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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.
Unfortunately I think shows of this nature are doomed at some point to face cancellation - the plot splits and forks as the seasons go by - at some point it gets to be like a D&D game gone horribly bad.
Remember the old shows that were on forever - they did something different every week but basically stayed the same. Star Trek (TOS) - Explore - find something new - this week she's green, next week blue, but Bones didn't branch off into a new career, Chekov didn't move to another ship - Kirk was always, well, Kirk.
Farscape had great 'bad guys', who then stepped out of the 'bad guy' role and were suddenly main characters in the ongoing (show-to-show, season-to-season) plot... seemed like alot of extra baggage kept getting tossed into the mix.
At least with the old shows (including Farscape in the first couple of seasons) you weren't waaaaay out in left field if you missed half a season, you could sit down and enjoy them ALL. (even out of order)
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code...
Well said.
The other thing that attracted me to Farscape was the dry wit and the pure humanity of the hero (John Crichton). He screwed up on several occasions and had to figure his way out of jams. Or maybe something didn't go the way it "should have," and plans were shot. No phasers from space or transporters to get them out of trouble.
Yes, and this (rather o/t, I know) is one of the reasons I dislike Stargate SG-1. (Apart from the fact that Richard Dean Anderson is so annoying; please tell me the military isn't a place where the most sour, anti-authoritarian mavericks rise to that rank.) Have a big problem? No worries; Thor's crowd will fix it. A really big problem and someone dies? Yay, sarcophagus!
Never mind the fact that the vast majority of these problems occur because (i) RDA is so non-politic that he's offended three-quarters of the galaxy who didn't even know we existed a decade ago; or (ii) SG-1 keeps on finding strange things on other planets that they don't understand, and naturally enough decide that bringing said mysterious object back to earth after five minutes of cursory discussion is a wise move.
I mean, they really irritate me, you know?
I only watched farscape after if was cancelled in re-runs. So I got to see the entire series in a compress way. It really lost some of the magic as it went on (the first and second seasons being the best, dare I say it started really plummetting after Zaan left). And when you see an episode a day the uneveness really becomes obvious.
I hope the mini-series has the magic that the early show had, and they ridiculusness of the later episodes isn't present. It started to feel like the writers had no idea what to do so they just would set up absurd situations in the first few minutes and then have an even ore absurd solution that dragged on for the next 45 minutes. It was as you could take the segment in between the second and thrid commercial break and mix and match because it was the same stupid converstion that meandered away from the plot every episode.
So heres to a good mini-series, I think it was a little stupid the way they left the cliffhanger, as if they had setup a nice series endingm and POOF through in one last scene just to piss everyonje off at the cancellation, I hope they resolve it quickly (or start after it and make breif reference) and get on to a better story.