Farscape or SG-1

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UPDATED: Friday, November 5, 2004 05:21
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RADHIL

Friday, October 1, 2004 5:45 PM

Bah, you got cheated then. Nerve is one of the better episodes - but only if you've watched the rest of the first season before it (Nerve was #19), as it pulls its influence from quite a few of the others.

You'd have no idea how completely John is winging this (he's acting bad because he's acting acting - it never works), that Chiana is still incredibly new to everyone and very much a wild card, no idea where the hell the tech girl came from, no idea why Aeryn's important... none of it would make sense. Scorpius takes time to warm up to also. That ep is really the start of the season-end, and it pulls too many triggers from earlier shows to get it just by itself.

The darkness... I think most of it was the base, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't used a lot in the show.

Of course, as you said, it might just be tastes. *shrug*

Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction

GHOULMAN

Friday, October 1, 2004 7:05 PM

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Originally posted by Channain:
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Originally posted by Ghoulman:
Oh, and Neitzsche was a liar.
"Anything is possible in a drawing..." James Gurney

Drat... out quoted!

I feel your pain Channain about the corporate hoops a visionary story must jump through... look out Joss! That ones on fire! Noooo! Not the burning FOX hoop of death! Iiiieeeeeeeeeeeee *.

And I have a funny feeling Angel can have a great life in reruns... too bad no one is rerunning it! Which really gets on my nerves considering the ratings for Angel were getting impressive. Certainly better than a certain starship show that is renewed automatically it seems.

And Shatner only turns on farm girls, I'm not sure why.

KIRIKOLI

Friday, October 1, 2004 7:14 PM

Not to get off-topic or anything, but could someone tell me real quick why Fox cancelled Firefly in the first place and why it wasn't picked up by another channel? I should prolly know this already, but I just never found out...

WREN

Friday, October 1, 2004 7:19 PM

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Originally posted by LtNOWIS:
First off, I'd like to say that previous posters have achieved an incredible level of insight into the pros and cons of the 2 shows.

My incredible level of insight is that Farscape is worth watching because Ben Browder looks very fine leather

GHOULMAN

Friday, October 1, 2004 7:26 PM

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Originally posted by Kirikoli:
Not to get off-topic or anything, but could someone tell me real quick why Fox cancelled Firefly in the first place and why it wasn't picked up by another channel? I should prolly know this already, but I just never found out...

Well, I could give you my bitter perception that FOX just wanted to purge any "liberal" materiral from "thier" airwaves (unless it's making them rich = Simpsons!) if not simply revenge on JW for having Fred put a "Dixie Chicks" poster in her office...

Or, someone who has more time than me can hunt down the relevant thread here on Fireflyfans.net? Channain? Anybody...

CHANNAIN

Friday, October 1, 2004 7:56 PM

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Originally posted by Ghoulman:
And I have a funny feeling Angel can have a great life in reruns... too bad no one is rerunning it! Which really gets on my nerves considering the ratings for Angel were getting impressive. Certainly better than a certain starship show that is renewed automatically it seems.

TNT is rerunning it. Unless TNT doesn't count, since they've behaved so badly with B5, Crusade (bad, yes, but still) and Witchblade. 4:00P CST on weekdays.

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Originally posted by Ghoulman:
And Shatner only turns on farm girls, I'm not sure why.

STOP! I BEG YOU!!

Oh, and stop capitalizing fox. Seriously. They are unworthy of any distinction whatsoever.

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

RADHIL

Friday, October 1, 2004 8:10 PM

I don't have time, but I thought the general gist was that they really wanted a show that was actiony and twitchy. Think Fastlane in space. They wanted Whedon's stamp on it because he carries his own fanbase. They didn't realize those two ideas don't mix well until too late, so they then sentenced it to death via timeslots and meddling (classic network-suit way to kill a show - put it in a bad situation, then blame it on bad ratings that actually stem from the bad situation).

Although given their often gleeful pick-up of great shows that push a bit, only to rapidly drop them, is giving credibility that they're just asshats in a conspiracy.

Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction

IDEFIX

Saturday, October 2, 2004 9:05 AM

I have to say while Nerve is a very fine EP it is much too arc-y to pull someone it. you need a good mostly stand-alone EP to do that or one that makes you curious about what came befor and what after not one that mostly doen't make sense without the rest of it. and Nerve is one of those. bad recommendation for a look into Farscape. but then again it's best to start at the beginning, and the pilot of Farscape is really good so why try do jump in later on anyways?

The Locket never did anything for me mostly because I found the old-makeup extremely badly done. it's almost always extremely badly done. they usually don't look old but deformed and that gets on my nerve so much I really can't get into the story. Aeryn's makeup was halfway ok but John's was just bad.

Idefix

GHOULMAN

Saturday, October 2, 2004 2:54 PM

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Originally posted by Channain:
Originally posted by Ghoulman:
And Shatner only turns on farm girls, I'm not sure why.
STOP! I BEG YOU!!

Oh, and stop capitalizing fox. Seriously. They are unworthy of any distinction whatsoever.

lol! Maybe we can get Haken to add a smaller, almost insulting, special fox network font.

Cafe Ghoulman.

GHOULMAN

Saturday, October 2, 2004 3:04 PM

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Originally posted by Radhil:
I don't have time, but I thought the general gist was that they really wanted a show that was actiony and twitchy. Think Fastlane in space. They wanted Whedon's stamp on it because he carries his own fanbase. They didn't realize those two ideas don't mix well until too late, so they then sentenced it to death via timeslots and meddling (classic network-suit way to kill a show - put it in a bad situation, then blame it on bad ratings that actually stem from the bad situation).

Although given their often gleeful pick-up of great shows that push a bit, only to rapidly drop them, is giving credibility that they're just asshats in a conspiracy.

Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction

Sure, that's what's been going around. But that's the rational from the PR Dept. Not what actually happened and I see you offer that conspiracy theory too, and thanx. How do I know this? Well, when humans are involved...

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