FARSCAPE: pinnacle of aesthetic achievement or wack?

Now Fraggles in space, that would rock.

OH, and yeah watching star trex energy blob stories again - TNG and Voyager had same story last week due to bizarre coincidence or anti- trekkie machinations proved to me how ovrtd that was/is and that Claudia Black can out-act any of the trek massive>>>>

YES - qL but Lme - i.e. my kinda juice

luv to play 'spot the former neighbours/homeandaway/matrix extra'

I saw a great Chiana at a Halloween party this year.

I think you summed up nicely why I don't watch TV anymore.

It's just that most people seem to dismiss the show without ever actually watching a single episode.

Quite why I feel this way is unclear to me. I can't put my finger on its origins, but it has to have something to do with my general shrugging off of things, though I won't go so far as to say it's the only reason. I think it's telling that my preferred media of music and reading can be enjoyed simultaneously, at my own pace. Hmm...this is all very curious to me, very strange.

SHE who knows better doesn't watch tv or filums - cannot concentrate - [though loves books] - falls asleep quikshrp + still doesn't know who bruce willis iz

I haven't seen more than 5 minutes of it, and it looked lame. But appearances can be deceiving and I know so many people who love this show.

Farscape starts off as being fairly insubstantial (though highly entertaining) eye candy and develops into an expansive character-driven drama with many audacious twists and turns in the ongoing narrative.

So, more "pinnacle of aesthetic achievement" for me. If anyone wants to check out the series, the new "Starburst edition" DVDs currently being released (they're about two thirds through season three) are quite cheap.

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I'm a fan#inventive postB5 arcs + cheeze + Chiana = k-Grate>>>>RYGEL ~ along wif Stanley from Lexx#only sci-fi chars yr man relates to>>>>sCORPIUS at 6.45 BBC

OH, and yeah watching star trex energy blob stories again - TNG and Voyager had same story last week due to bizarre coincidence or anti- trekkie machinations proved to me how ovrtd that was/is and that Claudia Black can out-act any of the trek massive>>>>

YES - qL but Lme - i.e. my kinda juice

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any programme about leather-clad renegades/exiles on the run, fkn their way thru space would interest me[cue d'argo tongue droolage] after a monday teaching crummy '70s Brit-fiction>>>>>>mindeyes buyin the role playing game coz it's D20

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anyone else writing stuff under the ^official license^ - can't wait to see the farscape permutations # Hynerian troops wif their lickl legz

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^^ this guy was ahead of his time

god I love this show SO hard.

I get almost teary when I think back on how awesome SciFi Fridays were, back when the SciFi Channel spelled their name correctly

Crichton - Doc Martens in space!
Aeryn Sun - best female role to happen to tv sci fi since Kira Nerys on DS9

I heard it got cancelled - is there any sort of closure? Or does it suffice in that Firefly sorta way, where everything is so witty & charming that you could watch things entirely out of order and love the series anyway?

(p.s. - i liek firefly)

they did a movie after the cancellation which I felt tied things up well but still left you feeling like NOOOOO OMG DONT GO

that's good enough, i guess. been meaning to pick it up for a while but i just have to finish fawning over jewel staite first. i have a couple years to go.

you will find Claudia Black a worthy followup to Jewel :)
and Jon Crichton is definitely cut from the same cloth as Mal aka Capt Tightpants

firefly is a great stepping stone for Farscape, come to think of it.

how many people do you suppose will watch this just because abed on community thinks it is great

not enough!

I started watching it last year & think I d/lded most of it. I just didn't get past a certain point, not sure how certain that point was.
Just gave up on it & left with the feeling its naffness outweighed other qualities. Maybe I should have another look at some point.

think I may have moved on to Sons of Anarchy, weeds, the wire & The Sopranos.

& now watching Deadwood & Carnivale.

Started watching Lexx at the same time as it though. & now wondering why.

ohdear i signed up for netflix and all of farscape is available for streaming... when i first watched this show it was via friends' VHS tapes, taped off tv, so i missed much of season 1, which my friends said wasn't a big deal, but i'm watching it now and like it - more hokey than later seasons but isn't that often the case with sci-fi tv, and it's super entertaining at any rate - this show totally freakin holds up. i really need to try v hard not to watch it all day though...

hilarious how long crichton hangs on to wearing his iasa gear
(this show is possibly my biggest nerd-indulgence)

I still miss it, Rygel was the bomb.

Firefly>>>Farscape>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Battlestar Galactica

Exhausted a lot of other options on Netflix and decided to watch Farscape

oh man this show would be even better if I was stoned. I already am hoping that someone on youtube has made a super cut of every time the little muppet spits/sneezes on someone.

so great

just finished jim henson's creature challenge and i'm wondering a) should i watch this? b) should i watch dark crystal?

You should definitely watch Dark Crystal

def Dark Crystal

then Farscape

did u like the Creature Shop Challenge show, Mordy?

yes v much

Farscape dragged 1 season too long (3 seasons is some kind of optimum for lost spaceships: BSG, Voyager, Lexx, possible exception Red Dwarf). Still the whole remains the most emotionally engaging sci-fi TV of my lifetime (tho Babylon 5 beats it on space opera plotting).