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Farscape Frelling Cancelled
Mukaikubo writes "The Sci-Fi Channel has decided to cancel their second largest show, Farscape. Because networks respond better to phone calls and snail-mail letters than a mass e-mail campaign and there is contact info on a fan-run Message Board. Time is of the essence, as the Network wants to tear down props at the end of next week. Help save one of the best science fiction shows on TV today!" Other articles can be found here and the chat log is online too.
Farscape's for fucktards anyway.
I always thought John Edwards belonged on the comedy channel.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
You say that like that's a good thing.
See "Feldercarb."
Well, I guess I don't get the distinction between "sci-fi" and "science fiction" any more than I would see a diff between Hi-fi and "high fidelity", thought I suppose one could be a "stereo" and the other is "good sound". (So, the shorter one can be "nouned"? Don't think that applies here!)
...nine times, so it must be good!
I certainly don't get Farscape. It's not Sci-Fi anymore than Friends is a soap or Charlie's Angels was "crime drama". They're all comedy.
Just like Andromeda.
SG-1 is pretty damn funny too.
Colonel Jack O'Neil: Hey, Carter, thought you might like to watch a movie, so we got Star Wars. Teal'c here has seen it like, what, eight...
Teal'c: Nine.
O'Neil:
Capt. Samantha Carter: [long pause] thinking [to O'Neil] You mean...you've never seen Star Wars?
O'Neil: Well, you know me and Sci-Fi.
Maybe it's all comedy...
-- Without the right to carry and use self-defence tools, we effectively have no right to life.
To those who are wondering why,
NWhat we call 'SF' ain't 'sci-fi',
It's just, there's a fine line,
Between Robert Heinlein,
And 'Son of the two-headed fly'.
Now I don't want to start a B5 vs Star Trek flamewar (quite frankly, I like them both a lot), but one thing B5 did better was the story arcs - you did have to watch many of the episodes to see what was going on, and it was very hard to break into the series otherwise. DS9 did this as well starting around the 4th season, but to a more limited extent. Enterprise seems to have moved back to the TOS/TNG model (mostly).
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Farscape on HBO means one thing:
Blue boobies.
'Nuff said.
In other cost-cutting measures, Stargate SG1 will be canceled, but replaced with a spin-off series called "Wormhole eXtreme". Also, the network is considering breathing new life into the old BBC series "Doctor Who". Rumour has it that the renewed "Doctor Who" series would hold fairly true to its earlier incarnation, and less like the movie-length "pilot" episode that was produced a number of years ago. An anonymous inside source tells us, "we think the die-hard Who fans will like it: sets will wobble."
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"My theory for the past 10 years has been that there is an inevitable tendency for any given TV network or channel to become exactly like all the others. "
True, Learning Channel and History Channel have dived as well, pandering to lowest common denominator. Occasionally you'll be lucky and catch a good show, but more likely to see something only vaguely related, expect to see soon a 'makeover of figures in history' show, where they'll take an actor done up as Elizabeth I and do her over to look like an expensive hooker. Ooh, ah, much audience applause!
They could have had the same effect by just saying they might be planning on cancelling it and won't make a decision for a few months than saying it's cancelled now and they've got a week befoe they start tearing all the sets down to make room for a bigger John Ewards auditorium.
"...kinda like a slashdot channel."
I dunno, I've seen that Goatse pic enough times already.
Call it CBNN...CowboyNeal Network