Comparisons to Farscape... huh!?!?
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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 16:52
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Well most of those similarities come about merely from the genre. If you have people going through space you have the choice of making them either the government or rebels/outcasts of some kind (considering that normal everyday people going through space might not be terribly interesting). If you have them be the government then you'll get called a Star Trek rip-off. If you have them be outcasts then you get called a Farscape rip-off (or one of the millions of other space shows that have used that dynamic, Farscape is far from the first to show a group of outcasts dealing with space, I mean, the film Ice Pirates at least in part dealt with that back when Farscape was at most a vague thought in its creators head). The main difference I can see from Farscape is that an important part of Farscape used to be that Crichton was the only human in it. THus it probably (I say probably because I've watched approx. 5 episodes of Farscape ever) had a different outlook on things than Firefly
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which won't have aliens in it based off recent comments.
Nathan
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Quote:Not exactly unusual. The Dirty Dozen. The Wild Bunch. The God, the Bad, and the Ugly. The Lavender Hill Mob....
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The motly band of losers gathered together in a band for survival.
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The harsh universe they are living in.
The Cruel Sea. The Perfect Storm. Bladerunner. Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
Quote:The Great Escape. The Sorrow and the Pity. Red Dawn. Top Secret!
The heavy military baddies they are running from.
Quote:Sex and the City. Some Like it hot.
There are even some broad character types all three series share like the Inara/Chiana similarites.
I'm being silly, aren't I?
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You said it brother,there is no way your going to make that statement and say howdi!!!
It might be able from what I read to get a story going that would be on the lines of Babylon 5,but thats a tall order to fill too.
However I love B5,and Farscape,and hope to fall in love with this show, but have no hope with FOX at the helm( I'm sorry)Because fox is looking for another "X files" and they have looked,or excuse me,are looking for a "money tree" and like space above and beyond may suffer the same fate(and that angers me to know end)of anyone who does not make money out the Gate!!! 
I hope this is not considerd a put down(we all know what happens then) but it has to be said,I hope it a good show and makes a Billon dallors to shut up anyone at the network ,and give it % to 10 years!!! 
Well heres hopeing for the best,and keeping good thoughs!!! 
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before there was just Star Wars and Star Trek...no other shows, maybe JMS took the big guys on with Babylon-5, then Farscape and Firefly were the talk.
For a while Battlestar was hyped but it had a bad ending, the original was liked and the first Battlestar had its own charm but kind of dated and goofy.
Scifi probably already peaked this was before all the Game of Thrones, video game to tv series, The OA stuff and DC cartoon superhero, Loki, The Boys, Rick and Morty, South Korea, Japanese, Avatar The Last Airbender Legend of Korra type shows took over.
I'm glad to see them bringing back Stargate
but Farscape was unique
Harvey/Crichton
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