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Farscape Returns Sunday
jagilbertvt writes "I know a lot of Slashdot readers are Farscape fans, so here's some more fantastic news... Farscape returns Sunday October 17th at 9pm ET with the first of two episodes of Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars. WatchFarscape.com has more coverage of Farscape's return. A trailer is available at Apple's Movie Trailer site."
I thought this was planned to be a four episode mini-series. Did they back off from the original promise?
...I'll sleep better tonight knowing that.
I like shows where the producers have enough of a clue to make the web page work properly in Firefox.
That and 24. That Jack Bauer is always in a heap of trouble!
I know this is offtopic but probably this is the best one I saw in recen times.
- People who believe other people have no right to live, got no right to live ...
family guy... farscape..let's see if we can get full house back on the air..
I'm still mourning Firefly. The movie's in production, but I don't want 10 episodes and a movie. I want 7 years of shows and 10 movies. And then many, many more spin offs. (Inara's brothel - a wacky situation comedy? Jayne and his cohorts, an A-Team for the 25th century?).
If you mod this down, obviously you are NOT a Farscape fan!
Unlike Farscape, Babylon5 wasn't canceled. JMS planned for 5 seasons, and although it was rough at times, he got all of them. Everything was wrapped up; the show is done.
I do think there is a movie in the works, but they had better hurry up. The actors keep dying.
(yes, I love both B5 and Farscape... but probably B5 more)
The Second episode is going to be aired on the Monday - i.e. the day after - and not in the same slot the following Sunday.
"I think everyone is an agnostic but just doesn't know" - Frazz
This topic is getting posted on the tail end of the 11 day farscape marathon that the
Sci-Fi channel just finished. That was better news for me, as I was (mostly) able
to catch up on the series by Tivo'ing the episodes.
I discovered this about three weeks ago.
Oddly enough, I discovered how cool Stargate is just three months ago.
Ok am i being stupid...?
Is Sci-Fi channel the same for both Uk and US?
Is this scehdule the same for UK? will i be smiling all tomorrow at last after months of waiting and feeling down?
thanks!
Why in the world, after several seasons of having Chiana with "normal" eyes would they decide to give her contacts giving the appearance of "cat-like" vertical pupils? Anybody else notice this? I think it makes her look a bit more nefarious than she really is.
Didn't see the cat-eyes? Check out the trailer (there's about a half-second where I saw it) or check the photos at scifi.com/farscape.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
was on the Screen Savers last week also.
Too bad he got interviewed by Alex, who has a voice like a dog chew toy.
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in related news...
Stargate SG-1 has a new season underway and Stargate Atlantis is just getting started.
(I prefer Starget to Farscape)
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The only old news is your announcement that Fox Trot already announced it. Look at the top post.
I want Futurama back! :(
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...Bring back Firefly!
Just watch Muppets in Space. It's the same thing.
Farscape is teh sux0r.
From Brian Henson's statements here:
"Our intention is that new audiences should be able to follow this, but they will have to concentrate hard."
He also says that the miniseries will "bring Farscape to a place in the big story where we could now go in lots of different directions. We could make a movie, we could make a spin-off series, and I hope to do all of those things."
This all depends on the success of the miniseries though, so even if you're new, even if you're a Trekkie, you should still tune in. Give SciFi a reason to stop making the sub-B garbage they're constantly spewing out and stick with what works.
for non-plugin-users...: http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/farscap e/farscape-peacekeeper_m480.mov/
I lent them that Sunday ages ago
AT&ROFLMAO
Oooh Farscape! Why doesn't John get married to that alien already so we can have the series end. They keep dragging it and dragging it. It's like a soap opera in space. It's freakin annoying. But I must admit, they do have some sexy Australian/New Zealand aliens on that show.
John and Aeryn are melted into a billion M&Ms. How are they going to get around that? And I'm hoping it's not just "All a dream!"
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Well frell me dead. Anyone knows if it'll be available to Canadian viewers (e.g. Space) ?
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
Sorry but the Muppets haven't got anything to compare with This!
AT&ROFLMAO
would it kill to mention where? the world != US, UK, etc the internet == world, tv != world.
moo
I guess I'm an atypical Farscape fan in that I'm not much of a television watcher, nor particularly a fan of sci-fi in general. I started watching Farscape intermittently during the first season, and found the show's atmosphere and look intriguing, its characters compelling, and its writing witty and sharp (for television, anyway). By the second season, I was hooked all the way through the third. It was space opera in all its glory -- unafraid to go for the grand gesture, to take its time to build to climaxes that were genuinely climactic because of it. Unlike on many shows ("Andromeda" for instance), characters didn't fall in love, get betrayed, and learn important life lessons all in the space of 43 minutes. And it wasn't, like so many shows, "something else" in space (Firefly="western in space," Stargate="F-Troop in space" -- yawn). And unlike Wheedon shows (particularly "Buffy") I've sampled, it didn't rely on cheesy pop music for emotional resonance it couldn't drum up on its own. (Though, in fairness to Wheedon, other shows and countless movies do this too. Queue: heartbreak; soundtrack: R.E.M., "Everything Hurts.")
But then in the fourth season it ran out of ideas and began repeating itself, not to mention hitting an all-time low by using the Challenger disaster as a plot device. (To quote Lynne Cheney: "cheap and tawdry.") It makes me wonder if it is even possible to maintain the level of quality Farscape attained over multiple seasons. Maybe this is only because I'm not much of a television viewer, but I find that most TV shows are so mundane because they so often seem to be filling up airtime. A show like Farscape, I think, would be better suited to mini-series events like this one, although longer than four hours would be better. I'm psyched to watch this, and I hope it's good, and if it is, I hope there will be more -- six hours here, eight hours there, whatever the ideas the writers come up with can sustain. That kind of thing could work so much better for a show like Farcape than a "fifth season," I think, which is why, as much as I once liked the show, I could never really get behind a campaign like "Save Farscape."
Michael
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality;..."
But, I can't help wonder if we the fans couldn't get it back - I don't mean on TV ... but try something totally 'of the future' ... where we the fans would finace it, pay 'them' (the artists and matt-of-the-simpsons... etc) to make them, and 'we the project' would take care of the distribution&the.small.payment to get/watch the show. I really do think that there are enough futurama fans around the world to sustain production of futurama ... and even enough that there would be same profits over for 'them'.
Then again, we'd have to *litterally* start doing stuff (setting up a website, wake peoples attention, contact matt&who.ever.else ... etc) ... and not just spew 'idéas' here on slashdot.
I'm in, I mean it, but I think there has to be others as well who'd be interested in helping getting the 'project' to overcome the initial inertia that is associated with such an undertaking :)
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I need to get a job where you're working if that page is only slightly NSFW!
Hell, considering the ads that sometimes appear on Robb's Celebrity OOps I wouldn't be surprised if that page might sometimes be NSFW at the Playboy offices!
Please read: This Thread I'm having with 'geg81' ... all the way to my last comment/reply: 'Global Digital Content Archive/With Variable PayPerView Content' - MultiCasting
That ought to make clear xor clearer a few things, that someone might had been wondering ...
I don't claim I know more than I know, and if you know you know more than I know, then by all means, let me know.
This series was being filmed at the end of last year, and annouced at the begining of this year. The trailer has been out for 2 months, and the series marathon started two weeks ago monday. Good to see the "net" folk are quick to keep up with the times. Anyways it's about time they put it back on the air even if it's only 4 hours. Good to see that Sci-Fi likes to be hypocritical with their standards. "Oh Farscape costs to much. Lets develop tremors the series (failed btw), and pump the money we save from dumping Farscape into that Stargate deal with that MacGuyver guy". Wonderful, dontcha think? I Liked MacGuyver, but Stargate sucks ****. So deal.
I would reccomend that anyone else do the same and send little postcards made from KFC buckets to the following addresses:
If your a vegitarian... get potatos. It's time to get off our ez chairs and do something about this flood of reality TV and make it clear to the sponcers what we want them to support.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
So now all that needs to happen to completely round out season 5 is for SciFi to make 5 of these mini-series, with the 5th one lasting 3 nights instead of 2. That would give us a full 990 minutes, or the equivalent of 22 45-minute episodes.
Unless they wimp out and try to completely wrap up the loose ends in tomorrow's show, which would be a mistake: It's probably going to have the highest ratings of anything SciFi will show for a good long time.
Of course, that sort of depends on when the new SG-1 and Atlantis episodes start back up.
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Sorry, in my half sleeping / almost reading slashdot state I read the tile as Farscape Ruins Sundays.
Matt Roush at TVGuide posted an article about the mini series that made me want to wait for it even more. http://www.tvguide.com/tv/roush/dispatches/
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Ok, if you watch SciFi at all, you're already going to be WELL aware of this. After all, they play atleast 5 commercials for it every hour. If you don't watch SciFi, chances are you aren't going to care.
/. People NEED to be complaining to SciFi about the advertising practices.
So, just out of curiousity, why is there an ad for it here? SciFi has gotten abusive with their advertising, we don't need to reward them with more free advertising on a site like
KFC has released a new Farscape screensaver here
Even if you don't plan on using the screensave, please fill out the form (bogus info if you want) and download it. Increase their download count so they know people are interested in the show. They've already contacted the likes of UPN to say that they would advertise on the network if they picked up Farscape.
So, show them you care, even if you don't. The more money that goes to Farscape, the less that goes to SciFi's sub-B "Original" movies.
I've never watched Farscape, but the trailer looks interesting. How much of a continuation is it? Is it worth it to me to watch it?
- 40 minutes of commercial solicitation
- 5 minutes of station identification
- Leaving 75 minutes of actual action, per night
Which leads me to wish that they'd just gone straight to DVD release.Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
As I stated in an above post:
From Brian Henson's statements:
"Our intention is that new audiences should be able to follow this, but they will have to concentrate hard."
He also says that the miniseries will "bring Farscape to a place in the big story where we could now go in lots of different directions. We could make a movie, we could make a spin-off series, and I hope to do all of those things."
This all depends on the success of the miniseries though, so even if you're new, even if you're a Trekkie, you should still tune in. Give SciFi a reason to stop making the sub-B garbage they're constantly spewing out and stick with what works.
Well to anyone who can stomach watching the Screen Savers Ben Browder was on the other night and talked about the possibility of a motion picture depending on how well this does.