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tynin writes:
"After more than a decade, Farscape is coming back in what is likely to be a TV movie. The film would follow John and Aeryn's son, D'Argo. Because their baby was exhibiting a set of interesting powers that made him a magnet for galactic villains, we find that John and Aeryn hide their son on Earth to grow up. Now the kid is 19 and ready to go into space with his parents."
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by wjwlsn on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:21AM
Farscape lasted a few seasons. Firefly only lasted a few episodes, but had a big-screen movie... which didn't manage to garner enough interest to justify a comeback.
I loved both series, but I gotta give this one to Farscape. (I'm also glad it's not Lexx... yeesh.)
I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.
(Score: 1) by mojo chan on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:10PM
It makes no sense to me. Farescape is good, but it's cheesy. Compared the Firefly the characters are 2D, the story daft and the production values much lower.
It seems that the public doesn't like serious sci-fi though, with realistic characters and plots. I think that is why Stargate Universe failed, but it doesn't explain why Atlantis didn't keep going.
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(Score: 1) by lcklspckl on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:06PM
Hey now, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with visqueen pressed on to plaster.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by theluggage on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:45PM
Or to put it another way, Farscape had a chance to exhaust its possibilities - I liked the first couple of seasons, it really dared to be different, but got bored with it towards the end (the 'Loony Tunes' episode was the shark-jumping event for me: inspired, but once you start seeing D'Argo as Wile-y-Coyote, that's all folks). Later episodes just seemed to consist of endless bickering.
Firefly didn't get a chance on its first TV showing: episodes shown out of order, pre-empted by sport etc. but sold a metric shedload of DVD box sets. The movie was always going to be a hard sell (no big stars) - and they didn't sell it very hard. Methinks they probably made a few pennies off DVD sales, though.
Of course, what would be even better is if they got some good writers to come up with a new, original space opera?
Or tried filming some SF books? (Altered Carbon, Consider Phlebas*)? Some of the Peter F Hamilton tomes would make good Game-of-Thrones-esque "fantasy soaps".
(*...which would be methadone for Firefly fans, too)
(Score: 1) by githaron on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:42AM
I want to know if Firefly got cancelled because their weren't enough people who liked it or because it was not promoted enough. I didn't find out about Firefly till long after it was cancelled but it is an awesome TV series.