No competition for Firefly except for SCIFI Prime

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UPDATED: Friday, August 16, 2002 19:31
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INARASNEWTOY

Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:00 PM

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Originally posted by mojoeca:
The arc eps are what I live for, so I'm taking the "wait and see" approach, too. I was never too impressed with the majority of 'SCAPE's stand-alones in previous years, so this current stretch is nothing new. Impatience is creeping, though. We're 8 eps in and nothing's happened.

So far, I've enjoyed "Crichton Kicks," "Promises," "John Quixote" and "I Shrink." So they're 50/50.

--- Joe

Ummmm....

Scorpy suddenly being nice, what happened to Aeryn, why does she know Tortured Space so well, why did Pilot and Moya lose their memory of what happened in the Wormhole, how will Chiana get rid of the Energy Rider visions that are stealing her sight, why is Nateri trying to turn John into a drug addict, will Mele-on chase Moya into TS and will the Scarrins chase after THEM?

And that's only a start!

I think enough is happening!

Look, i can agree that this year is VERY different then last year but then so was season two and for that matter so was season one.

I like that! I love shows that take a chance and put it all on the line. I hope Firefly does the same thing.

INT

One evil at a time, that's the best i can do - Farscape

JORGASNAROVA

Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:36 PM

The fact that DARK ANGEL was consistently behind schedule and over-budget for most of its life may help explain why the suits at FOX were so nervous about its less-than-stellar ratings. They were loosing their shirts, so to speak.

One thing that really annoyed me about DARK ANGEL--and left me wondering if the show was run by a bunch of wastrels--was how consistently poor most of the makeup was...here they were, spending, what, 1.9 million per episode, and most of the "animal people" makeups were just plain dreadful. Remember the episode with Alec and the panther woman in the sewers? The costume and makeup were so bad I thought it was a story point. Hey, look at the lady in the cheesy cat costume. No, it's a cat transgenic. And the Doctor Who theme, circa 1970, sounds in the background. Yeesh. And all these for 1.9 million.

MOJOECA

Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:17 AM

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Originally posted by InarasNewToy:
Scorpy suddenly being nice, what happened to Aeryn, why does she know Tortured Space so well, why did Pilot and Moya lose their memory of what happened in the Wormhole, how will Chiana get rid of the Energy Rider visions that are stealing her sight, why is Nateri trying to turn John into a drug addict, will Mele-on chase Moya into TS and will the Scarrins chase after THEM?

And that's only a start!

I think enough is happening!

Yeah, that's the setup. I'm waiting for the payoff. And we only have 2 more weeks before the show goes on another mega-hiatus.

--- Joe

INARASNEWTOY

Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:16 PM

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Originally posted by mojoeca:
Yeah, that's the setup. I'm waiting for the payoff. And we only have 2 more weeks before the show goes on another mega-hiatus.

--- Joe

Have you been watching Farscape long? If you have you should know when the payoff happens it happens BIG!

If it helps David Kemper wrote about episode 11, the one just before the big break. He says that there is a BIG ending to that episode. He also wrote that scene is where the whole 4th season became locked in place.

(Think Crackers Don't Matter from season two and Eat Me from season three. The episode that sets events in motion that come crashing down on Our Team's head during the finale!)

INT

One evil at a time, that's the best i can do - Farscape

NOVAGRASS

Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:31 PM

So, explain to me what this "mega hiatus" is. When will new episodes start back up? Will they just repeatedly show the reruns of the past eleven episodes on repeat? Or will they replace Farscape with a completely different show? I may be a bit confused.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

ZICSOFT

Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:32 PM

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Originally posted by Novagrass:
So, explain to me what this "mega hiatus" is. When will new episodes start back up? Will they just repeatedly show the reruns of the past eleven episodes on repeat? Or will they replace Farscape with a completely different show? I may be a bit confused.

SciFi usually puts its top shows on hiatus or reruns in the fall -- I guess they don't want to compete head-to-head with the big guys. What makes this irritating is that they never finish the season -- they hold back a few eps so that they can "come back with a bang". Which certainly doesn't work well with Farscape, because it means breaking off in mid-arc. Very confusing.

(Don't remember what they filled the time slots with. Mostly movies I think.)

As if that weren't bad enough, they didn't restart all their shows last January, the way they have in the past. Lexx, if memory serves, came back in late Feb, and I missed a couple eps because I didn't know it was on. (Fortunately, I didn't miss any big plot resolutions -- Lexx never resolves stuff anyway.) Farscape came back in April -- eight months after they went on hiatus. Then, after they'd shown the four eps they'd held back, they went on hiatus again for another month.

I remember some of the TV reviewers thought that the season premiere was full of weird mind games, because the plot seemed so inexplicable. The real problem was that it'd been nearly a year since the first eps leading up to it had been shown!

What makes this really weird is that SciFi has a lot invested in Farscape, having paid the producers for two full seasons in advance. Yet they keep doing stupid stuff (stupid even by TV industry standards!) that's bound to chase away audience. Possibly, SciFi has been the victim of shakeups at its parent company, USA Networks, which recently sold off all its cable TV holding and renamed itself USA Interactive. Hopefully the new owners will do better.

INARASNEWTOY

Friday, August 16, 2002 7:10 PM

Pretty much what Zic said although the April episodes were the four part season three finale then they took a break during May sweeps and came back in June for the season 4 priemere.

What stinks is this year started late so we will only be at episode 11.

The good news is that Sci-Fi is making noises that 4 episodes will be shown in January like normal, so hiatus won't be as brutal this year.

I think old episodes of Stargate SG1 are on tap for the fall plus a cheap-o reality sci-fi show (like that mess Johnathan Frakes does now) in place of the usual Sci-Fi Fridays.

INT

One evil at a time, that's the best i can do - Farscape

HAPLO721

Friday, August 16, 2002 7:31 PM

Beyond Belief used to be good. Then they just started making it to where the fake stories were just too easy to pick out. This last one had a story where a con man gets bitten by a vampire-- a VAMPIRE, for crying out loud. They tried to make it ambiguous as to whether it was for real or if he was faking it to cop an insanity plea, but still... a VAMPIRE! Then there was one where a guy's on a business trip and his dad is biking with 2 friends. The dad decides to take the scenic route, adding hours to his trip, while the others go to a bar. The son gets a feeling that something is wrong with his dad... and tells his wife to book him a flight out to Aspen, where his dad is. Then he appears in the bar to one of the friends, tells him his dad is in trouble, and to organize a search and rescue team. The friend looks away for one second to tell the bartender to get him the phone, and when he looks back, the son is gone. Turns out later he couldn't get a flight booked. Oooh, freaky. And it might have been believable, except that the son could have just CALLED!

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