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Almost completely correct. It is indeed episode 221. With the genius catchphrase : "never leave the boat".
The name of the episode however is: Look At The Princess Part II: I Do, I Think source
Oh, I miss it!

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Farscape lives!

> What is wrong with TV executives? Most TV writing is appallingly bad - and they pick a fight with the best writer they've got?

I'm still upset about the treatment of these people.

Not to be nitpicky, but it's "Chrichton." I hate to exhibit fanboy-ism, but I also don't like misspellings (particularly when I do it), so I'm torn.

Did we not learn anything from John Crichton, a second-generation IASA astronaut with a doctorate in theoretical sciences???

You would have thought that after the four seasons that we spent aboard Moya, that we might have at least learned that wormholes are unstable...

No, wait..... I spent the my time fantasizing over Officer Aeryn Sun!!!! opps.....

FARSCAPE LIVES!!!!!

http://www.farscape.com/
http://www.scifi.com/farscape/

Firefly is a series created by Joss Whedon in 2002. It was aired on Fox, and canceled after just half a season (perhaps due to it's anti-authoritarian nature).

Or even more possibly, it was cancelled because it sucked. I watched it, and thought that overall it was kinda like watching a 13-year olds daydreams. Acting was subpar, and there was no muppets in it. SFX was barely acceptable, but the whole concept wasn't really imaginative enough to warrant a TV-series - much less a movie.

But hell, seeing as I've vented my opinions now, let's bring on the +5 troll shall we? That's what I'm expecting to be modded as since the dogma around here is that OMFG FIREFLY R0XX0RS MY B0XX0RS!

-1 Dead series reference

Heres a quote straight from the episode summary on Henson's Farscape website:

But as D'Argo, Chiana and Rygel watch in horror from the Command, a Qujagan Scout vessel swoops down on the tiny rowboat and fires, crystallizing Crichton and Aeryn.

Crystallized. As long as each person can be separated, it's likely that adding water and stirring could restore them. (It is a water planet, as you can see). Like Koolaid, they can be recreated.

Crispin, always wanted to be in the Neilson ratings
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You said frelling. I hope Ka D'argo catches you talking that way. He might like it.

www.farscape.com

maybe there are other reasons behind the cancellation we do not know about, maybe cast wants more money, creative team wants to move on to other projects, actors want to move on.

Maybe you should read the article, read the save farscape campaign site, go to the official farscape website.

Any of those sources will refute your speculations.

Farscape is/was uneven from episode to episode, but the good ones were amazing. Soooo many TV shows are just plain mediocre, with nary a flash of brilliance. Also, Farscape was the first strong break with the threadbare Star Trek straitjacket to make it on the air. I loved the substitution of largely organic technology for electrical, and was rather fond of Moia (in a platonic way). Aeryn's cool, too. Trek never really pulled it off I think with strong female characters, so rare in scifi.

I'm surprised to hear of the cancellation, but true it is -- see the horse's mouth. However, I doubt it's dead. Farscape has the backing of the brand-name Jim Henson Company, a great premise (IMHO), and a solid library of four years that breaks the magic 88-episode threshold needed for successful post-series syndication.

I bet they'll go to syndication, as all the modern Treks have done, and maybe even score a better channel than SciFi, which can have John Edward for all I care (gag). Keep an eye on UPN. The Farscape season was not set to start until February, being from Australia and all, so there's time.

Enterprise is in its childhood. TNG was VILE for its first three seasons and would have rightfully died if not for the intervention of the Borg and a stunning season-end cliffhanger ("Best of Both Worlds"). I think it will show some decent character development, and I appreciate that they've deprived themselves of 3/4 of the technology that yielded too many pat technobabble solutions on shows like Voyager. Scott Bakula annoys me, but I guess I can get used to him ... I just keep expecting him to "leap," you know?

Yes, I watch too much TV, but mostly science fiction.

I (as a TiVo subscriber) just recently got a letter in the mail stating that TiVo is doing away with the $250 lifetime-membership sometime soon. However, they also claimed that they were lowering the fee from $13 a month to $5 a month! Hopefully this new pricepoint will help it reach a larger marketshare. I'm not sure if this is a deal for DirecTV owners exclusively however (I hope not).

I myself am also a "movie guy" and not much into "Everybody loves Raymond". But the Starz Network has something called "Starz on Demand" which works with TiVo to automatically TiVo the latest releases for you. That's pretty cool. Mainly I use Tivo for BBC World News, BookTV on CSpan, The Daily Show, and some TechTV stuff. Also, owning the Tivo is the only way I can reliably catch Farscape on a regular basis.

One thing I think Tivo may have going for it is "mindshare". You may have noticed that I use Tivo as a verb. That seems a ubiquitous term for DVRing. I notice my friends who own DVRs from other manufacturers (like ReplayTV) still say that they "Tivo" this or that. Kind of the way people used to say they were going to "Xerox" something when they wanted make a photocopy. Even if they were using an HP copier!

From an episode of Farscape (paraphrased):

Chrichton (human): OK now count, one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi...
Dargo (big alien with tentacles): One Mippippippi, two Mippippippi, three Mippippippi...

At the ecommerce company I worked for, Zoovy, I wrote the shopping cart system used by a few hundred merchants. I wanted to make a completely innocuous egg since it would be used on stores selling everyting from dildos to bibles. If the merchant turns on international orders (so the state selection in checkout turns into a box instead of a dropdown), and you type in Mippippippi, it corrects it to Mississippi. I know, I know, boring... :)

"It's time for a new show in a new world with new characters and story lines." There is. It's called Farscape. . -T

It's Crais and Talyn. Go to www.scifi.com/farscape or www.farscape.com (I prefer SciFi's page).

Err, no. The "loot" from their heist in episode "Liars, Guns And Money - Part I: A Not So Simple Plan" contained those "bugs", but after they (or rather Talyn) destroyed the Depository in "Liars, Guns And Money - Part III: Plan B", they got all the riches in it.

Err, no. The "loot" from their heist in episode "Liars, Guns And Money - Part I: A Not So Simple Plan" contained those "bugs", but after they (or rather Talyn) destroyed the Depository in "Liars, Guns And Money - Part III: Plan B", they got all the riches in it.

Score: 3, insightful?? If anything the above post is flamebait.

Anyway, DS9 has been the ST show I enjoyed most, and I find TOS boring. But then, I only started to watch ST when TNG was halfway.

The only point I agree on with the author is that the new show will have to be pretty surprising to attract some viewers. I'll stick with Farscape in the mean time!