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Farscape (Kinda) Returns
westlake writes "In a weekend press tour, Sci Fi announced that Farscape would be resurrected on-line in ten short webisodes to be produced by the Jim Henson Company. There are hints that Ben Browder and Claudia Black will both be both "available." Browder has another project to keep him occupied, at least part of the time: Sci Fi also announced that it had picked up Going Homer, a miniseries he developed with "Farscape" director Andrew Prowse. Greek and Roman deities walk among us, but only 12 year old Homer Ulysses Jones can see them for what they truly are. When Homer and his father are forced to flee a custody battle that would likely separate them, they journey from Los Angeles to the home of their ancestors — in Ithaca, N.Y."
They can use that time to explain how/why they edited a season of story down to a couple hectic hours.
what they meant when they said "to be continued"....
Farscape's super-long story arcs meant you had to be watching from the start, or at least for a very long time, if you wanted to understand what was going on. I fear this doomed it in the end, as people weren't able to just channel surf and get into it.
I wish they'd bring back the show, but I guess this will do.
It's gonna be filmed with Muppets? Talk about chintsing on the budget!
In the gritty post-BSG era, can anyone really take Farscape seriously again?
Ugh... I hate webisodes. Please don't ruin Farscape. Anything less than 30 minutes is simply not enough to develop even the most trivial story, not to talk about the time our brain requires to adapt itself when one starts watching a show.
Make it as a 3 part 45 minutes regular TV episodes and it won't suck like a webisode miniseries certainly will.
I'd rather have my SG-1 back. SG-1, Eureka, and recently Dead Like Me are the only things I've managed to like on SciFi. Farscape was always far too silly for me (pun unintended).
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Why do I have this ghastly, ghastly feeling that this will do for Farscape, what "Crusade" and "Legend of the Rangers" did for Babylon5.
I feel a grave disturbance in the.......
*sigh*.
Am I alone in saying bring back Firefly, bring back Farscape - but do it with the same creative team and format or just let them well alone.
Oh, please, just don't.
It doesn't matter how you broadcast it, an episode is an episode.
Sometimes there are good reasons for making some words more specific...this is not one of those times. Abusing our language like that is an atrocity.
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You don't t-off the viewership by killing off the main characters unceremoniously just to get back at the network, and then come back wanting to have it the other way.
I'll be skipping any future Farscape material. If I need a dose of Sci-Fi I've got The Lost Tales to look forward to.
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I wonder if they're actually going to film the series in Ithaca. I went to college there and always thought it'd be a cool location for a movie/TV show/etc. (During the summer, at least. In the winter, it's a post-apocalyptic nuclear-winter hellscape.)
Plus, having the recording crew in town would give the city some impetus to get its act together and finish up the construction projects that have closed 3/4 of the streets, so the local populace would love it.
Plus, there'd be tons of film students at Ithaca College who would jump at the chance to work on the show, so there'd be no shortage of crew members, extras, and so forth.
I, for one, look forward to watching it when it comes out.
LEXX was 3x the show Farscape was in its total creativity and vision - and on a slice of the budget and NO DAMN MUPPETS!
;) Oh, that and the undead nihilist super-soldier quasi-protagonist.
Yeah, but it had that Dr. Who-wannabe Canadian feel to it.
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LEXX had boobies, so 'nuff said.. :)
I've heard sanctioned web star trek web-only episodes too from two of the former actors at scifi conventions. (There lots of unsanctioned stuff on the web now).
LEXX was pretty bullshit and juvenile. It's like it was made for retarded 13 year-olds. Constant adolescent sex jokes, space ships shaped like genitalia, etc. It shouldn't be considered to be part of the same genre at Farscape, Dr. Who, or BSG.
BINGO. Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself. It had some cool aspects, and who doesn't love some good T and A, but I don't watch sci-fi for that. Well...not mainly anyway. T and A like when Rodney was sinking in the jumper and Carter showed up sans blouse. Thats what I like. Not the crap that LEXX was.
My issue with the series is the price and format of the seasons on DVD. It is more expensive than Star Trek, which is saying something, and also grouped in a strange format (half seasons). I really want to support the series by buying the DVDs, but not at the prices I see in my local DVD store. For me SG1 is an example of a TV series using an easy to understand format and approachable pricing.
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Jumpstart the tartan drive.
no surprise a moron like you missed the use of Nietszche's "Eternal Recurrance" and other extremely high brow concepts in LEXX... dumbass.
If the Farscape movie didn't suck so hard. Let's face it, Farscape was one of the best sci-fi series ever made, but it ran its course - it's done.
Also, "Homer Ulysses"? Whaa?
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Chiana. 'Nuff said.
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It's like it was made for retarded 13 year-olds.
:)
Wow. You nailed it precisely. Thread over.
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Chiana. 'Nuff said.
Half of the content on the Internet. 'Nuff said.
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Unfortunately, the Starburst edition DVDs are now out of print as well. If you run across a 1.2 Starburst set, let me know, my wife wants it BAD. Existing stock is all that's left for most of the DVDs.
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no surprise a nitwit like you missed the use of Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence" and other extremely high brow concepts in LEXX... dumbass.
The sci-fi television series Lexx makes frequent references to this concept, and it is a relatively important plot point throughout most of the early and mid-series, including the concept of "cycles of time", and the line, "time begins, and then time ends, and then time begins once again."
Greek and Roman deities walk among us, but only 12 year old Homer Ulysses Jones can see
... The Lightning Thief
first thing I thought of
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
i think i just peed my pants
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch.
Nietzsche was a whiny mamma's boy and I grew out of his adolescent willful wish fulfillment crap when I graduated high school. Lexx was brain dead trash. Extremely high brow concepts?
Its got like the real important stuff and junk int it! The Lexx Rulz!
Moron.
Ignorance of philosophy is paramount evidence of who is the idiot in this case.
you = FAIL.
Look, if you're going to berate someone for being an idiot, at least try to make yourself look a little more intelligent by spelling "recurrence" correctly, and using some basic capitalization and punctuation. Bonus points if you can tell the difference between stupidity and ignorance, since the issue you're taking task with could just as easily be ascribed to ignorance as to stupidity. (Since you don't know which is the case, it's kind of rude to assume the worst case about someone you've probably never met and know nothing about.)
Oh, also, Nietzsche (note the spelling) didn't invent the concept of Eternal Recurrence. It's a pretty old concept.
LEXX was just cheesy and terrible even the Star Trek original series was a hell of a lot more convincing.
Farscape was put together quite intelligently though the problem was it used really poor special effects. They tried to make it out too be the next best thing after sliced bread with those makings of Farscape and the interviews of the cast and crew but to be totally honest they didn't convince me one iota that Rygel looked nothing more then a sock puppet with eyebrows.
Nietzsche sucks! His ideas are simplistic by today's standards, and lack mathematical rigor
You = Worshipper of sucks
Redeem yourself --- read some Wittgenstein.
That's nice... now give me back my Firefly already, please.
No, seriously. I've watched all of Farscape, including the crappy movie. About 3/4ths of the first season, half of the second season, and a third of the third season were worth watching, by my rather rough estimate. The series had promise, I'll grant that, and it even lived up to it... for a bit. But I would assume any new Farscape, which would presumably take place starting where the series previously ended, would suck just as much as the last couple seasons + tv movie did, which is to say, rather a lot. It was like Bab5 in reverse - Bab5 started out horrifically cheesy and dumb, and gradually got more complex and believable and awesome. FS, on the other hand, started out pretty believable and awesome, and got more and more cheesy and stupid. By the end, it was pretty painful, and I had to force myself to keep watching out of a stubborn desire to know how it ended.
Mathematics is totally irrelevant to Nietzsche, and almost totally irrelevant to philosophy in general. You haven't read any of it, little poseur boy.