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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!
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.
>In the gritty post-BSG era, can anyone really take Farscape seriously again?
I loved BSG's first and second seasons, but last year was total garbage.
Same thing with Farscape everything going along fine until they blow up Moya and everyone aboard and the next episode everyone is back with no explanation?
Next thing you'll know writers will take an ultimate cop-out and just finish a show with a fade to black.
Moya blew up? What episode are you talking about?
Honestly, I think they sat down after the miniseries and wrote out the whole plot up to Home, Part 2, then just winged it. The quality dropoff after that was marked.
Take Farscape seriously again? Sure. Why not? We took SG-1 seriously when Claudia Black and Ben Browder had a chance to expand their range from their Farscape roles.
But did we ever really take it too seriously. Farscape was the fun side of SF. It still could be.
The only catch is: Will the webisodes be straight canon and storyline or more spinoff snippets. Learn from Star Trek. Spin offs- Just don't do it!
BSG is good, but on the serious-o-meter let's take a look:
Doctor Who-- 'Bout damn time! Hell for all the time it takes to get here, the Brits are probably on another generation. Reasonably serious, for all it's fun. Kinda the template.
SG-1 Atlantis?-- Gettin' good, but it's like they are holding back. This franchise might be limping along. Still miffed they didn't actually close SG-1. Semi-serious. We know they can have fun.
Eureka?-- Still waking out of its seasonal coma. The sad part of this show is when it tries to take itself too seriously.
Painkiller Jane?-- Pthhhbbbtt!
Farscape could also come back with a dramatic venegence. Battlestar has set the bar high again for that.
Let see what we are Waitin' on:
Heroes, BSG-- Oh yeah!
Bionic Woman?-- Eick did well with his part in BSG. But we'll see. meh.
Will Torchwood do anything?-- meh. Spinoffs like this make my feet itch.
B5 Lost episodes?-- meh meh. J.M.S. is a master of storytelling, but we've spun off so much from B5 I'm getting whiplash in a tornado.
Flash Gordon!?-- C'mon. Have people completely forgotten the early 80's? This has the equivalent draw of a fire in the town square.
We have one original thing in Heroes out there. Everything else is remakes and spinoffs.
Then again, is there anything new? If so, I like to know.
It was gritty, but it still had problems, even in the 1st and 2nd seasons. For example, bridge officers commit mutiny, but everything is forgiven and they get their positions back. I think in some ways life on Pegasus was more realistic; maybe a blend of the two would have been better TV.
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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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).
Hm. The parent most likely saw episodes out-of-sequence, or is confusing Moya with Elack.
;)
Elack is the ship that rescued a stranded Crichton at the beginning of season 4. She had retreated to her sacred burial ground to die. Fast-forward a few episodes. Elack crashes on a planet (incidently, on a set of landed peacekeeper marauders) to help our heroes escape.
Hope this makes sense
Flash Gordon!?-- C'mon. Have people completely forgotten the early 80's?
-- Don't forget the soundtrack by Queen
Torchwood season 1 is rather entertaining...more serious than Dr. Who, and definately more adult. If you're looking for more of Dr. Who, this ISNT the show to watch. My daughters and I watch Dr. Who religiously, but this is more CSI meets X-files with the Dr. Who history. Good references to previous Dr. Who history...this is the same universe (Um...Universe1, not Universe2...you know what I mean). Interesting to see what they can get away with in the UK, I bet the best parts will be left out once it comes across the pond. Torrents FTW!
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.
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.
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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Not sure what you'd need to cut out... the gay references? That's just RTD's writing style - the new series of Dr.Who has a few too. The problem is if you cut those out several episodes of Torchwood wouldn't make sense at all (not that some of them made a lot of sense to start with...).
Oh and it's properly called the Whoniverse.
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.
>>You do realize that the entire theme of BSG is forgiveness, right? I would have thought that by the end of season 3 (what, with the whole court case against Baltar, and the relatively obvious course of the upcoming season 4) that this theme would have been readily apparent to everyone by now. :(
I'm saying that it is a flaw to my enjoyment, and it would be better without it (for me). It comes across as another TV cliche where actions have no consequences as long as you are a main character. The only difference is that at least BSG does not always require the obligatory "save everybody's ass and all sins are forgiven" cop-out used in most other shows (though I believe it has been employed at times).
Like I said, I thought a cross of Pegasus and Galactica philosophy would be better TV. AND more "gritty" like everybody and their fuckin brother claim the show is. Throwing a main character out the airlock is more gritty than forgiving them and pretending it never happened and giving them their position and responsibility back.
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"We have one original thing in Heroes out there."
I have to disagree with this. It might be original for a TV show, but the characters and storylines are all far too similar to many comic books, to the point where entire arcs come off as nothing but thinly disguised ripoffs (days of future past from the xmen, most notably).
I'm glad to see that genre being taken on in a serious manner by the TV networks, but it really can't be called original any more than yet another adaptation of the Odyssey can be called original.
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.
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.
Sounds about right. That, or there was the Leviathan with the degenerate PKs and the crazy genius with the twinning-device and a taste for brain juice. Crichton definitely blew that one up. (Crichton blew up damn near everything he touched, it sometimes seemed. Mike Nelson, eat your heart out!) Or the grandparent could be referring to Talyn's sacrifice.