Quit yer whining
Never watched Farscape. No cable, remember?
There is much wailing and gnashing of tooth about the cancellation; I found that last link from a Google sponsored link, ferchrissakes. Seeing as I'm Keeper of the Frank's Place flame, perhaps it's hypocritical of me to tell 'em to shut the hell up, but that's never stopped me before.
According to Peter David, who wrote for a show or two himself, they needs to give it up:
I also understand the sets have been destroyed. Not stored. Destroyed. If that's true, if the sets are gone, then any "save the show" campaign is a waste of time. They won't rebuild the sets. The bulk of initial outlay goes into the sets. The only way "Farscape" comes back (in a two hour film, as has been hoped) is if all shots of Moya, etc., are stock shots and the entire thing is shot on Earth. Which is not impossible, I suppose. But a return of the series ongoing if the sets are gone is slimmer than slim.
So watch Firefly instead. It's on broadcast tv, at least, so us cheap bastards can enjoy it too.
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Yeah but isn't Firefly pretty much going to suck because Fox won't let Whedon do the show like he wants to? Didn't they make him reshoot the pilot?
I never saw Farscape either.
Posted by: Michelle | September 17, 2002 2:08 PM
farscape? never watched it (and i have cable), couldn't care less about saving it. i'm too busy saving zim. priorities, man. (and i'm pretty sure you can download all the episodes off the internet, so cable is optional).
Posted by: kd | September 17, 2002 2:10 PM
kd, I leave you to your moosey fate.
Michelle, always with the negativity. . .
Posted by: Aaron | September 17, 2002 2:16 PM
Me? Negative? You've got to be kidding. I am Mary Fucking Sunshine.
Posted by: Michelle | September 17, 2002 2:17 PM
Gah. You guys all suck. Farscape rocks. Interesting stories, hot chicks, gear, and lots of humor. What's not to love?
AFAIK, the sets were scheduled to be destroyed, but were not.
If you like SF, go ahead and rent the first season DVD at blockbuster and give it a spin. It only gets better from there.
Posted by: scott | September 17, 2002 3:40 PM
there's something about sci-fi fans...
I watched the first season of Roswell, enjoyed it, but it was always at risk. The fan sites went crazy about trying to get it to come back...even when they struck the sets at the end of this season, I was getting emails from looney tunes asking me to send tobasco sauce to save a show I hadn't watched in 2 years.
Its over...let it go...
Posted by: Jason | September 17, 2002 3:41 PM
I felt this way about Once and Again. It was a really good, really well written show. When they were toying with the idea of keeping the show I didn't have a problem with people sending letters to the network and what not. But after ABC said "there is no way in hell this show is going to be back on the air next year because we suck and continually gave this show a bad time slot thus dooming it to a short life" I was ready for people to give up the fight. Let it go. When it's over it's over. How many more cliches can I come up with to describe something ending?
Posted by: Michelle | September 17, 2002 4:31 PM
But CBS might still bring back Frank's Place, right?
Posted by: Aaron | September 17, 2002 4:42 PM