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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Crazy_Ivan80 on November 14, 2003, 03:31:17 pm
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from another forum:
"As revealed in TV Guide, AICN, SaveFarscape.com et alia...
Sets have been rebuilt and time in the studio has been purchased for the next several months to film 'at least' several more episodes of the show. This was confirmed by cast member Raelee Hill. There was a big press conference scheduled for today, but it was postponed until early next week, so no details on how, where, when, what, or by whom. Still... the news is unmistakeable. Farscape Isn't Dead, it was just sleeping.
There's no smily to give my true feelings right now. "
yay
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Whoa... I guess sometimes they do listen to the fans. :yes:
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Even though I've never seen the series, I've heard of it's goodness, and the royal ending screwup, and knowing that any series that has an episode titled "We're so screwed, Part I" has got to be good, I salute them!
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OMG OMG OMGO MGOM GOMG YAYAYAYAYY THIS IS AWESOME
STU YOU HAVENT SEEN FARSCAPE?!?!?!?!? its like ALLMOST AS GOOD AS B5 IT KICKS ASS and anyone who screwed the show in first place - FRELLL YOU YOU DREN EATER
arrrrrryayayyayayayay
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hard to see shows that doesn't air where you live, so I for one haven't seen it.
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[color=66ff00]YES!
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What happened to the ending that was so bad?
BTW, I got tired of this halfway into the series:
1) "Has John Crighton finally found Earth?"
2) "No"
1) "Has John Crighton finally found Earth?"
2)"No"
1) "Hello."
2) "Hi"
1) "Has John Crighton finally found Earth?"
2) "Damnit!"
Anyways, it was a good series, just got into the repetitive storline cycle (TM)
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I always said Farscape would be back. Jim Henson productions said that it was their flagship product so I doubted they'd let it just die. They said they were looking to make a movie but I'm even more glad if they decide to make a series because it will mean they don't have to cut the originality just to allow a wider audience to understand it despite never having seen any of the episodes.
For those who haven't seen Farscape it is yet another sci-fi series that doesn't press the reset button at the end of every episode. In fact it sometimes goes further than B5 and Stargate in this respect. For instance in one episode the main character gets cloned. While most series would have killed him off by the end of the episode Farscape kept them both around for half a series!
UT you should have kept watching. He found Earth and then found out that simply finding Earth wasn't enough. Besides if you found Farscape repeatative you must have dispised voyager (are we there yet!) Andromeda (have we restored the commonwealth yet!) B5 (have we defeated the ancient evil that is slowly building it's force up again after a thousend years yet!) and just about every single other Sci-fi series.
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I just got tired of Farscape, because line #1 was in almost half the previews. But the characters were ok, the action was ok, and when the thing got it's storyline going, they were great. And what do you mean he found Earth, but it wasn't enough?
B5 had a bunch of good character interaction, to balance out the mix of repetitive storylines (which were different enough to warrant watching, as well).
Voyager: Meh, it was ok. I only saw a couple episodes with it's run on UPN, so I never saw the repetetiveness.
Andromeda: I thought that was actually pretty good! I came in late to the series, when everything was happening, so I didn't have to watch the repetetiveness.
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Farscape......OWNZ!!!! and Chryton DID get back to Terra Firma but he left it and colapsed the wormhole so the peacekeepers wouldnt capture earth and they landed on some planet to make repairs and then some alien dudes came a ballified jhon and erin
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"a ballified jhon and erin"
:confused:
What?
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didnt you see the final episode?
Chriton and Aaeryn (or how the **** ever its spelled) got shot from some cannon and the turned into millions of little balls
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[color=66ff00]Farscape is simply the most engaging show I've seen in years. The attention to detail was staggering and the characters were 'people' not just 2 dimensional cliches.
Very refereshing. :nod:
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The best scifi series since B5 returns. This is proof there is a God. :D
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Maybe they'll one day listen to the Galactica fans......yeah right, as if THAT's going to happen.....:doubt:
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Originally posted by Ashrak
didnt you see the final episode?
I don't think he's seen beyond the first or second series, else he wouldn't have thought that all four series were all about Crichton trying to get home. 'A Human Reaction' sets in place an entirely new storyline that eventually completely takes precedence over John's intergalactic whereabouts, 'round about end of season two. Same with 'Nerve', really.
Anyway, throwing around spoilers is a real bad thing for something like Farscape. Those are deep plot revelations, man. Subtlety is your friend.
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The thing with Farscape is that even if someone tells you exactly what's going on, you still have no idea.
You really have to have watched from like 10 episodes previous to understand the concepts. Like if you skipped a few of the wrong eps you could be like "I like Zahn....uh, where'd she go? And who's that guy with the mask, and why is Scorpius inside Crichton's head? And why is there a Leviathan with a gun?".
But if you watch them all (or at least the majority of them) there are lots of nice little things that make it better.
And I still think Wolf In Sheeps Clothing (I think) was fecking awesome. With Talyn and the starburst and the explosions and the "No, John. I don't think I'll be leaving the ship, even though it's exploding around me. See ya".
As for Andromeda, sure it sucked for continuity (and it REALLY did; They had Rommie crying about the destruction of the Balance of Judgement and saying "I don't wanna end up like the Pax Magallenic" a full season before they found the Pax (unless I just got a crappy showing order)). But the last ep of season 3 (I think), with Tyr basically taking over the galaxy, was pretty damn cool.
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This is excellent news, but I have to say Stargate: SG-1 is still better than Farscape. Farscape was getting pretty repetitively gimmicky toward the end. I lost track of how many times a member of the crew got duplicated in some way or another.
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SG-1, StarGate, B5, I've watched quite a bit of. Farscape is definately different and more off the wall than the other two. I like all three for diferent reasons.
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all sci fi series suck, including Farscape...
well... at least it wasnt as uptight or cheezy as any of the Star Treks... i did watch it occasianly when i was bored; it wasnt that gret :doubt:
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BLASPHEMER!!!!!
Firstly: Stargate kicks more ass than any other program, with the exception of Spooks.
Secondly: Farscape kicked ass but lacked a place to go with plots. If they do something interesting like kick it forwards a few years, give Earth some basic technology and set it during the Scarran-Peacekeeper war it'd be feckin awesome.
Thirdly: .....eerr........Carry on.
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Originally posted by Drew
all sci fi series suck, including Farscape...
well... at least it wasnt as uptight or cheezy as any of the Star Treks... i did watch it occasianly when i was bored; it wasnt that gret :doubt:
if you hate Sci-Fi so much, why are you here then?...:doubt:
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Originally posted by Turnsky
if you hate Sci-Fi so much, why are you here then?...:doubt:
ummm...........
Originally posted by Drew
all sci fi series suck
There is a big difference between a tv series and Fs2
:ha:
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fs1, fs2, that seems like a series to me
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Originally posted by Drew
There is a big difference between a tv series and Fs2
:ha:
actually... no there isn't... the fact that freespace is interactive as far as being a space flight sim doesn't cover it, it's storyline, technology, etc... all have thier fundamentals in science fiction..
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Right, then, I'm going on KaZaA rampage for Farscape episodes now. From what I've read I can expect near-B5 quality. Itbetter not fail me *loves B5 more than sliced bread*
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Originally posted by Drew
all sci fi series suck
I'm sure we'd all love to hear what kind of series you think don't suck.
Or what kinds of sci fi you think don't suck.
I'm sure the response will be amusing.
Originally posted by Stunaep
Right, then, I'm going on KaZaA rampage for Farscape episodes now. From what I've read I can expect near-B5 quality. Itbetter not fail me
I dunno... the characters on Farscape actually act, unlike B5 where it was like, "Look at me, I'm ACTING!". So you may be disappointed.
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EXCELLENT!
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I dunno... the characters on Farscape actually act, unlike B5 where it was like, "Look at me, I'm ACTING!". So you may be disappointed.
Actually, that's a damn-good point.
All the Farscape characters are very unique and stick to their motivation, unlike B5 which just ended up with everyone being the same but with ideals on a slightly different scale and using grandios language and emphatic gestures.
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This r0x0rs!!!!!!!1111111
*pulls out "Pilot is my idol" pin and reattaches to lapel*
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Any idea what time they are going to be showing it yet?
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No idea but if we're lucky BBC2 will pick it up again and we brits will get to see the end before anyone else again :D
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I dunno... the characters on Farscape actually act, unlike B5 where it was like, "Look at me, I'm ACTING!". So you may be disappointed.
Well, I guess that B5 being the only thing in any form of motion pictures that has actually made me cry, I think I don't really care what you say.
And look at a certain scene in The Long Twilight Struggle, and tell me they can't act. I dare you.
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DC++ is better for getting farscape eps :)
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Originally posted by Stunaep
And look at a certain scene in The Long Twilight Struggle, and tell me they can't act. I dare you.
You mean, "IT'S TOO LATE!" ?
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Which one's that?
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That would be the scene where Londo is standing on a Centauri warship, looking at the Narn homeworld being bombed.
Alternatively, look at pretty much every episode Wayne Alexander's in. He shines. Or Intersections in Real Time. Shows pretty much that even Boxleitner can act.
Actuallty, the only actor that really felt lacking (for me) in B5 was Ivanova. The text was well written, but the delivery was often... not good. And Boxleitner was shabby on certain episodes in the second season. Up until in The Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum.
And I really, REALLY like Michael O'Hare.
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HOW ABOUT A Farscape Campaign in FS2
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Can't everyone get along? B5 and Farscape I LOVE, and I love DS9 and Stargate to boot. Geez, not many open minds here, eh, just stubborness.
Fozzy, nice idea. Peacekeeper Prawlers, Command Carrier, Moya, Moya Transport, Scarren Fighter & Carrier are the only ones coming to mind right now..
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Vigilante; Scarren Dreadnaught; lo'laan ; Pathfinder wormhole ship; Shuttlepod; Nebari pod; Peacekeeper marauder; Sheyang pod; Tavlec: zenetan pirate fighter:
and last but not least TALYN
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Originally posted by Stunaep
That would be the scene where Londo is standing on a Centauri warship, looking at the Narn homeworld being bombed.
Oh yeah, there was quite a bit of talk about that scene when it first aired.
Just goes to show that JMS's stagey, over-the-top writing simply wasn't a good fit for a TV show, and that the result was much better when he dialed back the histrionics and just let the actors act.
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Okay, people; Two things:
One: If you can organise a Farscape mod, I'd be more than happy to host it.
Two: I think it's about time we started guessing as to how they're gonna un-kill Crichton and Aeryn.
My guess is they'll do it the easy way and just have the beads not being them. Make up some technobabble about how the thing used to transport all their organic tissue up to the scout-ship requires an equal amount of matter to be exchanged between the source and destination and how the beads are just that funny alien's crap.
Or maybe it'll just fly over the boat and magnet up all the bits.
And there's always the REALLY, REALLY overly complicated way of doing it: Using the "unrealized reality" thing.
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Or they'll just do it the commercial cash-in way, and ignore inconvenient plot problems like those altogether. It wouldn't be surprising, given the nature of the ressurection- they had obviously intended for the show's ending to be final the first time around, and could easily have just started up a new show of the same quality. But why do that when you can be lazy and make some lackluster knockoffs of an already well-known title?
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You do realize that that wasn't supposed to be the final episode of Farscape, yes? The plug was pulled on Farscape far too unexpectedly for them to put together a "final" final episode. The one with them being marbelized just happened to be the last one in the can. So I'm sure they already had the resolution scripted.
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Well, I have been known to be wrong on occasion. Just for kicks, you understand.
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That really sucked when they cancelled it.
There was kinda a period of like 4-5 months where all sci-fi series' were being cancelled left and right. AFAIK only Stargate and Enterprise (and to a lesser extent Andromeda, but that's tied to Enterprise, it being a Roddenberry creation) survived the cull.
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At the time Farscape was Sci-fi's second highest rated show too. Only Stargate got more viewers so they can't claim they pulled it cause it was unpopular.
As ZB says Farscape was pulled so quickly that they didn't have time to do anything about it. That episode had already been filmed and they were all ready to film the second half when they got told that they'd been cancelled.
In the final episode the fighters pilot claims that he is "sampling" John and Aeryn so whatever he was doing is probably not something that killed them (thus making it easy to bring them back)