TaseMagu
03-11-2006, 06:37 AM
It’s been two days since I finished watching Farscape for the first time !!! Even now it’s hard for me to describe what I’m feeling and what I’ve went through for the past 48 hours.
My heart feels like being broken, my chest is filled with pain and every time I hear in my mind “Moya no more!” my eyes get teary.
I felt puzzled and ashamed of what I was feeling. I’m 28. A grown man. I have a life and responsibilities. It’s just not normal to feel this way about a TV show. Not at this age. I felt like going nuts. I went on the internet to look for answers. And there it was. A world of “my people”. How could I have lived so long without knowing about them ?
I heard about Farscape about 3 years ago when I got in a dispute with a few friends. They were going mad for the show being cancelled because of SG1. I liked SG1, but normally maybe I should have been curios about this show that caused such emotions in them. I wasn’t. Their aggressive tone pushed me back from the idea of wanting to watch “Farscape”. That was until about 2 weeks ago. I already had the show for about a month, but I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to give it a go. One night I said to myself “What a hell? Nothing else to do anyway! Let’s see…” And that was that. I got frelled.
For ten days I was like a zombie. Watching 8-9 episodes per day and night. During the day I had to talk to people. I had to do my job. But I was looking through them. Nothing made sense anymore. I just wanted to get back and watch one more episode.
Now… I just feel empty and sad. I can’t taste anything. I’m still digging the internet. “Why???”. I had to crunch the numbers myself . Ratings, money, profit. I don’t understand. I read tons of reviews and critiques. I read about all the effort you guys put for making PKW become reality (for which I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart), but I still don’t get it. I’m sure this is nothing new for you. Just another lunatic, but for me…
DK’s words “We didn’t do anything wrong!” still echo in my mind.
And then… a thought. Over and over again. “Could it….? Would it…? Nah… But what if… ?”
But still I have to give voice to my thought. If not here, where ? Nothing new. Same thought I’m sure you all had : Would it… be possible for Farscape to return ?
I know that there are tons of arguments against the idea. After all D’argo is dead and Crichton and Aeryn lived happily ever after. I know it was a 5 seasons project novel and PKW kindda ended it, but what if ??? The writers are great. If there’s a will, there’s a way. After all :
- We never see D’argo actually dying, just killing some of the bad guys. Add the fact that Medic was there and we never see him getting rescued… and there you have D’argo alive and well.
- I know this may be radical, but… you can always sacrifice the baby causing both Crichton and Aeryn a nervous breakdown and yet again a break in their relationship.
- Add the fact that “DA BAD GUYS” don’t know that Crichton doesn’t posses the knowledge for the weapon anymore and you get a “Most wanted kindda guy” back again.
- We know best that peace treaties are meant to be broken therefore…
And there you have all the arches back into the show, without even using so far fetched ideas like “putting back Aeryn and Crichton for PKW”
Looking at the most important aspect now, the one the was supposed to be responsible for killing the show, the economical one, all the pieces seem to fit.
- SG1 goes for season 10 and as one who likes the show I’m ready to bet it’s gonna be the last one, even though it should have ended with season 8. So Ben and Claudia would be ready for Farscape.
- As many of the Farscape fans migrated to SG1 because of BB and CB, be sure the phenomenon will happen the other way around too.
- 7 million viewers for PKW ???? Where did they come from ? We all know that PKW was not a movie to be seen and/or understood by those who didn’t see the series. Therefore they must be scapers. Let’s say not 6.6 rating, but 3.0 and still it’s a very strong reason to get it back. And by the way. Let’s not forget we’re talking about franchise, right ? So we’re not talking only about the Nielsen Rating (which by the way sucks), but we’re talking about much more. Farscape has toured the world (by the way I’m writing you from Romania). Broadcasting rights will have another price now.
- Production costs. Well…. I can’t be very sure here, because I have no idea, but I think it’s just common sense to ask yourself this question : “Is it cheaper in 2007 let’s say, to create a Sci-Fi episode than it was in 1998 ?”. I’m not thinking only about computers and CGI, but about all the technologies involved in the show. They all got better and cheaper as time passed.
- Maybe the strongest reason of them all is “THE FREE PUBLICITY AND GREAT REVIEWS”. Only by looking at the reviews and WHO wrote them, you’d have to be crazy not take advantage of them. Add here a few hundred thousand of volunteers for free advertising and… one can only ask from a producer point of view “What more could you ask ?”
- Targeted audience. Let’s just say that the target audience for “Farscape” is “people with wallets”. And when I’m talking about “people with wallets”, I’m thinking about demographics. 21-34 is the best target advertisers want to hit. People which make money and still have the will to spend them.
Anyway. I’m sure all the things above have been said already many times. This was just a glimpse of what went through my mind in the past 48 hours.
As far as I’m concerned, I will try to advertise Farscape as much as I can in my country and start praying SG1’s 10th season will be announced as the last one. I will then begin to hope.
So tell me dear friends, was I scaped ?
Romania salutes you.
My heart feels like being broken, my chest is filled with pain and every time I hear in my mind “Moya no more!” my eyes get teary.
I felt puzzled and ashamed of what I was feeling. I’m 28. A grown man. I have a life and responsibilities. It’s just not normal to feel this way about a TV show. Not at this age. I felt like going nuts. I went on the internet to look for answers. And there it was. A world of “my people”. How could I have lived so long without knowing about them ?
I heard about Farscape about 3 years ago when I got in a dispute with a few friends. They were going mad for the show being cancelled because of SG1. I liked SG1, but normally maybe I should have been curios about this show that caused such emotions in them. I wasn’t. Their aggressive tone pushed me back from the idea of wanting to watch “Farscape”. That was until about 2 weeks ago. I already had the show for about a month, but I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to give it a go. One night I said to myself “What a hell? Nothing else to do anyway! Let’s see…” And that was that. I got frelled.
For ten days I was like a zombie. Watching 8-9 episodes per day and night. During the day I had to talk to people. I had to do my job. But I was looking through them. Nothing made sense anymore. I just wanted to get back and watch one more episode.
Now… I just feel empty and sad. I can’t taste anything. I’m still digging the internet. “Why???”. I had to crunch the numbers myself . Ratings, money, profit. I don’t understand. I read tons of reviews and critiques. I read about all the effort you guys put for making PKW become reality (for which I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart), but I still don’t get it. I’m sure this is nothing new for you. Just another lunatic, but for me…
DK’s words “We didn’t do anything wrong!” still echo in my mind.
And then… a thought. Over and over again. “Could it….? Would it…? Nah… But what if… ?”
But still I have to give voice to my thought. If not here, where ? Nothing new. Same thought I’m sure you all had : Would it… be possible for Farscape to return ?
I know that there are tons of arguments against the idea. After all D’argo is dead and Crichton and Aeryn lived happily ever after. I know it was a 5 seasons project novel and PKW kindda ended it, but what if ??? The writers are great. If there’s a will, there’s a way. After all :
- We never see D’argo actually dying, just killing some of the bad guys. Add the fact that Medic was there and we never see him getting rescued… and there you have D’argo alive and well.
- I know this may be radical, but… you can always sacrifice the baby causing both Crichton and Aeryn a nervous breakdown and yet again a break in their relationship.
- Add the fact that “DA BAD GUYS” don’t know that Crichton doesn’t posses the knowledge for the weapon anymore and you get a “Most wanted kindda guy” back again.
- We know best that peace treaties are meant to be broken therefore…
And there you have all the arches back into the show, without even using so far fetched ideas like “putting back Aeryn and Crichton for PKW”
Looking at the most important aspect now, the one the was supposed to be responsible for killing the show, the economical one, all the pieces seem to fit.
- SG1 goes for season 10 and as one who likes the show I’m ready to bet it’s gonna be the last one, even though it should have ended with season 8. So Ben and Claudia would be ready for Farscape.
- As many of the Farscape fans migrated to SG1 because of BB and CB, be sure the phenomenon will happen the other way around too.
- 7 million viewers for PKW ???? Where did they come from ? We all know that PKW was not a movie to be seen and/or understood by those who didn’t see the series. Therefore they must be scapers. Let’s say not 6.6 rating, but 3.0 and still it’s a very strong reason to get it back. And by the way. Let’s not forget we’re talking about franchise, right ? So we’re not talking only about the Nielsen Rating (which by the way sucks), but we’re talking about much more. Farscape has toured the world (by the way I’m writing you from Romania). Broadcasting rights will have another price now.
- Production costs. Well…. I can’t be very sure here, because I have no idea, but I think it’s just common sense to ask yourself this question : “Is it cheaper in 2007 let’s say, to create a Sci-Fi episode than it was in 1998 ?”. I’m not thinking only about computers and CGI, but about all the technologies involved in the show. They all got better and cheaper as time passed.
- Maybe the strongest reason of them all is “THE FREE PUBLICITY AND GREAT REVIEWS”. Only by looking at the reviews and WHO wrote them, you’d have to be crazy not take advantage of them. Add here a few hundred thousand of volunteers for free advertising and… one can only ask from a producer point of view “What more could you ask ?”
- Targeted audience. Let’s just say that the target audience for “Farscape” is “people with wallets”. And when I’m talking about “people with wallets”, I’m thinking about demographics. 21-34 is the best target advertisers want to hit. People which make money and still have the will to spend them.
Anyway. I’m sure all the things above have been said already many times. This was just a glimpse of what went through my mind in the past 48 hours.
As far as I’m concerned, I will try to advertise Farscape as much as I can in my country and start praying SG1’s 10th season will be announced as the last one. I will then begin to hope.
So tell me dear friends, was I scaped ?
Romania salutes you.