Farscape "Bringing Home the Beacon" 2-7-03 [SPOILERS]

[The Grumpy Celt]

Chiana is so frelling hot!
(Ahem)

ScFi publicly stated that the poor raiting are to blame. I am puzzled by why they put the show in the 10 p.m. (easter) time slot - that slot *always* does poorly. I suspect someone on the board of Scfi wanted Farscape to go down and so they engineered a situation that would justify killing it.

Also, the network will keep the syndication rights for two years. That means that no other station or network will likely pick it up as they could not use old episodes. And in two years who (in terms of networks and other investors) will still be interested or available (in terms of actors and crew)?

I suspect Scorpy has something to do with this.

 

[John Crichton]

Yes, things are not looking good. It's in the 8pm slot now where it should have been all along...

 

[jdavis]

They definatly got the run around by Sci Fi. I fear that a lot of people have already given up and stopped watching, which I'm sure was the whole point Sci Fi was after.

 

[John Crichton]

I wouldn't be so mad if Farscape wasn't smack in the middle of the major final story arc. If it went out with some kind of closure and the producers had some time to work with it and the story it would have been a little better. I wouldn't have been happy, but at least we could see some kind of ending. Now we will be left dangling, never really knowing how all of this will pan out. That is the biggest crime here.

I know the network said they tried to make a 12 episode season deal and cited bad ratings but that's what happens when you shift a show's timeslot every 6 months and don't show enough re-runs. Especially with the plot that the show has. They should have been showing it 3 times a week. God knows that Farscape is much better than the rest of the crap the network shows on a daily basis. If they are going to show re-runs of older shows, why not just show a little more Farscape. Other successful networks do it. Showing it twice in one night (a Friday no less) doesn't quite cut it. Poor program management.

Bah, now I'm getting all worked up again....

 

[jdavis]

I wouldn't be so mad if Farscape wasn't smack in the middle of the major final story arc. If it went out with some kind of closure and the producers had some time to work with it and the story it would have been a little better. I wouldn't have been happy, but at least we could see some kind of ending. Now we will be left dangling, never really knowing how all of this will pan out. That is the biggest crime here.

I know the network said they tried to make a 12 episode season deal and cited bad ratings but that's what happens when you shift a show's timeslot every 6 months and don't show enough re-runs. Especially with the plot that the show has. They should have been showing it 3 times a week. God knows that Farscape is much better than the rest of the crap the network shows on a daily basis. If they are going to show re-runs of older shows, why not just show a little more Farscape. Other successful networks do it. Showing it twice in one night (a Friday no less) doesn't quite cut it. Poor program management.

Bah, now I'm getting all worked up again....

It was a change in management at the network and a change in direction, they just had to come up with a reason to kill the contract so they tanked the show to get the ratings low enough to kill it. The way they killed it shows that they were trying to pull a fast one but it doesn't matter now. I just hope that somebody will at least let them do a 2 hour Sci Fi special presentation next season to end it with, I doubt it but a advertised end of Farscape movie should do decent ratings.

 

[Keia]

All I can say is Crichton is one guy who, even when sane, makes you think he's loony as all get out.

"Beacon - Baby, Beacon - Baby" Loved that scene. Especially the question to Dargo during it.

Keia