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Though this thread should be placed in the Sci-Fi thread, I felt that this show was being placed in this thread. So, that explains my rationale for placing this topic here.
I like Farscape for its approach to telling stories and attempting to develop characters. This is a very enjoyable show for me.
On the other hand, I don't like seeing the show being used as a reason for disliking Star Trek. Farscape is not an extension of Star Trek. Rather, the show is an alternative approach to Sci-Fi.
No matter what we think of it (I don't like Farscape), I think we shouldn't begin comparing apples and pears. Even if I find some points I like better about Farscape, what is the point of suggesting to change Star Trek accordingly? Do we want a "Grand Unified Scifi Show" that is perfect for everyone?
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Aliens with an Australian accent? I dunno. Never had the guts to watch a full episode.
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Farscape has fans, they just don't dress up like characters/aliens and invent whole languages after what they hear of a made up on the show, or nitpick the smallest inconsistancies (large ones I can understand, the missing fruit tray in a single scene I cannot) so it's certainly not Trek.
"Star Trek has fans, so it must be nothing like Farscape..."
Yup. Farscape appeals to the general mainstream SF audiences who can read anything from Asimov to Zahn and does not need a cult who knows little about SF beyond the Trek boundary.
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Farscape doesn't rock by boat. And I did give it a chance.
Neither does Andromeda, I mean how many million member worlds did the Commonwealth have, and how many galaxies did it span? Roddenberry peaked with Trek, and in my book did okay with Earth: Final Conflict.
Andromeda and Farscape can go on the pile currently occupied with the likes of Space above and Beyond. I'm not completely biased to only Trek. I like other sci-fi shows too. I have great admiration for:
X-Files Stargate SG1 Babylon 5 (when it was running) First Wave
..and tons more. I even quite like that Roswell High. But I don't like Buffy - I mean the actual show, not SMG :-)))
But HEY!! Space: Above and Beyond? That show was cancelled because the guys doing it couldn't decide what direction to take, what to emphasize on, except the horror of war, that element was ever-present.
But the idea was great! I, for one, hadn't seen a futuristic sci-fi series that showed us the grunt's perspective in a long time. And how they moved between the infantry soldier mode to fighter pilot mode was great! The actors were better than almost everything from Babylon 5, some exceptions of course, and the film-quality, the close camera angles and close up of faces made me feel really "in there". That's where the other series were kind of detached. Many scenes lacked music as well, except for the speech and the quiet rumbling of the ship engines... That felt nice, you could focus on the dialogue.
The ships were great, the animations and "Lightwave"-created VFX were better than anything Babylon 5 ever did with its Lightwave, especially in the S:AaB pilot.
Did you even see the episode "The angriest angel"?
The only thing I didn't like was how they in the second season started putting "plot explanations" during the opening credits, the same as the next-to-last season of Babylon 5. Shut up during the cred's, man!!!
As for the debate on weapon traces, I think S:AaB pulled it off nicely. They DID have lasers aboard the Saratoga, and when its nose mounted 1,2 Gigawatt laser pulse cannon joined all the other batteries and fired, that one and only time during a planetary bombardment, I was very happy.
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