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"Farscape"

Any news anyone - TV movie/movie/completely axed - what is the truth? I'm having serious withdrwal symptoms!

The fundamental flaw with that structure, as somebody has already pointed out, is that you need to see every episode to understand what's going on.

I thank you.

Well said, WòókieeMøn§†€®!

I still remember when Farscape first started. I was really getting into it, then I realised it had 'muppets' (Rygel etc.), and I thought... "Oh Jeez, this is going to be really dodgy..."

But it turned out to be an amazing show, and I really didn't notice the puppets in the end. Pilot was an amazing piece of animatronics, and Scorpius is possibly the best bad guy since Darth Vader.

The last episode was a hell of a cliff-hanger - I mean, how could they possibly come back from that? Season 5 would have been great.

Farscape was easily the best sci-fi since Babylon 5, if only in terms of having a pre-scripted, continuous 5-year story arc. It's a real shame that Sci-Fi Channel did what they did.

As has been mentioned, shows like Star Trek are mostly rambling, one-off shows which take little concentration or brainpower to keep up with. Unfortunately, Stargate now seems to have gone the same way, pretty much.

Babylon 5 and Farscape were more complicated, because they were completely pre-planned and required minimal 'filler' episodes. So the stories could be entwined and were for the most part well thought out. Intelligent sci-fi, if you like.

The fact that both struggled to maintain high viewing figures in the U.S. (although Babylon 5 was thankfully finished) says much about the average U.S. viewer.

Strange though, isn't it? Sci-fi fans are supposedly geeks, so you would assume that they were smart enough to follow a more complex story than your average Star Trek 2-parter offers.

Stargate rocks.

I didn't catch Farscape very often, but the episode where Criton came back to Earth and was interrogated by the Australians was fantastic. I am actually quite amazed that they dropped it in favour of Stargate, which in my opinion is utter tosh.

Yeah, I too enjoyed Farscape. All the episodes were imaginative and the characters were vibrant.

Might have to grab the Series 1 DVD set.

They could have just cut the extra extra bit off the end and say it was the last ever episode. But a nice twist like that gets everyone excited.

Yeh, they cancelled it, the last episode wasn't actually the last, but it was a suitable enough ending though. Pity it ended.

That just really p!ssed me right off.
It was the only sci-fi thing I've ever liked, and was a damn fine programme. I'd rate it above SG1 anyday.

I think the plot was a bit too complex for the Yanks, that and the fact you really had to have been watching right from the very start to understand what's going on.
Compared to SG1, Star Trek and the like, where you can pretty much watch any episode as a stand-alone.

It was most fantastical, and if they brought it back, I'd be the happiest guy in the world.