# Farscape last episode spoiler and mild rant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264 "2003-03-22T02:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/1 "2003-03-22T02:00:34Z")
Holy crap! spoiler-----\> Oh my god they blew up John. Those bastards! Granted they ended it with a to be continued but still this was supposed to be the final episode. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/2 "2003-03-22T02:03:45Z")
Great minds think alike Sock! My first impulse was to start a thread too. FRELL! How could they DO this?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/3 "2003-03-22T02:07:04Z")
Yeah! I mean damn I hadda say something to SOMEONE yanno. I do have a notion as to how this might be fixed though since I took a good look at exactly what happened to them. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/4 "2003-03-22T02:09:52Z")
For future reference: (spoiler)Whatever text you want(/spoiler) is the coding you want, but with square brackets rather than parentheses. What’s the point of the Sci-Fi Channel thanking all the folks at Farscape? Shouldn’t that be an apology? ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/5 "2003-03-22T02:14:03Z")
Ahh, thank you, I didn’t know how and I wanted to get this out there right away so I didn’t stop to look up the proper way. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/6 "2003-03-22T02:22:58Z")
I made sure to pay close attention during the final attack to see if they would simply be frozen in staisis or some such thing. Clearly this did not happen, however, I notice that they were not vaporized. they seemed to be reduced to little crystals like instant coffee. Might they be reassembled? I remember the episode where john was petrified and had his head cut off, once they hade sure his had was replaced properly when he was unfrozen he was whole again. Will something similar be employed? The attacking pilot did say “netralized” and not “destroyed”. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/7 "2003-03-22T02:23:32Z")
I’m too slow. Couldn’t some nimrod in post production have cut the show at the happy point? Now I’m pissed that they cancelled one of the only shows I watch religiously, and at how they ended it. Frelling bastards. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/8 "2003-03-22T02:26:32Z")
**Baldwin** , USA Networks, the owners of SciFi, are the drekheads who cancelled the show. My unfounded guess is that SciFi would have preferred to have kept a critically acclaimed show on the air if they could have justified the cost. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/9 "2003-03-22T02:31:35Z")
USA Networks huh? They are SO going on my list… Too bad the fact that it’s one of the few shows on sci-fi that doesn’t suck doesn’t seem to justify the cost. ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/10 "2003-03-22T02:39:33Z")
_shakes head sadly_ And look what we get next week! Tremors the series! Oh joy! How in hell do you make Tremors a series? The dad from Family Ties fighting sandworms every week? What a joke. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/11 "2003-03-22T02:47:42Z")
You sat through that pile of crap and **that’s** what you complain about? The show had all the reasons why Farscape stunk this season, but the ending didn’t bother me at all. It was obviously filmed before they got word the show was cancelled and it was too late to change anything. People who still rave about Farscape should go back and see the older episodes, when the characters were interesting, and they still knew how to tell a story. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/12 "2003-03-22T02:48:27Z")
True, I mean if they can’t afford to keep farscape going how are they gonna afford giant worms and flying things and stuff every week? ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/13 "2003-03-22T02:55:56Z")
This episode was filmed before they knew they were being canceled. (They literally got the news on the last day of filming.) David Kemper, the producer, said he thought of changing things slightly to “end” the series but in the end decided to go ahead and air what they had filmed. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **D\_Odds** _ > **Baldwin, USA Networks, the owners of SciFi, are the drekheads who cancelled the show. My unfounded guess is that SciFi would have preferred to have kept a critically acclaimed show on the air if they could have justified the cost.** Bonnie Hammer, the president of Sci-Fi, was the one responsible for cancelling the series. From [an interview in the Boston Globe](http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/075/living/Science_friction+.shtml). > [@](#): > > Sci Fi officials, pointing to flagging ratings, say ‘‘Farscape’’ must go to make room for new and higher-profile programming such as the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries ‘‘Taken’’ and ‘‘Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune,’’ which begins tonight and stars Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon. Next, the channel introduces its first original reality series, '‘Scare Tactics,’'as well as a horror-comedy series that spins off the movie ‘‘Tremors.’’ and > [@](#): > > The channel has realized, Hammer says, that traditional science-fiction shows that attempt to portray the future via space odyssies and gee-whiz technology are no longer as appealing to tech-savvy viewers as Earth-based twists on modern-day reality, such as ‘‘The Sixth Sense’’ and ‘‘The Matrix.’’ > > ‘‘Years ago, science fiction was based on all of these predictions about technology. Well, there is nothing new out there for kids who are so used to technology,’’ she says. ‘‘People don’t care about the future that much but about new perceptions on the here and now. We’re trying to develop products that deal with that.’’ Hammer has said elsewhere that she is no longer interested in “space shows”. Henson Enterprises is currently looking into an animated version of Farscape but none of the original cast is currently involved. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/14 "2003-03-22T03:02:12Z")
Bonnie Hammer has totally missed the point of sci-fi in general and Farscape in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/15 "2003-03-22T13:09:18Z")
Too bad she’s still interested enough in “space shows” to bastardize ‘Battlestar Galactica’. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/16 "2003-03-22T15:29:29Z")
**Sock Monkey** , I think I came across as high-handed. Sorry; I really just intended to be helpful. (Maybe there’s a reason I’ve been fired so many times…) How the hell did Bonnie Hammer get to be president of The Sci-Fi Channel? She obviously has no understanding of science fiction. I’m still trying to figure this out: > [@](#): > > ‘‘Years ago, science fiction was based on all of these predictions about technology. Well, there is nothing new out there for kids who are so used to technology,’’ she says. ‘‘People don’t care about the future that much but about new perceptions on the here and now. We’re trying to develop products that deal with that.’’ “Years ago”? What does she think science fiction is based on now? Last time I looked, we still don’t have starships and AI, and we haven’t made alien contact. I really don’t know what the hell she’s talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/17 "2003-03-22T15:31:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Bonnie Hammer has totally missed the point of sci-fi in general and Farscape in particular. I was thinking exactly the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/18 "2003-03-22T16:58:55Z")
Rockne S. O’Bannon has written a short story that will run in the final issue of Farscape magazine. For now, it will be the final canon story(and takes place long after the events at the end of season four). ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/19 "2003-03-22T17:44:33Z")
I used to love Farscape but the last year or so has been pretty lame. Frankly I’m glad it’s over and I wish they had just cut out the last 2 minutes of the last show so it wouldn’t end with a cliffhanger. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264/20 "2003-03-22T18:52:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > **Sock Monkey, I think I came across as high-handed. Sorry; I really just intended to be helpful. (Maybe there’s a reason I’ve been fired so many times…)** Yeah, it’s cool I took it the way you meant it. 😉 The biggest reason I love Farscape is that it’s plots and aliens were all so much FUN. A lot of sci-fi is edgy, scary, philosophical, gritty, or exciting but so Farscape was one of the few that bought back plain good old-fasioned fun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farscape-last-episode-spoiler-and-mild-rant/163264.md?page=2)