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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 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!
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.
I don't know whether that's how it was shot or not, but it's being aired as two double length episodes of about 90 minutes each instead of four regular episodes.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
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.
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I want Futurama back! :(
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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/
With B5 being complete, the entire 5 season series is availalbe in 5 box set DVDs. ($65 ea if you look around, much cheaper than Farscape's DVDs) I'm waiting for some of the B5 movies to hit the stores. (not sure how many of them there were?)
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
He was supposed to be on Fox News as well, according to watchfarscape.com but they only ended up showing a plug for the new miniseries. Apparently, he was on the Late Late Show yesterday, though I missed it.
I lent them that Sunday ages ago
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From SciFi UK's website, it doesn't look like they'll be playing the Farscape miniseries. Another brilliant move on their part. They obviously needed the money to finish up their next masterpiece, Avalanche: Nature Unleashed In the Form of a Steaming Pile of Shit.
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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In other news, Space Soldier seriously thinks he's gonna get a free ipod outta that bullshit scam.
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!
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would it kill to mention where? the world != US, UK, etc the internet == world, tv != world.
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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 :)
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.
The BBC is currently reviewing a tape. Based on the results it will be announced if and when the mini will be shown.
If you look in China or Hong Kong, $10 per series. Excellent quality. Now I've just got to find 100 hours to watch them.
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 ...
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I think they're both on hiatus until January, though I could be wrong.
I like the new show 'Lost' quite a bit, plus the Sigfried & Roy bits of 'Father of the Pride' are freaking brilliant at times (especially the 7-11 episode).
"I want the 'Ahh'!"
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.
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.
Well, if you'd actually watched it, you'd know that John was avoiding Aeryn because Scorpi was watching them, and John didn't want Scorpi to be able to use Aeryn and the coming baby as leverage against him. All scifi series are space soap operas. Farscape was the most innovative scifi around. Unfortunately, the TV channels, and most viewers, just want yet another Star Trek with a different cast.
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.
That is good to know. I heard the commercial saying it was two episodes, and wondered how much they could do in two hours minus commercials. It sounds like you mean four hours minus commercials, or three hours.
I started watching Farscape recently. My wife has been watching it ever since we got married, and being a bored housewife, started channel surfing while I was at work. She has seen most of the episodes and is a fan (but not one of those scary fans that goes to conventions dressed up with Spock ears). Of course I started watching it as something [else] to do while sitting on the couch with her, and was intrigued. For being a relatively low budget production with actors I had never heard of before, it was very well done. I was sucked in, watching it whenever it was on and I was home, but I watched them all out of order. This made it difficult to follow.
I know the episodes are out on DVD, and I am very interested in buying them. Maybe someone can help me. I see that Farscape is letterboxed, which leads me to believe it is filmed in 16:9 high definition. I know CSI is filmed that way, so it is not unreasonable to think Farscape is too. I have a 16:9 HDTV and Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS sound system, will the Farscape DVDs take advantage of my home theater? Are they filmed in high definition? According to Best Buy there are a few DVDs. It looks like each season has six volumes, but then there are other DVDs labeled "Farscape 1" or "Farscape 2." What does this mean? As a Farscape newbie, could someone please explain this to me? Which ones do I need to buy?
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
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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I have to agree about the commercials on SciFi. Don't they realize that people get sick of seeing the same thing repeatedly, over months? I've been working out of town, and haven't watched much lately, but I remember reaching the point where I was sickened at the idea of watching something that had been advertised infinity-squared times. I'd change the station, turn off the TV, anything to stop the assault. I remember seeing the initial advertisement for the Farscape miniseries (Yeah!), then seeing that it was going to be some MONTHs away. Forget it, I can't maintain my anticipation that long.
Just tease me, don't send a giant to tackle me.
My guess is that SciFi has determined that most of their audience doesn't spend most of the day watching only SciFi. People probably tune in for something they want to watch (such as Pythons 2, or the masterpiece Avalanche: Unleashed) then turn it off when the other garbage (Stargate, Farscape) is on. So, they're just trying to pull in everyone they can.
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.
Frighteningly enough, you just described the watching habits of every idiot with a Neilson box. :)
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The B5 movies are available in a box set. I'm staring at the box set atm.
I looked at Best Buy (the store, not the web site) after posting my previous message. It looks like I can buy individual DVDs with two or three episodes in 16:9, or boxed sets in 4:3 but for less money per season. Sigh. I need widescreen. Hopefully there is another boxed set I can buy in 16:9. The good news is both versions have Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
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.
The first 3 seasons were shot in 4:3, only the 4th season was shot in 16:9. You have a choice of buying boxed seasons, or individual collections of consecutive episodes. The individual collections were released first; the boxed season sets are relatively new. :)
I checked reel.com and didn't see it - they usually have the latest B5 things - what's the title of your box set? I've got seasons 1-5 but haven't seen any movies anywhere...
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I think SG1 should have ended last season. The current eps are just kind.. there. The big fight at the end was a perfect ending point to the series. As for Atlantis, it's also just blah. Also the bigbads from that show kind of suck.. mostly because the concept of 'life force' is lame.
Babylon 5 - The Movie Collection
Amazon has it for $45. I picked it up for a few bucks more at Costco (club store with rotating merchandise and food in team-sized portions). Controlling impulses has never been one of my strong points.
And to keep vaguely on the Farscape topic, where might be a good summary of events in the Farscape universe? I've seen many detailed episode guides, but do not need to read the nitty gritty on each for the next two hours.
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