Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries

Albinus writes "The Sci Fi Channel has decided to continue the Farscape series in the form of a miniseries, according to a short article on SciFi.com. Apparently, 'The four-hour miniseries picks up where the cliffhanger series finale left off and will reunite John Crichton (Ben Browder), Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) and the rest of the Moya crew.' Hopefully this will generate a renewed interest in the show and bring it back permanently." We reported on earlier rumors to this effect late last year.

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Re:Fartscape is so lame

[Doktor Memory]

Farscape isn't scifi, its fantasy. Star trek is scifi. Firefly was scifi. Babylon 5 was scifi. Farscape shouldn't be mistaken for a scifi show. It is fantasy, have always been, will always be. Scifi is shows that extrapolate technology in the future. Which farscape have never done.

Exactly. For instance, here is an illustrative example of the difference between SciFi and Fantasy:

Fantasy: "TobiasTheCommie will have carnal knowledge of a woman at some point in his life." This is just cool stuff you could do, not based on anything plausible.

Scifi: "TobiasTheCommie will die a virgin." This is careful extrapolation of current technology into the future.

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lame

[luna69]

> "The Sci Fi Channel has decided to continue
> the Farscape series in the form of a miniseries

Why?

Farscape was always a weak show: bad science, bad fiction = bad science-fiction. They'd be better off signing Joss Whedon & crew to do more episodes of Firefly - which is a REAL sf show.

Not enough commercial revenue?

[centauri]

Flame away, but is it possible, just possible mind you, that too many people were watching these shows on TiVo or like systems and not watching the commercials and that the advertisers noticed a decrease in profits for their products causing them to complain or something which in turn led to the stations pulling them?