Happy 25th Birthday Farscape

[Ar-Pharazon]

For anyone who's read all the follow-up material. Did they ever address John's daughter from the Look At The Princess trilogy?

I know she wasn't supposed to be born for 80 cycles, but I imagine something could have happened to force them to bring the princess out of being a statue early.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

For anyone who's read all the follow-up material. Did they ever address John's daughter from the Look At The Princess trilogy?

I know she wasn't supposed to be born for 80 cycles, but I imagine something could have happened to force them to bring the princess out of being a statue early.

It's been years since I've read it, but I'm pretty sure she appears in Rockne's short story "Horizons," which appeared in the final issue of the official magazine. At the time (prior to the creation of The Peacekeeper Wars), it was intended at the concluding story of the series. The mini-series kind of contradicts it but the short story also created a means around that contradiction. Either way, it's a lovely little story and I'm pretty sure she appears in it in a small supporting role.

I'm pretty sure she doesn't appear in the post-series graphic novels the Kickstarter campaign focused on, but she may have been mentioned (again, it's been years since I've read them).

 

[Obs-D]

I saw the series some years ago, far from the time it was done, i tough the wasn't any other episode of the series after the last one of the 4th season but i see some of you talking about other content, can somebody explain to me a little bit more about it?

And maybie a chronology to consume such content too?

I'm specially awed for the mention of a "mini-series", i remember in one of the last episodes the protagonist and her companion are converted to crystals by a shot, i do know than that's not actually the ending but for what i read there wasn't any ending movie produced, aren't it? is there a conclusion to that?

I read you guys

 

[Frostscape One]

I saw the series some years ago, far from the time it was done, i tough the wasn't any other episode of the series after the last one of the 4th season but i see some of you talking about other content, can somebody explain to me a little bit more about it?

And maybie a chronology to consume such content too?

I'm specially awed for the mention of a "mini-series", i remember in one of the last episodes the protagonist and her companion are converted to crystals by a shot, i do know than that's not actually the ending but for what i read there wasn't any ending movie produced, aren't it? is there a conclusion to that?

I read you guys

THE PEACEKEEPER WARS was the miniseries that aired to conclude the show. It's basically a compressed version of a lot of the threads they wanted to do for the fifth season that was originally promised.

There was a comic series that took place after that miniseries, but I have not read them. Others here have, from what I can tell.

 

[FanST]

Best frelling sci-fi show ever.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

I loved the first two seasons of "Farscape." It's hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since I last watched it. I should fix that.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

For those few of us around here who were big fans of the BOOM! Studios graphic novel series from a decade plus ago, a Kickstarter campaign has been running in celebration of the anniversary. The main focus of the campaign is the release of a new 64-page comic and some very fancy, very pricy collections of the aforementioned series.

Last week, I finally got my copy of the anniversary comic and my pledge bonuses of metallic bookmarks, challenge coin, and Farscape One patch!



I am a bit disappointed with the challenge coin since there's no color on it but I imagine that would've made it much more expensive (I guess I was spoiled by the U.S. military! ).

The bookmarks are really nice although it's a shame they repeat D'Argo and Jool on one of them with no love for Rygel and Chiana. The badge is pretty cool but I have no idea what I would it sew onto.

I haven't had a chance to read the comic yet (been too busy with work and post-pneumonia recovery) but I'm really looking forward to it. I'm just a little bummed that the plastic protective bag already ripped when I first opened it.

 

[JD]

Very cool! I enjoyed the comic when I read the digital version shortly after it came out. The stories are pretty short, so they obviously can't get very deep into things, but they're good.

 

[ananta]

Once they get to Earth its over for me. I hate everything about it, they never should have gone back to Earth in the show. Of course I had other complaints about the show in general, even the seasons I really liked, but what made me drop the show in the middle of the fourth season was the Earth stuff. I had also hated the two previous fake out Earth episodes in the show, "A Human Reaction" and "Won't Get Fooled Again", and when it got to actual Earth I just couldn't stand it.

To this day I have literally no idea what happens to the characters after the Season 4 episode "Kansas", I don't know if anyone dies or if Scorpius ever gets defeated or what the "Peacekeeper Wars" actually are, I was just absolutely done with the show at that point.

The parts of the show I liked I still really like and am glad I watched, and I'll rewatch favorite episodes on occasion. I just treat the show like it got cancelled without an ending, its not like its the first Sci Fi show to have that happen.



Like I said it has a lot to love. It even has an episode that I consider one of the top 5 episodes of Sci Fi TV ever made, "The Way We Weren't". It also had some of the worst episodes of television that I've watched, and a couple of side characters that made me long for the days where I thought that Wesley Crusher was the most annoying TV character. So to me it was a mixed bag, the show has very high heights but also rock bottom lows.

This is an unusual take. The Earth episodes were all brilliant: A Human Reaction, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Kansas, Terra Firma, Bad Timing: all among the show’s finest. I thought they handled the return to earth absolutely beautifully; much better than I’d dare imagined. Terra Firma actually walloped a fair punch by explicitly acknowledging how 911 affected the world politically.

Season four does get off to a choppy start (a result of executive meddling by all accounts); it feels a little “off” and confusing, but by mid-season the show finds its mojo again and it ends on a high. Peacekeeper Wars is an excellent resolution.

Farscape remains possibly my favourite TV sci-fi series. I just started rewatching it and it holds up beautifully. I have to say it utterly ruined Star Trek for me. I ended up bailing on both Voyager and Enterprise, which ran concurrently with Farscape, because they were, frankly, utterly woeful in comparison. There hasn’t been a Trek series since which was a patch on Farscape. I wish it got more credit for its boldness, imagination, guts and superb storytelling and performances.

 

[Charlie Xmas]

I watch Faracape on one of the SF channels that Pluto.tv streams, it's still awesome - the puppet animation is top-notch and it looks better than CGI ever will.

 

[tomalak301]

I watch Faracape on one of the SF channels that Pluto.tv streams, it's still awesome - the puppet animation is top-notch and it looks better than CGI ever will.

Is it Pluto TV or Shout TV? I don't see it (other than on demand) on Pluto TV, but they do have a 24/7 Farscape Channel on the Shout.TV app.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

It's also steaming on Amazon in the USA for free with ads.

 

[Charlie Xmas]

Is it Pluto TV or Shout TV? I don't see it (other than on demand) on Pluto TV, but they do have a 24/7 Farscape Channel on the Shout.TV app.

Pluto mixes it with other SF shows like Van Helsing or ENT on one channel in their SF section, it doesn't play Farscape exclusively like their 3 Star Treks, their Dr Who, Stargate and their Twilight Zone channels. They even have a classic monster movie channel, they'll show The Bride of Frankenstein when they're not playing The Munsters.

Local TV barely gets my eyeballs these days if it's not Svengoulie on MeTV. I used to watch CW a lot but then they started showing more copraganda and real crime dramatization shows, cancelled Batwoman and put jocks-R-awesome shows into medium rotation and I stopped. They're undergoing the SyFyization where they went from Farscape to wrestling & ghost hunters, aren't they?

 

[JD]

Yeah, a year or two ago they cut way back on the CW's budget so now they're going with as many cheap to produce shows as they can. It's not quite the same as what happened with Syfy since The CW was never meant to be exclusive genre content, and it has always shown a lot of stuff that wasn't.

 

[Xerxes82]

It's also steaming on Amazon in the USA for free with ads.

Only the first 3 seasons and PKWars. Season 4 you have to pay for.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Only the first 3 seasons and PKWars. Season 4 you have to pay for.

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[Bah Humbug]

If you get the Roku channel, they have all 4 seasons for free.

 

[Charlie Xmas]

If you get the Roku channel, they have all 4 seasons for free.

I've just started watching them there, thanks for the tip, Gary. You rock! I'm realizing I never saw the pilot and I've seen them out of order so now I'm hip deep in the first season. Boy Roku loves ads, don't they?

I'm enjoying Cosmos on there, too. And finally MST3K with captions thanks to Roku and Pluto. It's hard to read Tom and Crow's lips...and human lip reading is about 40% accurate, to my detriment.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Spurred on by this thread for the TV series "Andromeda", I decided to give this show a whirl:

How bad is Andromeda?

So, today, Amazon MGM announced that they are finally producing a new Stargate series, marking another the return of another legacy IP from the golden age of genre TV. From 1987 - 2009, a lot of memorable shows were born, but one of them became remembered for all the wrong reasons... I heard...

www.trekbbs.com

I think I saw a little of it back in the day when it originally aired, but recall pretty much nothing, but do recall the bizarre and catchy theme music.


"Premiere" (the pilot)

While "Andromeda" had it's flaws in the pilot, which didn't really get straight until like the fifth episode, for me, this pilot is riddled with flaws out the alien ass.

There's nowhere near the thought into the tech as there was on the other show, including to dumb things like simply ripping out wires. Maybe next they'll bang something to get it to work.

Seems like some things are bizarre for bizarre's sake, which doesn't create interest.

So far, none of the characters have screen presance, they'll all just as much there as the next one, including puppets vs. people.

I just yawn every time I hear somebody talking about themselves. Tyr they are not.

Weird words for everything, but sudden when the word "Degrees" needs to be said, that works.

The built to the launch was rushed and felt like an outline that was not fleshed out.

That's a gaint sword. Use it? NAH!

 

[FredH]

Spurred on by this thread for the TV series "Andromeda", I decided to give this show a whirl:

How bad is Andromeda?

So, today, Amazon MGM announced that they are finally producing a new Stargate series, marking another the return of another legacy IP from the golden age of genre TV. From 1987 - 2009, a lot of memorable shows were born, but one of them became remembered for all the wrong reasons... I heard...

www.trekbbs.com

I think I saw a little of it back in the day when it originally aired, but recall pretty much nothing, but do recall the bizarre and catchy theme music.


"Premiere" (the pilot)

While "Andromeda" had it's flaws in the pilot, which didn't really get straight until like the fifth episode, for me, this pilot is riddled with flaws out the alien ass.

Trust me: With Farscape, you watch one episode and you ask yourself what the hell this crap is; but you watch four, and you must know what happens next.