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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.
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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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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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...
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?
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
Space: The Imagination Station in Canada is running the finale next week.
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.
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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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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
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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!!!!!!!!
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?
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.
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.
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I don't remember what my original point was.