Farscape Fans Reinventing Television

JoeCotellese writes "With the recent cancellation of Farscape, this Salon story discusses the creative ways fans are trying to save the show. Specifically it talks about how grassroots organization through the internet has helped them to the point where they are discussing fan funded production of the show."

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not a troll..

[jaxle]

Please get over the show people. To be so attached that you are considering funding the show? That is just insane. There are much better things to do with your time than get caught up in TV or movies. All this stuff is imaginary and it is just taking you away from reality of the real world.

Never underestimate the power of sex appeal

[16977]

Farscape is an OK show (at least better than the awful Sliders, where I once saw a guy run backward into a wall to simulate falling off a building). But a "petition" to get it back on the air is a little much. Sheesh, who cares if there's no good reason to cancel it, the creators have the right to cancel it if they want to. I think eventually people will have to realize that the show is not getting cancelled "just to make them mad", and more importantly, nobody in Hollywood cares about a bunch of nerds and their idiotic "petition campaign". The only reason people even care about this is because:

1. Chiana is hot and has a dominating personality, i.e. nerd dream date. I think someone in this thread mentioned that he liked Farscape because "Chiana was totally hot". Uh-huh.

2. Crichton is portrayed as being smart AND good looking, not a hacker in a greasy t-shirt and coke-bottle glasses.

Stroking the egos of the sci-fi community is not a good reason to keep a show on the air. I'll probably get flamed to a crisp for going against established Slashdot dogma, but somebody has to point out that the obvious.