Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day - Page 7

bigdaddy · January 16 2011, 04:23 AM

I'm this....... close to finishing season one and I love how Scorpio is just showing up and explains he wants wormholes. I knew very little about the show besides that.

I also know how the show ends...

Admiral Buzzkill · January 16 2011, 05:08 AM

Oh, the show gets a lot stranger after Scorpy comes on.

Seriously.

Neroon · January 16 2011, 06:13 AM

Dennis wrote:

This time around I'm enjoying a number of the episodes that I didn't think much of when I first saw them - stuff like "Thank God It's Friday...Again."

"PK Tech Girl," which I did like a lot the first time, is really sweet.

I noticed a similar effect with some of the Scape episodes, as well as with various movies over the years. The second time through, I find an affinity for them that I hadn't noticed before. Why do you suppose that happens? Is it due to a sort of "resetting" of our expectations, as if they get lowered after the first time and so are easier to meet?

T'Bonz · January 16 2011, 06:43 AM

I should really rewatch my series. It'll be even more fun now that I know the characters.

23skidoo · January 16 2011, 08:55 PM

Emh wrote:

Snick27 wrote:

What? I didnt no season one was in fullscreen? WTF! This totally ruins it for me, i hate fullscreen when my computer is widescreen.

And cant get Window Media Player to strech it. Yikes, this sucks.

Why on Earth would you want to stretch video that wasn't intended to be widescreen? That would make the whole video look distorted.

Unfortunately, it's something that has fallen into the "get used to it" category. I got my first widescreen TV last year and it was a top of the line model and one of the first things I discovered is, yes, you can set the image to 4:3, but it doesn't convert the image to 4:3 by itself - it cuts the image off at the sides. I discovered that while trying to watch a Chaplin movie, and later one of the Farscapes. I elected to just keep the image at widescreen and watch it. You do get used to it after a while.

Fortunately, some Blu-ray makers and realizing this issue,and some (not all) 4:3 shows being released to the format such as The Prisoner and Metropolis are formatted on the disc to play at 4:3, so they show without anything being cut off. Hopefully when Chaplin films begin showing up on Blu-ray that'll be done too. Or, for that matter, Farscape and other shows from the era, if they ever upconvert them (hey, stranger things have happened - they're doing Space:1999 for Blu-ray now).

Anyway, you think that screen formatting issues are fun now, just wait till we end up in a "you'll get used to it" situation with force-fed 3-D...

Alex

Asbo Zaprudder · January 16 2011, 09:55 PM

I would have thought that most (if not all) of Chaplin's films were shot in Academy Ratio (11:8, or approximately 4:3).

Space:1999 season 1 on Blu-ray is 4:3. No hideous matting in sight.

lennier1 · January 29 2011, 09:50 PM

The DVDs arrived yesterday.
Guess the guys at Customs got so bored they actually did their job. Tax money at work ...

bigdaddy · January 30 2011, 02:30 AM

lennier1 wrote:

The DVDs arrived yesterday.
Guess the guys at Customs got so bored they actually did their job. Tax money at work ...

I'm already two episodes into season 4.

Emh · January 30 2011, 03:30 AM

I finally got my set last week. According to Big Finish (who I order regularly from and shipments go through the US before coming out here), US customs have gotten tighter and therefore it takes longer for shipments to arrive, which explains why my last two orders from them have taken so long to get here. Same for Amazon which was normally pretty quick.

Starbreaker · January 30 2011, 06:52 AM

Well, I hope you got that packet of heroin and small child I stuffed inbetween Season 4 and The Archives disc.

label · January 30 2011, 03:36 PM

Starbreaker wrote:

Well, I hope you got that packet of heroin and small child I stuffed inbetween Season 4 and The Archives disc.

Great, like we didn't have enough problems with US Custom officers on this board already.

Steve Mollmann · January 30 2011, 04:02 PM

Emh wrote:

I finally got my set last week. According to Big Finish (who I order regularly from and shipments go through the US before coming out here), US customs have gotten tighter and therefore it takes longer for shipments to arrive, which explains why my last two orders from them have taken so long to get here. Same for Amazon which was normally pretty quick.

Yeah, I buy from the Book Depository in England a lot and some CDs I ordered on the 10th of December only made it to me last week!

Emh · January 31 2011, 05:47 AM

Indeed. I use to get orders from Big Finish in three weeks but two orders ago took about two months and my last order (December 17) hasn't gotten here yet. Hell, I still haven't gotten my December subscription release (and freebie) yet!

lennier1 · February 8 2011, 10:22 PM

^^
Gotta love those writers!
"Pike DRD", "That's not a moon", ...

January 16 2011, 04:23 AM	#91
bigdaddy Vice Admiral Location: Space Massachusetts	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day I'm this....... close to finishing season one and I love how Scorpio is just showing up and explains he wants wormholes. I knew very little about the show besides that. I also know how the show ends... __________________ "Bqhatevwr" - Former Senator Scott Brown Last edited by bigdaddy; January 16 2011 at 06:51 AM.

January 16 2011, 05:08 AM	#92
Admiral Buzzkill The Man Location: Defying Gravity	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day Oh, the show gets a lot stranger after Scorpy comes on. Seriously. __________________ I had steak and a loaded baked potato for dinner on Sunday. As a steak I enjoyed it a lot, but as macaroni and cheese I thought it was disappointing.

January 16 2011, 06:43 AM	#94
T'Bonz Romulan Curmudgeon Location: Across the Neutral Zone	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day I should really rewatch my series. It'll be even more fun now that I know the characters. __________________ Live long and suffer! - Ancient Romulan greeting. Romulans aren't paranoid. We're merely proactively cautious.

January 16 2011, 09:55 PM	#96
Asbo Zaprudder Rear Admiral Location: Chairman of the bored	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day I would have thought that most (if not all) of Chaplin's films were shot in Academy Ratio (11:8, or approximately 4:3). Space:1999 season 1 on Blu-ray is 4:3. No hideous matting in sight. __________________ "It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world."

January 29 2011, 09:50 PM	#97
lennier1 Commodore Location: Germany	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day The DVDs arrived yesterday. Guess the guys at Customs got so bored they actually did their job. Tax money at work ... __________________ Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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January 30 2011, 03:30 AM	#99
Emh The Doctor Location: Japan	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day I finally got my set last week. According to Big Finish (who I order regularly from and shipments go through the US before coming out here), US customs have gotten tighter and therefore it takes longer for shipments to arrive, which explains why my last two orders from them have taken so long to get here. Same for Amazon which was normally pretty quick. __________________ "Eccleston was a tiger and Tennant was, well, Tigger. Smith [is] an uncoordinated housecat who pretends that he meant to do that after falling off a piece of furniture." - Lynne M. Thomas "I'm in Hell and it's full of Avons!" - Vila

January 30 2011, 06:52 AM	#100
Starbreaker Fleet Admiral	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day Well, I hope you got that packet of heroin and small child I stuffed inbetween Season 4 and The Archives disc.

January 31 2011, 05:47 AM	#103
Emh The Doctor Location: Japan	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day Indeed. I use to get orders from Big Finish in three weeks but two orders ago took about two months and my last order (December 17) hasn't gotten here yet. Hell, I still haven't gotten my December subscription release (and freebie) yet! __________________ "Eccleston was a tiger and Tennant was, well, Tigger. Smith [is] an uncoordinated housecat who pretends that he meant to do that after falling off a piece of furniture." - Lynne M. Thomas "I'm in Hell and it's full of Avons!" - Vila

February 8 2011, 10:22 PM	#104
lennier1 Commodore Location: Germany	Re: Farscape Complete Series Deal of the Day ^^ Gotta love those writers! "Pike DRD", "That's not a moon", ... __________________ Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.