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.

Comments

Sci-Fi copout

[Stickster]

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.

Re:Sci-Fi copout

[dnahelix]

I sent an email to Showtime via their website explaining that, at present, I do not subscribe to Showtime, even though it is available from my cable service. I said that if if Showtime picked up Farscape, I would subscribe immediately. I got a personal response saying my message would be forwarded and that they really value public input. So... WRITE THOSE LETTERS!!!!

Re:Sci-Fi copout

[davmoo]

Then the producers are as guilty as the Sci-Fi Channel for foisting that piece of crap ending on us. They could have just as easily chopped off everything after "the ring" and left it hanging there (if you've seen it, you know what I mean...I don't want to introduce spoilers). That would have given both closure AND a place to pick up.

The producers of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" did it right...they wrapped the series for those who could not follow the show to the new network, and then after the move, picked it back up without skipping a beat.

I live in a fairly rural area of Indiana. When I first moved here 5 years ago, the cable system here did not offer the Sci-Fi Channel. We were doing good to even have cable here. The *WHOLE REASON* I subscribed to Dish Network was so I could have Sci-Fi. Tonight, I am seriously considering ending that subscription when my current billed month runs out. And if I do, I'll make damned sure the Sci-Fi Channel, Dish Network, and the producers of Farscape all know the reason why.

petitions online..

[Suppafly]

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.

Re:Farscape and SciFi

[geekoid]

SCi-fi is still playing MST3K? holy crap, I thought that got pulled.

Farscape's Replacement

[heli0]

This is the high quality programming they are replacing it with:

Bigfoot on the Loose!

This Episode will Piss people off

[aSiTiC]

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.

One less reason to spend money...

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Such is modern TV

[FullCircle]

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.

Re:Such is modern TV

[ShoeHead]

Woah, dude, hold it. It's in these companies' best interests to make money. There is no rational way for them to exist, or operate, except to make money. The ratings system may be archaic, but you can bet your ballooning bottom that it's been updated, and that it works.

The networks probably have at least one mathematician each guaranteeing them that it makes good business sense to poll people a certain way, and cut certain series. And that's pretty much all we can expect, unless they're really incompetent.

If you think that there's a gross injustice going on here, why don't you do an internship at a network company, get your hands a little dirty, and then come back to show us what's happing in la-la land.

I, for one, think there's more interesting applications than TV statistics out there. I've never seen an episode of Farscape in my life, but it sure sounds good :)

Bye-bye Sci-Fi

[BeemerBoy]

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

Re:Everyone's upset that Sci-Fi cancelled...

[Xibby]

I've been pondering getting the DS9 DVDs. DS9 seemed to be the best of the Star Trek series because of a more contiuning story that you sorta had to follow, because it was competing with Babylon 5 at the time.

DS9 you could kinda pick up mid way though. Babylon 5 you could kinda pick up, but was a whole lot more interesting if you caught it from the beginning.

Farscape is just...out there. You really need to watch from the begining or at least watch the recap episodes to have a clue about what the frell is going on and why you should care...

SciFi

[eaolson]

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?

Like the finale of Married with Children

[sielwolf]

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?

Frelled, Frelling, Get Frelled, etc...

[Esion Modnar]

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?

WTF??

[DreamingReal]

SciFi is rerunning the entire series from the start beginning March 31, 4 or 5 days a week at midnight.

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.