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Farscspe was the best star war imo
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Someone referee to it as "a BDSM au fanfiction for a more respectable sci-fi series that doesn't exist"
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Jan 22, 2020 19:28
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one inviolable rule of farscape that my friends and i noticed back when watching through it is at some point in every episode somebody is tripping completely out of their mind, whether though drugs or poison or psychic alien or dimensional rifts or whatever cut to slow motion low framerate shot with afflicted character swaying back and forth and looking bewildered while the ship showers sparks on them from damage
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Jan 22, 2020 19:29
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Pick posted:Someone referee to it as "a BDSM au fanfiction for a more respectable sci-fi series that doesn't exist" harsh but fair
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Jan 22, 2020 19:29
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alnilam posted:one inviolable rule of farscape that my friends and i noticed back when watching through it is at some point in every episode somebody is tripping completely out of their mind, Yah it’s the writers
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Jan 22, 2020 19:33
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Someone elsewhere in the forums once said that Crichton was unique among scifi characters in that he "weaponized his PTSD" after the aurora chair and i thought that was a pretty interesting way to look at it. Like a lot of his success comes from the borderline crazy, blase, casual, don't care if i die bc I've been through worse, way he approaches any situation.
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Jan 22, 2020 19:36
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skasion posted:Yah it’s the writers i don't doubt it one bit
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Jan 22, 2020 19:36
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I did like it though. Pilot!!
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Jan 22, 2020 19:39
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[Dargoishly] PILOT, gas thread and ban op NOW!
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Jan 22, 2020 19:41
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One time they landed on a graveyard planet (like all space travel shows, every whole planet has one singular biome and purpose) and rygel immediately starts grave robbing and he finds a huge corpse worm of unknown origin and says "Bonus!" and grabs and eats it. This is probably the seminal scene in the entire series
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Jan 22, 2020 19:46
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dude i fuckin love farscape
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Jan 22, 2020 20:01
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rockne-s-obannon-on-defia_b_3738323Rockne O'Bannon posted:The new network president “called me in and said, ‘Just make it as weird as you can, because I just don’t want a kids show,’” O’Bannon recollects. “The greatest words I’ve ever heard were, ‘Just make it as weird as you can.’ Farscape is good and fun and died too soon.
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Jan 22, 2020 20:05
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I love how they cloned Creighton and kept both for an entire season instead of a single episode.
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Jan 22, 2020 20:06
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I like that it doesn't take itself very seriously
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Jan 22, 2020 20:06
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Universe Master posted:I love how they cloned Creighton and kept both for an entire season instead of a single episode. Yeah it was a fun way to allow diverging adventures for a while without leaving him out
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Jan 22, 2020 20:07
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The show got poo poo on by some scif-fy fabs at the time for using puppets, but I was like have you even watched Empire, bro?
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Jan 22, 2020 20:09
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Puppets and physical effects have withstood the test of time imo and are still better, or at least more enjoyable, than CGI
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Jan 22, 2020 20:12
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alnilam posted:Puppets and physical effects have withstood the test of time imo and are still better, or at least more enjoyable, than CGI Yeah, just watched Tremors and that's true
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Jan 22, 2020 20:14
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Pick posted:Yeah, just watched Tremors and that's true the fact that farscape was replaced by a tremors tv show on the sci-fi lineup is just, wow.
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Jan 22, 2020 20:20
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It was pretty cool, the sci-fi channel had Sliders and Farscape back to back on Friday nights. On my senior prom night I watched them instead of going, but then had to describe the episodes in English class when we were asked to write about our prom night.
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Jan 22, 2020 20:28
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alnilam posted:Farscspe was the best star war imo i have used science and law and all the arts of humankind and can confirm this
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Jan 22, 2020 20:51
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alnilam posted:Someone elsewhere in the forums once said that Crichton was unique among scifi characters in that he "weaponized his PTSD" after the aurora chair and i thought that was a pretty interesting way to look at it. Like a lot of his success comes from the borderline crazy, blase, casual, don't care if i die bc I've been through worse, way he approaches any situation. i liked that the show explored the cultures of its space-peoples and never showed any of them using fiction for entertainment. there were religious stories and myths and histories and maybe a teaching story here and there, but no pop-culture fiction except for the poo poo crichton was saying all the time!! humans were physically unimpressive and did not have the technology to do gently caress-all, but crichton kept up with everyone because he had cultural knowledge to give him context, and metaphors, and even genre tropes to process the mad cosmos around them. centuries of human storytelling were crichton’s alien superpower. it ties in with him being the social glue for the gang: humans value community just because people are  and we will try to get along and entertain one another, just for the hell of it. humans in farscape are morons, but we are storytelling, play-staging, cartoon-animating morons and that is both a source of strength, and an outgrowth of our other social strengths
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Jan 22, 2020 20:59
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Pick posted:Someone referee to it as "a BDSM au fanfiction for a more respectable sci-fi series that doesn't exist" I've never seen far scape but I feel like this could apply to a lot of / perhaps even most sci fi.
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Jan 22, 2020 21:07
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Squizzle posted:i liked that the show explored the cultures of its space-peoples and never showed any of them using fiction for entertainment. there were religious stories and myths and histories and maybe a teaching story here and there, but no pop-culture fiction I like this post as well. it's Crichton's whole comedic character bit but also his greatest strength
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Jan 22, 2020 21:21
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It was good and then the show got better and then it was cancelled for TREMORS THE TELEVISION SHOW. The point of this post is gently caress SCI FI CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 22, 2020 22:05
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Also if you rewatch the series skip season one because........ there are some really lovely episodes.
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Jan 22, 2020 22:07
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Tenzarin posted:Also if you rewatch the series skip season one because........ there are some really lovely episodes. There are but also some good ones. Season 1 is a land of contrasts,
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Jan 22, 2020 22:09
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I've been wanting to watch this and Babylon 5 for a while. Are they streaming anywhere?
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Jan 22, 2020 22:49
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I think you can still watch Babylon five on Amazon prime for free
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Jan 22, 2020 22:50
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both are on amazon prime.alnilam posted:There are but also some good ones. Season 1 is a land of contrasts, Season 1 introduces a lot too. And even the bad is still pretty good.
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Jan 22, 2020 22:53
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Brute Squad posted:both are on amazon prime. Yeah if you don't remember it well or have never seen it you really need to watch S1 to get (re)acquainted with the main story setup if nothing else
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Jan 22, 2020 23:04
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Shout out to my man Wayne Pygram for his memorable acting. Scorpy's weird, calm, stilted badguy diction is the best. Especially when he's harvey and doing goofy stuff.
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Jan 22, 2020 23:06
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Pick posted:Someone referee to it as "a BDSM au fanfiction for a more respectable sci-fi series that doesn't exist" this is slander. it is character driven space adventure!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjXMDUTuBY look at all of that character interaction
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Jan 22, 2020 23:27
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here to do the only good sci fi show/movie posting. farscape. it's farscape
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Jan 23, 2020 04:05
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Fargate SG-1: The Next Generation
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Jan 23, 2020 04:16
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Reene posted:here to do the only good sci fi show/movie posting. farscape. it's farscape i liked that they had already used the name leviathan for the space creature the main characters lived in, when they realized that they needed a space monster waaaay bigger. so they went with “budong” (“immoveable”, a chinese name/translation of acala) which i thought genuinely clever and made me laugh a lil bit
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Jan 23, 2020 04:17
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ItBreathes posted:I've never seen far scape but I feel like this could apply to a lot of / perhaps even most sci fi. Farscape is like Guardians of the Galaxy, if it were made by the Henson workshop.
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Jan 23, 2020 04:27
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Brute Squad posted:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rockne-s-obannon-on-defia_b_3738323 The only weirder show I've seen is Lexx (also a good show)
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Jan 23, 2020 04:28
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Squizzle posted:i liked that they had already used the name leviathan for the space creature the main characters lived in, when they realized that they needed a space monster waaaay bigger. so they went with “budong” (“immoveable”, a chinese name/translation of acala) which i thought genuinely clever and made me laugh a lil bit I never knew that. That's cool. Son of Sam-I-Am posted:The only weirder show I've seen is Lexx (also a good show) Farscape is horny on an alt in private mode. Lexx is unrepentant horny on main.
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