Farscape Returns Sunday

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Posted by michael on Saturday October 16, 2004 @04:07AM from the sit-and-vegetate dept.

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."

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Foxtrot by Patik · 2004-10-16 04:08 · Score: 4, Interesting

Interestingly enough, I first learned of this when I read this morning's Foxtrot comic.
1. Re:Foxtrot by vasqzr · 2004-10-16 04:32 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Oddly enough, aren't comics drawn at least 1 month in advance?
2. Re:Foxtrot by tuffy · 2004-10-16 05:11 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Oddly enough, aren't comics drawn at least 1 month in advance?
  
  Typically yes. But it's been known for awhile when the new Farscape miniseries would air, so it'd be easy to draw that particular one well in advance. It's just like doing theme comics meant to run on holidays and so forth.
  
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3. Re:Foxtrot by PreDefined · 2004-10-16 07:15 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  If you look at his FAQ:
  How far in advance do I draw my strips?
  Not very, unfortunately. I tend to procrastinate more than I should, so I often turn my strips in to my syndicate roughly two weeks before they run in newspapers. My syndicate would prefer it if I had a lead time of four to six weeks. Because color must be added, my Sunday strips get turned in six or seven weeks in advance.
  http://homepage.mac.com/billamend/faq.html
hmm.. by hookedup · 2004-10-16 04:10 · Score: 5, Funny

family guy... farscape..let's see if we can get full house back on the air..
1. Re:hmm.. by Capt.+Murphy · 2004-10-16 06:40 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Firefly is going to be a motion picture now. Called "Serenity" with possible sequels depending on how well it does.
This is good news, but I would prefer Firefly by Pacifix · 2004-10-16 04:13 · Score: 2, Funny

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?).
1. Re:This is good news, but I would prefer Firefly by doormat · 2004-10-16 04:22 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I pity the foo' whos a [cursing in mandarin chinese]
  
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2. Re:This is good news, but I would prefer Firefly by Chuckaluphagus · 2004-10-16 04:38 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  See, I'll disagree with you on that: I think the show started off a little slow (not bad, just getting up to speed), and got better the further it went along. My favorite season was the third, but the fourth was still excellent. I'm a big fan of shows that have serial storylines, as opposed to being more episodic, and Farscape started off episodic and became more serial the longer it went on.
3. Re:This is good news, but I would prefer Firefly by AlphaJoe · 2004-10-16 05:33 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  What you want is Star Trek? I mean seriously anyone who thinks that any sci-fi television show (or possibly any TV show) is going to create as much success as Star Trek needs to get their head examined.
  
  What the hell are you talking about? Who said anything about Star Trek? You are ripping on someone for something that was never said. Maybe you should take off the Klingon makeup and read the post again F I R E F L Y....one of the most innnovative sci-fi series in a while.
  
  Sheez.....You are as bad as the people who bash the new star wars movies because it is the hip thing to do...you make yourself look the fool...
  
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Crackers DO matter! by loggia · 2004-10-16 04:14 · Score: 3, Funny

If you mod this down, obviously you are NOT a Farscape fan!
different circumstances by _defiant_ · 2004-10-16 04:14 · Score: 2, Informative

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)
1. Re:different circumstances by Drakino · 2004-10-16 06:20 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Babylon 5 almost did get cancelled early. There was enough information before the 4th season started that a fifth might not occur that JMS scrunched the plans for 4 and 5 togther. The Shadow war should have been all of season 4, and the fight towards Earth as the 5th season. This is why the Shadow War seems to end oddly, he rushed it to get more of the season dedicated to the more human aspect.
  
  TNT bought the rights for the show and gave life to the 5th season and the movies. JMS came up with a season wrapped around the stuff he has created after Earth was retaken. He also went to start a new series, Crusade, but TNT botched that to hell and both parties mutually ended it. TNT wouldn't even air the episodes in the proper order.
  
  JMS tried again with SciFi with The Legend of the Rangers. All of it had been planned out and an air date set. Then 9/11/01 occured, delaying the NFL season. This pushed a critical post game show onto the timespot of the new series movie, and SciFi refused to move it. Due to people watching the game, the show didn't get the raitings SciFi wanted to continue it on as a series. Even though on the west coast where it didn't compete with the game it rated higher then most of SciFi's other shows.
The Second Episode... by Myrmi · 2004-10-16 04:18 · Score: 5, Informative

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.

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1. Re:The Second Episode... by Myrmi · 2004-10-16 07:53 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Yes, but each part lasts two hours.
  
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Re:First of two??? by Zocalo · 2004-10-16 04:22 · Score: 4, Informative

I thought this was planned to be a four episode mini-series.
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.

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Futurama! by antdude · 2004-10-16 04:36 · Score: 4, Insightful

I want Futurama back! :(

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You don't necessarily need to catch up... by brian0918 · 2004-10-16 04:49 · Score: 2, Informative

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.
Direct File Link by juggy · 2004-10-16 04:49 · Score: 3, Informative

for non-plugin-users...: http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/farscap e/farscape-peacekeeper_m480.mov/
Re:Chiana's Eyes - new contacts? by brian0918 · 2004-10-16 04:53 · Score: 2, Informative

My guess is that she's blind, or had to have new eyes put in. Watch the last episode of Farscape.
About time too.. by Linker3000 · 2004-10-16 05:00 · Score: 3, Funny

I lent them that Sunday ages ago

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Re:UK TV?? by brian0918 · 2004-10-16 05:09 · Score: 2, Informative

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.
How are they going to handle... by anotherone · 2004-10-16 05:09 · Score: 2

At the end of the very last episode, (and don't read any further if you haven't seen it already)
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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1. Re:How are they going to handle... by brian0918 · 2004-10-16 05:14 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  I don't think they've ever done a "this is all a dream" type of episode. Several of them came close, but at the end it turns out to be part of the plot, and important.
  
  SPOILERS:
  
  My guess is either they were cloned at some point, or those laser blasters teleported them somewhere and left fake shells behind to be destroyed, so that everyone will think they're dead. It's also possible that the John and Aeryn you see at the end of the episode are actually those robotic replacements we've seen before (Aeryn, Stark).
2. Re:How are they going to handle... by the+gnat · 2004-10-16 09:21 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  One preview I read that had access to a few select scenes (shown at a geek convention, maybe) showed some clips, one of which is John and Aeryn apparently just having been re-assembled. First thing John asks D'Argo is "How long were we out?" You can also find still frames that show the same weird aliens whose faces come apart.
  
  There's nothing particularly significant about the supposed "death" at the end of the 4th season; they killed Aeryn in season 2 too, remember? (Of course, they killed off other main characters who didn't come back, which is part of what makes the series cool, but the season ender was meant to be a cliffhanger.)
Muppets 0, Farscape 1 (slightly NSFW) by Linker3000 · 2004-10-16 05:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Sorry but the Muppets haven't got anything to compare with This!

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Re:Get It Over With by vsprintf · 2004-10-16 06:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

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.
Sponcered by KFC by zakezuke · 2004-10-16 07:08 · Score: 4, Informative

This is going to be the only time in my life that I'm ever going to buy a product based on what they sponcer. I have full plans on sunday to buy a bucket of chicken, cut it into post cards, and send a note to KFC thanking them for sponcering the mini series. This isn't my idea but never the less it's a good one.

I would reccomend that anyone else do the same and send little postcards made from KFC buckets to the following addresses:

Melanie Dyer
Associate Media Manager
Kentucky Fried Chicken
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213

John Gilbert
Chief Marketing Officer
Kentucky Fried Chicken
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213

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.

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1. Re:Sponcered by KFC by zakezuke · 2004-10-16 13:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  A couple KFCs in my city have been busted for cooking and selling green chicken to customers. Ick. No Thanks.
  
  Then by all means go buy anything, go in ask for a lid. Cut lid to the correct size and write in polite terms, "While I did not buy your product due to recently sited health code violations, I would like to take this time to say thank you for sponsoring Farscape". Or heck, pay the extra 12cents or so and mail them the lid.
  
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Re:Chiana's Eyes - new contacts? by gerddie · 2004-10-16 09:43 · Score: 2, Informative

Look here, no torrent but better quality ;-)
Farscape Screensaver by brian0918 · 2004-10-16 11:02 · Score: 2, Informative

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.