Farscape Movie Confirmed

Skerries

http://www.tv.com/shows/farscape/community/post/farscape-movie-confirmed-by-rockne-obannon-at-wondercon-1397962451/

colour me excited!

pixelburp

Frell me, that's some exciting news I knew it was being talked about, but great to see it finally confirmed.

Mind you, can they go back? Should they go back? Seems like the tale of Moya and her crew was well served by the series and The Peacekeeper Wars; part of me wonders where they could take the tale from here.

rockbeast

Would be great if they got a Dredd-sized budget (40-50m).

How are original cast holding up? Will changes at Henson make a difference?

It's a long journey from being in production to being released and as such I wouldn't be getting too excited just yet. A Babylon 5 film has been confirmed for years, as has one for Deadwood, Rome, etc, etc. While I'd love to see it happen I imagine that if it does go ahead it'll be a direct to DVD affair and would be more of a reboot than sequel.

norrie rugger

Browder and Black are a bit long in the tooth for those characters now, especially Browder.
Hell i thought that when they were in Stargate

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

ugh, not happy about this. just let it die

i thought the peacekeeper wars was weak as all get out, a movie so long after the series will just be rough... so rough.


that said, more claudia black is rarely a bad thing.

Kiith

I loved the series, and even enjoyed the original movie, but i don't think they should bother with this. It had a proper ending, which wrapped up pretty much everything. Why bring it back now, 11 years after it ended?

TheIrishGrover

Shiny...... no wait....

Antar Bolaeisk

Kiith wrote: »

I loved the series, and even enjoyed the original movie, but i don't think they should bother with this. It had a proper ending, which wrapped up pretty much everything. Why bring it back now, 11 years after it ended?

Wow, 11 years, really?!

charlie_says

Hmmm. I only saw a few episodes of the show, wasn't too pushed. In fairness they were almost certainly not in order when I saw them though. What was great though was that most of the aliens acutaly looked alien.

Would anybody recommend going for it again?

norrie rugger

yes!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

charlie_says wrote: »

Hmmm. I only saw a few episodes of the show, wasn't too pushed. In fairness they were almost certainly not in order when I saw them though. What was great though was that most of the aliens acutaly looked alien.

Would anybody recommend going for it again?

absolutely

it's a little camp in places and a little ridiculous but when it's good it's incredible. it does serious sci fi drama better than any show that isn't babylon 5.... honestly... maybe even better.


plus a mid twenties claudia black strutting around in leather

Links234

charlie_says wrote: »

Would anybody recommend going for it again?

One of the best Sci-Fi shows going! The first season is really clunky, and there's some episodes that are an absolute chore to get through, but once it finds its footing and more importantly introduces Scorpius as the primary antagonist it becomes an entirely different beast.

Scorpy is one of the greastest Sci-fi villains out there if you ask me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7SS0YCWVGs

pixelburp

charlie_says wrote: »

Hmmm. I only saw a few episodes of the show, wasn't too pushed. In fairness they were almost certainly not in order when I saw them though. What was great though was that most of the aliens acutaly looked alien.

Would anybody recommend going for it again?

People already have recommended the show before my own post, but what I'll add is this: Science Fiction on TV nearly always suffers from a bedding-in period, usually manifest by a pretty scattershot & sub-standard first season. By and large this is because the writers and production staff are usually still working out what their show will actually be about. Name a popular Sci-Fi show and I'll show you a flaky first season. Farscape is no different here (and honestly, only the Battlestar Galactica reboot strikes as a legitimate exception), particularly as at the start the audience had no reference point for its alien cast, so naturally episodes focused on the sole human being among the crew.

The first season of Farscape can be exceedingly ropey and if you decide to give the show another try, please bare this in mind. Many of the key ingredients that eventually made Farscape one of the great Sci-Fi shows simply weren't fully gestated in season 1, with a number of the early episodes merely ticking the 'fish out of water' box as the lead character Crichton struggled to come to terms with this new universe. Specifically, once you've seen the episode 'Jeremiah Crichton', be content in knowing the show never, ever, gets that bad again. It still wobbles, but its an upward curve from there.

Otherwise, Farscape's a glorious example of aliens done right. People may mock the choice of puppetry, but ultimately the use of Hensons marvels allowed for more expression and range from its characters than CGI or dodgy forehead wrinkles ever could; many times the emotional impact of a scene featuring Pilot - and Farscape loved making him suffer - was only a success because of the subtle puppetry at work; to the extent that some of his expressions were so effortless and glancing you simply believed in this creature as a real thing.

The show also got alien cultures bang on; too often Sci-Fi uses an alien species as some crude surrogate or metaphor for humanity's own extremes (eg, the Klingons as ciphers for our own warmongering ways), whereas Farscape realised that a proper alien culture is about moralities and ethics completely divorced from our own - truly alien. This made for better drama because instead of Crichton kicking against what was essentially his species' own worst aspects (thus validating his actions) we got Crichton trying to deal with a set of perspectives he could barely comprehend; the end result being that Crichton isn't always the hero. He's a blundering idiot, frequently out of his depth, and as episodes go by you'll wonder about his sanity given some of his choices & actions. As mentioned above, Farscape lovvvved to torture its characters...

As you can probably tell, I'm an unapologetic fan of this show and could carry on in this vein, so I'll just shut up for now

So yes. Go Watch Farscape. Then we'll have pizza and margarita shooters.

Fysh

The four seasons of the main series are on Netflix if anyone wants to check them out without buying the boxset. Sadly Peacekeeper Wars is not available at present.

I must get around to trying it again - the OH is a big fan and I bought her the boxset a while back, but my only real exposure to it so far was watching the first couple of episodes when they originally aired and not being impressed. Given the comments in this thread, though, I think it should be worth my time to give it a proper second go.

CramCycle

As above, first season was not too my liking and I didn't really get into it but luckily BBC2 had it on and I watched the following seasons out of laziness in changing channels and it turned into some of the finest TV sci fi ever made.

TheIrishGrover

As much as I loved the series ("Talyn.... Starburst" is one of my favourite scenes of any show), I don't think I want to see a film or another series. Farscape was just a batsh1t crazy show that had it's moment. (And no, I don't want to see another Firefly movie/series either)