Farscape

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Originally Posted by Rausch

Landing Stargate after Showtime didn't renew was also a huge win.

I never watched it on Showtime and when it moved to Sci-Fi I got hooked...

True. I think that's about the same time they picked up the last couple seasons of Sliders, never got into it though. That was a few years after Farscape's first season though I think. The only other thing they had original at the time was First Wave. I think I only watched that for Traci Lords

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Originally Posted by unlurking

True. I think that's about the same time they picked up the last couple seasons of Sliders, never got into it though. That was a few years after Farscape's first season though I think. The only other thing they had original at the time was First Wave. I think I only watched that for Traci Lords

Didn't they come out with the invisible man around that time, that was pretty good as well. I remember when Friday night was scifi night. I think it is part of the reason that Firefly didn't do as well, some idiot put it up against the locked in stargate lineup.

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I thought it was better than Babylon 5 in every conceivable way aside from length of series. And talk about a show that hasn't held up well. B5 looked awesome at the time, but my kindle probably has more power than the computers that animated that show 20 years ago. It's really hard to watch now, after all the advances in CG. Farscape has the advantage there in that it used so many more practical effects.

It's been probably 4 years now, but I did somewhat recently watch Farscape beginning to end and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first time. While there are some episodes that make me cringe with their bizarre silliness they really did some fantastic things on that series.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

I thought it was better than Babylon 5 in every conceivable way aside from length of series. And talk about a show that hasn't held up well. B5 looked awesome at the time, but my kindle probably has more power than the computers that animated that show 20 years ago. It's really hard to watch now, after all the advances in CG. Farscape has the advantage there in that it used so many more practical effects.

It's been probably 4 years now, but I did somewhat recently watch Farscape beginning to end and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first time. While there are some episodes that make me cringe with their bizarre silliness they really did some fantastic things on that series.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

I thought it was better than Babylon 5 in every conceivable way aside from length of series. And talk about a show that hasn't held up well. B5 looked awesome at the time, but my kindle probably has more power than the computers that animated that show 20 years ago. It's really hard to watch now, after all the advances in CG. Farscape has the advantage there in that it used so many more practical effects.

It's been probably 4 years now, but I did somewhat recently watch Farscape beginning to end and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first time. While there are some episodes that make me cringe with their bizarre silliness they really did some fantastic things on that series.

Yeah. Babylon 5 almost needs to go through a re-imagined facelift series similar to the Battlestar Galactica treatment. I know the series prided itself on its fantastic storyline, and it WAS around for a significant period of time. It's not like the new series can just base itself on that universe in characters, setting, and basic plot and then go from there like was done with BSG. But... damn. A lot of these old sci fi shows can still attract themselves to new fans who have never seen them before, but when you look and act like Babylon 5, it's a pretty hard hurdle to climb.

The time may come in about 15-20 years when the show is down to just the core base that adored it when it was on the air before they can re-launch it. Because that could be really good if they did that.

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Jeremiah Crichton was a tremendous pile of shit.

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Taking the Stone was worse.

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Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Taking the Stone was worse.

That's like comparing Kendrick Lewis's deep coverage to Eric Hick's bootleg contain.

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There's actually been talking that there's been some discussion about updating B5 the way they've been with TNG.

Personally, I'd rather have Deep Space Nine on Blu-ray, but I'd be good either way.