I love Farscape, so it was interesting to hear that Claudia Black would be guest starring in one ep of SG1. Which I hated. Could have been good, but they weren't willing to have Daniel fighting a woman like his life might depend on it and it ruined my suspension of disbelief.
When I heard Ben Browder was going to be a regular, I was intrigued, to say the least. I liked Mitchell at first, because unlike the writers themselves, he was completely in love with the Stargate at first sight. Then he became kind of boring to me, sort of an [insert military guy who's not Richard Dean Anderson here] type character playing second fiddle to Vala's antics.
I was disappointed, but I don't think anything will ever top Browder and Black's turn in Farscape. A totally weird show where the Earther is shown as really smart here, but a complete idiot to the alien characters because he was a complete idiot about their tech and their ways of life coming from our backwater little world.
Crichton was technically the lead male character, but the show kept him as the "outsider" POV character for quite a while, letting us learn as he did, until he was completely dragged into Crazy Town. Most shows would immediately put the Earther in the role of Big Ol' Savior of the Backwards Alien Folk, so this was rather different.
I heard about the cancellation before it was officially announced. Sci Fi did it after the show was wrapping season four and TPTB had a "guarantee" for season five and were writing with that in mind. Browder and one of the show's TPTB to break the news in a chat room, and several of the other actors went into chat rooms at various times during that fiasco too. That took guts to go over the heads of the folks at Sci Fi.
When I read about the sets being packed for storage before they made the mini-series, I totally got something in my eye when it was mentioned that Pilot was being boxed up. That's just wrong.
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Date: 2011-04-06 03:46 am (UTC)When I heard Ben Browder was going to be a regular, I was intrigued, to say the least. I liked Mitchell at first, because unlike the writers themselves, he was completely in love with the Stargate at first sight. Then he became kind of boring to me, sort of an [insert military guy who's not Richard Dean Anderson here] type character playing second fiddle to Vala's antics.
I was disappointed, but I don't think anything will ever top Browder and Black's turn in Farscape. A totally weird show where the Earther is shown as really smart here, but a complete idiot to the alien characters because he was a complete idiot about their tech and their ways of life coming from our backwater little world.
Crichton was technically the lead male character, but the show kept him as the "outsider" POV character for quite a while, letting us learn as he did, until he was completely dragged into Crazy Town. Most shows would immediately put the Earther in the role of Big Ol' Savior of the Backwards Alien Folk, so this was rather different.
I heard about the cancellation before it was officially announced. Sci Fi did it after the show was wrapping season four and TPTB had a "guarantee" for season five and were writing with that in mind. Browder and one of the show's TPTB to break the news in a chat room, and several of the other actors went into chat rooms at various times during that fiasco too. That took guts to go over the heads of the folks at Sci Fi.
When I read about the sets being packed for storage before they made the mini-series, I totally got something in my eye when it was mentioned that Pilot was being boxed up. That's just wrong.