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After Petition, Farscape Miniseries Trailer Online
Myrmi writes "The four-hour Farscape miniseries will be aired on the Sci-Fi Channel starting October 17th. The trailer for the miniseries is to be hosted at Apple Trailers and starting today at 3PM EST." Here's the trailer page. As eve11 writes, "Apple.com agreed to host the trailer after a write-in campaign from Farscape fans. Until today this trailer had only been shown during the July 24th Farscape panel at Comicon in San Diego. More info here."
Well, the narration that opens the trailer seems to suggest they're going to do a "The story thus far" segment. I'm pretty sure that if they want to attract viewership, they'll do something of that nature.
I don't doubt that there will be more rewards for those who have watched the entire series than those who haven't, but they'd be stupid not to try to reach out to new audiences. This is, after all, the last chance they have to build a bigger audience and show they're worthy of being brought back for another year.
Either way, if you'd like to catch up on everything that's ever happened in the series so you'll have a better idea what's going on in the movie, there's always the Farscape Primer.
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I bet, as with most of the Babylon 5 movies, that there is enough of an explanation to make it interesting for someone who has never seen the series. I would suggest, being a fan of the show, that you rent it and watch the show. The first four seasons can be rented from www.netflix.com.
For those of you who popped in to irc.scifi.com during the campaign to get the show back on the air, that server has gone the way of the dodo. Many folks have ended up at #scapers on irc.scifi-fans.net and alternately #farscape on irc.chorn.com. Happy yakking!
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Watching the entire series is 100% worth the time. I had just finished the end of season 2 when the series was cancelled (we get Sci-Fi channel stuff a little slowly up here in Canada, since we don't get the Sci-Fi channel). I watched it through to the end, and I'm very glad I did.
You should keep in mind when I say this that I watch next to no television at all. Farscape was a truly unique series.
In case you just want to download the video...
p e/farscape-peacekeeper_m480.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/farsca
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There's only a single line in the entire trailer that might possibly be referring the the last season's cliffhanger. I really hope they do a good job of resolving it, as opposed to a cop-out quick fix (you know, the kind that Misery chick hated.)
The lady in black is "Commander Cleavage" or basically, a high ranking peacekeeper that took Scorpi's command away from him. She has some hypnotic ability with chemicals she excretes to control males.
The big blue baddie is one of the top, if not the top, Scarran.
Apple profits mainly because you have to use QuickTime(tm) to watch the trailers. Someone wants to watch something on Apple Trailers and they don't have QuickTime? Well, they have two options. Either don't watch or get QuickTime. BAM! They have a new QuickTime user. There are individual user licenses that you can buy to make QuickTime more functional (QuickTime Pro), but what Apple is looking for is marketshare. The more QuickTime users, the more businesses/companies/media outfits notice and use the QuickTime format.
Yes, much different trailer. Pretty good in fact.
"Gear up for the new miniseries by watching all 88 episodes of Farscape, airing in order every weekday from 9AM-4PM ET/PT, Oct. 1 through Oct. 15"
This is when a DVR comes in handy. I'm glad I bumped up the storage on my Tivo.
Fine by me. I canceled my cable TV non-service partially because stations like Sci-Fi were showing such utterly worthless shit and canceling the good shows.
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The farscape crew was told there would be another season, and when the crew shot the last episode, they were told the series was cancelled. I'm sure if the crew created a cliffhanger, they knew how to get out of it.
From a chat with Brian Henson:
( ChatMod) (Nessus) to (ChatQ): Where did the funding for the mini come from?
( BrianH) It came from a consortium of financers who would not have heard of us if it weren't for all of the attention the fans bought to the cancelling of the series.
( BrianH) So thanks to all of you, the mini series was funded
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6 MB medium-resolution download
18 MB high-resolution download
Needed to poke around inside the original .mov with a hex editor to get them, too...
If you watch episodes out-of-order, you will get a bad experience. You want to watch them in-order, or else pick a season and watch it start to finish.
That said, this is a unique show that is well worth watching.
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True, Sci-Fi channel shows way too much crap now. cant they save that for the middle of the night when everyone knows that nothing good will be on TV anyway? i dont care if i see re-runs of old sci-fi shows all the time, at least make it sci-fi, not random B movie about some giant insects or whatnot. i remember getting cable just so i could watch sci-fi, now its just another channel that i sometimes watch.
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A few people had emailed the folks at apple.com and asked to see the trailer there after comicon. Apple.com said something about talking with the Sci-Fi channel (they actually don't usually host TV trailers) -- but actually it was Henson who owned the trailer. The staff at www.watchfarscape.com (I am also a staff member) brought the folks at apple up to speed on who owned what, and encouraged site members to write in to apple.com telling them about their desire to see the trailer. After a week of such emails and negotiations, Apple.com announced it would host the trailer.
If you'd like to argue with me about causation, I can pull MS statistician-going-on-PhD on you and start talking counterfactuals and Directed acyclic graphs, but I'd rather not.
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A great episode. You've indicated the one real flaw in Farscape that even die-hard fans have to acknowledge. Many of the episodes are hard to understand unless you've seen all the earlier shows.
With so many of the Farscape episodes as 2 or 3 part it isn't something they could have fixed without dumbing down the plot.
On the meta-plot axis; you have the weak meta-plot shows like Star Trek (orig and NG), single plot threads (voyager) and multiple plot threads (DS9, B5 and Farscape).
The stronger the meta-plot the harder it will be for a new viewer to "get" the show. Some shows are worth the effort (Farscape); some are not (DS9 }:> ).
Having a TiVo helped me quite a bit when watching farscape. I watched the first episode and was religiously hooked to it ever since. When I would go on vacation or for some reason wasn't home when the episode aired, I could always still see it in order using my TiVo.
As far as the alien words go, I don't think they ever say what some of the words are, but after a while you do get the gist of their meanings.
It is a bit of a soap opera, but it is also a mind-warp and a lot more intelligent than many other sci-fi shows. Take for example how the translator microbes do a fine job on straightforward statements, but they get analogies and comparisons completely wrong. Things like that make it very interesting to me.
Not on the show but you can see some of the chick that plays Chiana HERE
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