Farscape Forum

Re: "Farscape... The Motion Picture"

Jim Henson's Farscape

Personally, I'd say wait a while on the film. Farscape, even thought it's the best show on tv, it's just a baby and has a lot of growing room to go. I'm not meaning in fan size as much as the objective of the show. From the point of view of somebody who's only seen all the eps aired to date: all that looks like is happening is a group of lost fugitives are wandering around the 'bad-lands' of space trying to avoid some seriously disturbed people and, in several years, when everybody decides to call it quits the fugitives get to go home. While the way the story is depicted is extremely creative, and from what I can tell, very original; the apparent base storyline is vague and in some ways familier. Personally, I think it needs more detail to set it farther appart from all other stroy lines. (Example: Sliders, in the beginning, was a group of lost people wandering around the demenssions fo earth, trying to get home. Knowing that this was a vauge story line that would last only so long they added the shape-changing, bitter, lizzard-like race and the old humans vs. them wars which ended up giving Sliders their own dynamic storyline. If it was their original storyline I know not. All I know is that it is a storyline that I think most people familier with the genre would assocciate with Sliders.)

What I'm basicaly saying is that Farscape still needs its own, even more dynamic, off the wall story line that's so different from anything else out there that it would take a whole lot of thinking and imagination to be able to associate it as being like anything else in any way, shape, or form. A movie for an exellant show like Farscape is to enhance the tv series and is often the climax of the series. When the X-Files came out with it's movie the season leading up to it was the best of all the seasons, in my opinoin and, before farscape, the best in tv history. After the movie came out the series has gone down hill, like a story does after its climax, with a few bumbs of mini-climaxs in the season following the movie.

I really love this show and get a whole lot more wrapped up in it then I have in any other production, certainly more then I probably should get wrapped up in a show. I would love to see a big movie come of Farscape, but not for a while now. I'd absolutely hate for the show to end shortly after it aired, or to go see the movie and be horribly dissapionted by a group of writers, cast, and crew that, almost weekly, do wonders and can claim to being professional production miricle makers.

If you actually read this and give it more than a second's thought, thank you. If you are already a step ahead of me, pray tell and I will grin and be giddy.

Chandra

PS. On your newest poll, the first question asks where we want to see future episodes of Farscape to take place. What do we do if we want to see Farscape take place all across the universe, except for Earth?