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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."
Will this be worth watching for someone who's never seen Farscape? I've heard good things about Farscape but never bothered to watch it as I knew the story wouldn't be completed due to the cancellation of the series. Does any hardcore Farscape fan know if this mini-series will stand on its own or expect me to have watched Farscape before to understand what's happening?
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when Scorpius joined the crew. I could go along with Crais, a bit of a stretch but who knows. Since then the show has gotten bigger. Bigger effects, bigger story arc, more extreme characters, every thing but better writing. Sorry guys you lost me somewhere around mid season 3..
By selling QuickTime.
You can get the player for free, but it's the "foot in the door". The more interesting things you can do only with the full version, like authoring and so forth, and movie previews at Apple have become the de facto way of viewing trailers online.
Pretty good push for their player software.
Just in case...
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Considering that Google does not cache images or movies, do I even need to point out how stupid of a post this was? Or were you hoping that the moderators were dumb enough not to notice?
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That wasn't fans writing in, that was DVD sales.
If Chrichton can walk away from being a metal statue with its head ripped off, he can walk away from this.
You can get the player for free, but it's the "foot in the door". The more interesting things you can do only with the full version, like authoring and so forth, and movie previews at Apple have become the de facto way of viewing trailers online.
It's more than just Quicktime, it's the Quicktime-based pro apps (and G5 hardware) that Apple wants to promote.
Quicktime (which is an extensive media framework which happens to also include a [somewhat crappy] Quicktime media player) is free for users and developers alike. Apple also sells a "Quicktime Pro" package, which is little more than a beefed up Quicktime media player for converting, editing, and exporting several media types. Back in the Mac OS Classic days, there were many third party Quicktime movie players that provided many extra features, but still used Apple's Quicktime framework to do the heavy lifting. I don't know of any (good) players for Windows or Mac OS X, so it seems Apple has been stepping in with their "Quicktime Pro" player for $30.
Getting back to my initial point, Apple is promoting their name and their Quicktime framework to sell products like FinalCutPro, DVD Studio Pro, and Shake. They're also using it to help promote other similar tools, such as the iLife suite (iDVD, iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, and Garage Band). But these apps are only available for Apple's hardware and OS, and iLife happens to be included free of charge on new Macs.
So, yes, Apple is hosting their mega awesome huge trailer site for a reason, and they are making some money off their deluxe "pro" Quicktime Player. But it's the big fish they're after, they want to promote their brand and technology to sell G5s and FinalCutPro/Shake/DVD Studio Pro class software.
Fox took notice when they saw that a BASIC CABLE show was beating Letterman in the ratings in males 18-30 demographic (aka, the demographic that advertisers pay the most for). It's pretty impressive when something on cable beats something on network tv. . .
The cartoon network ratings, coupled with the fact that Family guy season one box set was the best selling dvd in the country at the time made it so obvious that even FOX executives had to realize they'd been morons not to renew it in the first place.
Could be lots of things, Here are the theories I think hold the most water:
1) The "weapon" is actually just a device used to capture. The "victim" converted into red dust in one place and he reassembles elsewhere.
2) Pilot has John's wormhole knowledge now, so he takes the crew back in time and they prevent the entire nasty incident from happening -- though I have no idea how they can do this without creating an "unrealized reality".
3) Something else.
The point is, there are many many good ways to resolve that without resorting to "it was all a dream".