Food for thought

[kingandy]

An interesting article about the SF fandom elitism in general, but notable for this comment on Farscape in particular:

The sad truth about the Farscape debacle is that the fans of that series were lied to from the get-go: the evil network that dropped the axe on their beloved show, the-greatest-show-ever-made-never-to-be-equalled-but-watched-by-so-few, was only cancelled because the people who made the show gambled that their fans could strong-arm a network into making a business decision that made no financial sense.

As T Campbell (source of the link) agrees, "the producers of Farscape have to bear a fair amount of responsibility for the show's cancellation ... it's highly unlikely that Sci Fi would have gone through with the cancellation if they could have afforded to keep the show around."

Comments

[pkgem.livejournal.com]

I'd read in SFX around the time of the cancellation that Farscape could have been kept on the air if the producers had been willing to take a large budget cut. The decision was with the producers and they decided that they'd rather not produce more Farscape than produce a show that wouldn't live up to the fan's expectations. I don't blame them for this.
Besides it all resulted with the eventual production of "Peacekeeper Wars" which looks likes it gonna be both cool and a fine ending to the show.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Reading around the topic, I found this, which made me chortle.

The sheer number of films, television series & miniseries, comics, videogames, books and other forms of entertainment that are so bad that it makes me weep for humanity's soul is staggering. There's a reason why critics tend to go a little overboard when they find something that doesn't suck as bad as everything else – we're all so desperate to find something to be positive about that after a while, we're willing to settle for just about anything.

[kingandy]

"Makes me weep for humanity's soul" - this week's "Made of lovely".