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A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Improbably, all this is happening on the Sci Fi Channel, best known for reruns of Knight Rider.
It's like FARSCAPE and MST3K never happened. Harumph, I says. Granted, MST was picked up from another network like STARGATE was, but it was the reason I first tuned into Sci-Fi for anything but the old movies they used to show.
It's like FARSCAPE and MST3K never happened.
You're looking at it from the inside. I think they're not.
Yeah, I don't think my own THEY KILLED KENNYFARSCAPE! THOSE BASTARDS!!! reaction is one that's typical of the general viewing public when they hear the SciFi Network mentioned.
You're looking at it from the inside. I think they're not.
Are the ratings for BG that much better than for FARSCAPE? I ask because I genuinely have no idea. Or is it the name recognition factor vs. actual content of show (i.e. cheesy 70s show gets a classy remake) that's the difference?
Granted, Sci-Fi never re-ran a show that pinged my radar, so I never perceived it as a re-run oriented station, so, yeah, I'm probably not the norm.
Oh wait - they did Trek TOS for a while, didn't they?
Frank, you've never been unemployed with cable, have you? Yea, verily, that's how I caught up on Quantum Leap reruns, Lost in Space reruns, and a bunch of other stuff.
Actually, as a data point on Sci Fi fame, my flatmate is into SF, but only now and then. (Really, she's a Captain Picard fan, and reads George R. R. Martin, and that's all.) She asked me the other day if I'd heard about this show Battlestar Galactica, because some of her classmates had been telling her about it.
The fact that she'd never heard of it till middle of its 2nd season says one thing (she's not hugely media-conscious outside of her predefined interests). The fact that non-SF-fan law students are telling her about the show now says another.
(I don't think it's her kind of show, in the final analysis; although she wouldn't be much bothered by the logical lapses, and would eat up the quasi-incoherent politics, the dark tone would tend to be a turnoff.)
Are the ratings for BG that much better than for FARSCAPE?
BSG is the SciFi Channel's highest rated original programming show thingie. Dunno what ratings Farscape got.
In the time of Farscape vs. Stargate, Stargate was their highest-rated program.
Galactica premiered to over 3 million viewers, and the lowest rated episodes are just above 2 million. Farscape never broke 2 million, and was usually closer to 1.
I think (Suela would know for sure) that Farscape was also very expensive to shoot; much more so than Stargate.
Me last night: "Son cursed in school today. The vice-principal said he said 'the F-word.'"
Husband, hoping against hope: "'Frell'?"