Farscape (Kinda) Returns 140
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."
Good (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Good (Score:4, Informative)
I hope this isn't... (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Farscape's strength was its weakness (Score:3, Interesting)
I wish they'd bring back the show, but I guess this will do.
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Which made it perfect for release to DVD...if that had been done in a better (ie, cheaper) fashion. Not, of course, the Farscape was or is alone in charging prices that made it infeasible to buy an entire season.
Really, I think there's an untapped market segm
Re: (Score:1)
and you can do video download rentals from amazon's 'unbox' service, the quality is about what my regular tv looks like, so very watchable, with specials for $0.99 per movie, its hard to beat..
Re: (Score:1)
Did I mention how excited I am that Farscape is returning?! Hopefully these "webisodes" will be longer than a few minutes each, I don't see how you could tell much story in something too short.
And yes, I would gladly pay for more episodes of Firefly. *sigh*
Unavailable again. (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
Well, I had heard that they were going to reissue the first two seasons Starbursts with more discs (instead of the double sided ones. I had to return one set three times before I got a working one!) They weren't going to until they ran out of their existing stock, so maybe they'll start a new printing soon. One can hope.
Otherwise... wow... I don't know what to say. I'm glad I picked mine up! Strange if it really is out of pr
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Really, I think there's an untapped market segment there; not just for Farscape, but for certain kinds of TV shows in general. I think it might eventually be a successful business model to plan your show around only having a few episodes on television, solely as marketing for the DVD release of the full season.
The way things have been going, I've been wondering whether there might be a market for episodic material released directly to DVD, iTunes, and pay-per-view. Maybe I'm alone, but most of the TV I w
Re:Farscape's strength was its weakness (Score:5, Interesting)
It also honestly suffered from the same thing that every SCIFI channel show suffers from, utter lack of programming consistency. What day and time is that on? what months of the year? 13 weeks at a time and its coming back when? What other shows are on with it on SCIFI channel that night? Didn't that other show used to be on before it? after it?
SCIFI channel was doing good for a while they had both StarGates and BSG all on the same night on Fridays. That was great, sit down watch all the good shows, great. Then they moved BSG to Sundays, put something else on not as good, the shows were not even in lock step as far as premiere and finale weeks anymore. SCIFI really needs to get clued in on the whole seasons thing, thats the way most people esspecially the casual watchers that could help improve the overall ratings prefer to watch TV.
Don't even get me started on the "its getting its full run in England before its on in America" thing. Thats a great way to will ratings since the primary audiance are all going to bit torrent it so they can watch it at the same time as there peers on the otherside of the pond so the discussion boards are not a huge spoiler fest.
Re: (Score:2)
The same thing happened for my wife. She is not that big of a sci-fi fan, but she likes Stargate and is usually fine watching much of the sci-fi I watch, but Farscape got too much for her. (Dr Who was too much for her too, but a different kind of too much.)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
I think going way beyond what Star Trek or Babylon 5 would ever do has a lot of merit, but I've seen a lot of the fans of those shows just kind of blow Farscape off like it never existed.
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
That's int
Re: (Score:1)
Have to agree with you on this one. I was SHOCKED when I tuned into Dr. Who the other night to see Sci-Fi running the just completed season of Dr. Who. Was actually expecting to see the last 2 seasons with Billy Piper...which is what I'm seeing on BBC America.
At least 1 good thing about Sci-Fi...only had to wait about 15 weeks...rather than 1-2 years to see what those in the UK had all ready seen. N
Re: (Score:2)
My wife knows next to nothing about Sci-Fi, and we watched the entire Farscape series on DVD - watching a few episodes a night for a few months. We almost never watch TV, and we have never before or since stayed in to watch a show (much less on DVD) rather than do something else. I eventually also talked her into watching Firefly - partly because of the good Farscape experience - but I think she had more trouble with it because it was too familiar. I think it is much more
Jim Henson Company (Score:5, Funny)
It's gonna be filmed with Muppets? Talk about chintsing on the budget!
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Jim Henson Company (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Re: (Score:2)
Then
Me, I don't care that much, because I've opted out of the whole cable TV ripoff. Which means waiting for shows to come out on DVD,
Sounds like you found what people can drop them in favor of. I did the same thing, and we're not even close to being alone in that. Which is one of the reasons I think th
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Jim Henson Company (Score:4, Funny)
Err, wait, that doesn't look right...
Re: (Score:1)
"Bravo!"
Sorry, I meant to say "Browder"
Re: (Score:2)
What do you mean? Pilot was a muppet??
Re: (Score:2)
As opposed to the previous episodes, which were filled with actual aliens...
Re: (Score:2)
As opposed to the previous episodes, which were filled with actual aliens...
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
If you don't know of Jim Henson's more serious work, I recommend you watch The Dark Crystal [wikipedia.org] which is an excellent serious fantasy film.
please no! (Score:1, Informative)
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.
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
I'd rather... (Score:1)
Unrelated Obligatory Sarcasm: Wrestling is Science Fiction!
Re: (Score:2)
It really wasn't that silly. The muppets would kind of lead you to believe that; you just had to get used to them.
I actually got my wife to watch it for a while. She got past the muppets, but could not get past the existentialism.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
They must pick some actual SciFi show to spend their medical insurance on...
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
For me, especially the latter two series had well-thought out plots, which went through the series and kept you hanging on. None of this oh-so-predictable nonsense that passes
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2, Troll)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Farscape got a mere 4 seasons, cancelled while they were wrapping up the end of the 4th season, and were promised a 5th - so many threads were left dangling. Thankfully the fans got a miniseries to wrap it up, but it's so heavily compressed another season would have been so much better.
Farscape had a sense of humor that I loved, but it was not silly. It was actually quite dark, i
Re: (Score:2)
YMMV but it was very good to me. Themes from maddnes, adult relationships and very bad words in alien language (Frell!) made it like no other.
Galactica was very silly. I couldn't take more than a couple of episodes.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
hmm. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re: (Score:2)
I agree. I'd also like to see Drive come back as well. I'm getting real tired of seeing excellent, original programming get canceled and replaced with either a game show, reality show or hospital drama! I would have already canceled my cable TV if my wife hadn't blocked me!
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
You know, there is not an CSI Irak... yet.
How many times you can repeat the same show with different names?
Re: (Score:2)
You know, I can almost deal with one of those... except that Farscape was replaced by "Tremors: the series". I mean, really, WTF?
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I thought it broke even.
Forget it (Score:2)
I'll be skipping any future Farscape material. If I need a dose of Sci-Fi I've got The Lost Tales [wikipedia.org] to look forward to.
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Going Homer (Score:1)
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 I
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
talking about star trek too (Score:2)
My issue... (Score:2)
See here for Amazon.ca pricing:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-2424159-3 290317?initialSearch=1&url=sea [amazon.com]
I'd be more excited... (Score:2)
Also, "Homer Ulysses"? Whaa?
Re: (Score:1)
and seriously i loved those, if you wanna complain about bad quality in the farscape universe
then talk about the game not the miniseries
i'm absolutely delighted about this news, i just hope they don't fuck it up
since at the moment farscape is my favorite sci-fi with firefly, stargate sg1, space above and beyond, b5 and st: next generation following next.
Can I get a HELL YEAH! (Score:1)
HELL YEAH!
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
The Lightning Thief (Score:1)
first thing I thought of
yay! (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
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.
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
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
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
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.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
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
Re: (Score:1)
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
Re: (Score:1)
-- Don't forget the soundtrack by Queen
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Oh and it's properly called the Whoniverse.
Re: (Score:1)
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 Odysse
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah, but it had that Dr. Who-wannabe Canadian feel to it.
Re:the LEXX! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:the LEXX! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. You nailed it precisely. Thread over.
Re: (Score:2)
(Emphasis added by me.)
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
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Half of the content on the Internet. 'Nuff said.