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.

Comments

Re:Second largest show?

[rusty0101]

They are canceling it because it is too expensive to create. It is much cheaper to put together dreck like John Edwards, or show old B horor movies that will draw a far smaller audience, than it is to be creative.

I am also with the people who have commented that season 4 wasn't worth the time I spent watching it.

That's just my opinion, yours is yours.

-Rusty

It comes as no surprise

[dr_eaerth]

In April, Joe Straczynski, creator of B5, had this to say in reference to Sci-Fi passing on the Legend of the Rangers series:

The SciFi Channel has indicated that it's moving away from space shows, with all the hardware/alien stuff that goes with it.

Farscape is, of course, a space show, so I saw this coming. It was surprising that it stayed on the schedule this season, but not surprising that its stay of execution was only temporary.

And now, for a small question from me... What is the point of a science fiction channel without science fiction?

Re:It comes as no surprise

[RatFink100]

Saying science fiction is about space is like saying crime fiction is about guns.

Caitlin Kiernan has contact and action lists...

[Bogatyr]

Caitlin Kiernan, the horror and fantasy writer, has a long comment on the cancellation of Farscape along with contact information and actions to take, including contacts for the advertisers on the show. She doesn't have links to individual days, so read the journal and look for the entry for Saturday, September 07, 2002.
http://www.caitlin-r-kiernan.com/journal.ht mlÂÂ

Re:What is with this TV season's cancelling crap??

[GigsVT]

John Edward -- All fiction and no science.

Real science fiction fans deride the use of Sci-Fi as a moniker, I guess it is becoming obvious why. Soap operas in space are not science fiction, 900 number reject asshole "psychics" that scam old people are not science fiction.

Science fiction is about expanding the way we thing about the present, by showing us probable or possible futures, based on the science and technology we currently have. It only barely encompasses the "supernatural", only insofar as the "supernatural" is just science we do not yet understand, which, by definition isn't really supernatural.