[Bobboau]

for thouse who have just seen it, nothing more needs to be said.

and I was just starting to get into it too

[Turnsky]

as it is an australian production, showing of it here has been sporadic at best (Tv execs are truly insane over here must be from the interplay school of business and screwing-up)

[Slasher]

Heil Vivendi.  They're a wonderful lot of cancel-happy people.  Interpreting ratings and similar statistical data is not their field of expertise.

[Bobboau]

if that was the last episode why didn't they just cut the last five seconds off?
at least get rid of the to be continued thing,
nahrg! I never should have started watching it damnit!

wait a sec Vivendi owns SciFi?
now I do hate them

[Stryke 9]

Wasn't Farscape canceled, like, a year or so ago?

Am I missing something here?

[Bobboau]

something like that, they canceled just as they were doing the 'last' episode, it was just now aired,
I realy wasn't that big a fan, just a casual viewer more interested in SG1 (wich had a great season finale), watching Farscape becase I had nothing better to do, I was put off by the muppetnes of many of the charicters, but you know after watching a few episodes it grew on me I was just starting to get realy interested in it and, and, that ending

[Stryke 9]

By the way, what is it with the "muppet" thing all of a sudden? Half a dozen different sites and boards I go to, people seem to be using it all the time now.

Me, I can't see how it can even pretend to compete with such tried-and-true classics as "cockmonger" "****tard" and just plain old "asshole", but that might be personal taste.

[Vertigo1]

Yeah, my jaw hit the floor when I saw that happened at the very end....then I started screaming some very vulgar obcenties about Scifi channel's ill-thought decision.

Bob: If you really want to get into the show, watch it from the very beginning.  Hell, your local Blockbuster should have a copy of the "Best of Season 1" DVD set (6 eps out of 22).

I'm going to introduce it to my 9 year old niece in the morning.

[Liberator]

Short Farscape Timeline:
1999 - Debut - Series hailed as a true creative masterpeice by general media.

2002 - Cancellation announced - fans and most people in the know to this very day wonder why.

March 21, 2003 - Final episode airs.  Ends with John and Aeryn getting granulated by some wierd never before seen bad guy and the final scene is of Aeryn's engagement ring and the words "To Be Continued".

Now the question remains:

Why did Sci Fi cancel their highest rated ongoing show when between it and Stargate SG-1, Sci Fi had Friday nights sewn up??

[Bobboau]

for the block buster tremors the TV show

it's sort of interesting, in a how-the-****-do-they-think-they-can-make-a-TV-show-out-of-that-sort-of-crap-kind of way

and the muppet thing is becase
a; the show was made by the Jim Hanson company
and
b; two of the major charicters were basicly muppets

[Vertigo1]

True, I didn't care for the muppets thing at first, but the stories they tell really get you into it so deeply that you can ignore the fact that Rygel and Pilot are anamatronics and think of them as real characters in the show.  The things they've done with the muppets in this series would blow your mind.

[Bobboau]

the Scarran were great, as were many other aliens I saw, but pilot has always looked like (she?) was made out of poly stirene though

you know, it's funny I went to there site to confirm that there was no part two or somthing and I saw this
the news for the thing was basicly

6.18.02 – SCI FI congratulates Farscape, which earned this year's Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series, and series star Ben Browder, who received the Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television.

9.10.02 – The SCI FI Channel cancels Farscape, choosing to cease production after the end of the series' fourth season. Farscape was the longest-running original series in the SCI FI Channel's history. Read the full story on SCI FI Wire

and then

3.10.03 – SCI FI congratulates Farscape for earning three new Saturn Award nominations, in the categories of Best Syndicated Television Series, Best TV Actor (Ben Browder) and Best TV Actress (Claudia Black). Read the full story on SCI FI Wire.

this defies all logic!!!

[Liberator]

The honcho's at Sci Fi need to find the programming director that cancelled Farscape, by the way it's probably the same guy that killed "The Invisible Man", and flush him out the nearest airlock.  I mean he's killing the network.

On the bright side, Michael Shanks is returning as Daniel Jackson full time next season.  Something to do with the War with Anubis cranking up and the Lost City of the Ancients.

[Bobboau]

yes, that all seems very interesting, just wondering how he is suposed to return to SG1 after a year of Godhood,

but this thread is about what a travisty that ending was

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Liberator
The honcho's at Sci Fi need to find the programming director that cancelled Farscape, by the way it's probably the same guy that killed "The Invisible Man", and flush him out the nearest airlock.  I mean he's killing the network.

nah, just have some of the admins pay him a visit, leading a angry mob consisting of fans of various cancelled series..

[Bobboau]

that would probly be a mob of about 3 million people gien the number of shows they've canceled

[Turnsky]

now give them all firearms

[Bobboau]

What I want to know is how does a show like Babylon 5 (even though LOTR sucked) have a movie and nothing more is heard, yet a fart bomb such as "Tremmers3: the quest for more money" that sucks like the vacuum of space, a few months later they have a TV show

[Turnsky]

well, tv execs are a breed of idiocy all thier own.. and thier somwhat moronic attempts at making money from stupid movies,

likewise with them not making movies from otherwise very sound tv series like babylon 5

[Bobboau]

this is well beond simple TV exect moroncy, this is down rigth sadistic, as I said I wasn't even a big fan, and that ending hit me like a brick tosed from a fast moveing semi truck, I can't even fathom what the true die hard fans that have bonded with these charicters for the last four years must be going through, I have a feeling they just pissed of the wrong buch of nerds

a quote from there boards
"There is nothing worse than upsetting a bunch of people who tend to have enough technical knowledge to take over a small 3rd world country from their home PC"
ironic that that was the mesage I was opening just as i posted this one