Farscape:Peacekeeper Wars by Misguided By Voices

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Farscape:Peacekeeper Wars

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:21 PM

Okay, I'm late, and everyone already picked up their coats from the coat room, ignored the dubious stains and left the party, but I lack neither the geographical locality nor the televisual technology to have seen this earlier.

Wow. To quote Bill Hick - "scuse me, scuse me, man with bigs balls coming through".

A three hour epic TV movie, that has one minute of recap for the seasoned viewer, and that's 10-15 minutes in. Not sure if PKW will bring in new fans, but as a goodbye for the old ones its a generous gift.

This is the bar folks. This is what Serenity and The Memory of Shadows have to aim for. Story, acting, effects, music (particularly appropriate in the current climate). I'm not going for spoilers, but this had laugh out loud funny (the chalk board writing!) and tears down the cheeks moments as well as cool action sequences. The chemistry between the cast was a joy to see, and everything seemed to flow so effortlessly.

Will there be any more? Who knows - but if not, that was a hell of a way to go out.

"I threw up on your bed"

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:37 PM

LASHER99

My copy was ordered yesterday from Amazon. Hope to have it early next week. I loved that the fans were able to get it back for a resolution to the cliffhanger ending of season 4. The last 25 of the last 30 minutes were some of the best scifi drama I've ever seen. The chemistry between Ben and Claudia was incredible. My only disappointment was that it didn't get the full fifth season to fully develop all the plot points.

I love Firefly and Farscape. The fact that Farscape used "muppets" was an initial turn off to me and I was unwilling to give the show a shot. I got into it last summer and was amazed at the quality of the writing. The stories were well written and the chemistry among actors was fantastic. Now I can't even imagine the muppets being portrayed by real actors. And many of the episodes were fun. There was a lot of comedy in the 88 episodes.

If you have the chance, fellow browncoats try it out. But you have to start at the beginning (like our beloved Firefly) otherwise you'll miss a lot of the initial story/character development. ADV is releasing "Starburst Editions" (1/3 of a season) at very affordable prices ($20US @ Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002S65LI/qid=110678551
1/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-3443185-8087132?v=glance&s=dvd

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:21 PM

NIKNAK

It was on Sky One the last two Sundays. It rocks. It made me wish I'd seen all of the episodes when they were on (I missed lots of telly when I went to university without a TV).

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:22 PM

MONTANAGIRL

Quote:
Originally posted by lasher99:
ADV is releasing "Starburst Editions" (1/3 of a season) at very affordable prices ($20US @ Amazon)

So are the Starburst editions enough for a newcomer to get a handle on things? I've only caught episodes of Farscape here and there because until a few months ago I didn't have SciFi. I love what I've seen, but I really need to get up to speed on how it all started and the relationships between the characters.

Loved Peackeeper wars by the way. The end killed me (in a good way).

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:15 PM

NEEDLESEYE

If you have a netflix subscription or the like, rent all the episodes. It will take you a while, but it is all worth watching. The character relationships have many layers and if you miss a epi, you might not "get" something later on. Before PK Wars aired, my husband decided he wanted to see all the epis he'd not seen which was season everything after the middle of season 2. He watched it all in a day and a half and said he would have missed so much in PK Wars had he not seen those. Some of the "chemistry" that you recognize between the actors I think is actually their chemistry with you, knowing their complete history.
Pardon if I rambled, just love Farscape.

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:01 PM

BENCHCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by lasher99:

I love Firefly and Farscape. The fact that Farscape used "muppets" was an initial turn off to me and I was unwilling to give the show a shot. I got into it last summer and was amazed at the quality of the writing. The stories were well written and the chemistry among actors was fantastic. Now I can't even imagine the muppets being portrayed by real actors. And many of the episodes were fun. There was a lot of comedy in the 88 episodes.

heh--I only checked it out when I heard that there was a new Henson production. I generally liked it, but it's a very different animal than Firefly.

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Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:54 AM

LASHER99

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So are the Starburst editions enough for a newcomer to get a handle on things?

Well they appear to be. The Starburst vol 1 collects the first 7 episodes. Vol 2 collects the next 7. I expect Vol 3 will have 8 to round out the first season. With new releases 2-3 months apart, I'd expect a newcomer to follow along pretty well.

I haven't purchased any of the sets yet, but I plan to pick up the first 3 March 15 when the 3rd volume is released. This is the first series of affordable Farscape releases. The first round of DVD releases had 2 episodes per disc @ $25USD. A complete season would set you back $275USD. The second round of releases were complete season sets @ $150USD each. The third round of releases (the Starburst Editions) now bring the season cost to $90USD minus the Amazon discount (of course). The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries retails for $20USD.

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Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:17 AM

MAUGWAI

I've got the first two Starburst editions. They have commentary from both the first DVD issue of season 1 and some new commentary added after the show's cancellation. It's cheap packaging and the insert on the first edition lies about there being commentary for PK Tech Girl, but all in all, definitely worth the cheap price for such an awesome show.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

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Monday, January 31, 2005 1:57 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

OK, here's the deal... I just bought & finished watching Farscape - Peacekeeper Wars. Now, I have to confess that I wasn't all caught up to speed with the series when it was cancelled. I really only watched the first couple of seasons w/ any regular intent, and then less so later on. It's clear that I could benefit from watching the latter episodes, which I plan on doing. Good idea w/ the netflix suggestion.

What did everyone else think of F:PW ? Was it enough? Did it answer questions that were left on the table as the series ended ? ...or did it just feel like they threw something together in order to get one last hurrah out of the cast?

Your thoughts

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:12 AM

PHOEBE

It was the perfect finale, I feel. I have been an avid (someone recently referred to me as a ‘rabid’) fan since the very first season of Farscape. I pretty much, yes, cried when it was cancelled. And now to have PKW. If I believed in god, I would call it a blessing. As it is, I’m going to praise the cast and crew for producing such a marvellous mini series. One would not believe that in three more hours you could wrap up most of what the series stood for – PK Wars managed to do it pretty damn well. I can’t pick out a single fault in it, and it brought closure. Closure, and a lust for more! LOL.

Definitely did not feel thrown together

In fact, it feels almost methodically thought out, and flows together with the rest of the series seamlessly. I can't quite decide which I was more excited for; PKW, or Serenity. I got hyperactive in the week running up to both

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:12 AM

PHOEBE

*edits*

And this is the reason I shouldn't use college computers to do board posting. Sorry for the double post.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 1:43 AM

CALHOUN

I've probably only seen half a dozen episodes of Farscape but checked out PKW and it was pretty damn good.

A couple of things I would in particular draw attention to are:

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I didnt like Dargo dying..

I was cracking up when the peacekeeper chick(cant remember her name..) was giving birth during a battle and she was blasting away right to the last..hehe

All in all not bad.

I'm very tempted to go back watch all the seasons now.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 4:18 AM

BIKISDAD

I saw PKW when it first aired and loved it even though, at the time, I had only gotten through the season three dvds. Yesterday, I watched it again after having marathoned all of season four over the week-end. Watching all of the fourth season really added a lot of understanding to the experience of seeing PKW again. I think PKW is the perfect end to the series based on them being limited to a four hour mini. However, after seeing the fourth season, I also became really angry that they were not given an entire fifth season to tell the whole story.

The mini was great, given that that was all they had to work with. However, because of the truncation from 22 hours to only four, some elements of the story were glossed over or ignored completely. I realize that that was a necessary part of the process and I don't blame the Farscape people for it at all. It just makes me all the more angry with the Sci-fi channel for cancelling the show in the first place.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:44 PM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

What did everyone else think of F:PW ? Was it enough? Did it answer questions that were left on the table as the series ended ? ...or did it just feel like they threw something together in order to get one last hurrah out of the cast?

This was no thrown together piece, and it took no prisoners in terms of the recap - aside from the one minute "once upon a time, there was a boy named John", even as a big fan, I was having to reach back into the memory for some of the characters and events (damn stupid DVD box pricing; what possessed them to strangle the sales at birth with that price scale?)

There are questions left, but in the main they closed off the series, so that if they went to a movie, they would be able to do it without some of the backstory, and without criticism from the fans for ignoring it.

"I threw up on your bed"

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:47 PM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Quote:
Originally posted by Calhoun:

A couple of things I would in particular draw attention to are: [snip]
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To avoid spoilers, I dunno - for the first, it seemed like the right thing for the story. Plus the whole run up to that point was like a Sci-Fi Zulu. As for the second, it was just one of the hilarious comedy moments (the best being the rude word on the chalkboard).

Gonna miss that frelling show

"I threw up on your bed"

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Friday, February 4, 2005 11:03 AM

MONTANAGIRL

Quote:
Originally posted by Calhoun:
A couple of things I would in particular draw attention to are:
Select to view spoiler:
I didnt like Dargo dying..

As to that:

Select to view spoiler:

I was very upset by D'Argo dying. He was always my favorite character. But my dad made the point that they didn't actually SHOW him dying, it was just implied in the storyline. So until I see his body I'm going to hold out foolish hope that somehow he survived, escaped, and is going to catch up with the rest of the crew at a later date.

I've seen less than a dozen episodes because I didn't get SciFi when it was on and I only catch them sporadically here and there now, but I LOVE it. PK Wars aired on my birthday and I considered it SciFi's present to me. They did an excellent job of catching people like me up to speed quickly, then jumping right into it. Why, oh why can't storytelling like that survive?

Anyway, yes I liked Peacekeeper Wars and I'm trying to figure out how to go about watching the rest of the series since my video store doesn't have Farscape and the DVDs (even the Starburst editions) are going to end up strapping me.

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Friday, February 4, 2005 11:14 AM

MRSKBORG

Yep gotta love PK Wars. Like many other I cried buckets when Scify cancelled it- it had been shown here on BBC 2 originaly and despite puppets I watched and fell for it. PK Wars was fantastic, and even if that's it, I for one am a very happy person. The story was well thought out, the action was just gobsmacking, Rygel was hilarious, and the chemistry between Ben and Claudia was amazing. For once SciFi did the decent thing.

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

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Saturday, February 5, 2005 12:51 PM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Quote:
Originally posted by mrskborg:
Yep gotta love PK Wars. Like many other I cried buckets when Scify cancelled it- it had been shown here on BBC 2 originaly and despite puppets I watched and fell for it.

Found buried in the TV listings - Farscape on after midnight weekdays on BBC3. Its not good, but at least its on...

"I threw up on your bed"

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Saturday, March 5, 2005 7:06 AM

BANDANAGIRL

For anyCanadaians out there FS: The peacekeeper Wars will be coming to Canada on the Eatsre Weekend. If you are in the Toronto Area Sunday( Tommorow) I will be having a v iewing Party. The details arre on www.FarscapeCanada.com. Scroll a little and you will see the announcement and details. :D

Frell me dead!!!

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Monday, March 7, 2005 4:16 AM

JAMIEC

I love Farscape... and I really enjoyed much of Peacekeeper Wars; but there was just, I dunno, something unsatisfactory about it as a whole. It did tie up the plot, but much of it felt too simple. Other problems I had:

Select to view spoiler:

Jothee's appearance wasn't really explained, both how he'd become such a high-ranking Luxan commando and why he looked fully Luxan rather than half. The new actor was kinda weedy too...

I didn't understand the betrayal by Sikozu, and how Scorpius didn't realise she had done that much earlier - I mean, he's Scorpius fer Christ's sake! And it was all dealt with too quickly, after loads of worrying about who had betrayed them.

I can't help thinking there wasn't enough cost for switching off the wormhole weapon, and that Crichton coming back alive was a mistake, moving though that was. It just cheapened how insanely powerful the weapon was.

And why the hell was Jool some sort of savage who fancied John? Talk about inconsistency...

Anyway, I suppose these questions and other annoyances I had were mainly a result of - as someone else pointed out - the truncation of an entire season into 3 hours, so it's unsurprising. But somehow I was expecting more

And it did remind me how much more I like Firefly now too...

'The question seldom addressed is where Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle.'
-Terry Pratchett

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Monday, March 7, 2005 1:10 PM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

While I'd agree that some parts of the mini-series were rushed, I think you're right that they wanted to finish this as far as possible just in case they never got another shot.

To be honest, I suspect it would work better if watched immediately after having finished the final season, rather than as a stand alone mini-series, which it clearly never really was, what with all the returning characters and all.

Btw, I think Scorpy got it sooner, but was just playing along.

"I threw up on your bed"

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