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Farscape Finale Tonight 432

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Sim9 writes "Just a reminder that Farscape, the critically acclaimed sci-fi television show, is having its *series* finale Friday night! Showing times are 8PM and 12AM ET/PT (7PM and 11PM Central) on SciFi Channel. Catch this great show one last time before it's gone!" Thanks to everyone involved in producing this show. One of my favorites. All I have left on Sci Fi now is SG1.
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  • Best show ever. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Oriumpor ( 446718 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:31PM (#5570547) Homepage Journal
    This show is one of the best running series I have ever seen. And it saddens me that I have almost no reason to watch SCI-FI other than mcguyver... I mean who watches that dumb show with the 90210 actress anyways.

  • Sci-Fi copout (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Stickster ( 72198 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:31PM (#5570555) Homepage
    It's a pity that even their commercials make it look like this is a series wrap-up instead of what it is, which is a season-finale cliffhanger. I'm hoping that a brave network like Showtime or TNT will pick it up and resurrect it. The show simply deserves to be seen.

    • Re:Sci-Fi copout (Score:5, Interesting)

      by dnahelix ( 598670 ) <slashdotispieceofshit@shithome.com> on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:50PM (#5570725)
      I sent an email to Showtime via their website explaining that, at present, I do not subscribe to Showtime, even though it is available from my cable service. I said that if if Showtime picked up Farscape, I would subscribe immediately. I got a personal response saying my message would be forwarded and that they really value public input. So... WRITE THOSE LETTERS!!!!

      • Re:Sci-Fi copout (Score:5, Informative)

        by macrom ( 537566 ) <macrom75@hotmail.com> on Friday March 21, 2003 @08:36PM (#5571054) Homepage
        Showtime won't pick up Farscape. Those few of us who are Odyssey 5 [sho.com] fans will tell you that Showtime gives a rat's ass about it's sci-fi-following subscribers. For those of you not in the know [theseekeronline.com], O5 has 6 episodes left on their first season. They aired the "season finale" months ago and have been holding back giving fans the final 6 episodes they were promised. These missing episodes have aired in the UK, leaving the US fans to various P2P networks for crappy VCD versions of the last few eps.

        So, not to beat down your attempt, but I doubt it will get more than the standard corporate P.R. BS from Showtime. Many Odyssey 5 fans have sent numerous letters, made numerous phone calls, and all we get is the standard "we love hearing feedback and forward it to the appropriate department." Evidently that department is the "we-don't-give-a-flying-fuck-what-you-want" department. They seem to be leaving the sci-fi genre in the dust, preferring to favor shows like Queer As Folk [sho.com] and Family Business [sho.com]. I suppose their target audience has changed; it's about the only reason we can think of for their neglect of the true fans.
    • I miss lexx.

      It's sad to see yet another great show go.

      Although, I won't miss the fourth season of Lexx, the third season was good. I feel a similar way about farscape... It used to be a lot better in the beginning. And when Stark was around.

      • I miss LEXX too. I won't be watching anything associated with SciFi channel or USA for the forseeable future. That was a really cool Battlestar Galactica ad they ran tonight. I care FUCK ALL for that now. I'll fucking steal the series off USENET before I'll give SciFi/USA my ad-watching viewership.
    • It's not just that this isn't merely a season finale in place of a series finale. They could have spent five minutes editing the end to make this a real series finale.

      As it stands, this episode has, continues to, and will seriously piss off every fan the show has ever had, should they decide to watch it. It was a cruel way to end the series, and I've actually blocked Sci-Fi on my own TV as a result. It's not just that they canceled the series... that I could handle. But what they did tonight was prove

  • Great... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Luminair ( 515136 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:32PM (#5570559)
    Goodbye Family Guy, goodbye Firefly, goodbye Firefly...

    Hello Hot or Not TV show and American Idol...

    bah

  • A warning.... (Score:5, Informative)

    by MiTEG ( 234467 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:32PM (#5570560) Homepage Journal
    If you're upset at SciFi for canceling the show now, just wait until you see tonight's episode.

    Completely unsatisfying, it's cliffhanger that will probably never be resolved.

    Here's to hoping UPN ends up picking up the show for a fifth season.

    • Re:A warning.... (Score:3, Informative)

      by Oliekirk ( 648203 )
      When this went out on the BBC they said it was the last one ever even though there is a to be continued on it. They refered people to the website that linked to a petition about it. :) Also what I 'think' happened was SCi-FI channel said they would have two more series (4 and 5) on a sort of 'we want them but could drop them' basis. They didnt pick up series 5 even though they were given the option to and originaly stated this was what they were going to do. Apperently series 5 was going to be the very

    • WoW (Score:3, Funny)

      by tomzyk ( 158497 )
      Spoiler!

      Well, I thought it was a very good ending to the series. He got to say bye to his daddy. Earth is safe. The baby is gonna be born. They're engaged. Pilot survived. Everybody is happy. What else would be necessary for an incredible ending for an incredible series.

      What's that you say? Kill them off? uh... ok!

  • Makes me sick.. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by grommit ( 97148 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:33PM (#5570570)
    That they'd rather put up money for shows like Tremors: The Series instead of Farscape. I mean.. it's Tremors for crying out loud!

  • I am canceling my cable TV subscription tomorrow. (Score:4, Informative)

    by deranged unix nut ( 20524 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:33PM (#5570573) Homepage
    Farscape is the only reason why I have a subscription to cable TV.
    • heh. You think cancelling one little show is bad? DirecTV decided to change their program guide a little bit and removed some channels from the basic-channel package that I have. Yep. They completely removed SciFi channel and expect me to pay like $6 per month just to get my channel back.

      What's WORSE is that they did this EARLIER THIS WEEK!!! Just in time so I couldn't watch the third part of Children of Dune or the season/series finales.

      What great timing, eh?
  • Where is the spoiler? ;)

  • Already seen it. NO SPOILERS. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:33PM (#5570579)
    Ahh, the wonders of SVCD, Usenet and the BBC.

    No spoilers, but to make your viewing experience more enjoyable, turn the TV (or your brain) off for the last.. oh.. 60 seconds.

    Unless they cut the last 60 seconds in the US version to give closure.

    Can anyone who watches this tonight (No Sci-Fi in Canada) confirm that there is "To Be Continued" at the end? It's in the UK version, but there were suggestions it could have been edited out but they ran out of time at the BBC. ...posting cowardly...
    • I'm in foreign parts so I have been watching it via emule. I saw the BBC version and not only was there the "To be Continued", after a bugger of a cliff-hanger ending, the voice over then told viewers that it was the end and referred the viewers to the Farscape website. Viewers found the BBC Farscape Forum website [bbc.co.uk]. After taking out the forum, viewers then went over to the main Save Farscape website [bbc.co.uk] and then overloaded their forum too.
    • Can anyone who watches this tonight (No Sci-Fi in Canada) confirm that there is "To Be Continued" at the end?
      Ok, just saw it on Sci Fi Channel here in America. Yes, there was a great big "To Be Continued" at the end. Rotten bastards - if they didn't plan to show series 5, then it wouldn't have been much for them to cut the last 60 seconds as you suggested, and the series would have had a satisfactory end. *sigh*

    • No... it's "TO BE CONTINUED..." here too. Those worthless, evil, disgusting wastes of oxygen didn't have the decency to chop off the last couple minutes of the episode to end the series on a positive note.

      If I could cut extended basic and just get comedy central and cartoon network from now on, I would. This was just a straight slap in the face to any and all fans of the series.

    • Can anyone who watches this tonight (No Sci-Fi in Canada) confirm that there is "To Be Continued" at the end?

      Confirmed. Also, consider the fact that a 'to be continued' means there's SOME way to resolve that ending (my feeble sci-fi brain even figured out how, in true sci-fi fashion). It's up to someone to simply WRITE it.

      Anyone out there feel for D'argo at the end? That was a depressing event..

      gonna miss my pip,
      -'f
    • Yes, as a final slap in the face to the audience not only did they not edit out the last 60s and leave in "To Be Continued", they also thanked the fans and the producers for four great years.

      Assholes.

  • Series is over but... (Score:5, Informative)

    by pmcneill ( 146350 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:34PM (#5570593)
    SciFi is rerunning the entire series from the start beginning March 31, 4 or 5 days a week at midnight.

    • WTF?? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by DreamingReal ( 216288 )
      SciFi is rerunning the entire series from the start beginning March 31, 4 or 5 days a week at midnight.

      This is so fucking stupid. They could have done this for the last year in order to build up the viewership they claimed was lacking due to the show's serial storytelling. Start Season 1 running at 9pm Eastern and Season 3 at 12pm Eastern and enable people who want to watch the show to catch up! Market the hell out of it and BAM! Perhaps they could have enabled enough people to get up to speed to en

  • Death of Farscape (Score:2, Insightful)

    by techathead ( 201626 )
    While I may not have seen very many episodes, this has always been a great show and will be missed by many geeks out there.

  • Tremors might be good (Score:5, Insightful)

    by LordNimon ( 85072 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:37PM (#5570623)
    You should at least give the show Tremors [scifi.com] a chance. It could suck, or it could be okay, or you might even think it's great, but you'll never know if you don't watch a few episodes of it.

    Remember, a TV series is not like a movie. A series lives and dies as much with the characters and the writing as it does with the plot and overall concept. You may think the idea is silly, or even stupid, but that doesn't necessarily mean the show as a whole isn't worth watching. Anyone cynical enough can take the plot to any movie or series, twist it around, and make it sound like crap.

  • Fond goodbye to a ground-breaking show (Score:3, Insightful)

    by DoctorPepper ( 92269 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:39PM (#5570631)
    I've been watching Farscape since the very first episode, and I will truly miss it. There are too few truly ground-breaking television shows on these days.

    Yep, pretty much all that's left is Star Gate SG-1.

  • User Unfriendly (Score:5, Funny)

    by Tackhead ( 54550 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:40PM (#5570644)
    (With sincerest apologies to Iliad... humor is a dangerous weapon; I aspire to wield it as skilfully as you do.)

    Saddam: (dejectedly) *sigh*

    IraqiGeek: Dude, you look really depressed. Are you okay?

    Saddam: I guess so. Recent events. You know. I'm very worried.

    IraqiGeek: Yeah, I hear ya...

    Saddam: I mean, what if this really is the last night I have to grind my citizens into the dust?

    IraqiGeek: (*incredulous*) *huh*? (thinking to himself) At least you'll be gone in time for me catch the last episode of "Farscape"...

  • Call me an optimist (Score:5, Informative)

    by SimplexO ( 537908 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:40PM (#5570645) Homepage
    Call me an optimist, but I think the Save Farscape [savefarscape.com] campaign has the ability to bring this thing back. Most likely not on Sci-Fi, but maybe something like showtime. I'd subscribe to showtime for Farscape.

    One of the best quotes I can remember about Farscape was something along the lines of "Farscape is a 5-season novel, and we won't rest until we get to find out what happens at the end." That makes this more than a "we want more" campaign. We want the resolution!

    I have heard rumors of a Farscape movie. Can anyone post any info on that?

    For the record, I never watched farscape until a few weeks ago, now I'm watching it from the beginning, and I think it is a wonderful series. I haven't yet done anything to help the campaign, although I'm thinking about it. I did hang up one of the posters [watchfarscape.com] on my door. (his one [watchfarscape.com])

  • Farscape and SciFi (Score:3)

    by Valiss ( 463641 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:40PM (#5570646) Homepage
    Farewell, Farscape. Maybe SciFi will pick up Enterprise eventually (what, with its falling ratings on UPN and all).

    If it wasn't for MST3K, there would be no reason to turn to SciFi anymore.

    • Re:Farscape and SciFi (Score:3, Interesting)

      by geekoid ( 135745 )
      SCi-fi is still playing MST3K? holy crap, I thought that got pulled.
    • Why would SciFi want to soil itself with Enterprise? If they are going to show Trek, they should at least show the good series, say, TOS, or Deep Space 9, or seasons 4-7 of TNG. But not Enterprise!
    • If it wasn't for MST3K, there would be no reason to turn to SciFi anymore
      Stargate SG-1. IMO, as good a show as Farscape.
      And for me, I enjoyed the Dune and Children of Dune miniseries (and I thought Children was better made than the Dune miniseries). And tomorrow night, they're showing their own movie version of Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld. Alex Proyas of Dark City fame is directing it.
      Sadly, much of SciFi's lineup is crap, but there are still gems that make it worth watching.

  • petitions online.. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Suppafly ( 179830 )
    Please don't bother to post links to the save farscape petitions. Anyone that cares knows about them and the rest of know that online petitions don't work for anything anyway.

  • Bye Bye (Score:2, Insightful)

    by jade42 ( 608565 )
    At least we still have MST3K, oh wait that's gone too. So, yea, Tremors...
    Hey, Dune! yea! Sci-fi has become the 'watch us for a good miniseries once and a while' channel!

  • Farscape's Replacement (Score:3, Interesting)

    by heli0 ( 659560 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:46PM (#5570691)
    This is the high quality programming they are replacing it with:

    Bigfoot on the Loose! [scifi.com]


  • This Episode will Piss people off (Score:4, Interesting)

    by aSiTiC ( 519647 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:47PM (#5570705) Homepage
    I've seen the episode and I can honestly say that SciFi should have left the show with Episode 21 which actually tied up things reasonably well.

    This Episode 22 will really piss people off and SciFi will be dealing with very angry fans for a few weeks. Hopefully that anger will lead to constructive results like renewing the show on SciFi or another channel.
    • Actually Ep 22 would have been a great finale, if it wasn't for the cliffhanger element that entered in the last 2 minutes that I won't mention here. If they had left it with Crichton and Aryn kissing on the boat after the proposal, I'd buy it as a finale. As it is, the whole thing stinks to me like a publicity stunt.

  • One less reason to spend money... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:48PM (#5570708)
    I first ponied up the bucks for extended cable to watch the SciFi channel and Farscape rivetted me. I kept watching, even as my cable cost went from 25 USD/m to 41. The final straw was when the cable company moved four of the five cable channels I watched to their digital package at 51 USD/m. I couldn't afford that change, and missed the entire third season. Finally, I moved to a different apartment, where satellite became viable (it faced south) and for 24 USD/m, I was once again following the adventures of John Crichton and crew. And then the cancellation was announced...

    A month from now I'll be cancelling the satellite, after I catch the season I missed in re-runs. Forget "Tremours". Forget the half-baked, half-replacements. Good-bye Vivendi and SciFi. I'll let someonelse pay for your remaining tripe. Who's with me?
    • I'm doing the exact same thing. I bought a cable modem a month ago and of course I'm getting basic cable with it (no SciFi in basic). I've held off on getting rid of Dish Network for one reason, FARSCAPE. Now Farscape is gone, Dish Network has lost a customer, and I've got an extra 50 bucks to play with each month.

  • Such is modern TV (Score:5, Interesting)

    by FullCircle ( 643323 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:49PM (#5570719)
    With a failing (failed?) ratings system, there is no way to tell which shows are actually grabbing viewers attention.

    There are about 5000 families participating in ratings surveys at any given time. A fraction of those have subscription TV. A fraction of that fraction watch a niche network such as SciFi. I've heard that 6 families in the entire survey could have saved Farscape.

    Unless these stations stop using a ratings system designed for national broadcast networks, expect more bad decisions.

    Farscape R.I.P.

    • Re:Such is modern TV (Score:3, Interesting)

      by ShoeHead ( 40158 )
      Woah, dude, hold it. It's in these companies' best interests to make money. There is no rational way for them to exist, or operate, except to make money. The ratings system may be archaic, but you can bet your ballooning bottom that it's been updated, and that it works.

      The networks probably have at least one mathematician each guaranteeing them that it makes good business sense to poll people a certain way, and cut certain series. And that's pretty much all we can expect, unless they're really incompet
    • The networks probably have at least one mathematician each guaranteeing them that it makes good business sense to poll people a certain way, and cut certain series. And that's pretty much all we can expect, unless they're really incompetent.

      Don't you mean a mathemagician, pulling numbers out of their ass? So many of those guys are full of bullshit...

  • Next week in Canada (Score:3, Informative)

    by GRW ( 63655 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:51PM (#5570733) Homepage Journal
    Space: The Imagination Station [spacecast.com] in Canada is running the finale next week [spacecast.com].

  • SciFi channel is dead to me now. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by DdJ ( 10790 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:58PM (#5570776) Homepage Journal
    Their behavior is incomprehensible. They kill Farscape, and pick up Tracker. Tracker? Tracker?

    I really wanted to like a show staring both Adrian Paul and Geraint Wyn Davies. But damn, Wyn Davies hasn't been in anything this bad since Bionic Showdown [imdb.com].

    And then, what's this John Edwards and "The Dream Team" crap? What does that have to do with SciFi? Just what is their mission statement? To make the world think that SciFi fans are drooling morons with no taste and no ability to separate fact from fiction?

    It's somewhat hilarious that TNN has better SciFi than the SciFi channel these days. My TV used to be programmed to skip over TNN, back when it was "The Nashville Network". Now it looks like it's trading places with SciFi. I guess there's a "law of conversation of preprogrammed channels" or something.
    • And then, what's this John Edwards and "The Dream Team" crap? What does that have to do with SciFi? Just what is their mission statement?

      Amen!

      One of the reasons I picked up a tivo for my dish was to watch interesting things - I never managed to catch anything broadcast real time or set the VCR for more than a couple weeks. After queuing the sucker up, I discovered how little was getting pulled from the scifi channel. So I looked at the offerings via the on-line guide thinking I'm missing something... o

  • Frelling Quotes (Score:5, Funny)

    by finny ( 107762 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @07:58PM (#5570780)
    'I am a full-blooded Luxan, and ladies, I have so much cash in my pocket that I can assure you that the three of us will crawl out of here on our hands and knees come sunrise tomorrow morning. I've been arrested for saying exactly the same thing on four different planets.' D'Argo

    'I don't think Pilot's in a Leviathan for Dummies mood right now..' Crichton

    I may be small but allow me to remind you that only serves to put me at castration level.' Rygel

    Scorpius: Kill her! Then we can have some pizza and some margarita shooters. Kill her John! Do it..Do it..
    John: (laughing) Nobody has margaritas with pizza!

  • Maybe this is offtopic but I think it's weird that nobody has submitted a review or something about Children Of Dune? Then there's the Riverworld one coming up (those books rock), and later Battlestar Galactica (the latter was reported here, I think).

    While I wasn't a huge Farscape fan, I thought it was a relatively good show - in fact anything that doesn't attempt to tag "SciFi" to things like Buffy or Roswell is good, IMO. Especially if it involves space ships, aliens with attitudes and... uh, chicks.

    B

    • Children of Dune was pretty good, IMHO. But, I didn't read the books (I can't stand how long-winded Herbert is, but that's me), however.

      Riverworld does look very interesting. I'll be giving that a viewing.

  • Freelin Sci-Fi (Score:3, Informative)

    by hughk ( 248126 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @08:33PM (#5571033) Journal
    For those of you enjoying this, the final episode of series 4. Farscape ended the series with their usual cliff hanger. The crew decided against changes.

    For those of you feeling a little frustrated, here is a list of Farscape swear-words [ttp]. Ideal if you ever meet a Sci-Fi executive.

  • Bye-bye Sci-Fi (Score:5, Interesting)

    by BeemerBoy ( 24030 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @08:35PM (#5571043) Homepage
    After 21:00 EST on Friday, March 21 I no longer have a reason to tune in the Sci-Fi channel. I refuse to watch a once good network degenerate into a goofy "Reality Channel" as they seem to be headed. I wonder if I can have my cable system unsubscribe me from a free channel??

    Jaime

  • You know what should happen...? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21, 2003 @08:40PM (#5571080)
    Nielsen and TiVo should team up, or Nielsen and TiVo should figure out a way to come together and find out what REAL people are watching.

    Let's face it, if you own a TiVo, you like TV more than the regular joe, and MAYBE good shows like this (and Firefly, F'n FOX) wouldn't be cancelled so quickly.

    Tell me I'm not the first to come up with this.

    P.S.

    SAVE FIREFLY!!!!!!!!
    • Nielsen and TiVo should team up, or Nielsen and TiVo should figure out a way to come together and find out what REAL people are watching.

      Let's face it, if you own a TiVo, you like TV more than the regular joe, and MAYBE good shows like this (and Firefly, F'n FOX) wouldn't be cancelled so quickly.

      Yeah, that's a brilliant idea. Because as we all know, techie geeks that buy things like Tivos have been begging for years for some way to have their personal habits systematically organized into marketing data f

  • roles for farscape actors we'd like to see (Score:3, Funny)

    by The_Rook ( 136658 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @09:06PM (#5571230)
    i'd like to see gigi edgley in star trek enterprise as a green oprion girl.

  • SciFi (Score:3, Interesting)

    by eaolson ( 153849 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @09:11PM (#5571252)
    Is it just me, or is SciFi (with a few notable exceptions such as Farscape) a fairly big diappointment? They're getting rid of Farscape, but not crap like Beyond Belief and Crossing Over with whatever-that-fraud's-name is?

  • Like the finale of Married with Children (Score:4, Interesting)

    by sielwolf ( 246764 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @09:14PM (#5571264) Homepage Journal
    Anyone remember the end of Married... with Children and how you could tell that it was obviously not intended to be the show's conclusion but (like Farscape) a season-ender? And as far as I can remember it was for similar reasons: the show was popular but not the "direction" the channel (Fox in this case) wanted to go. Forget the fact that Married... with Children and The Simpsons helped put Fox on the map. But then Aaron Spelling came along and Fox decided to try and become like the other Big Three.

    Sad when a media outlet is doing good product but thinks that by De-flavoring their shows will help them become a Mainstream channel. I mean, isn't that why people don't watch the big channels? That they are all derivative and generic?
  • Well, that sucked.

    "To Be Continued" my ass.

    What the hell ever happened to a happy ending? Oh, right gotta set it up for the movie...
  • Ouch, Will I am looking forward to that. So is it moving to cable?

    Oppsie, they are already on cable. So they may be moving it to a webcast? HBO? sort of a trade for SG1?

  • If there ever was any doubt as to the creativity and talent of the Farscape writers let it now be put to rest.

    Farscape is the KING
  • Last show was a season ending cliff hanger.. then the thing was cancelled so no 'next season'.

    TNT promised to revive it too.. no dice....

  • I didn't just cancel the cable - I severed the cord leading to my house and ripped it out of the ground! I don't want that them connected to my TV in any way. I'm going to tie it in a noose and send it to the head of Sci Fi who canceled my reason for living. ;o)

  • zerg (Score:2, Funny)

    by Lord Omlette ( 124579 )
    I don't want to be a nagging bitch or anything, but I'm going to sound like one anyway.

    And I'm going to add the disclaimer that Stargate SG-1 is my 'entertainment' (pretty broad classification right there) of all time, so thank you Allah for Kazaa.

    My TV broke about a week ago; I have never been more productive. You're not gonna believe this, but I actually went to the fucking library and got a book and I read it! It's fucking awesome!

    Last night I went out and got pasted with my friends. I wasn't think
  • can't hurt to have it more than one spot


    WWW.Savefarscape.com

  • Gear up west coast (Score:3, Informative)

    by Upright Joe ( 658035 ) <<uprightjoe> <at> <gmail.com>> on Friday March 21, 2003 @10:28PM (#5571756) Homepage
    For those of you on the west coast that haven't gotten to see the finale yet, start popping the popcorn and crack open a cold one (or 12). It's a frelling fitting end to an incredible series.

    After it was over, I hit the farscape website and it looks like they're planning on trying to continue the show with a movie, an anime project and possibly a series with another network. Let's cross our fingers because this was quite possibly the most best show on television over the last four years. Never have I seen a show with such dynamic characters and a writing team willing to take extreme risks with their "formula".

    I hope everybody involved in the show is proud. They deserve to be.

  • Here's the real kicker (yes, your blood WILL boil) (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Windcatcher ( 566458 ) on Friday March 21, 2003 @11:16PM (#5571992)
    Sci-Fi flashed this on the screen at the end. Bear in mind, they CANCELLED the show on the final day of shooting the season finale:

    "The SciFi Channel thanks the cast and crew of Farscape for four great years."

    Bastards. Sci-Fi, you are truly dead to me.
  • Farscape is one of the too few reasons for me to pay for cable TV. I haven't seen any of the third or fourth seasons.

    But not only did I get to see the finale episode tonight, I saw it in one of the better ways possible. Before it ran, there was a panel with Virginia Hey [tamu.edu] and Lani Tupu [tamu.edu]. And no, they have no idea what's going to happen with the series.

    Virginia talked about the makeup: 3-5 hours, the only way she can handle it is to ignore it, and it has caused some health problems. She likes hugging peop

    • Interesting Mad Max trivia tidbit: (Score:4, Funny)

      by LMariachi ( 86077 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:40AM (#5572875) Journal
      The Night Rider's girlfriend in the beginning of the first Mad Max movie is Lulu Pinkus, the longtime wife of Yahoo Serious. So...

      Virginia Hey was in Road Warrior with Mel Gibson.
      Mel Gibson was in Mad Max with Lulu Pinkus.
      Lulu Pinkus was in Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious.
      Yahoo Serious was in Reckless Kelly with Martin Ferrero.
      Martin Ferrero was in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Kevin Bacon.

      I don't remember what my original point was.

  • Want to save Farscape?! (Score:3, Informative)

    by BlacKat ( 114545 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @04:50AM (#5573216)
    Do you want to help to try and SAVE FARSCAPE?!

    If so then go here: http://www.savefarscape.com/

    Or you could go here: http://www.watchfarscape.com/

    They're both actually the same site, which unfortunalty seems to be slashdotted or having other issues at the present time.

    There is a lot of good stuff on the site from campaigns to get another network to pick up the show to an actual viewer funded consortium who's goal is to raise the funds to partially finance Season 5 as incentive for another network (or Sci-Fi i guess) to pick up the show.

    So copy down that URL and take a look when the site is responsive once again! :)

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