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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."
Sci-Fi says despite thousands of people wanting to see the trailer, they're going to have to cancel it.
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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I thought petitioning was a way to raise the hope for people by making them feel like they actually were doing something to help, I'd never think they'd make a difference. Well, it's always nice to hear about a succeeded one :)
Apple.com agreed to host the trailer after a write-in campaign from Farscape fans.
I RTFA'd, but I don't see the direct link implied in the summary. Event A (write-in campaign) happened before Event B (trailer is available), but I don't see any evidence that Event A caused Event B.
But then, it's nice to feel like you have a voice. They held elections in the old USSR... or should that be, "In Soviet Russia, Elections hold YOU!" ?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Of course, nothing will ever fill the hole that 'Suddenly Susan' has left in my heart.
I've seen many movie trailers on Apple.com and I'm sure many others have too. Certainly this media is not gentle bandwidth usage.
How does Apple profit? Do studios pay Apple to have trailers on its site?
"There ought to be limits to freedom"
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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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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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..
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.
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.
Lost in Space was muppets.
Oh wait, that was Pigs in Space. NM.
(Still it had much better writing and way better SFX than FarScape)
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
If you regard the rule of thumb for movies, "The better the trailer is, the more likely that is all there is." I have pretty high hopes for the actual miniseries. The trailer was kind of rough but based on the original production team still producing this series I anticipate these four hours to be golden.
I have seen some really bad trailers for really good movies. I have seen some really cool trailers for really crappy movies.
Wow - they finally found the right theme music! Nice lyrics:
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
it's time to meet the Muppets on the Farscape Show tonight.
It's time to put on makeup
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the Farscape Show tonight.
I love the story so much I don't want to be teased by it. I KNOW it's going to be good, I know it's going to have suprises. I don't want any hints, I want to savor it as I experience it!
That has to say something about its quality.
Of course, Sci-fi will cancel it when they see the low trailer hits...
will there be any alien boobs in this?
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...
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".