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11-16-2003, 02:06 PM
http://www.charlierose.com/index.shtm
http://www.charlierose.com/feedback.shtm
OK--essentially a modified verson of what I sent to Leno has been sent to Charlie Rose. The address is above, if anyone else wants to do the same.
Great idea DarthBuddha!
__________________________________________________ __
Dear Mr. Rose,
Farscape is a brilliant, award-winning, critically-acclaimed, and intoxicatingly entertaining show that aired on the Scifi Channel. It is in the opinion of many critics and viewers the best drama, comedy, action adventure on TV. It is daring, sexy, breathlessly fast-paced, comical, dark, slyly referential to pop culture, superbly acted, emotionally compelling, irresistible. I am attaching a list of quotes from critics about Farscape at the end of this letter to give you a taste of how Farscape has affected professional media watchers.
I suggest that you might consider interviewing one or more of the actors, directors, writers, or producers about Farscape on the Charlie Rose Show, for instance Brian Henson of the Henson Company, or the actor Ben Browder. Farscape is an extraordinary TV show that evokes a passionate response in viewers, and the lengths to which viewers have become involved in promoting it would make fascinating television.
Many people around the world have fallen passionately in love with Farscape and have joined an internet-based campaign in the past year to find a way to continue a fifth season of this marvelous, thrilling, heart-rending, witty, moving, funny, constantly surprising, wildly imaginative, beautifully produced show.
Created by the Henson Company, Farscape was partially funded by the Scifi Channel for four years, and became its critical hit. Due to Vivendi's and EMTV's financial difficulties, the series was unexpectedly cancelled on a cliff-hanger before a promised fifth season. The fan base of Farscape is passionate about the show, and is building steadily, even though there are only reruns and DVDs of past seasons available. People become enraptured with this show and hunger for more. Farscape appeals to both men and women equally, both young and old. College professors and students love it. The man who sells me fish loves it. The antique dealer down the street loves it.
Since the cancellation was announced, viewers have organized and have spent well over a quarter of a million dollars so far to advertise Farscape themselves, increase viewership, and bring the show back into production. Viewers have placed large ads in USA Today, The New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, and the entire cover of Variety. TV and radio ads broadcast across the country have been completely funded and created by viewers. This has never been done before. Out of the three TV ads broadcast, one of them was honored with an advertising award. A non-profit organization has been created by Farscape fans that has over $375,000 already pledged by viewers to help fund a return of this extraordinary beloved show. When the show was first cancelled, a smart, organized web-savvy and dedicated worldwide movement coalesced through a website at http://www.watchfarscape.com.
There were rallies worldwide, including our troops in Afghanistan. A woman in SanAntonio rented an enormous electric scrolling sign over a major highway. People have put up banner ads across the internet, run charity drives tied to Farscape publicity, blanketed the country with fliers, bookmarks, business cards, buttons, magnets, bought preshow slide time in movie theaters and created the slides, covered their cars with giant Farscape ads, and produced two cookbooks. The viewers have donated hundreds of Farscape DVDs to libraries and to military posts across the country. Viewers have written to the advertisers, the networks, the media. Stunts have included hundreds of bras sent to the Scifi Channel on the same day from women around the world to illustrate that half of Farscape fans are women. Because the massive and unprecedented efforts of viewers never stopped, Henson, the actors, writers and producers never stopped trying to resurrect Farscape, and it now seems that Farscape will be going back into production, according to many news sources, including CNN. This is a great story akin to the resurrection of Star Trek, but it took less than thirty years this time.
Sincerely yours,
(My name)
Critics re Farscape
"Farscape deftly fuses wit and breathtaking action with startling emotional depth."
-G.J. Donnelly
TV guide online, TV Picks
"...smart, funny, exciting, touching..."
-Newsday
"Exciting, clever, startling, sexy, with violent clashes and emotional climaxes that are equally satisfying..."
-Matt Roush
TV guide
"...a feast for the imagination and currently the best sci-fi to be had on TV. It's the stories that will bring you back week after week. Intelligent, witty and creative, the scripts sparkle..."
-Jared M. Delaney
TV guide online, TV Picks
" ...impressive visuals; interesting, layered characters; actors who add nuance to their roles and a well-balanced mix of drama and humor overall. "
-Michael Peck
TV guide online
"...the most irreverent, unpredictable, sexy, intelligent and exciting sci fi show on TV ... incredible chemistry ... some of the most vivid and compelling fantasy creatures ever created ... a joy to watch ..."
-TV Guide
"TV's best space series"
-USA Today
"...imaginative stories, bizarre aliens and sparkling dialogue ..."
-Boston Herald
"... by far the best and most inventive SF TV show on the air at the moment ... Farscape has once again surpassed anyone's wildest hopes and expectations ..."
-Dreamwatch
"... if you like your Sci-Fi challenging, unexpected, intelligent, witty, engaging, and populated with complex characters you can really care about, then accept no substitute. Farscape it must be."
-Starburst
"Sly comedy... ...genuine drama... ...an original vision."
-New York Daily News
"Four out of four stars. Watch this show."
-New York Post
"Addictive…top-notch…witty"
-San Francisco Chronicle
"A delight"
-New York Daily News
"A grungier, sexier take on the space frontier"
-LA Times
"A favorite of critics…state of the art special effects"
-NY Times
"TV's smartest sci-fi series is also the sexiest"
-Entertainment Weekly
"Easily the best show on TV"
-Bedford Times Mail
"The finest science-fiction show in all of television"
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The Coolest Show on Television"
-Boston Herald
"Spend...Friday nights thrilling to the experience of a smart, funny and occasionally breathtaking experience..."
-Lisa Schmeiser
www.teevee.org
"the marvelous Farscape...a deluxe supernova of mindbending thrills and irreverent fun..."
-Matt Roush
TV Guide
"Easily the best show on TV regardless of the genre, "Farscape"...... there's still some great TV out there. The highest-rated shows are still dramas and comedies that are driven by the ideals behind becoming better people. ...TV still enlightens, still informs, still whets our curiosity and still inspires our sense of wonder on sci-fi shows such as "Farscape." ...
10 best shows of 2002. ...
1. "Farscape" remains the best show on TV because it's unpredictable, because actions have consequences and because nothing stays the same from week to week. If a disaster strikes one week, it's not forgotten the next, and the writers have constantly surprised viewers. This is a rare series that puts a single human being in a universe of aliens.
It's literally "Stranger in A Strange Land" (though it's unrelated to that Robert Heinlein novel). "Farscape" is a metaphor for the alienation that people experience and our efforts to connect with one another despite it.
Ultimately, "Farscape" is about whether we can put the community's needs above our own and what we learn when we succeed or fail. And with the brilliant sets, effective aliens, witty dialogue and cool effects, each episode is like a short feature film."
- TV Star editor Dave Mason
Venture County Star
The Inside VC Network
-----------__________
"one of TV's best dramas - not just best sci-fi, but best drama, period."
"stunningly theatrical production values…striking dramatic substance"
"a behavioral dynamic that raises the emotional stakes to extremes. Crichton is utterly alone in space. So are the ragtag cohorts with whom he falls in on the living ship Moya - escaped prisoners or renegades in their own worlds, each searching for something, living without rules but with their own individual senses of morality, which may or may not dovetail with anyone else's. With the aliens on equal footing with the human, their characters vibrantly manifest their own aspirations and agendas. They're often at cross-purposes. They act on passions and prejudices, which makes for intense entertainment. Even the animatronic characters from the Jim Henson Creature Shop can be astonishingly expressive."
"It's that nervous edge - and contemporary irreverence - that drew "Farscape" a more broad-based audience than most sci-fi, most of it adult, much of it female, and decidedly non-geek."
"The richness of the storytelling radiates…most of all, there's a humanity that's heart-rending."
- Diane Werts
Newsday
-----------__________
"'Farscape,' the channel's first bona fide critical hit…a signature program, the kind of show that raises a cable channel's profile above the ever-expanding crowd."
- TV critic Melanie McFarland
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"For four seasons… Farscape managed to keep up this manic energy and creative inferno …. Farscape raised the bar for science-fiction series television."
-John Sullivan
SciFi Magazine
"a groundbreaking show that emphasizes intelligent story telling and character development…"
-Bill Ferguson
The Macon Telegraph
"already legendary"
-TV Guide
"unique and vital…heart-stoppingly daring and often deeply moving…baroque, visually spectacular, and pyrotechnic … Strange, smart, sexy, psychologically rich, superbly acted, and apparently hell-bent on breaking every rule in the book…"
"The cast, writers, and directors all seemed to be genuinely passionate about the show and committed to making it "as close to being an art-form" as possible"
"Farscape's weakest episodes could often have ranked with many other shows' best."
-Clare Sainsbury
strangehorizons.com
-----------__________
"I've never seen a TV series that's quite like "Farscape." The show deserves a fifth season and beyond."
-TV Columnist Mike Brantley
Mobile Register
"it's hard to say goodbye to this literate, intelligently plotted, and stylistically daring series. …That the series was forced to end … is a crying shame."
-www.teevee.org
"some of the tube's most deeply human psychological insight"
Diane Wertz
-Newsday
"arguably the greatest science fiction television series in history"
- Aaron Davis, revolutionsf.com
"... in Farscape, we finally had something that was not only rare, but something that was, perhaps, unprecedented — television sci-fi that transcended the stifling, unimaginative boundaries of the genre as defined by TV executives and consistently gave us stories which were genuine works of art ... Combining top-notch scripts and special effects, superb acting and art direction, the creators of the series have given us television that is both entertaining and intelligent, that isn't afraid of taking us places we might not want to go, and, most importantly, that understands the invaluable value of characterization ... Farscape is, possibly against all odds, a work of art, in every sense of the word. "
- Caitlin R. Kiernan, revolutionsf.com
"The creative team behind the show has worked with love, courage, and terrific imagination to present a show that ignored the formulas, broke the rules, and took sci-fi television in new and fascinating directions."
- Shane Ivey and the staff of RevolutionSF, revolutionsf.com
"Smart, sexy and intelligent."
- Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury News
"Out of this world (how could we resist) Sci-Fi at its best."
- Jerry Krudnick, The Star-Ledger
"A series of fantastic, explosively exciting new episodes."
- Matt Roush, TV Guide
"ADV Films’ ‘Farscape’ is among the best looking and sounding television shows available on DVD today."
- Mark Rivera, Genre II
"Farscape is more far out than ever."
- Matt Roush, TV Guide
"Each new story on Farscape seems to pack even more punch than the last."
- IGN.COM
"Sci-Fi’s hit original series is critic’s choice for Best Sci-Fi Series of 1999"
- TV Guide
"The year’s best in TV."
- Newsday
"...Eye-catching and energetic, ... lotsa fun."
- Dallas Morning News
"...Exotic...impressive.. primed for action."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Farscape is more than just TV’s best space show..."
- USA Today
"Visually exciting... a quality production..."
- Oakland Tribune
"Simply spectacular..."
- Desert News
"...One of those rare outer-space adventure series that deserve to be called fantastic..."
- TV Guide
"Imagine what could happen if 'Farscape' was given a really big push. With investment in the show and investment in marketing the series, it could be the next Star Trek-style franchise. It could soar to undreamed of heights..."
Editor
-Dreamwatch
Sept. 2002
"Farscape is a brilliant example of a genre-blending, humorously dramatic, depressingly uplifting, outer space show for adults…
One of the most complete and appealing science fiction shows of all time."
TeeVee Awards '02: Best Hour Shows
-teevee.org
"…the fantastically entertaining FARSCAPE …Farscape gave the network credibility, acclaim and prestige."
Matt Roush
-TV Guide
"Sci Fi's recently (and disgracefully) discontinued delight, "Farscape," adapted old-time cliches to a modern setting, twisting and turning them into something fresh and dramatically compelling. That show's assorted human and alien characters had snap-crackle-and-popped from their first seconds on screen. And they faced palpably mortal threats, not to mention penetrating questions of personal identity, loyalty, freedom and attachment.
...Get yourself some "Farscape" DVDs, and see how it can be done on a weekly basis with ingenuity and esprit."
Diane Werts
-Newsday
"Farscape not only twists the standard formulas, it takes me to task for believing that the old formulas should exist."
Rachel Hughes
-www.shelikesdvds.com
"[Farscape] was deemed great by TV critics all over the country and was the one that finally gave SciFi credibility."
Jeanne Jakle
-San Antonio Express-News
"Literate, intelligently plotted, and stylistically daring series."
-www.teevee.org
"A fresh and unique type of science-fiction television. Terrific characters, playful storylines, and some of the sharpest dialogue you'll ever hear."
Rob Vaux,
-Flipside
"Impressive in scale, deluxe in design, generous in humor, suspense and emotion, Farscape is a rare treat and a wild ride."
- Matt Roush
TV Guide
"episodes of human complexity cloaked in outer-space action"
-Diane Werts
Newsday
"four stellar seasons pushing the envelope for science fiction television ..."
-Patrick Sauriol
Cinescape
"'Farscape' remains the genre's brightest beacon. No other series takes the chances or confounds viewer expectations the way 'Farscape' does. Experimentation yielded surprising, heart-wrenching results … . Good stuff."
-Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Adored by millions, praised by critics, Farscape combines heart-pounding storylines and award-caliber acting to create one of television's most daring and popular shows."
-tvshowsondvd.com
review of Farscape boxsets (Dec. 2003):
"... this show is so good - and the production values on the DVD transfers are so high - that it's hard to complain [about the price]"
"Abruptly canceled for financial reasons by the Sci-Fi channel after its fourth season (in its place we got - oh, joy! - Tremors: The Series), this innovative show was easily best science-fiction show I've ever seen on television, Stargate SG-1, Bablyon 5, The X-Files and various iterations of Star Trek - good as some of them are - not excepted."
"As good as the first season of Farscape was, it really got cooking in the second year. And the third? Simply astonishing. It's a roller coaster ride of excellent special effects, exceptional sound ( in 5.1 Dolby Digital ) and pristine (4:3) picture quality. But most important, the writing is superb, with more emotional depth than you'll find in several seasons of any similar show. The performances by the leads are also of Emmy caliber; though this sort of show never gets that sort of recognition."
- Thomas J. Norton
Stereophile Guide to Home Theatre
________________
The sad truth for Trek is that the franchise has been left behind by smarter, hipper and better-developed sci-fi series, from Buffy to Farscape.
Robert Bianco
-USA Today
http://www.charlierose.com/feedback.shtm
OK--essentially a modified verson of what I sent to Leno has been sent to Charlie Rose. The address is above, if anyone else wants to do the same.
Great idea DarthBuddha!
__________________________________________________ __
Dear Mr. Rose,
Farscape is a brilliant, award-winning, critically-acclaimed, and intoxicatingly entertaining show that aired on the Scifi Channel. It is in the opinion of many critics and viewers the best drama, comedy, action adventure on TV. It is daring, sexy, breathlessly fast-paced, comical, dark, slyly referential to pop culture, superbly acted, emotionally compelling, irresistible. I am attaching a list of quotes from critics about Farscape at the end of this letter to give you a taste of how Farscape has affected professional media watchers.
I suggest that you might consider interviewing one or more of the actors, directors, writers, or producers about Farscape on the Charlie Rose Show, for instance Brian Henson of the Henson Company, or the actor Ben Browder. Farscape is an extraordinary TV show that evokes a passionate response in viewers, and the lengths to which viewers have become involved in promoting it would make fascinating television.
Many people around the world have fallen passionately in love with Farscape and have joined an internet-based campaign in the past year to find a way to continue a fifth season of this marvelous, thrilling, heart-rending, witty, moving, funny, constantly surprising, wildly imaginative, beautifully produced show.
Created by the Henson Company, Farscape was partially funded by the Scifi Channel for four years, and became its critical hit. Due to Vivendi's and EMTV's financial difficulties, the series was unexpectedly cancelled on a cliff-hanger before a promised fifth season. The fan base of Farscape is passionate about the show, and is building steadily, even though there are only reruns and DVDs of past seasons available. People become enraptured with this show and hunger for more. Farscape appeals to both men and women equally, both young and old. College professors and students love it. The man who sells me fish loves it. The antique dealer down the street loves it.
Since the cancellation was announced, viewers have organized and have spent well over a quarter of a million dollars so far to advertise Farscape themselves, increase viewership, and bring the show back into production. Viewers have placed large ads in USA Today, The New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, and the entire cover of Variety. TV and radio ads broadcast across the country have been completely funded and created by viewers. This has never been done before. Out of the three TV ads broadcast, one of them was honored with an advertising award. A non-profit organization has been created by Farscape fans that has over $375,000 already pledged by viewers to help fund a return of this extraordinary beloved show. When the show was first cancelled, a smart, organized web-savvy and dedicated worldwide movement coalesced through a website at http://www.watchfarscape.com.
There were rallies worldwide, including our troops in Afghanistan. A woman in SanAntonio rented an enormous electric scrolling sign over a major highway. People have put up banner ads across the internet, run charity drives tied to Farscape publicity, blanketed the country with fliers, bookmarks, business cards, buttons, magnets, bought preshow slide time in movie theaters and created the slides, covered their cars with giant Farscape ads, and produced two cookbooks. The viewers have donated hundreds of Farscape DVDs to libraries and to military posts across the country. Viewers have written to the advertisers, the networks, the media. Stunts have included hundreds of bras sent to the Scifi Channel on the same day from women around the world to illustrate that half of Farscape fans are women. Because the massive and unprecedented efforts of viewers never stopped, Henson, the actors, writers and producers never stopped trying to resurrect Farscape, and it now seems that Farscape will be going back into production, according to many news sources, including CNN. This is a great story akin to the resurrection of Star Trek, but it took less than thirty years this time.
Sincerely yours,
(My name)
Critics re Farscape
"Farscape deftly fuses wit and breathtaking action with startling emotional depth."
-G.J. Donnelly
TV guide online, TV Picks
"...smart, funny, exciting, touching..."
-Newsday
"Exciting, clever, startling, sexy, with violent clashes and emotional climaxes that are equally satisfying..."
-Matt Roush
TV guide
"...a feast for the imagination and currently the best sci-fi to be had on TV. It's the stories that will bring you back week after week. Intelligent, witty and creative, the scripts sparkle..."
-Jared M. Delaney
TV guide online, TV Picks
" ...impressive visuals; interesting, layered characters; actors who add nuance to their roles and a well-balanced mix of drama and humor overall. "
-Michael Peck
TV guide online
"...the most irreverent, unpredictable, sexy, intelligent and exciting sci fi show on TV ... incredible chemistry ... some of the most vivid and compelling fantasy creatures ever created ... a joy to watch ..."
-TV Guide
"TV's best space series"
-USA Today
"...imaginative stories, bizarre aliens and sparkling dialogue ..."
-Boston Herald
"... by far the best and most inventive SF TV show on the air at the moment ... Farscape has once again surpassed anyone's wildest hopes and expectations ..."
-Dreamwatch
"... if you like your Sci-Fi challenging, unexpected, intelligent, witty, engaging, and populated with complex characters you can really care about, then accept no substitute. Farscape it must be."
-Starburst
"Sly comedy... ...genuine drama... ...an original vision."
-New York Daily News
"Four out of four stars. Watch this show."
-New York Post
"Addictive…top-notch…witty"
-San Francisco Chronicle
"A delight"
-New York Daily News
"A grungier, sexier take on the space frontier"
-LA Times
"A favorite of critics…state of the art special effects"
-NY Times
"TV's smartest sci-fi series is also the sexiest"
-Entertainment Weekly
"Easily the best show on TV"
-Bedford Times Mail
"The finest science-fiction show in all of television"
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The Coolest Show on Television"
-Boston Herald
"Spend...Friday nights thrilling to the experience of a smart, funny and occasionally breathtaking experience..."
-Lisa Schmeiser
www.teevee.org
"the marvelous Farscape...a deluxe supernova of mindbending thrills and irreverent fun..."
-Matt Roush
TV Guide
"Easily the best show on TV regardless of the genre, "Farscape"...... there's still some great TV out there. The highest-rated shows are still dramas and comedies that are driven by the ideals behind becoming better people. ...TV still enlightens, still informs, still whets our curiosity and still inspires our sense of wonder on sci-fi shows such as "Farscape." ...
10 best shows of 2002. ...
1. "Farscape" remains the best show on TV because it's unpredictable, because actions have consequences and because nothing stays the same from week to week. If a disaster strikes one week, it's not forgotten the next, and the writers have constantly surprised viewers. This is a rare series that puts a single human being in a universe of aliens.
It's literally "Stranger in A Strange Land" (though it's unrelated to that Robert Heinlein novel). "Farscape" is a metaphor for the alienation that people experience and our efforts to connect with one another despite it.
Ultimately, "Farscape" is about whether we can put the community's needs above our own and what we learn when we succeed or fail. And with the brilliant sets, effective aliens, witty dialogue and cool effects, each episode is like a short feature film."
- TV Star editor Dave Mason
Venture County Star
The Inside VC Network
-----------__________
"one of TV's best dramas - not just best sci-fi, but best drama, period."
"stunningly theatrical production values…striking dramatic substance"
"a behavioral dynamic that raises the emotional stakes to extremes. Crichton is utterly alone in space. So are the ragtag cohorts with whom he falls in on the living ship Moya - escaped prisoners or renegades in their own worlds, each searching for something, living without rules but with their own individual senses of morality, which may or may not dovetail with anyone else's. With the aliens on equal footing with the human, their characters vibrantly manifest their own aspirations and agendas. They're often at cross-purposes. They act on passions and prejudices, which makes for intense entertainment. Even the animatronic characters from the Jim Henson Creature Shop can be astonishingly expressive."
"It's that nervous edge - and contemporary irreverence - that drew "Farscape" a more broad-based audience than most sci-fi, most of it adult, much of it female, and decidedly non-geek."
"The richness of the storytelling radiates…most of all, there's a humanity that's heart-rending."
- Diane Werts
Newsday
-----------__________
"'Farscape,' the channel's first bona fide critical hit…a signature program, the kind of show that raises a cable channel's profile above the ever-expanding crowd."
- TV critic Melanie McFarland
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"For four seasons… Farscape managed to keep up this manic energy and creative inferno …. Farscape raised the bar for science-fiction series television."
-John Sullivan
SciFi Magazine
"a groundbreaking show that emphasizes intelligent story telling and character development…"
-Bill Ferguson
The Macon Telegraph
"already legendary"
-TV Guide
"unique and vital…heart-stoppingly daring and often deeply moving…baroque, visually spectacular, and pyrotechnic … Strange, smart, sexy, psychologically rich, superbly acted, and apparently hell-bent on breaking every rule in the book…"
"The cast, writers, and directors all seemed to be genuinely passionate about the show and committed to making it "as close to being an art-form" as possible"
"Farscape's weakest episodes could often have ranked with many other shows' best."
-Clare Sainsbury
strangehorizons.com
-----------__________
"I've never seen a TV series that's quite like "Farscape." The show deserves a fifth season and beyond."
-TV Columnist Mike Brantley
Mobile Register
"it's hard to say goodbye to this literate, intelligently plotted, and stylistically daring series. …That the series was forced to end … is a crying shame."
-www.teevee.org
"some of the tube's most deeply human psychological insight"
Diane Wertz
-Newsday
"arguably the greatest science fiction television series in history"
- Aaron Davis, revolutionsf.com
"... in Farscape, we finally had something that was not only rare, but something that was, perhaps, unprecedented — television sci-fi that transcended the stifling, unimaginative boundaries of the genre as defined by TV executives and consistently gave us stories which were genuine works of art ... Combining top-notch scripts and special effects, superb acting and art direction, the creators of the series have given us television that is both entertaining and intelligent, that isn't afraid of taking us places we might not want to go, and, most importantly, that understands the invaluable value of characterization ... Farscape is, possibly against all odds, a work of art, in every sense of the word. "
- Caitlin R. Kiernan, revolutionsf.com
"The creative team behind the show has worked with love, courage, and terrific imagination to present a show that ignored the formulas, broke the rules, and took sci-fi television in new and fascinating directions."
- Shane Ivey and the staff of RevolutionSF, revolutionsf.com
"Smart, sexy and intelligent."
- Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury News
"Out of this world (how could we resist) Sci-Fi at its best."
- Jerry Krudnick, The Star-Ledger
"A series of fantastic, explosively exciting new episodes."
- Matt Roush, TV Guide
"ADV Films’ ‘Farscape’ is among the best looking and sounding television shows available on DVD today."
- Mark Rivera, Genre II
"Farscape is more far out than ever."
- Matt Roush, TV Guide
"Each new story on Farscape seems to pack even more punch than the last."
- IGN.COM
"Sci-Fi’s hit original series is critic’s choice for Best Sci-Fi Series of 1999"
- TV Guide
"The year’s best in TV."
- Newsday
"...Eye-catching and energetic, ... lotsa fun."
- Dallas Morning News
"...Exotic...impressive.. primed for action."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Farscape is more than just TV’s best space show..."
- USA Today
"Visually exciting... a quality production..."
- Oakland Tribune
"Simply spectacular..."
- Desert News
"...One of those rare outer-space adventure series that deserve to be called fantastic..."
- TV Guide
"Imagine what could happen if 'Farscape' was given a really big push. With investment in the show and investment in marketing the series, it could be the next Star Trek-style franchise. It could soar to undreamed of heights..."
Editor
-Dreamwatch
Sept. 2002
"Farscape is a brilliant example of a genre-blending, humorously dramatic, depressingly uplifting, outer space show for adults…
One of the most complete and appealing science fiction shows of all time."
TeeVee Awards '02: Best Hour Shows
-teevee.org
"…the fantastically entertaining FARSCAPE …Farscape gave the network credibility, acclaim and prestige."
Matt Roush
-TV Guide
"Sci Fi's recently (and disgracefully) discontinued delight, "Farscape," adapted old-time cliches to a modern setting, twisting and turning them into something fresh and dramatically compelling. That show's assorted human and alien characters had snap-crackle-and-popped from their first seconds on screen. And they faced palpably mortal threats, not to mention penetrating questions of personal identity, loyalty, freedom and attachment.
...Get yourself some "Farscape" DVDs, and see how it can be done on a weekly basis with ingenuity and esprit."
Diane Werts
-Newsday
"Farscape not only twists the standard formulas, it takes me to task for believing that the old formulas should exist."
Rachel Hughes
-www.shelikesdvds.com
"[Farscape] was deemed great by TV critics all over the country and was the one that finally gave SciFi credibility."
Jeanne Jakle
-San Antonio Express-News
"Literate, intelligently plotted, and stylistically daring series."
-www.teevee.org
"A fresh and unique type of science-fiction television. Terrific characters, playful storylines, and some of the sharpest dialogue you'll ever hear."
Rob Vaux,
-Flipside
"Impressive in scale, deluxe in design, generous in humor, suspense and emotion, Farscape is a rare treat and a wild ride."
- Matt Roush
TV Guide
"episodes of human complexity cloaked in outer-space action"
-Diane Werts
Newsday
"four stellar seasons pushing the envelope for science fiction television ..."
-Patrick Sauriol
Cinescape
"'Farscape' remains the genre's brightest beacon. No other series takes the chances or confounds viewer expectations the way 'Farscape' does. Experimentation yielded surprising, heart-wrenching results … . Good stuff."
-Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Adored by millions, praised by critics, Farscape combines heart-pounding storylines and award-caliber acting to create one of television's most daring and popular shows."
-tvshowsondvd.com
review of Farscape boxsets (Dec. 2003):
"... this show is so good - and the production values on the DVD transfers are so high - that it's hard to complain [about the price]"
"Abruptly canceled for financial reasons by the Sci-Fi channel after its fourth season (in its place we got - oh, joy! - Tremors: The Series), this innovative show was easily best science-fiction show I've ever seen on television, Stargate SG-1, Bablyon 5, The X-Files and various iterations of Star Trek - good as some of them are - not excepted."
"As good as the first season of Farscape was, it really got cooking in the second year. And the third? Simply astonishing. It's a roller coaster ride of excellent special effects, exceptional sound ( in 5.1 Dolby Digital ) and pristine (4:3) picture quality. But most important, the writing is superb, with more emotional depth than you'll find in several seasons of any similar show. The performances by the leads are also of Emmy caliber; though this sort of show never gets that sort of recognition."
- Thomas J. Norton
Stereophile Guide to Home Theatre
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The sad truth for Trek is that the franchise has been left behind by smarter, hipper and better-developed sci-fi series, from Buffy to Farscape.
Robert Bianco
-USA Today