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Farscape & Stargate SG-1 New Seasons Tonight
marekk writes "Frelling A! The fourth season of Farscape, arguably the best Sci-Fi currently on television premieres tonight on the SciFi Channel. You can catch the premiere episode, titled "Crichton Kicks" at 9PM CST. Afterwards, you can watch the premiere of Stargate SG-1's sixth season, "Redemption"." I've been watching the SG1 season 1 box set and am
impressed. Its a solid show, and I'm looking forward to season it without the
benefit of syndication lag, even if there are problems.
As for Farscape... well, Duh!
Should be interesting.
Most of the crew is gone, Talon and Kreis are dead, Moya was sucked in to a workhole and John was left floating in space all alone with no fuel.
What a way to start a new season.
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I think SG-1 air's first at 9PM, and then Farscape airs at 10MP.. Well at least here in ATL.
with the demise of Tick, X-files, Futurama and now Stargate moving, fox has finally completed the transition to nothing but crap and soft core porn. Congrats Fox
There's lots of info on Farscape at the BBC Online Farscape Cult page.
If you are considering Farscape on DVD, be sure to get the European versions if at all possible.. They come in 6 packs for only 50% more than US 2-packs... (aprox $30 for 6 pack vs $20 for 2 pack)... In the long run, it would actually be worthwhile to buy a region free DVD player if you plan to collect the whole set and live in the US... Hint: look for APEX 600A on ebay... and do a google search for "loophole menu"....
Note: The APEX 600A will also disable CSS copy protection allowing you to copy ANY DVD onto VHS!
In the long run
Stargate SG-1 was originally a SHOWTIME show. The episodes that run on Fox (aka, syndication) are actually a season behind the Showtime run. When SG-1 ended its fifth season on Showtime, it immediately jumped to Sci-Fi for its sixth season. The Fox run (which is still on season 4) still has another season to go.
Last I checked, Fox was NOT dropping their run of SG-1. It's Showtime that's no longer running it. So, those of you without cable or satellite can rejoice; you still have at least another season.
...but I just can't watch SG-1. I find it dull, its writing unimaginitive, and the stories old and done. After watching season 1, I was actually surprised that it caught on. It must just hit the right nerve.
Farscape, OTOH, is one of the top 3 sci-fi TV shows ever.
number one is ST(original). Mostly because they where doing things that where ahead of the time, saying stuff that needed to be said, and had a lot of interesting concepts.
number 2 and 3 kind of switch between Bab5 and farscape.
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"if you think otherwise, you're a loser. no flame intended - just good ole self-evidence."
I hate when people say stuff like this. A show doesn't have to be universally accepted as 'good' for somebody to enjoy it.
I'm a Deep Space Nine fan. I even like the bad eps of DS9 because I have found something I really appreciate about it: it's overall visual quality. The sets are very nice and the effects are top notch.
Do I expect everybody to like DS9? Nope. I found something in particular I really like about it. There are a lot of people that say it sucks. So what? It just means that those people don't appreciate the same stuff that I do.
Call me a loser over it, however, and all you're doing to do is convince me that you judge people for petty reasons. "You suck because you like shows that I don't."
You can't measure somebody by the shows they watch. All you're doing is giving other people a means to judge you, negatively.
"Derp de derp."
To put a real serious rant here....
I've been a SG-1 fan from the beginning. The cultures are thought out, the government reactions to the cultures have a certain "truth is stranger than fiction" ring to them. The Air Force was on the one hand treating the gate like a hole to be plugged up, and on the other hand wanting to exploit what it could find on the other side.
But my favorite aspects are...
1) No captains chairs. No bridges, no ship to ship bantering. Don't get me wrong, I liked Star Trek the first for this, and TNG did it right but SG-1's lack of it was refreshing.
2) Earth is the star in every episode, terribly outnumbered, flawed, and childishly ideolistic, and the series is ready to show that.
3) Episodal. I think anyone who wants "story arc" really wants to watch a soap opera. Really they do, except they don't get the geeky "holier than thou" satisfaction of telling people they like daytime television.
Now, whats wrong with this picture? I've recently watched some taped season 5 episodes, and guess what. Here's what must have happened, a bunch of out of work writers that filled such shows as Babylon 5 and Star Trek DS9 with charectar drama (read paralysis by analysis), story arc (read soap opera), and captains chairs with lots of ship to ship banter have rewritten the SG-1 universe. It has to be.
One episode the major science words were "Miosis" and "Mitosis" used in a way that made me think they never got past JR High biology. Another had the Gould in a captains chair saying "I'm the great God Osiris, I have nothing to fear". Yet another had a symbiot telling Capt Carter that his former host loved her, I mean really loved her, like really really loved her.
So I say, "Oh well". What ever these writers are the keep getting jobs can do what they want with SG-1, its basically ruined now. At least we had such episodes in season 5 as "the Tomb" and four other seasons of fun episodes.
General Hammond looks bored now, nothing for him to do now that SG-1 has taken off on their own (and everyone seems to have forgotten all the other SG teams up to like 24.) Retire General Hammond, and I'll share some beach sand with you remembering the days of good science fiction that took research and thought to write.