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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.
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.
Farscape is the only reason why I have a subscription to cable TV.
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.
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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Space: The Imagination Station in Canada is running the finale next week.
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
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Of course I am a dork. This is not showtime's website. Luckily I didn't submit the comment before I caught my egregious error. ... Real SHOWTIME contact form is here.
^byrne :/
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.
See my journal, I write things there
Showtime won't pick up Farscape. Those few of us who are Odyssey 5 fans will tell you that Showtime gives a rat's ass about it's sci-fi-following subscribers. For those of you not in the know, O5 has 6 episodes left on their first season. They aired the "season finale" months ago and have been holding back giving fans the final 6 episodes they were promised. These missing episodes have aired in the UK, leaving the US fans to various P2P networks for crappy VCD versions of the last few eps.
So, not to beat down your attempt, but I doubt it will get more than the standard corporate P.R. BS from Showtime. Many Odyssey 5 fans have sent numerous letters, made numerous phone calls, and all we get is the standard "we love hearing feedback and forward it to the appropriate department." Evidently that department is the "we-don't-give-a-flying-fuck-what-you-want" department. They seem to be leaving the sci-fi genre in the dust, preferring to favor shows like Queer As Folk and Family Business. I suppose their target audience has changed; it's about the only reason we can think of for their neglect of the true fans.
It wasn't supposed to end. SciFi cancelled season five so this is how it ends. They bloody cancelled on the FINAL FRELLING DAY OF SHOOTING for season four. No time to tidy things, oh no. SciFi had to go for maximum sadism.
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.
Farscape was Sci-Fi's longest running original series. At four seasons.
Even if Tremors is the best thing since the Sopranos, God's gift to TV, it's not worth getting involved in a show that's going to be gone in a couple years no matter how good it is.
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!