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Farscape Finale Tonight
Sim9 writes "Just a reminder that Farscape, the critically acclaimed sci-fi television show, is having its *series* finale Friday night! Showing times are 8PM and 12AM ET/PT (7PM and 11PM Central) on SciFi Channel. Catch this great show one last time before it's gone!" Thanks to everyone involved in producing this show. One of my favorites. All I have left on Sci Fi now is SG1.
This show is one of the best running series I have ever seen. And it saddens me that I have almost no reason to watch SCI-FI other than mcguyver... I mean who watches that dumb show with the 90210 actress anyways.
I will miss you! -DNA
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It's a pity that even their commercials make it look like this is a series wrap-up instead of what it is, which is a season-finale cliffhanger. I'm hoping that a brave network like Showtime or TNT will pick it up and resurrect it. The show simply deserves to be seen.
Goodbye Family Guy, goodbye Firefly, goodbye Firefly...
Hello Hot or Not TV show and American Idol...
bah
If you're upset at SciFi for canceling the show now, just wait until you see tonight's episode.
Completely unsatisfying, it's cliffhanger that will probably never be resolved.
Here's to hoping UPN ends up picking up the show for a fifth season.
The future isn't what it used to be.
That they'd rather put up money for shows like Tremors: The Series instead of Farscape. I mean.. it's Tremors for crying out loud!
If you watch tonight, and like it, you're basically screwed. Just watch SG1 or Dead Zone, they'll both be back next season.
Farscape is the only reason why I have a subscription to cable TV.
Where is the spoiler? ;)
Slint_voice("I miss you")!
Ahh, the wonders of SVCD, Usenet and the BBC.
...posting cowardly...
No spoilers, but to make your viewing experience more enjoyable, turn the TV (or your brain) off for the last.. oh.. 60 seconds.
Unless they cut the last 60 seconds in the US version to give closure.
Can anyone who watches this tonight (No Sci-Fi in Canada) confirm that there is "To Be Continued" at the end? It's in the UK version, but there were suggestions it could have been edited out but they ran out of time at the BBC.
SciFi is rerunning the entire series from the start beginning March 31, 4 or 5 days a week at midnight.
It rocked. Those Ass Blasters are awesome.
Sleep good, type bad!
Save Farscape!
Sikozu is TV's hottest alien. Without her, television would be devoid of all enjoyment. =(
All that's left on Sci Fi??? What about the old Quantum Leap episodes?! Those rule! Dr. Sam Beckett kicks ass!
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
While I may not have seen very many episodes, this has always been a great show and will be missed by many geeks out there.
Tape the show and go outside!
There are numerous anti-war activities happening Around the Country.
Protests, vigils, bike-rides.
Just get outside and do something useful. Watch the show later, without the commercials.
Remember, a TV series is not like a movie. A series lives and dies as much with the characters and the writing as it does with the plot and overall concept. You may think the idea is silly, or even stupid, but that doesn't necessarily mean the show as a whole isn't worth watching. Anyone cynical enough can take the plot to any movie or series, twist it around, and make it sound like crap.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
I've been watching Farscape since the very first episode, and I will truly miss it. There are too few truly ground-breaking television shows on these days.
Yep, pretty much all that's left is Star Gate SG-1.
No matter where you go... there you are.
Wasn't that good anyway.
Saddam: (dejectedly) *sigh*
IraqiGeek: Dude, you look really depressed. Are you okay?
Saddam: I guess so. Recent events. You know. I'm very worried.
IraqiGeek: Yeah, I hear ya...
Saddam: I mean, what if this really is the last night I have to grind my citizens into the dust?
IraqiGeek: (*incredulous*) *huh*? (thinking to himself) At least you'll be gone in time for me catch the last episode of "Farscape"...
Call me an optimist, but I think the Save Farscape campaign has the ability to bring this thing back. Most likely not on Sci-Fi, but maybe something like showtime. I'd subscribe to showtime for Farscape.
One of the best quotes I can remember about Farscape was something along the lines of "Farscape is a 5-season novel, and we won't rest until we get to find out what happens at the end." That makes this more than a "we want more" campaign. We want the resolution!
I have heard rumors of a Farscape movie. Can anyone post any info on that?
For the record, I never watched farscape until a few weeks ago, now I'm watching it from the beginning, and I think it is a wonderful series. I haven't yet done anything to help the campaign, although I'm thinking about it. I did hang up one of the posters on my door. (his one)
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Farewell, Farscape. Maybe SciFi will pick up Enterprise eventually (what, with its falling ratings on UPN and all).
If it wasn't for MST3K, there would be no reason to turn to SciFi anymore.
-Valiss
Ooh - Henson-brand talking puppets. Now I can briefly ignore the fact that we're bombing a country into a sheet of glass.
Sarcasm only partially implied.
It is sad to see the end of this show.
And to think they are replacing it with "Tremors: The TV Show"...
Blah.
...this show, but no one seems upset that all those who supposedly love this show didn't watch it and help give it good ratings to make it feasible to continue making this show? If the show is that good, then why weren't there enough of you watching it? Seems like Sci-Fi held their end of the bargain and you guys didn't.
Rule of thumb: want a show to continue? Watch it.
Please don't bother to post links to the save farscape petitions. Anyone that cares knows about them and the rest of know that online petitions don't work for anything anyway.
At least we still have MST3K, oh wait that's gone too. So, yea, Tremors...
Hey, Dune! yea! Sci-fi has become the 'watch us for a good miniseries once and a while' channel!
Brought to you by the Artificial Idea Factory.
This is the high quality programming they are replacing it with:
Bigfoot on the Loose!
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
See, MisterFancypants, the catagory of persons you've put yourself in? Just read some of seeksoft's posts to see what a flamebait magnet he is! It's all hate-spewing nasty stuff. After reading some of your posts, MisterFancypants, it seems you are a some kind of programmer, and probably knows a lot about it. You would probably fit into the catagory of 'fucking dweeb' that seeksoft has instructed to 'take your hands off the computer for a minute.'
Also, you're both a couple of homophobes. How pathetic.
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I've seen the episode and I can honestly say that SciFi should have left the show with Episode 21 which actually tied up things reasonably well.
This Episode 22 will really piss people off and SciFi will be dealing with very angry fans for a few weeks. Hopefully that anger will lead to constructive results like renewing the show on SciFi or another channel.
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I first ponied up the bucks for extended cable to watch the SciFi channel and Farscape rivetted me. I kept watching, even as my cable cost went from 25 USD/m to 41. The final straw was when the cable company moved four of the five cable channels I watched to their digital package at 51 USD/m. I couldn't afford that change, and missed the entire third season. Finally, I moved to a different apartment, where satellite became viable (it faced south) and for 24 USD/m, I was once again following the adventures of John Crichton and crew. And then the cancellation was announced...
A month from now I'll be cancelling the satellite, after I catch the season I missed in re-runs. Forget "Tremours". Forget the half-baked, half-replacements. Good-bye Vivendi and SciFi. I'll let someonelse pay for your remaining tripe. Who's with me?
"All I have left on Sci Fi now is SG1."
you say that like its a good thing.
Sorry SG1 just annoys me. Its like any other non sci-fi show wraped up in sci-fi dressings.
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With a failing (failed?) ratings system, there is no way to tell which shows are actually grabbing viewers attention.
There are about 5000 families participating in ratings surveys at any given time. A fraction of those have subscription TV. A fraction of that fraction watch a niche network such as SciFi. I've heard that 6 families in the entire survey could have saved Farscape.
Unless these stations stop using a ratings system designed for national broadcast networks, expect more bad decisions.
Farscape R.I.P.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
FarScape has been a great show and has a very dedicated fan base. You can find out more about the efforts to save it at www.savefarscape.com.
Very nicely put together site with tons of info.
Str8Dog
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well here' hoping all of david kemper's (david Kemper creator of the show) hopes about getting a motion picture made and bring some very needed closure to the show... or perhaps spawn a great series of movies... well here is hoping... and enjoy i know i will...
Space: The Imagination Station in Canada is running the finale next week.
Farscape's last episode is tonight? Thanks for spoiling it for me.
BTW, The Lone Gunmen are dead!
Their behavior is incomprehensible. They kill Farscape, and pick up Tracker. Tracker? Tracker?
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I really wanted to like a show staring both Adrian Paul and Geraint Wyn Davies. But damn, Wyn Davies hasn't been in anything this bad since Bionic Showdown
And then, what's this John Edwards and "The Dream Team" crap? What does that have to do with SciFi? Just what is their mission statement? To make the world think that SciFi fans are drooling morons with no taste and no ability to separate fact from fiction?
It's somewhat hilarious that TNN has better SciFi than the SciFi channel these days. My TV used to be programmed to skip over TNN, back when it was "The Nashville Network". Now it looks like it's trading places with SciFi. I guess there's a "law of conversation of preprogrammed channels" or something.
'I am a full-blooded Luxan, and ladies, I have so much cash in my pocket that I can assure you that the three of us will crawl out of here on our hands and knees come sunrise tomorrow morning. I've been arrested for saying exactly the same thing on four different planets.' D'Argo
'I don't think Pilot's in a Leviathan for Dummies mood right now..' Crichton
I may be small but allow me to remind you that only serves to put me at castration level.' Rygel
Scorpius: Kill her! Then we can have some pizza and some margarita shooters. Kill her John! Do it..Do it..
John: (laughing) Nobody has margaritas with pizza!
Back in the 80's I participated in a Nielsen (sp?) survey.
I have yet to hear of ONE other person who has been asked to participate. It is such a tiny fraction of viewers that a decent representation is impossible.
Any Slashdotters who have participated, please post.
Thanks
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
> All I have left on Sci Fi now is SG1.
It's just as outlandish as Farscape and other sci-fi shows on SciFi that have nothing in the way of Sci. Moreover, Crossing Over is a good laugh.
Call me an optimist, but I think the Save Farscape [savefarscape.com] campaign has the ability to bring this thing back.
No, they don't. It doesn't have a prayer. Practical matters prevent it- Producers, directors, crew, actors/actresses all go their separate ways.
Second, let's not forget that the ONLY reason TV shows exist is to SELL ADVERTISING. When the advertisers go "hey, this show is only watched by a bunch of nerds, everyone else thinks it's stupid, sorry, we'll advertise with someone else", guess what? It gets dropped. Why do you think the VAST majority of TV shows are NEVER -continued- on another network?
Are you seriously blinded to the point that you think a science fiction show that FAILED on a -network dEDICATED to science fiction- will have even a prayer?
The concept of donating money to 'save' a TV show, which is at best entertainment, at worst a device invented PURELY to make money. It disgusts me that people are so loaded with money that they prioritize a MONEY MAKING DEVICE over helping the homeless, feeding starving children, curing various diseases, etc. Try getting off your fucking couch and building a house with all your new-found spare time, instead of popping pimples waiting for the browser to load the "people who can't let go" webboard.
I guarantee you'll feel better, meet some cool people, and be healthier to boot.
I did hang up one of the posters [watchfarscape.com] on my door.
Sad that people will protest a TV show but not a war and the continuous stripping of their personal freedom and rights.
Baa baa, little sheep.
Why is it never broadcast?
I like Science - Fiction but for some reason the Sci-Fi channel has never done it for me. The Spielberg miniseries was bad. I liked Farscape for a couple of episodes then it went downhill fast with bad writing. Stargate is another remake of a Film. Something is missing. All these shows seem to dumb down Sci-Fi.
Why not make some books into shows/movies for the scifi channel ?
While I wasn't a huge Farscape fan, I thought it was a relatively good show - in fact anything that doesn't attempt to tag "SciFi" to things like Buffy or Roswell is good, IMO. Especially if it involves space ships, aliens with attitudes and... uh, chicks.
But if the SciFi channel is dropping things like Farscape at the expense of doing more miniseries like Dune, Riverworld and Galactica, more power to them, I say. At least there will still be stuff to watch and look forward to, unlike the rest of TV.
I got rid of cable after farscape was
cancelled.
...saturday morning MST3K? Granted it's not as good as it once was, but it's still hilarious and better than any Saturday morning cartoon nowadays. (What the hell did they do Transformers, He-Man, and TMNT?!?)
Rock!
I have a lot of friends who just love Farscape, but for some reason it has never appealed to me. It has high production value, and apparently it also has a good story (which is, after all, the only important thing.) But I just never got into it. Maybe it's a guy thing.
Good vs. Evil was such a cool, campy program. I miss it. It's not a guy thing, though! Remember, God was a woman.
Honestly this Frelling sucks.. I like CmdrTaco only have one other reason to watch SciFi now and that is SG-1.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
All I have left on Sci Fi now is SG1.
I can't understand why people like SG1. To me it just the same war movie over and over again. Nothing strange or even remotely SciFi (except the gate).
But I do agree, there's nothing left on the SF Channel, except Childern of Dune and Riverworld.
Uturama. :(
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I love SciFi but have never watched Farscape before. Living in Australia, I 've heard plenty about it from various SciFi people and sources over the years. I literaly just watched the first episode of FS last night. I am downloading them to my PC one at a time and have watched the first ep of the first season so far. (I am fully up to date with Sopranos, Six Feet Under and West wing eps and was looking for something new to get into. Here in Oz we are way behind in all these series so downloading eps via net is the only real way to avoid being at the mercy of Australian network TV who decide when / if at all / we get to see these shows.) At this point in my FS viewing career, it feels kinda weird to know that even if I watch every epsiode, I will be left "hanging" at the very last. Maybe by the time I get watch them all, someone will have picked it up and made more. Cheers Tim... PS - I loved the first ep by the way. Now to sit back and watch number two and three back to back.
Can one get any of FS on DVD?
For those of you feeling a little frustrated, here is a list of Farscape swear-words. Ideal if you ever meet a Sci-Fi executive.
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After 21:00 EST on Friday, March 21 I no longer have a reason to tune in the Sci-Fi channel. I refuse to watch a once good network degenerate into a goofy "Reality Channel" as they seem to be headed. I wonder if I can have my cable system unsubscribe me from a free channel??
Jaime
Buzzing the information Superhighway at Warp speed
Although I haven't watched the last season, I still think its a great show and it will be missed. While I'm not happy about some of the new SciFi shows coming, others sound good. Looking forward to: Battlestar Galactica miniseries and Riverworld (pilot?).
Riverworld - Read the first book in the series last night. Its pretty good.
Nielsen and TiVo should team up, or Nielsen and TiVo should figure out a way to come together and find out what REAL people are watching.
Let's face it, if you own a TiVo, you like TV more than the regular joe, and MAYBE good shows like this (and Firefly, F'n FOX) wouldn't be cancelled so quickly.
Tell me I'm not the first to come up with this.
P.S.
SAVE FIREFLY!!!!!!!!
isnt that wath hes getting siting and watching tv all day isnt a life or?
as I think that SG-1 is rather silly and pedantic I really don't have any reason left to watch Sci Fi. I just hope the History (and all the other Discover Channels) don't eventually go this route.
Ok, we get it, there is NOTHING on TV that is good enough for you, let's just scrap ALL telivision shows except Sanford and Son (unless you have something against THAT show too).
Maybe I should watch it for the first time tonight. Then again, maybe not.
It's a shame that Farscape is ending but I'm looking forward to see Battlesta Galactica...... Anybody else???
I still can't believe my favorite show Farscape was frelling cancelled. I'll have to find something new to do on Friday nights now (Monk is still in reruns unfortunately) that it's over and SG-1's season is finished too. Sigh.
It's sad to see yet another great show go.
Although, I won't miss the fourth season of Lexx, the third season was good. I feel a similar way about farscape... It used to be a lot better in the beginning. And when Stark was around.
i'd like to see gigi edgley in star trek enterprise as a green oprion girl.
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
SG1 is lowbrow and unartistic, like most scifi fare. Farscape speaks in color and metaphor. Star Trek and its ilk will never do that; they're simply geared towards a less complex cognitive process.
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Is it just me, or is SciFi (with a few notable exceptions such as Farscape) a fairly big diappointment? They're getting rid of Farscape, but not crap like Beyond Belief and Crossing Over with whatever-that-fraud's-name is?
Anyone remember the end of Married... with Children and how you could tell that it was obviously not intended to be the show's conclusion but (like Farscape) a season-ender? And as far as I can remember it was for similar reasons: the show was popular but not the "direction" the channel (Fox in this case) wanted to go. Forget the fact that Married... with Children and The Simpsons helped put Fox on the map. But then Aaron Spelling came along and Fox decided to try and become like the other Big Three.
Sad when a media outlet is doing good product but thinks that by De-flavoring their shows will help them become a Mainstream channel. I mean, isn't that why people don't watch the big channels? That they are all derivative and generic?
What is music when you despise all sound?
Your next. >:\
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Looks like you brits are waging an illegal war, too.
m,.,m.
Am I the only one who thought that Farscape was good when it started and then began going downhill?
Wow did anyone else see that. Some really great exposure there for the movement.
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Farscape needed to be wrapped up. It would be better that it end at season 5 as they agreed, at a nice convenient stopping point. Basically quit while everyone was having a good time. I'm going to watch it tonight, but it sounds like I won't like the ending.
Oh yeah, Sci-Fi is completely butchering Battlestar Galactica. They're calling it a "re-imagining". I'll have to wait and see, but little if anything is carrying over to the Sci-Fi joint. They should have let Richard Hatch have a go at it.
The party's over
Hmm, well, the really big news is that the European folks with access to BBC2 have already seen the finale... some weeks ago. And the ending was quite spectacular... :)
I'm really going to miss those monday evenings, filled with another exciting episode of Farscape.
Moya, take care of your crew !
It could be the best writing, acting, and production ever seen on SciFi (or anywhere), but it is *replacing* Farscape. Fluck em.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Oh come on! You can't have a season cliffhanger at the end of a series!
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
I can't believe that ending... argghhhh
Lovely ending up to the part they were turned into kittie litter.
I just finished watching and The show closed with these fateful words...
Let's hope they're not just stringing us along!
-- If it weren't for the voices in my head, I'd go insane from loneliness. -Me, Myself and I
Its not the last show!!!! Its to be continued! We've all been decieved! I'm decieved and happy about it!
Well, that sucked.
"To Be Continued" my ass.
What the hell ever happened to a happy ending? Oh, right gotta set it up for the movie...
OK, so I've been hearing that it would be the normal cliffhanger episode...
But then things seemed to wrap up pretty nicely anyway...
But then OMG!!!
And then "to be continued" comes on? They surely could have removed that if it's really the end, no?
And then "thanks to the crew, etc. for four years" comes on...
So, WHAT THE HELL???
Yes they do say "to be continued" at the end. The ending seemed to be rather anticlimatic (read lame ) for such a good show.
Why would leave the "To Be Continued" graphic in a series finale? Are they planning to move the show to a different channel or is it more headgames by the inept SciFi programming management? Your thaought please...
"...and on some days it just rains."
Oppsie, they are already on cable. So they may be moving it to a webcast? HBO? sort of a trade for SG1?
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Spoiler!
Well, I thought it was a very good ending to the series. He got to say bye to his daddy. Earth is safe. The baby is gonna be born. They're engaged. Pilot survived. Everybody is happy. What else would be necessary for an incredible ending for an incredible series.
What's that you say? Kill them off? uh... ok!
Karma: NaN
If there ever was any doubt as to the creativity and talent of the Farscape writers let it now be put to rest.
Farscape is the KING
Last show was a season ending cliff hanger.. then the thing was cancelled so no 'next season'.
TNT promised to revive it too.. no dice....
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Brilliant! high comedy and practicality
Will this low-cal f-word substitute find its way into the geek lexicon, like rtfm and grok? Anybody remember other alien profanities from Farscape?
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
I didn't just cancel the cable - I severed the cord leading to my house and ripped it out of the ground! I don't want that them connected to my TV in any way. I'm going to tie it in a noose and send it to the head of Sci Fi who canceled my reason for living. ;o)
If it is, goodbye! I tried to watch this once, but everytime the blue "alien" opened her mouth, I expected to hear that a dingo stole her baby.
I gave up on 'Without a Trace' for pretty-much the same reason. Ditto 'Gladiator' ("Hey look! The only Spanish general in the Roman army with an Australian accent!)...
No offense to Aussies, I have nothing against them, and they are often good actors, but when it comes to television and movies, they should not try to portray any character which *isn't* Australian.
Just IMHO.
Does this mean a Movie, or Spin off?
"I don't like SG 1. It annoys me." This gets modded up to +5 Insightful? What am I missing here?
I know this because Tyler knows this.
heh. You think cancelling one little show is bad? DirecTV decided to change their program guide a little bit and removed some channels from the basic-channel package that I have. Yep. They completely removed SciFi channel and expect me to pay like $6 per month just to get my channel back.
What's WORSE is that they did this EARLIER THIS WEEK!!! Just in time so I couldn't watch the third part of Children of Dune or the season/series finales.
What great timing, eh?
Karma: NaN
..firefly is one of the gayest pieces of shit i have ever seen, asside from horrable acting, the graphics are shit, i mean common, a giant dna helix floating in space to represent someone evolving!
I don't want to be a nagging bitch or anything, but I'm going to sound like one anyway.
And I'm going to add the disclaimer that Stargate SG-1 is my 'entertainment' (pretty broad classification right there) of all time, so thank you Allah for Kazaa.
My TV broke about a week ago; I have never been more productive. You're not gonna believe this, but I actually went to the fucking library and got a book and I read it! It's fucking awesome!
Last night I went out and got pasted with my friends. I wasn't thinking "damn, I missed Smackdown. damn, I missed the Daily Show. damn, I missed Adult Swim." I was thinking "mmmmmm, Bacardi Silver O3..."
Please, after the Farscape finale, just try putting the TV away for a week. You can bring it back out if you don't think a TV-less lifestyle is for you, but please, just try it. I can't even replace my TV because I don't have a job... but when I finally do get a job, I'm gonna skip buying a new one, because it's no longer needed.
Book in question is "Linked: the New Science of Networks" in case anyone was curious...
[o]_O
WWW.Savefarscape.com
if you want "No More Hiroshimas" then I say "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
Well, in Canada it's being run on the Space channel, which seems to get all the quasi-science fiction stuff, mostly somewhat later than first-run (although Angel seems to be an exception).
Right now I'm watching the "John Quixote" episode - pretty trippy, but enjoyable. It's unlikely very many other shows would do something like that (Voyager did something like it with the clown-as-computer thing that Michael McKeane played...)
For those of you on the west coast that haven't gotten to see the finale yet, start popping the popcorn and crack open a cold one (or 12). It's a frelling fitting end to an incredible series.
After it was over, I hit the farscape website and it looks like they're planning on trying to continue the show with a movie, an anime project and possibly a series with another network. Let's cross our fingers because this was quite possibly the most best show on television over the last four years. Never have I seen a show with such dynamic characters and a writing team willing to take extreme risks with their "formula".
I hope everybody involved in the show is proud. They deserve to be.
But... what about Battlestar Galactia? Looks worth waiting for. Dune series? I actually liked it.
Sci Fi may have canceled this show, but they've still got stuff going for it.
And, some day, there will be another show.
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
to Kill Your Television.
After almost 40 years of tube addiction (seriously!), I weaned myself 4 years ago. I missed my Trek shows for a while, but face it - you're bombarded with schlock and ads 24/7.
And you can always sit in front of your box and veg all you want (and keep current with Google News et al just as easily as you did watching the highly paid talking heads).
You can also take the opportunity to meet your (non-addicted) neighbors, volunteer, enjoy your free time and extra income (less marketing means fewer urges to spend money), and you can forever thank the idiots who cancelled Farscape for the lifestyle change.
Doesn't matter anyway since my satellite provider, Pegasus, just pulled SciFi, TNN (NextGen all Fri evening), and Trio off the program guide.
Two jokes of shows.
There is not a single actor in SG1.
And Tremors is for Morons
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Good grief! I've never seen a mangled URL quite as bad as that one... I mean, "ttp:wwwbbccoukcultfarscapeswearingindexshtml"??? Come ON!
This is what it's supposed to look like:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/farscape/swearing/index
. shtml
(You're welcome.)I thought it said Fartscape.
-1 juvenile
Sci-Fi flashed this on the screen at the end. Bear in mind, they CANCELLED the show on the final day of shooting the season finale:
"The SciFi Channel thanks the cast and crew of Farscape for four great years."
Bastards. Sci-Fi, you are truly dead to me.
Don't miss the Sponge Bob Square Pants Lost Episode tonight either! It's on again tomorrow if you missed it.
-m
http://www.invisik.com
SG1 blows. there isn't a good SCI-FI show left on TV.
But not only did I get to see the finale episode tonight, I saw it in one of the better ways possible. Before it ran, there was a panel with Virginia Hey and Lani Tupu. And no, they have no idea what's going to happen with the series.
Virginia talked about the makeup: 3-5 hours, the only way she can handle it is to ignore it, and it has caused some health problems. She likes hugging people, and that blue got over everyone, to the point where they once made her wear a "NO HUGGING" sign. She did shave her head and eyebrows for the part. She also talked about when she got her work visa paperwork back from the INS, she was totally floored to see her job described as an "alien of extraordinary ability". Turns out that was just the standard INS lingo. (Just looked at her site... she was that girl in that Mad Max movie?!)
Anyhow, the cliffhanger ending wasn't exactly a nice thing to do to the viewers, what with the series being cancelled. But at least it seems to have tied up a lot of loose ends before leaving a few new ones.
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I'm done with them. That's just too wrong! The even left the "To be continued"!!! How could they leave the "To be continued"? I can't figure any reason to get hooked on another show only to let them do that to me again. Assuming they actually decide to start showing science fiction again. Anyway, who's with me?
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
Is that the show with all the muppets in it? I'm sure some people liked it, but frankly, it was a bit too gay for my tastes :(
I am a guy, and I love both of these shows. GvE was just great camp, and Farscape is bar none the best scifi show I have seen in a long time. Just my 2 cents.
the bunny suits were a nice touch!
-buf
what's the point of calling it a sci fi channel if they keep droping all the good sci fi?
they should just call it creature feature channel.
sad thing having the BEST SERIES EVEN EXISTED cancelled. Yes ladies and gentlemen, it was and is the best sci-fi series ever created. Not that stupid x files crap that after the first season recycled under the same script.
:.-(
Not like that star trek series that was ok for 2 years and then started recycling under the same shity SOAP style only 40-year-old and 18-retarted geeks REALLY like (yes, I've watches a lot of Star Trek, but that doesn't necessarily mean I like it).
Sa d thing
So sad. the best tv thing is taken away
Only two series existed the last 5 years that are REALLY worth watching. so worth watching that I could pay a big screen ticket for each of their episodes.
:.(
South Park, and Farscape.
The one is cancelled.
..out.
I'm not watching shit on that network now. No Tremors (not that I'd watch that garbage anyhow), no Dune: The next Generation, no BattlestarGalactica, Nothing. Fuck them sideways with a bandsaw (yes that's my personal catch phrase). I've Locked Out SciFi channel on my cable box. noone who even visits my house can flip to that channel by ACCIDENT even.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
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this is the link to the page.
http://www.farscape.com/news/index.html
No Spoilers...so not much of a review, but more a shout out to the Commander for praising this show. I absolutely adore it, especially this possible swan song episode. If anyone is interested in aiding in the campaign to Bring Back Farscape, please visit www.savefarscape.com . Long Live Moya!
" But... what about Battlestar Galactia? Looks worth waiting for. Dune series? I actually liked it."
What about them? if I watch them, I'll get them off Usenet, so it won't benefit USA/SciFi one fucking bit. I doubt I'll bother though. Tainted goods.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
I've no problem with them killing off the cast on the last eppisode...
... all known dead but Avon, and the sound of weapons fire over the closing credits concerning him.
I just wish theyde do it in trek.
Remember Blake 7
Sci-Fi Channel just lost me.
How can they put "To Be Continued..." at the end of the show?
Sad sad sad day. Well, Tremors the Series next week. Woo f*ckin hoo.
Fine. Review of Children of Dune: a travesty of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune with all the subtlety of a fart at a funeral. Instead of wasting your time watching it, read the books. (Well, ok, the actress playing Ghani' was nice to look at, but otherwise ....) They age the twins about 10 years in the miniseries, which is acceptable. The guy who plays Bijaz was good. Overall, the series is a not so gentle reminder that Paul is not well cast: he strikes me as more of a football player than a supermentat with prescience. Edric and the main Scytale identity were ok. Alia was just a scenery chewer. Weniscia was Susan Sarandon's most mediocre performance since Rocky Horror. Examples of their lack of subtlety: they retime Weniscia's expulsion to coincide with Farad'n's arrival on Arrakis, thus collapsing his entire development into a few seconds. The sandtrout never manage to cover Leto entirely, and yet he survives a Coriolis storm (one wonders how he ran so fast when only his arm was integrated into the sandworm bodies). Ghanima's self-hypnosis was ignored. There were lines about Hayt's eyes kept in the series that related to his Tleilaxu eyes, even though they never mention the fact that Hayt has Tleilaxu eyes!!! But then you never hear the name Hayt - he is called Duncan throughout. They collapse the mid-novel scene in which Alia recognizes that Paul is the Preacher with the Preacher's death scene, managing somehow to motivate Alia's return upstairs for her to fall on her crysknife rather than pitch herself out the window. Mercifully, they never mention the fact that Leto is going to live 4,000 years and turn into a sandworm, so I think we can rest assured there will be no God Emperor of Dune miniseries (frankly Herbert's novels dropped precipitously in quality after Children of Dune, perhaps because of the long hiatus, and CoD itself isn't as good as Dune Messiah, being far more uneven. Chapterhouse:Dune and the other Dune book whose name escapes me were OK, but nowhere near the genuinely literary quality of the original).
Farscape 4.22: a good bit, except they should have done one of two things: either a. cut the last 127 seconds, or b. cut the line about retrieving the aliens and the "TO BE CONTINUED" and, horribile dictu, end the series on a tragic note. There's no way they'll ever resolve the cliffhanger, but maybe, just maybe they'll get a movie.
A bad adaptation of a good sequel to a great novel (Dune is a great novel by any measure) isn't as satisfying to watch as a good episode of a good TV series. Instead of wasting their money on remaking Dune poorly, and making that silly cross between the X-Files and CE3K, Taken, and making, o my God, a remake of Battlestar Galactica, and making - my fingers shake as I type this - a series out of the Tremors movies, movies so bad they make me nostalgic for Teen Wolf 2 - not to mention the "fake cross between psychics and psychoanalysis, Jon Edwards", the "silly excuse for lots of lesbian sex fantasy commercials, Dream Team", and "bad ripoff of Sixth Sense with Adrian Paul", none of which have anything to do with SF, they should have just stuck with a show that was beginning to build a strong following in a solid demographic.
There. Satisfied?
This post is not intended as flamebait.
/. make a huge deal over this show and it's demise, and I just cann understand why. I happened upon it one evening while channel surfing, and at first I thought it was hilariously bad, but then it got painful within a matter of minutes.
I seriously do not see what the big deal is with this show. It's some of the worst SciFi I have ever seen. The effects were horrible. I've seen
I am MuchTall
is the best revenge. Give the money to ADV and directly to Henson.
There are thousands of us here. If we all e-mail the Scifi channel with our outrage that Farscape has been cancelled, they might realize it is in their best interest to sign a new contract. I got this e-mail address from their site: program@www.scifi.com. I think the writers and directors for the series left it to be continued for this very possibility--an outcry from the fans. Come on everyone, we can do something about this!!!
Alas, I loved Farscape ... watched every episode and enjoyed most of them.
;)
The Lexx was also good, but rather cheezy. I have faith that Farscape will return, though.
The problem is, we geeks get the shaft while everyone else obsesses about "American Idol" or "Joe Dumb@ss" or whatever. Battlestar Galactica 2003 might be nice, however
At least I still have my TechTV!
http://www.dmbrigade.com/episode_stats.htm
I think "sideways with a Sawz-all" has a much better ring to it, what with the alliteration and all.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
The alien's commander (or whatever it was) told the alien in the ship, right before he shot them, to "Neutralize the invaders for analysis." Crystals generally don't make for good analysis. Plus it looked like a shell covered them. I thought they were dead until I watched the show a second time.
critically acclaimed sci-fi television show
By who? References Please.
Good lord, Children of Dune was one of the worst movies I've ever seen*. I hope that's not what you're referring to. The money behind that movie would have been better spent painting squirrels.
*I have not been able to bring myself to see the most recent two or three Star Wars feature length merchandise promotions.
I did find the "TO BE CONTINUED" at the end rather interesting considering that was the series finale. I think Scifi has come through with the request of its fans at last. I did notice that they weren't just disintegrated in your normal fasion as well. I guess we will have to wait a season or two to find out.
What species was that alien from? Anything from the series that anyone can recall?
What the hell are you talking about?
I have DirecTV.
I have SciFi channel.
I do not have to pay $6 extra per month.
I have the basic package with local channels as an add-on.
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SELECT CHOICE $26.99
The SELECT CHOICE package will no longer include: Sci Fi, TRIO and The National Network (TNN)
Prices changes effective after 3/17/03.
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The next (cheapest) package they offer is $33.99
so... Wow. Excuse me. I wouldn't have to pay $6 extra; it would be $7 extra.
And yes, local channels cost an additional $5 on top of that $33.99 price.
Karma: NaN
Virginia Hey was in Road Warrior with Mel Gibson.
Mel Gibson was in Mad Max with Lulu Pinkus.
Lulu Pinkus was in Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious.
Yahoo Serious was in Reckless Kelly with Martin Ferrero.
Martin Ferrero was in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Kevin Bacon.
I don't remember what my original point was.
After the end, I thought for sure they we're going to post:
"Ha Ha we killed them, and they will never come back. Kiss our sci-fi ass."
heh
I liked Farscape, but man, that would have been funny, and TV history.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
No, SciFi has not changed its mind. The "To Be Continued" is simply part of the episode. The producers wanted it aired as if nothing had changed. The alien has never been seen before in Farscape--D'Argo doesn't even recognize the ship.
Perhaps you will think about pledging some of that cash toward funding a fifth season of Farscape. If enough people participate, maybe it would sweeten the deal enough to get the show picked up by one of the networks.
Television that is funded purely by advertising is getting worse every year (witness the descent into "reality TV" hell). If the viewers care about having good shows to watch, it may be time that we step up and do something about it.
This is so fucking stupid. They could have done this for the last year in order to build up the viewership they claimed was lacking due to the show's serial storytelling. Start Season 1 running at 9pm Eastern and Season 3 at 12pm Eastern and enable people who want to watch the show to catch up! Market the hell out of it and BAM! Perhaps they could have enabled enough people to get up to speed to enjoy the final season blow-out while massively increasing viewership. The Sci-Fi channel's actions lead me to believe they wanted to bury this show all along.
This is one Sci-Fi fan they have pissed off and alienated - I'll lend my eyeballs to more deserving channels and, as others have already declared, I'll swipe all their programming off the Internet before I ever watch their channel again.
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
- Ministry
Are we just gonna lie down and take this. From the first time I saw farscape to the very end I never missed a show. When the show I was watching was done I always thought "great now one more week to go" I lived my life week to week with that show and now that dumb A$$ scifi channel wants to pull this. I've read all of your peoples complants and thats the problem all you do is complain there are enough of us lets do some thing. Send e-mails, sign pititions get friends and family involed. I know that I will but Icant do it alone I need your help so will we work together and bring our show back or will we just say "just let the other guy do it" Becouse if every one has that attitude then there will be no other guy and we will have sat here and complained about the nothing that farscape will become.
Does SciFi still air MST3K reruns? If not, what the hell are they good for?
Gamera is really neat
Gamera is full of meat
We're all eating Ga Me Ra!!
Hi-keeba!
Do you want to help to try and SAVE FARSCAPE?!
:)
If so then go here: http://www.savefarscape.com/
Or you could go here: http://www.watchfarscape.com/
They're both actually the same site, which unfortunalty seems to be slashdotted or having other issues at the present time.
There is a lot of good stuff on the site from campaigns to get another network to pick up the show to an actual viewer funded consortium who's goal is to raise the funds to partially finance Season 5 as incentive for another network (or Sci-Fi i guess) to pick up the show.
So copy down that URL and take a look when the site is responsive once again!
Its pretty bad that B5 reruns were killed but killing farscape is even worse because it was a pretty cool show and it was not even over yet. What did they replace b5 with. Knight Rider. Is KR even sci-fi? And what gives with that lame flaming psychic guy. Who the hell watches that? They are bringing back B5 and putting it at 9am. And then they are gonna cancel it midseason again because "no one was watching it" since it was at 9am when people are at work. At least put it at 11 or midnight or something. Now I gotta go back to Kazzaa or buy a vcr to record espisodes.
That they are doing things...
http://www.farscape.com/news/index.html
ugh, imagine farscape anime, like that shoddy sg cartoon.
Fuck you Sci Fi, and fuck you, Vivendi.
I'm enough of a Farscape geek to say, yeah, I cried at the end, and then I screamed.
As of tonight, I'm no longer a Cox digital cable subscriber.
The WB did the same exact thing when they cancelled Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a cliffhanger ending. First the "previously on " with a montage of the entire series, then the little "thank you" after the credits. All while royally screwing over the cast, crew, and fans of the show.
At least Buffy got to continue, so it wasn't as grave an insult. Can't say the same for Farscape.
I agree, SG-1 is the only show left worth watching on Scifi now. I will definitely be boycotting Tremors: The Series....not just because I hate Michael Gross, but the shear idea of making that stupid fucking movie into a TV series should have gotten people fired for just suggesting it.
The reason why they will put money up for Tremors is that it will be cheap as hell.
1. Go to desert.
2. Shoot lots of upshots of people freaking and holding shotguns.
3. CG long plate shots of sand billowing and something moving underground.
One of the things I loved about Farscape is that everything was custom made for the show... after the first season, they got off of the main set (Moya the ship) quite a bit and they often used one set for one part of a story, AND THAT WAS IT. The same was true for the aliens... everyone liked the variety. But that variety was incredibly expensive.
We're spoiled. They cannot go back on the production values without jumping the shark, and they probably gave all the rest of that money to get all of the Indiana Jones movies (which anyone flipping through will watch) and mini-series features like Dune and Riverworld this year for the increased audience.
Farscape used to be it on Scifi. Now it isn't. It served them well. As usual, only the best shows die from neglect.
"HUMANS ARE SUPERIOOORRR!!" - John Crichton
(thank you overzealous Slashdot filter, for making me lessen the effect of this quote by limiting the number of capital letters I can use. God knows seeing lots of capital letters on the screen in other peoples post, letters almost a full 1/3 taller than lower case letters, always ruins my day.)
trilogy?
eight doctors (and 30 years) so far and counting.
"My parents were strict, but they never pitted me against livestock" - Doug Stanhope
You're a little confused in regards to Buffy. UPN had already picked up the rights to Buffy after a long and BITTER dispute. I look at the WB as saying "Okay, you have your show... but try to wiggle out of THIS ending!!"
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Three guys, an Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are out walking along the beach together one day. They come across a lantern and a genie pops out of it. "I will give you each one wish, " says the genie. The American says, "I am a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in America." With a blink of the genie's eye, 'FOOM' - the land in America was forever made fertile for farming. The Frenchman was amazed, so he said, "I want a wall around France, so that no one can come into our precious country." Again, with a blink of the Genie's eye, 'POOF' - there was a huge wall around France. The Englishman asks, "I'm very curious. Please tell me more about this wall. The Genie explains, "Well, it's about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick and nothing can get in or out." The Englishman says, "Fill it up with water."
Farscape really rocked my life, and this last episode is a typical Farscape season final... leaving with all the fear and doubt wether the universe will be OK and stuff ;)
:D
I just hope they can make up the movie they are planning, that might clear much things up. On the other hand, how to run a farscape movie without explaining why the frell there are at least two Scorpi's on the screen, and one is talking to John in funny environments? I'm pretty interested in that
"Sci Fi Channel thanks the creators, stars, and viewers of Farscape for four great years." (Emphasis mine.)
The sheer gall! Talk about adding insult to injury!
scifi sucks
I still can't believe that thank you message at the end. Farscape was my favorite show and renewed my faith in SciFi after Sliders but they just lost all of that. The only good thing to come from this is that I won't need to spend $50/mo on cable since Farscape was the only show on any cable station that I really enjoyed.
I just finished up writing my letter to SciFi.. it ends with 'Thank *you* for four great years SciFi, I won't be tuning in any more.'
....is one example of a bad, cheesy movie turning into a rather good television series.
I would say that's not what happens the majority of the time though.
-CausticPuppy "Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
I agree to some of the comments, but I'm a pretty big "Stargate SG1" fan. They had an awesome time travel episode not to long ago. Very funny "Groundhog Day" homage. And "Tracker" isn't nearly as bad as "John Edwards". If only it were legal to put a bounty on his head.
Look what happened to the The Learning Channel. "A Dating Story"? WHAT THE HELL!? You'd think it'd be about 50% PLUS documentaries. I wonder what the Science Channel is like? "Buffy's Beauty Tips for Debutantes"?
Informercials and black and white episodes of "The Outer Limits" won't keep my TV on their channels. But I do like SG1.
Stuff that matters??? cmon... so some trash on TV is cancelled... BFD.
Frell=f-word "Frell me dead."
Dren=s-word "This smells like dren."
Hezmana=hell "What in Hezmana is going on here?"
Yotz=hell (maybe from a Hynerian point of view?)
Mivonks=balls "Do Scarrans have mivonks?"
Tralk(sp.?)=slut "They called me PK Tralk girl."
I know there's more, but that's all I can think of right now. Anyone else?
Hey Slashdot! Interview Ben "Crighton" Browder or (exec producer) David Kemper! Both have done numerous irc chats. I'm sure they wouldn't might a little slashdotting. ;-)
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"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
Doctor Who rules.
Er... I don't mean the reruns. They're premering a miniseries remake in December. It was plastered all over the Dune series last week.
I've seen no footage whatsoever, yet, but I'm kinda hoping it will be decent. SciFi can put on a decent show when it spends the cash...
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
You're not prefacing that on the butchery of the books, are you? Because outside of the books, the movie is a decent one, in its own right -- just like the Lord of the Rings series, and they mangle the books worse than the Dune series.
;)
Ok, I'll admit, Leto running across the desert like the Flash was a tad over the top.
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
What's up with this, why hasn't anyone mentioned this? I can't get to savefarscape, but i don't know how i haven't heard this before
hah you people are funny
you use the term illegal like there is some authoritative international body. The UN is a paper tiger that filters political opinion. Sooner you realize this, the better off you will be.
The EU is the closest thing europeans have to international oversight, and is too fractured to be of much use to prove to be a new federal level for europe.
You're a little confused in regards to Buffy. UPN had already picked up the rights to Buffy after a long and BITTER dispute.
That's what I meant by the "at least Buffy got to continue". We knew that Buffy would be continuing, so the "Thanks for five great years (even though we're discarding you because we don't like you anymore)" was just sort of insulting, rather than a full-on "Fuck you, fanboys/girls".
I look at the WB as saying "Okay, you have your show... but try to wiggle out of THIS ending!!"
Actually, that's not the case AT ALL. The Buffy seasons are planned well in advance and The WB had nothing to do with the fifth season finale. The writers and producers of the show claim that they had a pretty solid idea of the structure of the fifth and sixth seasons by around the second or third seasons. It looked like The WB was trying to screw up the show as it left, but apparently the idea had been set in stone for some time.
No, I can forgive movies for straying from their books. But I thought the Sci-Fi movie was terrible in every way except for the cinamatography. If the book never existed it would be an even worse movie because there'd be no explaining the plot at all.
The acting was horrible and so many events were un or under explained. I TiVo'd the first half of the show and watched it, not knowing that it was in two parts, while the second part was airing. When I discovered the fact, I was releived that I wouldn't have to watch the second part.
gives me visions of the goatse.cx guy. I can't exactly say the association is pleasant (unlike the Farscape babes, who definitely are).
See my journal, I write things there
OTOH, that other Sci-Fi scion, Dr Who survived by reinventing itself many times over. It was much more flexible because even the star could be changed. The format could be varied depending upon the budget. A show like Farscape isn't a to produce (their make-up budget has to be way beyond ST:Enterprise's).
Others like B5 were relatively cheap but purely because the producer knew and used every short cut and still managed to do something good. They were even rendering on Ataris!!!
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I'm definitely not happy about the series ending so abrupbtly, but in a lot of ways I think this was a terrific season finale. It tied up the needed loose ends well.
... a tragic ending is just as valid as a happy one. Since we have enough happy endings, this provided a MUCH more memorable end. The feelings I felt at the end of the episode were as strong as the ending of a good book.
... couldn't they have edited that out? It -felt- like a series ending until that. Hell, with John "dead" as it appears at the ending, it even explains why we don't hear about him ever again.
..." blah blah ... an obvious attempt to seem gracious about the show to we fans who wanted it to continue. SciFi would have done very well to have not even mentioned it. If they were that thankful, the show would still be on. SCREW them.
Even the ending I can deal with
The only thing that killed it for me was the following:
* To be continued
* That insipid "The SciFi channel thanks
As others have mentioned, all I have left from SciFi is SG1 and originals like Children of Dune and Riverworld (I hope). SG1 will probably be gone after next season, so that's one more. I hope they at least do more originals, but lordy, they can't be THAT much cheaper than a good story-based series. Otherwise, SciFi is dead to me.
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
I guess evryone is living in LA-LA land, I went to Farscape.com right after the show ended and signed up for the notifaction when they get the ball rolling on all the Farscape stuff they want to do......
Good lord, Children of Dune was one of the worst movies I've ever seen
It's nice to know that someone else agrees with me.
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Hey all,
folks affiliated with Savefarscape.com ran a commercial for the site during the series finale. It played on the Dish Network, so those with satellite TV should have seen it. There were also some other scapers who paid $$ from their pockets to run it locally. Did anybody see it? Just some text and maybe a voiceover saying, "you can help, visit savefarscape.com and/or call 1-888-###-####". They had an 800-number set up.
Unfortunately the ISP is being slow and they were totally slashdotted. They tried to make a smooth transition to a dedicated server and the ISP didn't get it done in time. Last we heard, they were up for a microt and then a quarter-million hits sent them crashing again.
Yea, I know, I saw the ad attached to the Farscape Finale. I was kind of happy to see a remake of the old series. I will STILL steal it off USENET before I'll watch it on SciFi, given what they've done.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
SHUT UP YOU TOTAL MORON!!!
i don't like you.
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Yeah, but the "previously on Farscape" montage was FRELLING GREAT!
Want to make a difference? Send email to program@www.scifi.com. Complain. Tell them they made a huge mistake. Tell them you'll no longer be watching SciFi. Tell them.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
From what I've heard, there's no "tell cable company what I'm watching" function on the old standard cable systems. Heck, they barely had the bandwidth to send the TV signals down the cable. They almost never notice that someone is having problems with reception until they get a call from that person, or there's a system-wide outage.
The ppv systems do have at least some idea of what you're watching, since you had to pay for it somehow. (Cable thieves can keep quiet).
I know, but they are really trying hard to dump the good old analog lines for the latest-greatest (not enough bandwidth) digital cable. The digital cable - at least time warner can...
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