I am a Scaper and not too proud to beg.

POSTED BY: JustAnotherMudder
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 17:28
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JUSTANOTHERMUDDER

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:59 PM

The producers have hinted that there may be a possible movie... but it depends a lot on how well the mini does, and how good the DVD sales are.
Also, it would be a nice to Skiffy if the mini got fantastic ratings.

Edit: If it isn't too much trouble you could wander over to Amazon.com and request an email notification for when the Mini DVD is available. They keep track of the interest... and we want a lot of interest. Thanks.
Edit again: the link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JNG2/qid=109819762
0/sr=2-1/102-6468263-1448168?v=glance&s=dvd
BTW- if you missed it and didn't get to tape it, they are airing both parts agian Sunday at 3:00 pm. Nice way to spend an afternoon...

"Always be yourself. Unless you suck." Joss Whedon
"Where else are you going to get a love story that begins:
Boy meets girl. Girl kicks boy's ass." NYPinTA @WatchFarscape.com

SABACEANBABE

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:00 PM

I was just a puddle of goo for hours after it ended... :goo:

In answer to your questions, Brian Henson has said that he wanted to wait to see the response to the mini (more the fans' response than the actual Nielsen ratings, but I'm sure those will also be a factor), but that he wanted to make more. The things we've been hearing from him and from Ben Browder are feature film and/or spin-off series.

If you're at all interested in seeing more, you could send him a nice note:

Brian Henson
The Jim Henson Company
1416 N. La Brea Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90028

Or you could visit www.henson.com and send them an email asking for more.

Well, part one of the great Scaper/Browncoat exchange has been completed. Now I start looking forward (even more) to that frelling big damn movie. Shiny!

Nebari mental cleansing doesn't get the tough stains out.

In the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank what?"

GRUESOME

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:36 PM

I am apparently in the minority, but I thought the mini-series was pretty bad.

My wife and I had rented the first 3 seasons and watched them over the last month and a half and got about half-way through the 4th after it was released a couple weeks ago, but watched the mini-series anyway...

I don't know why everyone thought it was so good. Perhaps it has been a while since everyone saw the series?

But as someone that just watched it, many of the episodes for the first time even, the mini-series was a large step backwards in plot, dialogue and character development, IMO.

And without wanting to go into spoilers too much, the whole "Rigel Situation" was just plain stupid in my opinion. Added to that, today is my daughter's first birthday, so it was exactly a year ago that my wife was in labor, without drugs, giving birth... When she saw Aeryn running along blazing away, baby underarm, 4 minutes after giving birth, she just burst out laughing at the absurdity of it...

Yeah yeah, blah blah blah sebacians recover instantly...

I'll stick with the more likely culprit, bad writing...

RADHIL

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:08 PM

*shrug* The Rygel situation was no more or less insane or stupid than any other situation they've been in over the last four seasons. It was more or less a disposable gag (except when Aeryn pulled her gun on him during the "wedding" - that bit was too classic), but they can't all be gems.

I noticed Aeryn chuggin' along after too - I didn't think Sebaceans = tough-ass. I thought Aeryn = tough-ass.

To me, the whole thing came off as though they took their whole Season 5 planning storyboard (which I'm sure they still had), put it in a vacuum packer, and told that story in four hours as best they could. It made it a little uneven at points (the miracle appearance of Jothee threw me for a loop personally), but it's still the finish that was planned and was worth telling.

Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction

GRUESOME

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:21 PM

No argument here that fans deserved better closure than they had.

It just seems to me that a lot of bad writing is being forgiven towards those ends...

And the Rygel thing still seems waaaay over the top for even this show to me.

Understand that you are replying to someone that just rewatched the introduction of Scorpius and all the beginnings of the great storylines of the show within the last month...

So compared to the Farscape *I* have been watching of late, this stood out in stark contrast as amongst the worst I have seen...

But, I am honestly not looking to convince anyone of this. If you enjoyed it, great. I am envious. I am just a bit surprised that no one else felt this way.

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:44 PM

Honestly, I've not seen the whole thing and will be able to better comment on it later this week. But from what I've seen and how excited I am to have Farscape back even for just 4hrs, it looks damn good. But yeah, it's true that they more or less had to pack all they wanted to do in the 5th season into the miniseries.

-Taylor

Uncharted Outlaw!

Haulin' goods from one end of creation to th' other. Keepin' my nose clean 'round the Alliance. See my Firefly Store: http://www.cafepress.com/NorCalRiviera

EMBERS

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by gruesome:
When she saw Aeryn running along blazing away, baby underarm, 4 minutes after giving birth, she just burst out laughing at the absurdity of it...

I agree that the whole baby business was absurd, no matter how you talk about genetically engineered soldiers
but that doesn't detract at all (IMO) from the brilliance of most of the mini series...

the homage to the film '2001' was one of my very favorite moments!

So inspite of minor disappointments (I hoped for a last minute redemption of Sikozu w/her using her radiation power again...), I feel that they did a brilliant job of winding up the whole worm hole arc with a lot of humor without sacrificing the important characters and relationships...

GRUESOME

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:28 PM

I'd be interested in understanding how I'd feel about it without ANY of the baby business...

In retrospect, its the vast majority of what I didn't like. I can forgive the sudden and miraculous appearance of D'argo's(spelling?) kid as things like that I am fully willing to write off to having to crunch a season down to 4 hours.

But I just felt like EVERY cut to Rygel killed mood and pace. Not to mention the cliche of the baby in the first place. It is CLASSIC "jump the shark" material in a regular series. (If you don't understand the reference, its a long story...)
... and here they shoved it all into 4 hours in a way that just kept killing mood for me.

Anyway... I've said my piece. I suspect that most people are willing to forgive them these things for the closure they got and that is ok...

Its not like its the first time I have watched something and found it bad only to see everyone around me raving about it! (*cough* BattleStar Sex-Lactica *cough*)

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