearless2003 — 10 years ago(March 22, 2016 06:09 PM)
Crais saw exactly how his brother's ship was destroyed. How can he blame Crichton? His motivation for going after Crichton makes absolutely no sense. I cringe whenever he's in a scene.
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execproducer22 — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 09:37 AM)
No offense, but They explain in my opinion why Crais acts this way pretty well in the show.
Crais father put the burden of taking care of his brother on him at an early age. When He died Crais felt the guilt of not living up to his fathers expectations and decided to manifest that anger and guilt onto the first readily available target he could find, which turned out to be John.
His motivation makes a lot of sense when you look at it in that context.
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lexyladyjax — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 05:12 PM)
Craig is a man of passion. He lives in a society that requires him to repress them. Until his brother's death, Crais was in control of his career and his universe. When his brother was killed, that was the end of sanity for Crais. Irrational was his new baseline. All he could see was revenge. Insane being the operative word from the introduction, it's believable. He IS an alien species, after all.
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sabalon1 — 9 years ago(May 29, 2016 01:19 AM)
i've always considered the story arc of Crais to be one of the most impressive i've seen.
he began as this 'insane military commander' hell bent on revenging the death of his brother, and by the end of his 3 season story he makes the ultimate sacrifice (though not implicitly to save John).
aeryn was forced very quickly to adapt to her new forced life. as you said crais is a man of passion, and it showed in everything he did. his fall from grace didn't have the support system aeryn did. his only personal life he knew, his brother, had just died. that was the one thing that the peacekeepers couldn't take from him, and one day in his eyes john does. i see it as potential expected outcome when you uncork a man who has been bottled up his entire life.
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lexyladyjax — 9 years ago(June 29, 2016 09:28 AM)
Fearless, have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs Personality Test? Your failure to allow for Crais' emotional response is telling. One wonders whether you would tick the box of INTJ/ENTJ in the Myers-Briggs.
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delos-68065 — 9 years ago(September 23, 2016 10:54 AM)
I am an infj and the Crais motive is stupid. I fully understand the "motive" and it could have worked if the way it was explained and presented didn't suck so badly. Just because we can give Crais an excuse doesn't mean its logical or realistic or that the writers did a good job. It was stupid and 2 dimensional and had faux depth.