How did you discover/watch Farscape?

[Odile]

This has probably been asked before, but as a newbie (both to Farscape and this forum) I am really curious to find this information out...

I had heard of Farscape for awhile but had never watched it. I got addicted to Firefly and when they cancelled it I was desperate for scifi so I bought the best of Farscape 1st season (among other scifi dvds)... I now own all the dvds and gave my sister the best of to try to convert her... ;)

So... I was wondering how many other late comers are on this board (I just started watching the 3rd season).

Thanks for your time!

Odile


:kitty:

[trubador]

Yeah, I answered this once before. My cable company started broadcasting the Skiffy channel in Jan '01. They broadcast the last four eps of S2. Then they started broadcasting reruns (can you imagine that??? reruns... of FS... on Skiffy... in primetime... HAHH!). Anyway, they were broadcasting S2 reruns. Then they showed FS:Undressed (a one hour summary of S1 & S2) right before broadcasting the season premiere of S3. Been hooked every since. :D

[frellyou]

I watched the pilot episode in a rough format before the show aired but wasn't able to watch the show because I didn't have cable. Watched all the reruns on scifi recently though. I'm almost halfway thru season 4.

[aeryn_14]

I started it watching when the BBC 1st aired it and forgot about it for a while which I regret of course.
But then again I came to my sences and started from the end of season 1. I'm hooked ever since.

[Under A Dying Sun]

Originally posted by frellyou
I'm almost halfway thru season 4.


hope you don't get spoiled by coming here. :)

or did you already?

[godcha]

I only discovered FS during the 3rd season on the BBC, while zapping away. FS immediately caught my attention and before I knew it I was hooked.

I catched up on previous episodes by buying all eps on DVD, something what I haven´t done before: buying all seasons of a tv show on DVD!

[JRyde]

I started watching FS towards the end of 2nd season after catching one of they're marathons. Got hooked and been watching Sunday nights now and eps from season 1 on dvd:D

[frellyou]

Originally posted by Under A Dying Sun
hope you don't get spoiled by coming here. :)

or did you already?

No not yet. I decided to stay away from message boards for quite some time. Seeing as the series is almost over for me this was probably as good a time as any to start discussing Farscape. As a consequence of not being in the loop I did notice that I missed a convention in NYC almost a year ago. :(

[Debrina]

A friend told me about Farscape...only I didn't have access to cable or satellite TV, so I waited patiently. Alas by then I heard it was cancelled, so I rented the first season through my local library and Blockbuster store.

So I have finally come full circle, since I've been watching the reruns at midnight.

[auroraSun]

when I fisrt saw the pilot I got grossed out and cursed skiffy for airing such dren. But I saw some of the endings from watching sliders and slow got hooked. My first episode was PK Girl and I loved it. I just got my parents hooked through the DVDs and my sister got hooked at the beginning of season two. We are a farscape family :) :)

[ichinen]

I put season 2, but it might have been actually the end of season 1. I think "Nerve" was my first episode, but I am not sure.

[Dominar of Action]

when I fisrt saw the pilot I got grossed out and cursed skiffy for airing such dren. I'm drawing a blank here. What was gross about the pilot other than the one brief scene where Rygel spits on John?

[generic_screenname]

Originally posted by ichinen
I put season 2, but it might have been actually the end of season 1. I think "Nerve" was my first episode, but I am not sure.

Me too! My brother watched from the beginning, I happened to catch a few towards the end of the 1st season, and started watching religiously in the 2nd season.

[auroraSun]

Well Dominar, it has been four years but I think I thought D'argo was gross (maybe just scary). When my parents and older sister (she does not like the show) first saw the show they also said the characters were "scary looking". Now I can't see the problem with the costumes, but I can see other people's point in the wierdness and dark side which turns them away.

but then again, that what I love about Farscape:D

what a long answer:O

[Darth Buddha]

I don't know when this was asked before, but I think the information it is gathering is KEY in understanding the Farscape cancellation.

These numbers have too few counts to be sure of anything yet, but if Season 4 recruited few new viewers -- then that's where we need to focus. WHY? (I can think of a few reasons -- including failure to promote or cross promote the way they did say in Season 1).

[Zutulu]

Actually, the very first episode that I saw was "I, E.T." while staying at a hotel. However, that was before I had cable. I didn't think much of it (it's still not very high on my list) and promptly forgot about "Farscape." However, while flipping through the channels last summer, I caught a showing of "John Quixote." From then on I have been head-over-heels.

[generic_screenname]

I, ET is my least favorite episode.

[Zutulu]

It did have some beautiful CGI, though. (But that was about it :( )

[seattlescaper]

I saw a promotion on it on television and thought it looked interesting, muppets in space, kinda thing. I watched the premiere and was hooked. My only beef was if I missed a Friday night because of some other commitment, it was hard to find a time on Sci-fi to catch a rerun. So it wasn't until I bought all of season one and two on DVD that I was able to see all the episodes I had missed earlier. I have only one new episode left to see, the Lava episode from season four.

[Eiley]

Originally posted by trubador
Then they showed FS:Undressed (a one hour summary of S1 & S2) right before broadcasting the season premiere of S3. Been hooked every since. :D

This is about the time I started watching as well. My cable comp. picke dup psifi during the re-runs and I was hooked right away. I was this Undressed ep and forgot about it until this weekend when I was looking for something and it reminded me of this. I've only seen it that once, but I thought it did a good job catching me up to speed.

[DRD 1812]

Started watching in the first season from Elack. Hey, a DRD had to get it's entertainment to. Back in the day when I was still yellow. I got my parents and family hooked in late Season 2.

[Sentari]

Reading through this thread, I noticed there are lots of people who became fans of this show late in the story and who continue to find there way to 'Scaperdom. Being in Canada, I don't know how long Farscape has been playing here. I would guess it didn't start running here until it was already successful in the US for a couple of years.
I remember catching a few episodes of Farscape while channel surfing and it always grabbed me enough that I ended up watching the rest of the episode. But, for whatever reason, I never ended up making a special point to watch the next episode and so I wouldn't see it again until the next time I surfed onto the Space Channel at the right time.
I suppose the reason for this is that the plot is so expansive. If its your first time watching the show and there is some plot point who's seed was sewn last season, then expanded upon 5 episodes ago, it can be hard to figure everything out when jumping in cold. With noone there to assure me that it would be worth it, I never bothered to get involved in the story. I've always found it ironic that one of the biggest things I like about Farscape is also what caused me to take so long before getting into it.
It wasn't until Farscape S1 E1 popped up on a Kazaa search, that my love affair started. I remembered the show and figured I would check out the premiere. Well, one episode lead to a couple more, which lead to the entire first season. My wife got hooked soon after. 4 or 5 episodes an evening became the norm. We were watching them faster than I could download them!
I remember after watching the final episode of Season 2, and I looked at my wife and she was almost in tears. She's not given to girly spats of overemotianlism (is that a word?), and I knew then that I'd found a truly great show. It just so happened that I was having a horrible time with my internet at the time and it was about 3 days before we got to see the first episode of season 3. A very long 3 days that I think brought me closer to divorce than I've ever been! (How I get blamed for a technical glitch by my internet provider, I'll never know!)
Now I've seen 'em all. Including a marathon session of the last 10 or so episodes of season 4 in one Saturday viewing. Since I've become a fan and have started poking around on sites like this and talking to friends, I'm continually astonished at how many people have become fans in the last year or so. It's very convenient that just as I finished watching the series, the Space station has started playing them from episode 1 again and I can watch them all over from the beginning. And since I've harped on all my friends to start watching from the beginning so that they won't miss out when they finally do jump on the bandwagon, I've hooked at least 5 more people. Now they're watching every time its on tv. They call me up to tell me its on and I didn't even know. Apparently, Farscape plays 4 times between Farscape Friday and Sunday!!
Its fun to watch it with people who have never experienced Farscape. Almost like watching it myself for the first time. It always makes me shake my head though when I hear some comment from SciFi that Farscape was never able to grow beyond a core audience. I have never had a problem interesting people that are not traditional SciFi/Trek type viewers. Kinda makes me wonder if I should be an ad exec!?

[IamFarscape]

I stated other as i did not start watching in the 1st season, but from episode 1 and never missed one . When Farscape was 1st aired on sci-fi I was getting it on my c-band dish , it was the only way I could get sci-fi channel.
Since they(sci-fi) have cancelled my favorite show I have cancelled my subscription to them. It was the least I could do they FRELLED me so FRELL them back.

[grassroot]

It always makes me shake my head though when I hear some comment from SciFi that Farscape was never able to grow beyond a core audience.

Agree with you on that, Sentari. I started watching with S4's A Constellation of Doubt and was immediately dazzled by FS's jaw-dropping amounts of imagination, depth, and sex appeal. Who ARE these characters with their messy doubts, subversive beliefs, and across-the-universe grand passions? Didn't care that I didn't know the backstory, I just wanted more. I'd figure it out as it unfolded.

What started out as catching the occasional sci-fi/horror flic on that nasty little channel turned into a lucky surf-thru on a Friday night. After that it was every Friday night. Both airings. Anticipated all week.

[lorannp]

My story is sad but true...
I read about FS in TV Guide as one of "the Best shows you're not Watching" but at the time I didn't have cable. When we finally got cable I couldn't find it and the thrill of 500 channels made me a channel flipper. Then one day I caught the last 7 minutes of an episode...how was I to know it was the VERY LAST ONE? I have since gone on to get the beginning episodes from Netflix - bless them! Now I have to get one new kids DVD for every two FS I get just so I can watch in peace. (and just cuz I am a caring Mom I let them have the big screen ):D

[B Sharp]

Originally posted by lorannp
My story is sad but true...
caught the last 7 minutes of an episode...how was I to know it was the VERY LAST ONE?

Just curious lorannp- did you see the SaveFarscape commercial when you saw the last episode?

[lorannp]

No, I didn't notice it at the time - sorry...
I found Savefarscape.com on Google

[Umbra]

Well while I was a member over at ArcadeatHome someguy by the name of Evilnos_Unholy(I think he's a member here too) was making all these threads about saving Farscape. And I was like, "what the hell is that?" I was a fan of sci-fi shows(stuff like Babylon 5) but I never really heard of Farscape. So on his suggestion I decided to download the first couple of eps and that's when I became hooked. I don't need to tell you why the show is great since everyone already knows, but now it's become one of my favorites and I'm very thankful he turned me onto it.

Now I'm not going to ramble on and on like a maniac, but it's 5 months later and I have all the episodes on disc in high quality avi. Took forever to find them all through various sources and it took even longer for me to re-encode them.

I've never seen a single episode on tv, so I guess my vote goes to "other."

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

Welcome Umbra :hi:

[Nicola]

OK. Well, I am embarrassed to say that when a friend of mine initially suggested I watch Farscape I brushed her off. The premise as was given to me sounded childish and half-baked.

But she kept pushing, reminding me that I couldn't have an opinion without experiencing the show myself. And she made me promise to watch more than one episode too. Soooo... because I am an exceptionally good friend (and because I actually trusted her not to steer me too far wrong) I grimly sat down and watched an episode (and grimly is the word).

Was I in for a surprise...

The first episode really grabbed me in a viseral way, which was fortunate, because I didn't understand half of what was going on (Scratch n' Sniff). But it was enough that I sat down and watched a second episode and then a third and then ... Revenging Angel.

Remember, at this point I really had no clue that John had been cloned. I thought I was somehow watching the episodes out of order - that was the only explanation I could think of for John being in two different situations.

But it didn't matter. Watching Revenging Angel I realised how very, very special Farscape was.

Whimisical. Offbeat. Poetic. Risky. Creative. Lunatic. Elegant. Challenging. Exciting. Unpredictable. Artistic. All those words and more.

Farscape is a show that has the pulse of a generation (since I am 43 I get to say that - for my generation).

I am confident that the more people see this show, the more its popularity will build. This show isn't to be dismissed lightly. It grows on you. And given enough exposure (are you listening Sci Fi?) this is the next Star Trek phenomenon.

Don't give up on this show people. In 40 years time, I want people to point at Farscape and say "See? That generation produced and understood this kind of work. Weren't they amazing....":aok:

[MrFlibble]

My local cable company only added SciFi last year. The first episode I saw was "Promises". I had heard of the show, but never saw even the smallest bit until then. I got caught up during the summer reruns (I call it the Summer of Love) and now own the season 1 box set, which I loaned to a friend who has seen only season 4. I haven't even watched the DVDs myself yet!

Oh, the things I do for Farscape:D

[tesseract]

I just started watching it on DVD in April of this year, about a month after it was cancelled. I'd heard about Farscape from reading TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, and one of my cousins enthusiastically recommended it to me. But my cable company doesn't carry the Sci Fi channel unless you subscribe to digital cable. Being a poor graduate student, I wasn't ready to shell out the cash . . . that is, until I became hooked on Farscape. I've managed to watch the entire series, by hook or by crook, and I'm so glad that I discovered it. It's great to hear that other have come to it relatively late in the game, as well, and that it continues to live on. TV on DVD is a wonderful thing! :D

[Boron]

I've told this before, but in 2001-2002 I spent a long time in a VA hospital, and was disabled. When I got home, I of course had a lot of time on my hands, so I started to look for something to watch on TV. I started on Lexx, and I had always liked that, and I found out it had been cancelled. Then I decided to give Farscape a chance, (I had seen a couple of eps) and then I was hooked. When I went to the Scifi Farscape website, I saw it had been cancelled. Unreal..................


:confused: :grr: :mad:

[Odile]

I know it's a small sample, but did you guys notice that the 4th season (so far) seems to have drawn the least new viewers...

Any theories? (I am still only watching the DVDs so I'm only up to the 3rd season...)

[RydraWong]

As a practical point, the 4th season was when SciFi stopped showing re-runs of the show during the week (which it had been doing before). So for anyone who saw an ep during the 4th season, it would have been much harder to catch up and find out what the frell was going on.

They also shifted the show to a worse slot and only advertised it as an adjunct to Stargate, which I can't imagine helped.

[FrellmeHard]

Started watching Farscape with the first episode...... and was hooked the moment it started ...........

I am lost with out it my friday nights aren't complete

[Odile]

I think we can start to see a pattern now...

Makes me wonder why there have not been that many votes for the fourth season...

Is it the way scifi did it's programming that season? Were people discouraged and unwilling to watch the fourth season since the cancellation had been announced?

Any thoughts?

[Clarsax]

I think one of the problems was changing the time schedule change twice during season four with practically no warning. For every season up to that point Farscape had been aired at the same time period, so some people could have just lost track of when it aired after the first change. Another major problem might have been that eight month waiting period between season three and season four. A lot of people new to the show may have just forgotten about it after all that time, and with practically no advertising there was nothing to remind them.

[Silk]

I'm a S4'r. It was rather inconvenient. I was addicted after the first few minutes of my first ep (JQ), and, I tried to tape them all after that, which had problems posed by the unfortunate timing of showings.

[mexican]

I found farscape half way through season 3, what was this strange sci fi show? I found I picked up story quite fast , and loved it , could'nt belive it when they cancelled it! this is the best sci fi show with out doubt!!!!
At the moment i am catching up with the rest of the show, i'm at the beginning of season 1 , great stuff!!!!!!!:aok: :pop: :swing:

[Kyrsten]

I regret not watching Farscape from the 1st episode, as I can remember my dad watching it. Anyway, my first eppy was What was lost; part 1 which I came across while flicking channels. I caught the second part the next week, and watched other S4 eppys now and then. I started taping on Bringing home the Beacon, and looked Farscape up on the internet. CANCELLED! Damn. And since Bad Timing aired, I have been collecting all the DVDs- i'm up to Relativity at the mo.

I'm hoping that there will be more eppys waiting when I've got S4 on DVD.....:aok:

[Hammerhead]

I got Dish this year and saw one episode but was unable to catch it at the right time to see any more. Then a friend told me he had the 1st season on DVD. During recovery from surgery I watched every episode in just a few days. Then someone on this board suggestest NetFlix. I have all of season 2, 3, and 4 in my queue. I have seen the first 6 episodes of season 2 and await the next 6.

Late viewer. Hooked viewer.

[lorannp]

Gotta love netflix!;)

[Farscape Forever]

I saw part of an episode of Farscape of Season 2 on T.V.. it was part of the Look at the Princess Triology.. that was the first episode I ever saw.. but as much as I regret it now... I didn't start watching the show then... I think due to the fact I only saw part of the episode and it was in the middle of a three parter was the reason I was thoroughly confused and not catching another episode on t.v... made me forget about it.

just from the beginning of this year I started watching regularily and have caught up watching up to Season 4 Episode 10.. the funny thing was it was a season 4 re-run I saw that reminded me of the show and got me to go and watch from the premiere episode onward

[CaptMonkey]

The first episode that I ever saw was Exodus from Genesis, back when it played for the first time on the Sci-Fi channel. It was entirely by accident. Earlier that day I had started to not feel very well and by the late after noon I was feeling very sick. I'm not sure if I caught something or ate some bad food or what, but I wound up lying on my bed and not feeling well enough to do anything other than watch TV.

I was flipping through the channels and stopped on Sci-Fi when I saw this crazy alien-puppet-thing (Pilot). I wound up watching the rest of it and thought it was a really great show, although I didn't have much of an idea about the over-all plot. Then I proceeded to watch the new episode of Sliders that followed it, and maybe whatever other show they had on Sci-Fridays back then, I forget what it was.

Anyways, I pretty much forgot about the show for a few weeks until I caught the Hidden Memory, also when it played for the first time. I was really amazed by that episode. At that point I was hooked, and never missed another new episode again if I could find some way to get to a TV with the Sci-Fi channel.

As far as Season 1, I saw a few more episodes when I got the first 3 DVDs, and I saw a few in reruns, but until I bought the whole first season off of eBay a couple of weeks ago, I had never seen every episode of Season 1.

Oh, and since this is my first post here, hi everybody!

[grapeshot]

hi, and WELCOME to our forum! I love these stories of how people first saw Farscape and what their first impressions were! Thanks for posting yours, and I look forward to hearing more from you!!

[Frellwit]

I'm a late-comer to farscape too. I first saw farscape on the internet after it was canceled. I went on to download every episode, and when they started coming out on dvd, I bought those. I have the first two box sets, and I'm waiting for seasons 3 and 4 to come out in box sets to buy those.

[waltersgirl]

welcome to the board, Frellwit. :)

[The Keeper]

First eppy i ever saw was Green Eyed Monster i think, and a few after that, then stupid channel nine stopped airing the series half way thru s3 so i didnt get to see the end of the season till this year.

I watched s1 and 2 on dvd after my mum bought them last year. which was good cause i was really confused about the whole storyline seeing how i was introduced to it halfway thru season 3...and now im hooked and always will be yay!

[Chi27]

The first time I watched Farscape was the Pilot episode of S1. I remember catching it when it re-aired on Sci-Fi on Saturday mornings back then. I watched a couple more episodes, but then dropped it after Sci-Fi dropped the Saturday morning showings. I didn't bother to tune in on Friday's. Then I sort of became a casual viewer because a friend tried to hook me to show. That was in late S2 and S3. So I would watch some eppys, but I still wasn't hooked on the show at the time. I wasn't really paying attention at the time, I guess. Then I saw most, if not all, of S4 when it aired and I liked it more....like Unrealized Realities, Kansas and Terra Firma, Prayer, and finally Bad Timing.

However, what really sold me on it was my S2 DVD with LATP trilogy. The ending totally blew me away and from that point, I've become a Farscape junkie. :D I went back and re-watched S3 and was totally blown away by it. Now I own all the S3 dvds. All of this has been within the last three weeks or so. LOL. I definitely plan to buy the remaining S4's when they're released, as well. I've tried to convert my hubby and so have my friends, but he still calls in Muppets in Space. LOL. I've tried to tell him that Farscape is NOT a kiddie show and he just snickers at me and rolls his eyes. Oh, well.... :D

[mfa96]

I was channel surfing and I actually caught Farscape Undressed. First i saw Claudia Black talking, and immediately stopped surfing. Then as I watched, i saw the chemistry between her and ben, and then noticed the stories they were telling, and all thee pop culture references peppered throughout. From there I was hooked.

[ang3l]

I heard about the new "Muppets in Space" thing when it first came up on BBC2. They had stuck it in the 6pm Tea Time slot. I caught a bit of an episode or two but was usually working. That and Buffy (same time, differrent day) started here around the same time but I got hooked on Buffy after picking up a cheap video boxset. Then BBC finally started repeating it unedited late at night as what remains after they edit them for 7 year olds looks a little patchy. (They wouldn't show an edited 18 rated film at 6pm on a Tuesday so way do the same to a tv show?) :confused:

Kept hearing better and better things about the show but didn't have cable and didn't fancy shelling out £125 (US$225) to see if I'd like it.

Well, after it got canned I moved to a new place with cable as Sci-Fi started a full re-run during my breaks.

4 years of farscape in 18 weeks.

My withdrawl in week nineteen had several people ask what I had been taking. Well, I got Season 1 in Amazons January sale so they can suffer along with me 'till the mini-series:D

[Memphis Flyway]

Ang sounds like that much scape withdrawal would've needed shock therapy to get past.:D

[Cyber-Raga]

A friend of mine borrowed me her DVDs, since she knew I love arc-driven shows. She actually described the show as "Buffy meets B5 in space" or something like that.
Well I watched the entire 88 episodes within a month, I felt like being on drugs. Needless to say, I LOVED them. I still can't decide whether s2 or s3 is my fav one. Can't wait for the mini.

[lorannp]

sometimes i think i need a twelve step program for those weeks that scifi doesn't have an epi scheduled and the kids have actually gotten to order a netflix instead of one of my Farscapes - I purchased the first disc for those days when the "Farscape Jones" is just too much for me...:signlol:

[StakiraSlave]

I knew what Farscape was, but never watched it for years.

Then I caught "Bad Timing" and liked it, only to find that, of course, that was the last episode to air. Strangely enough, I watched the rest of the SERIES pretty much backwards from S4 to S1. I thought it was great. I've been meaning to watch the series chronologically, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Eliria]

Can I tell the whole story? Ooh goody. I like telling this story. Although I think it scares innocent passers-by.

I was in an Anne Rice vampire phase, reading all the vampire books. Wondered why there was only the one movie, so I looked online, and discovered very early Queen of the Damned news... as in, I think there was only one website about it at all, and it had a very small cast list, most of whom I'd never heard of, but it also said what other movies/tv shows the actors were on, and one was Claudia Black. Since I am very very lazy and did not want to rent movies I'd never heard of just to see what some actor who was in it for 3 seconds looked like, I decided to just watch Farscape. I think I started with Season of Death, and was instantly sucked in. I watched pretty regularly, back in the good old days when it was on at 7 pm weekdays or something reasonable, before the little scifi logo in the corner changed, saw some season 2 and 3, was really confused but pretty sure that this was a very cool show, and then didn't watch for awhile and almost forgot, until I heard it had been cancelled. Then I saw the first half of season 4 in one of those nice farscapeathons, and yadda yadda yadda, here I am.

[Sponge]

I first started watching when a LAN mate got some recordings and passed them on. Now I'm frantically trying to juggle money priorities between a new hard drive and a series of Farscape (probably series 3, despite my dislike of most of the TalynJohn-MoyaJohn split after Kaarvok turned up). Woe is me, for I have no money!

[soyarma]

I actually have no idea when I started watching Farscape. SciFi's marketing of Scape and Lexx almost made me think the two were the same show half the time. And while I have seen a lot of Lexx it absolutely pales in comparison to Farscape.

I know that I have seen the LATP series at least 4 times and I really liked it, but my schedule plus the fact that Farscape is really hard to watch casually and get the gist of what is going on stopped me from getting a lot of it. However, since it was on right before Stargate I did catch a lot of endings and slowly realized that by not watching Farscape I was missing out!

Right around that time I made a decision not to watch TV anymore. I couldn't bear having to wait to see the next episode after being tantilized by the current one and so I used good ole snapstream (like TiVo for PC) to grab all the Farscape episodes. Once I had the entire series (well, close, I am missing about 5 episodes) I watched them all from beginning to end and became thuroughly hooked.

I too am now going through some serious Scape withdrawl, so I can sympathize with those of you who also had the full speed seat of your flightsuit Farscape experience.

I selected 'other' as my vote, however it was during season 4 that I realized what I was missing by not watching FS but I was catching mostly reruns and not current scape, so It was probably season 2 content durring season 4 that got me going.

[scifinutter]

I am so relieved that I am not the only one who suffers Farscape withdrawls.

I voted s3. Keeper, you know where I'm coming from when I say Channel Nine suck. The first bit of an ep I caught was 'Relativity', the last 20 mins or so. Rygel absolutely fascinated me, all the men were hot, the trackers were mystifying, and the chemistry between Crichton and Aeryn left me stunned. The next whole ep I caught was 'Meltdown'. I know a lot of people aren't particularly fond of that ep but for me, it was a total crackup because the actor who played Mu-Quillus (Mark Mitchell) was very big in Aussie kids TV (Round the Twist and Lift-Off, for the Aussies), and it was from then on I realised half the fun of the show was spotting the familiar faces!!

After that, I got online and found this board and the Farscape Aussie Mafia, who told me the show had been cancelled, and that channel nine weren't screening the rest of the eps until the end of the year. So I thought 'I NEED to see the rest of this show and I can't wait that long', so I went and bought the s1 DVDs. I still can't believe I blew a pay packet that was intended for desperately needed textbooks on DVDs. But it was the best $135 I've ever spent. I watched all of s1 in four days, then bought s2 with the next pay packet, then had to wait a few months for the s3 DVDs (which nearly killed me), then had s4 taped off Foxtel for me.

I've found since I've become hooked on Farscape, I don't watch TV as much as I used to. I think it's because the bar has been raised so high that nothing else compares.

[scifinutter]

I am so relieved that I am not the only one who suffers Farscape withdrawls.

I voted s3. Keeper, you know where I'm coming from when I say Channel Nine suck. The first bit of an ep I caught was 'Relativity', the last 20 mins or so. Rygel absolutely fascinated me, all the men were hot, the trackers were mystifying, and the chemistry between Crichton and Aeryn left me stunned. The next whole ep I caught was 'Meltdown'. I know a lot of people aren't particularly fond of that ep but for me, it was a total crackup because the actor who played Mu-Quillus (Mark Mitchell) was very big in Aussie kids TV (Round the Twist and Lift-Off, for the Aussies), and it was from then on I realised half the fun of the show was spotting the familiar faces!!

After that, I got online and found this board and the Farscape Aussie Mafia, who told me the show had been cancelled, and that channel nine weren't screening the rest of the eps until the end of the year. So I thought 'I NEED to see the rest of this show and I can't wait that long', so I went and bought the s1 DVDs. I still can't believe I blew a pay packet that was intended for desperately needed textbooks on DVDs. But it was the best $135 I've ever spent. I watched all of s1 in four days, then bought s2 with the next pay packet, then had to wait a few months for the s3 DVDs (which nearly killed me), then had s4 taped off Foxtel for me.

I've found since I've become hooked on Farscape, I don't watch TV as much as I used to. I think it's because the bar has been raised so high that nothing else compares.

[Sponge]

Not so much withdrawal from the show as a whole (though I do like it all, even if it gets a bit too shippy at times), but I am definitely afflicted with a severe case of Scarran Withdrawal Syndrome :eek: .

Need more Scarrans, NEED MORE SCARRANS! Aaaaah!!

*goes off to calm down, find more coffee, and decide which ep to watch again*

[your side my side]

December 1999. I read the radio times and note that BBC2 are showing a new science fiction series called Farscape. I'd read an article in Dreamwatch magazine about it months before, but it had slipped my mind in the meantime. I'll watch any new bit of science fiction, so I tape the first episode on the monday night when they show it. I don't get time to watch it till the following sunday.
'Hmm!' I think. 'Good stuff!'
Throne for a loss is on the following day. I tape that, and again don't get time to watch it till the following sunday.
I'm a big fan of DC Comics. So when Crichton says that the gauntlet runs on willpower 'like green lantern's ring', I fall in love with the show. I made sure I never had to wait six days to watch any episode in future.

[Xevallah]

I saw a few eps here and there from various seasons when SG-1 moved to Sci-Fi. I always thought it was a cool show but I was really lost...then I finally decided to get the Season 1 DVDs and I fell in love with the show...pretty recently aswell.

[Cibby]

My Scape watchin' and love is sponsored by Netflix. I owe Netflix big time. I've considered giving Netflix memberships as gifts just to get others to watch Farscape. And I decided to add it to my Netflix list at the urging of One By One. But when Chasa (both are posters here) also showed super love for it, I knew I needed to move my Farscape disks up to first spot. Too many people with similar taste in entertainment as I do loved it, so I had to try it. I just bought my first set! Season one is on the way to me now so I can watch it again and bite my nails until the mini comes on.

[Centurion]

I started watching Farscape really late over a few nights on sci-fi channel and I thought farscape was brilliant, easily on par with stargate and enterprise but then i found out it had already been cancelled :(.
Now im buying the boxsets (already got series 1 and ordered series 2) and ive shown a few episodes to my brother, i think hes starting to like Farscape ;)

~Cent~

[realmsend]

My cousin forced me to watch one of the marathons. I wasn't really into sci-fi shows too much--and when I saw part of the pilot episode I watched it just for the puppets.

But then I really dug the Through the looking glass episode because of the simplicity and creative execution.

By A Human Reaction I was hooked.

[zhaan_01]

My brother first discovered the show when the first episode aired. He started taping the episodes and when I visited him in FL he played the tapes for me, since he knows what a sci-fi fan I am. I was hooked after that. My brother eventually moved back up here and we were actually able to watch some of the episodes together. It's nice to watch with a fellow scaper. My husband, unfortunetly is not a big sci-fi fan. What a great show it was/is, and I miss it. Can't wait for the mini-series.

[mfa96]

Welcome to the fun zhaan_01 :D

[Aurian]

I started watching it by downloads after the series had ended. But am now building a DVDcollection :)

[freckle]

i saw the premier then missed a few eps,,,,was totally hooked.i remember running into the bedroom where my boyfreind was and insisting he stop what hes doing and come and watch this show id just discovered.
i went to work the next day and ranted about it to everyone/anyone who'd listen...think i became obsessed around 'nerve'
then started hunting round 'forbidden planet' for the farscape magazine

[Lex]

I am new to this site, this is my 1st posting, and relatively new to Farscape - (I found it about 6 mos ago)
I have to thank the people at Amazon.com for my introduction to Farscape. I never even thought to watch the Sci-Fi channel and hadn't heard of it until it showed up in my recommendations. The reviews were great, so I bought season 1 and I was hooked and very dissapointed to find out that the show had been cancelled. I completed my collection earlier this week - love them all (well.. mostly) Thank you for everyone here who has worked so hard to bring us the Peacekeeper Wars!! :)

[Ministry]

I started watching it near the end of season one. I was at a family reunion at my grandmother's house and became fascinated with it when I was channel surfing and just happened upon it.

I suppose I've been hooked ever since. :)

props to the folks who got the ball rolling with peacekeeper wars. you guys are awesome. too bad I just recently found out about all of that. I would have gladly lent a hand (or tentacle, eyestalk, etc).

[Mr.Blue]

I started waching it on DVD before it was cancelled! I bought the first box when it came out and then i was hokked! :)

[Sugargroupie]

I was up late one night a few weeks ago and watched three episodes of Farscape on SciFi. I was hooked from that point on, and have since fed my habit through Netflix and DVD purchases.

[PKTechDude]

I started watching in season 3 with "Thanks For Sharing." Definitely an odd episode to start with since there are two Crichtons ;) but the retrival squad storyline got me hooked for good. :cool:

Since then I've caught up on the Sci-Fi Channel and on DVD.

[Surrender Monkey]

This has probably been asked before, but as a newbie (both to Farscape and this forum) I am really curious to find this information out...

I had heard of Farscape for awhile but had never watched it. I got addicted to Firefly and when they cancelled it I was desperate for scifi so I bought the best of Farscape 1st season (among other scifi dvds)... I now own all the dvds and gave my sister the best of to try to convert her... ;)

So... I was wondering how many other late comers are on this board (I just started watching the 3rd season).

Thanks for your time!

Odile


:kitty:

Started watching during a marathon right before the season 3 premier, oh yea

[blue]

I started watching from the middle of an episode during some fairly early Season 1 episodes (maybe around Throne for a Loss-or Thank God its Friday), didn't know what I was watching, just found myself eager to see more of the characters, and pleased each time I happened to see another episode-like--oh, THAT show again - then I liked it enough to look for it and start taping - then the Scifi channel REPEATED a bunch of them, and I actually got to see the first episode. By that time, I was pretty obsessed, and trying to tape them again, in order. And watching them twice on Fridays--the early and the late showing. And looking for it in the TV section to make sure it was on. It was just a private pleasure, I didn't try to convert anyone, but I would want to go into my room to my TV every Friday night. One of my grown kids happened to walk by once while Revenging Angel was on--and he (who had always rolled his eyes that I had to go off to see Farscape) asked what THAT SHOW was, and when I told him, that's Farscape, he got interested enough that he asked about my tapes--said he'd be willing to watch a few, if the show was like THAT. So we started watching the tapes from the beginning--sometimes 4 or 5 episodes in a row--sometimes more--sometimes all night until almost dawn--the "just one more" syndrome. What a pleasure to watch with someone who has never seen the show--almost like seeing it for the first time again.

[BjossiBlack]

Well, I first heard of the series when it was premiereing on Sci-Fi, I was a big Sliders fan, and I cursed Farscape, because Sci-Fi was cancelling Sliders, and I blamed Farscape for that...

Couple of months later, I saw a copy of the pilot episode & Throne For a Loss, so I decided to rent it. I went home and thought it was ok, and so I rented another one, then another one, then another one until I just decided I wanted to own the series on DVD !!! So I went to the UK (on holiday) and bought the entire First Season from HMV !!! I had to buy an extra suitcase to be able to put them somewhere !!! :D

Since then I've been a fan, and I bought the entire on DVD (It took a while, but mission accomplish). Now I'm in full force of trying to get my friends to watch it. I got 2 of my friends to watch it right away. and I was just scaping a friend of mine this weekend. And he's CRAVING for more...

So, what began with hate, ended in love :)

BB

[Kalliope]

I was reading one of our weekly TV magazines looking for something INTERESTING to watch and the description of "Farscape" was interesting enough to make me sit down in front of my telly one Sunday morning back in 2000 and watch PREMIERE. The rest is history... I was angry as hell when the owner of the channel which aired Season 1 & 2 in Poland decided to close the channel at the end of March 2001 and we lost Farscape in Poland, but thanks to some US and UK Scapers first, and then DVDs I was able to see Season 3 and 4 episodes.

[Spedoinkel]

Hmm, there should be a "Started watching it on DVD during seaon 4" option

[Odile]

Hmm, there should be a "Started watching it on DVD during seaon 4" option


Unfortunately, I can't edit the poll (that I know of... ;))

[Otterchick]

I started watching Farscape somewhat regularly the end of S2, but the very first ep I saw was Crackers Don't Matter. I remember laughing my arse off :wingnut: at John when they put the "predigested" paste on his face to protect him from the light (radiation?) and he yells about having puke on his face!

Anyway ... Season three was pretty regular, I didn't have cable during the break, but a good friend of mine started taping the eps for me. After the finale for s3 I got satelite and only missed one ep during S4 which a very kind scaper copied and sent to me. I now own the entire series on DVD and watch it regularly. I work 3 - 12 hour night shifts, so on my days off when the rest of the house is sleeping .... I'm either lost in the Uncharted Territories ... or somewhere in Tormented Space.

:love: Farscape!

[mfa96]

Welcome Otterchick! :hi: Glad to have you aboard...

[Dane]

Been watching it since S1 started, still am on DVD, can't wait for PK wars

[BaghdadRoj]

One night, while being stuck in a tent here in Baghdad with 8 other guys, and arguing about who's feet were causing "that horrid stink", one of the guys yelled "Shut up n look, women in tight leather!". We all huddled around a laptop and started watching. When we were forced away from the laptop, a few of us plodded down to the 24hr little PX near here and promptly got ourselves the first season box set. As time went on, we got the 2nd/3rd, and most of the 4th season.

Somewhere in between laughing off my bunk, and getting pissed that John n Aeryn kept having setbacks, I realized I was "scaped".. Which eventually led me here. I'm dreading October, since I'm gonna have to avoid this board and spoilers until I can find a way to get PKwars here!

roj

[mfa96]

Welcome Roj! :hi: Glad to have you aboard our virtual Moya.

Stay safe over there!

[lai]

"Shut up n look, women in tight leather." Funny, roj!

I'm nearly brand new to Farscape, too, having watched the whole series on DVD since sometime last spring. I was 'scaped while the show was still on the air (but I didn't/don't get SciFi) by a guy on the X-Files boards where I used to lurk who sang its praises up and down. I forgot about it for a time, and then it popped into my mind earlier this year, so I searched e-bay for DVDs and that was that, and here I am!

[Eve11]

Welcome Roj and Lai! :) :) :)

[uisceboo]

Welcome! :D

[tempest]

I did catch an ep or two on BBC at the beginning but it was on at a bad time while babies and miserable sci-fi hating husbands were about. Once we got satellite I caught it by accident and there's just no cure!! I saw it from the daft cartoon ep to the end on and off and then they started from the beginning again and I started watching religiously (on my knees mumbling in tongues)!!
I recently bought the dvds of the !st season and converted a friend. I'm really jealous as she gets to watch it as a Farscape virgin, all new and fresh with no spoilers. still, when it comes down to it she's hooked and I'm her pusher. Hhhhmmm, shall I let her have the next disk.....?!

[el-halo]

i must say, i perhaps realised farscape was a show i should watch at the worst possible moment: i was hooked when i saw the last 3 minutes of the very last episode. i had caught bits and pieces of farscape through its run, as my father watched it. but, i am not really a tv person and just never sat still to watch it more than a minute or two. i recall all of the attention farscape received when it was being tragically cancelled and by coincidence sometime later, i caught it one evening, not knowing anything at all about what episode it may be, or even quite sure what show it was. i saw that fateful scene and i just thought to myself that it had to be *that* show, and i was heart broken for its fans. i knew then that if those 3 minutes could move me so, farscape was something special. but thinking i had probably ruined the show for myself, and it not being in a format i could readily hook into (IE dvds), a a long time passed...and i finally got around to watching it last month and have watched all 88 episodes since then :> so yeah, theres my farscape story.

[zahncrelnik]

I wish I could remember what else I thought was important during the first season.
I know that I was very interested/intrigued by the commercials for Farscape, so
I made sure to tune in the second season. Loved it from the first episode I saw!
(Who didn't?)

[Cerenity]

I started watching a few episodes into the 4th season. Took me a few weeks to figure out what was going on but I finially started to really get into FS near the end of the 4th season. Till about a year ago I didn't find myself "hooked" yet until one day I caught SciFi's daily showing of a series of FS from Season 3 and became hooked. I loved the chemistry between Moya's crew.

[mfa96]

Welcome Cerenity :hi:

Are you also a Firefly fan?

[LadyM]

I started watching it on tv after it was cancelled.

I work until 12:30 at night and stay up late. I knew about Farscape because I used to work at Toys-R-Us and laughed when the toys came out. Now I wish I had gotten one of each!

Anyway, I am a huge Lexx fan and the programming had Farscape on before The Lexx late on Friday nights. So I started to watch Farscape. Well, I still am a huge Lexx fan but I am also a Farscape fan, and am really glad to see they continued with the mini series on tonight. I don't think I could have handled that ending if I didn't know the series would be on, I would be really pissed!

[Devnull]

I started watching it in the early first season but didn't get hooked until A Human Reaction and Durka Returns(CHIANA!!).

[Larraq]

My father told me of this great new show, so I saw one episode and was a little lost. It wasn't until during season 2 that I saw one of those chain reactions that scifi did of season 1, then I was hooked and watching it religiously ever since.

[Sid]

I found Farscape by accident actually, flipping channels on a Friday night. I happened to catch it during Season 2 - "Home on the Remains" and I've been hooked ever since :D

[PK Lee]

Think the first episode I saw was PK Tech Girl. Flicking through channels looking for something to watch and found Farscape on the BBC, I'd heard about it so thought I'd continue watching, instantly loved it and didn't miss an episode after that. :)

[Peacekemper]

Wish I could say I saw it from the beginning, but alas I started a few months before cancellation. A friend recommended it to me and at first I was skeptical, sci fi with puppets is what I saw at first glance. But oh baby was it ever more than that. I got hooked on some reruns and then it was cancelled. I eventually saw them all a couple weeks before the mini so I guess in that respect I was saved some pain.

I repect anyone who had to wait the full run for PKW to make it to us!

[amaya]

Well, I recently became addicted to Farscape and basically to Sci-Fi in general. I had heard of Farscape before, but I thought that I wasn't a "Sci-Fi" nerd so I didn't watch it. The only sci-fi I would watch was Star Wars, I thought that going any further than that would make me a dork. Eventually, I just had to give into the inner "dork" ;) in me and admit that I love Sci-Fi. Farscape was something that interested me and when I saw the advertisments for the Peacekeeper Wars and that the Sci-Fi channel would be playing all of Farscape from the beginning I decided to tune it and I am so overjoyed that I did. I am sooooo very happy about this. I absolutely love this show!!!!! I plan on buying all of the seasons on DVD soon and will enjoy sitting down and getting to watch the episodes that I didn't get to see during the replay.

[ConnieLyn]

I actually fell into Farscape by accident. I started at the very beginning, but was going to watch something else. When it first came on, I became hooked and the rest, as they as is history. Don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't accidentally turned it on that night. Guess I wouldn't have this wonderful show I love and never had "met" so many friends thereafter.

[arcticflare]

I watched it constantly in the first season. Once my mother and I found it, we made it a family ritual. . . . It was probably the only show that she didn't mind my "virgin" eyes viewing any sexuality in. That's how much she loved it. I'm older now, and she's still incredibly cautious about R-Rated in the movies.
Anyway, I'm not sure which episode was my first, but it was enough.

[otherunicorn]

I was channel hopping after watching the news, and landed halfway though an episode, halfway through a season. I'd never heard of it before, dispite having access to a mere 5 channels. I guess they never did any significant promotion of the show for it to have escaped me that long.

Ken

[Bandana Girl]

These are such fabulous stories!!! :love:

[The Keeper]

Then I caught "Bad Timing" and liked it, only to find that, of course, that was the last episode to air. Strangely enough, I watched the rest of the SERIES pretty much backwards from S4 to S1. I thought it was great. I've been meaning to watch the series chronologically, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
OT but, same the same thing happened to me with X-Files.

[hawk17]

I started watching stargate sg-1 about a year and a half ago, and naturally getting into the sci-fi community meant I discovered another show called 'Farscape'. It seemed pretty interesting, so I gave it a chance and watched the first few episodes. Needless to say, I fell in love with it... it has a rather strange balance of twisted humor and true emotions, which somehow works perfectly for this show. ;3

[TwistedKnickersinPA]

I have always been a sci-fi fan ever since seeing the 1st Star Wars movie in the 70s as a kid! My show of choice was The X-Files and my sister was always telling me I needed to watch this show called Farscape. Well, I think the first ep I saw part of was A Human Reaction and was not impressed & rather confused as to what was going on. Then much later I saw part of John Quixote. Can I just say, that as much as I love that ep now, how bizarre is that ep to an outsider?? Anyway I was really starting to worry about my sister's sanity at this point...Farscape, schmarscape. Whatever! Well, a while later she buys S1 on DVD and lends them to me with the advice that I had better watch them, or else! To make this long story short, I got hooked on Farscape after it was already axed and now I'm the biggest Farscape fan in our family and own all S1-4 on DVD. I own a beauty salon and even lend them out to clients (ones that I know will return my beloved DVDs!). It is now my mission (as well as all of ours) to get as many people scaped! Can I get a Hell Yeah!?

[Nicola]

I have always been a sci-fi fan ever since seeing the 1st Star Wars movie in the 70s as a kid! My show of choice was The X-Files and my sister was always telling me I needed to watch this show called Farscape. Well, I think the first ep I saw part of was A Human Reaction and was not impressed & rather confused as to what was going on. Then much later I saw part of John Quixote. Can I just say, that as much as I love that ep now, how bizarre is that ep to an outsider?? Anyway I was really starting to worry about my sister's sanity at this point...Farscape, schmarscape. Whatever! Well, a while later she buys S1 on DVD and lends them to me with the advice that I had better watch them, or else! To make this long story short, I got hooked on Farscape after it was already axed and now I'm the biggest Farscape fan in our family and own all S1-4 on DVD. I own a beauty salon and even lend them out to clients (ones that I know will return my beloved DVDs!). It is now my mission (as well as all of ours) to get as many people scaped! Can I get a Hell Yeah!?

Hell Yeah!

And Welcome! :hi:

[Maire]

i was hooked on the show from the first day it aired but unfortunately life changes and situations caused me to cancel my cable, thus taking me out of watching it round about mid season 3--definitely before Crichton2 arrives. the show and the love for it was always in the back of my mind but i never saw another ep until, purely by accident, i caught part 2 of PK Wars while clicking channels at my moms. the next day i ordered cable, checked out the dvds from the library and was quickly back off the wagon and have be deliriously obsessed ever since.

[hawk17]

your signature quote kills me. XD

[MarkTwo]

Hi Gang

I was at a meeting of the Sydney group, The Friends of Science Fiction, when Anthony and possibly DK came in to show us a trailer for the new show they were making at Fox Studios.
I have to admit from that trailer that I thought that Farscape wouldn't last a season, so many new shows get killed off by American networks far too early.
When Farscape began on Oz Tv in April 2000, I taped the first few eps, until Channel Nine took the show off, and only screened more eps against a small sporting event called the Olympic Games in September. .............
Late in 2001 I found a bunch of fans who were handing out eps of season 2, so I started hanging out with them, and ended up at the first TaScape BBQ in January 2002.
Farscape Fandom in Australia is a very small group, thanks to the lack of promotion of Farscape in the Australian media, who seemed only interested in US shows with big promotional budgets....

Mark

[Aidyn]

I had heard it was a cable show that had done somewhat well and had a relatively large fan followiing, was offbeat and one of the top sci fi shows of our current time. Being a lover of all things sci-fi, I decided to give it a shot on dvd with my netflix account. I saw the first few episodes, wasnt immpressed, the australian factor, the foreign flavor of the show which i love soo much now, was a turn off at the time. Then I watched a Human Reaction. And caught a glimpse of the Aeryn-John relationship that was too come. Absolutely enthrallment from there on out.
That relationship has ruined nearly all other tv relationships i could view, it was perfect in tension, timing, chemistry, charcter and every other sense of the word perfect. Farscape is fantastic on its own, but in all honesty, what will define it for me, and I believe define it in comparison to all other sci fi shows, is John and Aeryn.

[otherunicorn]

I saw the first few episodes, wasnt immpressed, the australian factor, the foreign flavor of the show which i love soo much now, was a turn off at the time.

The funny thing is that to me, when I first saw a few episodes, the show really didn't seem Australian. Now that I know, I can see it, but I wouldn't have guessed, despite recognising the occasional Australian actor. This SO outclassed the other Australian dren they push at us down here.

As for the "foreign factor" from an Australian point of view - half of what we see is imported, so the "foreign factor" is practically non-existant as we are so used to it.

Ken

[MarkTwo]

. I saw the first few episodes, wasnt immpressed, the australian factor, the foreign flavor of the show which i love soo much now, was a turn off at the time. Then I watched a Human Reaction. And caught a glimpse of the Aeryn-John relationship that was too come. Absolutely enthrallment from there on out.

Hiya Aidyn

I guess you were like me, suspicious of why an American show would be made in Australia, and wondering if it was any good. So many US shows made in Australia have been, to be polite, crap. Roar, Beastmaster, Timetrax, etc. etc.
So when Channel 9 were promoting Farscape as being filmed in Australia, alarm bells began ringing, and you were kind of expecting a cheap Star Trek ripoff.
Of course it didn't help that Farscape wasn't some huge hit in America like CSI or attached to a big name like Steven Speilberg. Then the Australian media journalists would have been talking the show up for at least a year or more, intead of passing it off as some Sci Fi wierdness.

Mark

[IriS]

I only found this thread now.

Anyway, a long long time ago, in a land far far away... Okay so it's not that long ago but the land is far away.

Being a romantic at heart, romance is a big deal for me when it comes to TV shows. So there I was, flipping through the channels sometime during 2001 and I caught a glimpse of a TV spot for a show called Farscape. In the spot, two beautiful people wearing black space suites were snogging the hell out of each other (think The Flax). It was so hot, I *had* to check that out.

I believe I.ET was the first episode I watched, and while I missed a couple of episodes after that, I started watching regularly and got hooked pretty darn fast. Then came the fandom, and the rest is history.

The End.

Okay that was terrible, sorry :D

[Silent_Cid]

I remember watching a episode or two, Then started searching the net on more about it. Came here and found out it was cancelled. So I didn't know if they were going to show more of it so I went and downloaded a few online intill I bought the dvds.

[Abigfan4]

I ended up on the scifi channel by accident in the middle of the PK Wars. I got so into it that I stayed up late to watch the repeat. Shortly after that I started buying the DVDs. I knew what the ending was at that point, but I had no idea how it all started. I think that Amazon became my best friend for a fews weeks there while I was buying the dvds (hehe).

I just really love this show. The writing is really good. In season 3 and 4 I actually thought everyone stepped up to the plate and improved on something that was already good. John and Aeryn have amazing chemistry, and that is probably what hooked me from the beginning.

I would love to see this story continue. We must have MORE Farscape!!! :yes:

Amy

[JAMC]

My husband and I (we weren't married then) saw the ads for a new show called Farscape. Those little snippets interested us so much that we made "plans" to be in that night so we could watch it! :cool:

From the first episode, we had our Farscape dates :rolleyes: We never missed one--my macho, manly hubby had tears in his eyes at the end of season 4 :D

~Abigail

[rosewood]

I was home sick and stumbled into the Farscape marathon that Sci Fan ran in the lead up to the PK wars. I started someplace mid Season 2. I watched it all day while I was home that day, then taped the rest of the marathon and watched PK Wars.

I definitely would like to see more Farscape. Hopefully syndication will draw a sizable new audience and also give DVD sales a bump.

[milatchi]

I couldn't get any classes I wanted at school and I was unemployed. Late nights of SciFi from 2:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M. Tues., Wed., & Thurs. FarScape would air. I started watching it and couldn't stop. Something about it made me want to keep watching to find out what would happen next. I am usually very picky about my Science Fiction, but I soon discovered FarScape was a very well-crafted show.

[PKTechDude]

Edit: Apparently I already answered this question over a year ago. :lol3:

[Ka D'Argo]

I was a big Sci-Fi Prime Fan. So When Farscape first started it was part of Sci-fi prime and i just fell in love with it right away. the others shows didn't even matter after that.

[Zinny]

I alwaya thought farscape looked stupid untill I saw the trailer for the peacekeeper wars and it looked cool so I downloaded a few episodes to see what it was like and ended by buying all the seasons on dvd as well as the peacekeeper wars. :)

[Em47]

I had actually never heard of the show during the run. It tooks its cancellation for me to even hear the name Farscape. Well life went on and I got into the Alias fandom, and met a few awesome people. One was a scaper and wrote about the show. It sounded cool to me as I have always loved sci-fi, so it was put in the back of my head that I should check it out at some point. During the summer another friend started watching the show and just went off on how good it was. Since I had nothing else to watch over the summer I decided why the hell not. I netflixed the first DVD and for the past few months I have been on Farscape overload. I just finished last Sunday. And it has totally ruined TV for me, lol. Nothing I have ever watched has ever been as good. Now I am trying to get other friends and family to watch. I am all about spreading the obsession :)

[IriS]

Hee. Em, look at you being all scaper-like! *giddy*

Hope you're enjoying the forum so far ;)

[Em47]

Hee. Em, look at you being all scaper-like! *giddy*

Hope you're enjoying the forum so far ;)
*tackles* Thanks hon for pointing me the right way. There is so much here I think I will be reading for days ;)

[ScaperByHeart]

Being that I was never really "into" Sci-fi, I was bored one night at home and just happened onto Farscape on Friday night during the end of the first season. Mind you that my husband loves :D sci-fi and I used to tolerate some shows.....But I was the one who introduced him to Farscape ;) and because of that, he enjoyed watching it with me (still does) and he loves it too! I am TOTALLY obsessed (without sounding too dangerous) with the show!!! I got all 4 series dvds for my birthday and Christmas last year, and I also got PKW for my anniversary this year.

I have watched PKW at least 4 times already, and I am about to restart watching the series from the beginning AGAIN!!!!! :D

Now, I am not ashamed to admit that I love Farscape, and because of the show, it has opened the door for a lot more shows...i.e Firefly, Serenity, Stargate SG1.... Did I mention that I also love The Fifth Element? Does that count as Sci-fi? :eyebrow:

[frellingdrenoutaluck]

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[TheEeshew]

I started watching FarScape earlier this month. I jumped aboard just as reruns began running from the first episode.

Before then, I've seen a few of the VHS Box Sets at a used bookstore. I might have also seen the DVDs as well elsewhere. I wasn't too sure about it at first--the creatures I saw on the panels looked way too weird. (As I look back, I was probably too used to the Human-looking aliens of Star Trek.)

Then, earlier this month, I noticed in the TV Guide that the show was going to be on, so I decided to watch it and check it out. I was immediately drawn in my the same strange creatures that I had seen on the VHS side panels. Then I learned that the ship--Moya--was a living being of its own. That more than anything kept me watching.

By the second episode, a week later, I acknowledged that FarScape was indeed one of the best shows ever to be seen on TV.

As of now, I've seen 10 episodes--4 on TV and 6 that I got in a VHS Box Set. :)

[Nicola]

I started watching FarScape earlier this month. I jumped aboard just as reruns began running from the first episode.

Before then, I've seen a few of the VHS Box Sets at a used bookstore. I might have also seen the DVDs as well elsewhere. I wasn't too sure about it at first--the creatures I saw on the panels looked way too weird. (As I look back, I was probably too used to the Human-looking aliens of Star Trek.)

Then, earlier this month, I noticed in the TV Guide that the show was going to be on, so I decided to watch it and check it out. I was immediately drawn in my the same strange creatures that I had seen on the VHS side panels. Then I learned that the ship--Moya--was a living being of its own. That more than anything kept me watching.

By the second episode, a week later, I acknowledged that FarScape was indeed one of the best shows ever to be seen on TV.

As of now, I've seen 10 episodes--4 on TV and 6 that I got in a VHS Box Set. :)

Oh I so love to hear these kind of stories! Welcome :hi:

And just so you know.... you are in for the ride of your life. Which episodes did you watch via your VHS Box Set?

So glad you posted! :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:

[TheEeshew]

Oh I so love to hear these kind of stories! Welcome :hi:

And just so you know.... you are in for the ride of your life. Which episodes did you watch via your VHS Box Set?

So glad you posted! :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:

Thanks for the welcome! :hug: It's nice to have finally found a live FarScape Board. The ones I checked before were long empty.


On my VHS Box Set, I watched "PK Tech Girl", "That Old Black Magic", "DNA Mad Scientist", "They've Got a Secret", "Til the Blood Runs Clear", and "Rhapsody in Blue".

I especially loved the middle two. "DNA Mad Scientist" gives a nice glimpse to the dark side of the characters--at least in the case of D'Argo, Rygel, and Zhaan.

As for "Secret"... Like I mentioned before, one of the things that drew me to FarScape was that the ship they're on is alive with a mind of its own--not just some cold machine that was built at a shipyard. Without giving anything away to those who haven't seen it yet, this episode really enhances that idea.

[Nicola]

Thanks for the welcome! :hug: It's nice to have finally found a live FarScape Board. The ones I checked before were long empty.

TerraFirma (http://terrafirmascapers.com/index.php) is another lively Farscape Board. You should check it out.


On my VHS Box Set, I watched "PK Tech Girl", "That Old Black Magic", "DNA Mad Scientist", "They've Got a Secret", "Til the Blood Runs Clear", and "Rhapsody in Blue".

I especially loved the middle two. "DNA Mad Scientist" gives a nice glimpse to the dark side of the characters--at least in the case of D'Argo, Rygel, and Zhaan.

As for "Secret"... Like I mentioned before, one of the things that drew me to FarScape was that the ship they're on is alive with a mind of its own--not just some cold machine that was built at a shipyard. Without giving anything away to those who haven't seen it yet, this episode really enhances that idea.

The best is yet to come in Season One. :D But your favourites are two important arc episodes. Just wait and see!

I like DNA Mad Scientist for a couple of reasons. Mostly because you realise that Farscape can get very dark. Some of the characters do something unforgivable for their own selfish reasons - and they don't even apologise. And of course, Aeryn's character arc was given a bit of a boost.

They've Got A Secret is great too. You learn a bit about Luxan survivability and D'Argo's backstory. Not to mention important stuff about Moya -like she is not just a beast of burden. :D Information that resonates for a long time.

I liked PK Tech Girl as well. Gilina is a great character.

I could talk about all the episodes you watched - ad nauseum, but it is hard to without talking spoilers for the episodes.

Just a word of caution, around episode 15 ... buckle up and by episode 18 hang the frell on. ;)

The rest of the series is even better. :joy:

[TheEeshew]

Thanks for the link! I'll check it out. ;)

[Jason Bridges]

i started watching in the 1st season and ever since i've been hooked. i've got them all dvd and it was well worth it cos now i can watch them when ever i want.

[Griffin]

I bought all the DVDs (four seasons + pkw) because I have read some enthusiastic comments about the series at many points in the Internet.

Personally I think this will happen to many people.
At the moment I'm showing it to my sister and she already likes it a lot.

Honestly I think it's only a matter of time for the next farscape project to come, there are some loose ends even done on purpose in PKW like for example Sikozu and Grunchlik.

[Bitter_Rose]

I started watching the pilot episode (but as a rerun) but once I started seriously getting hooked! :)

[woolhoss]

I appreciate the ole Daylong marathons on skiffy and illegally pirating movies from the internet b/c that's how I saw all the eps. now I have them on dvd, but that was alot cheaper.

[Talyn06]

Started watching last year on local tv. Never heard of Farscape until then.

[Farscape_Freak]

I started watching when I cam home from camping and the rest of my family was in Oregon and my brother had the PK Wars DVD so I decided I'd see what it was about since I knew Ben Browder and Claudia Black were in it since I'm a Stargate fan as well, so I watched it and liked it and I knew my brother had the seasons downloaded on his computer so I started watching em and I got addicted and still am