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."

Comments

Foxtrot

[Patik]

Interestingly enough, I first learned of this when I read this morning's Foxtrot comic.

Re:Foxtrot

[vasqzr]

Oddly enough, aren't comics drawn at least 1 month in advance?

Re:Foxtrot

[tuffy]

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.

hmm..

[hookedup]

family guy... farscape..let's see if we can get full house back on the air..

Crackers DO matter!

[loggia]

If you mod this down, obviously you are NOT a Farscape fan!

The Second Episode...

[Myrmi]

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.

Re:First of two???

[Zocalo]

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.

Re:This is good news, but I would prefer Firefly

[doormat]

I pity the foo' whos a [cursing in mandarin chinese]

Futurama!

[antdude]

I want Futurama back! :(

Re:This is good news, but I would prefer Firefly

[Chuckaluphagus]

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.

Direct File Link

[juggy]

for non-plugin-users...: http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/farscap e/farscape-peacekeeper_m480.mov/

About time too..

[Linker3000]

I lent them that Sunday ages ago

Re:How are they going to handle...

[brian0918]

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).

Muppets 0, Farscape 1 (slightly NSFW)

[Linker3000]

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

Re:Get It Over With

[vsprintf]

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

[zakezuke]

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.

Re:Sponcered by KFC

[zakezuke]

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.