Status of Farscape?

[PostmanWithGuns]

Anybody heard anything on the status of last 2 episodes of Farscape? Last thing I saw was an online interview that said it would be 2 two-hour episodes on Sci-Fi channel called Peacekeeper War.

Anybody else hear anything?

[Skyhex]

i never even heard about that, it would be good to end it properly though. everyone i know has heard nothing about it for ages

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See my thread here:

http://www.comingsoon.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27602&highlight=Farscape

Yes, Farscape is coming back to resolve the season 4 cliffhanger.

[Knerys]

What??? what this?? Tell me more please!

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Well this is what happened. The Henson Company never wanted to drop Farscape, but the SciFi channel said it didn't get the ratings. So after it was cancelled, the fans launched a massive campaign, got a lot of attention from media and sponsors. Some private parties came up with the funds to pay for a four hour miniseries to tie up the loose ends, again, see the thread or go to www.watchfarscape.com. It's already been shot and is in post-production. Ben Browder (Crighton) and Claudia Black (Aeryn) will be back so we assume that they didn't actually die at the end of season 4. As a matter of fact, that was never David Kemper's (the series creator) intention. He thought Farscape was getting a season 5. Instead, we get this miniseries, which will tie up most of the hanging plot threads and cover the stuff that was supposed to happen in season 5. The mini-series will air on the sci-fi channel this fall.
Long live Moya!
I think most of the stars will be back - the only one I haven't read about for sure is Wayne Pygram (Scorpius). The Jim Henson creature shop says "Get ready for Farscape on Acid!"
I am really, really excited.

[Skyhex]

it sounds great! the only problem for me is that i don't get the sci-fi channel. oh well, i'll definitely make sure i see it sometime, somehow

[HeadHunter]

WOW WOW WOW WOW

hey you know i havent heard this much good news for friggen ages.....i new they couldnt leave the series like that :D

for once signed petitions has actually worked :D

now i need the Futurama one to work :p

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This just in from Sci-Fi Magazine:
The series will air in December 2004. But more specific dates haven't been reported yet.

[GGGG]

I loved Farscape!!!! Glad it is back but wondering when this will air in the UK....

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GGGG,
Well, I am trying really hard not to spam by posting the same info on both of these Farscape miniseries threads that are starting to look identical. The short answer is I don't know when this series will air in the UK, but could you please look at my answer on the other thread here:

http://www.comingsoon.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27602

And from now on I will stick to that posting on that one, since there is more relevant info there and it was posted first.

[GGGG]

Thanks for the help Secant I appreciate it , I am pretty new here, I'll take a look at the other thread

[The Prophet]

They said this miniseries will cover the PeaceKeeper-Scarran War.

Basically here's a recap: since mid-season 2, but officially since early season 3, it's been hyped that there's a cold war going on between the PeaceKeepers and the Scarran Empire. In an early Season 3 episode, the delightfully evil Scorpius, half-Sebacean half-Scarran hybrid working for the Peackeepers (who are composed mostly of Sebaceans) explains what is actually the set up for Seasons 3 and 4, and which explains events starting since the Season 1 finale: PeaceKeeper intelligence reports that Scarran fleets outnumber their own ten to one, and if and when the Scarrans attack the PeaceKeepers will not win the war---the only reason the Scarran haven't attacked them is because the PeaceKeepers bluffed the Scarrans into thinking the PK's have Wormhole Technology and Wormhole Weapons--> Problem is, although Scorpius is leading the research battalion tasking with creating these Wormhole Technologies for the PK's, they HAVEN'T been able to build the technology yet.

In a Season 1 episode, Crichton though he went to Earth but really the Ancients were using it as a test within his mind. As a consolation prize of sorts, they imbedded the equations that allow one to master wormhole technology in Crichton's brain--->in his sub-conscious brain. The idea was it would help and guide him in his own research, but if he wasn't smart enough to find the tech on his own, he probably wasn't smart enough to use it wisely. Of course, Crichton didn't know they did this at the time.

However, in the finale of Season 1, Crichton was captured by the PeaceKeepers and Scorpius interrogated him by putting him in his Aurora Chair (essentially a mind probe). This is how it was revealed that Crichton had the Ancient's knowledge in his brain. But although the Aurora Chair could reveal the hidden memory of the Ancients given the knowledge to him, it couldn't get the info out. So Scorpius injected a sophisticated neuro-chip into Crichton's brain; the pain of this happening blanked out all memory of the event from his mind, so it wasn't until late Season 2 that Crichton realized what had happened. Essentially, the chip contained a "neural-clone" of Scorpius' personality, that was actively gaining the wormhole knowledge from Crichton's brain. Originally he acted just like Scorpius, but over time, being stuck in Crichton's memorys, filled with pop culture references, he became really quirky, and downright hilarious, and Crichton dubbed him "Harvey" (from a movie reference; Harvey was this invisible white rabbit that only the main character could see, and in Crichton's case "Harvey" would just pop up in the room, but only Crichton could see our hear him, making everyone else think he was halucinating).

In the Season 3 premiere, Scorpius got the chip back (although Harvey is still stuck in Crichton's head as a side-effect), and began a season-long effort to master wormhole-tech. Problem was, his research team couldn't fully understand the information even though they had the chip.

Mid-season 3, Scorpius explains that he is the result of a Scarran breeding experiment; a Scarran raped a Sebacean woman and the result was the unholy hybrid-genius Scorpius. The Scarrans cruely raised him as an experiment, until he escaped and defected to the PeaceKeepers, and his lifelong goal is to destroy the Scarrans for revenge. Late Season 4, he was brought before the Scarran Emperor and said he had been his spy for 8 years or so, but later said that that was all just a ploy, with Scorpy feeding the Scarrans false information now and again (it really didn't change his character).

Although Scorpius wanted to research Wormhole Tech, once he realized Crichton had the complete tech all ready within his brain, he basically chased him for a year until he got the tech.

In a Season 3 episode, "Infinite Possibilities part 2: Icarus Abides", it was revealed that Wormhole Tech doesn't just let you make wormholes. Using the tech, you can also set up a mini-wormhole in front of a star, which sort of sucks up plasma from the star, and creates a jet of energy. Crichton used it to destroy and entire Scarran Dreadnought (these things are twice the size of a PeaceKeeper Command Carrier, truly massive). Cricthon said that Wormhole-Technology-based weapons could destroy an entire solar system.

At the end of Season 3, there was a power shift in PeaceKeeper hierarchy. Commandant Grayza (who apparently outranks Scorpius) said she felt that Scorpius' research project was just provoking the Scarrans, and that the best way to deal with them was appeasement (I wonder what they would say about that in Sudetenland).

Crichton wanted to sabotage Scorpius' wormhole project, so he pretended that he wanted to finally help Scorpius, but ultimately Cricthon sabotaged the whole thing; Scorpius based his research on his Command Carrier, and in the Season 3 cliffhanger, the Command Carrier was destroyed (the same Command Carrier that had been chasing our heros since the first episode; Grayza's Command Carrier later replaced it).

Scorpius, yet again cheating death, escaped, but Grayza had him stripped of rank and executed, but he somehow cheated death yet again and started hiding out with the crew of Moya, basically because Aeryn made Crichton promise not to kill him.

How did this happen? Essentially, if Scorpius is Mr. Burns, his Waylon Smithers was Lt. Braca, who first appeared in late Season 1 as a redshirt. Although really loyal, Grayza seemingly brainwashing him into betraying Scorpius and serving her; she promoted him to Captain. (Grayza has a special pheromone-gland implanted into her chest which secretes super-sex pheromones which enslave people to her will and make them do her bidding. It's how she rose through the PeaceKeeper ranks [they don't work on Scorpius though]. It's been dubbed "boob-sweat" by fans, because she essentially runs a han along her chest, then rubs it under the nose of say, Crichton, and they are enslaved to her will [Crichton and Grayza had sex at one point]).

However, when Grayza had Scorpius "executed" she ordered BRACA to shoot him in the back. And Braca it was later revealed NEVER betrayed Scorpius, he was just pretending to so Scorpy would have a spy against Grayza (he was already defeated without Braca's interference). As was revealed in an earlier episode, Scorpius' costume isn't all for show; parts are body armor. In the (sub-standard) first part of the 4 part Season 3 finale, Scorpius got shot in the chest and thrown across a room, but later turned out to be fine; he said that a "well-aimed shot' for the armoed parts wouldn't really hurt him. So when Braca shot him in the back, he probably aimed for one of the armored bits. After being shot, Scorpius was thrown in an open grave and BURIED in 6 feet of dirt. ---> this was poorly explained, but the assumtion is that the Kalish girl named Sikozu later snuck back and dug him up. The Kalish are a race of technicians, enslaved by the Scarran Empire. Sikozu was attracted to Scorpius, partly because he was half-Scarran, partly because she's part of the Kalish underground and sympathized with Scorpius' drive for revenge against the Scarrans.


In the fantastic Season 4 cliffhanger finale, this all comes to a head. In an episode leading up to it, Grayza was meeting with Scarran War Minister Ahkna, signing that appeasment-peace aggreement. But the Moya crew got involved and all went to hell, until they got away; but when Crichton said something to Aeryn about her pregnancy, she just looked at him and asked what pregnancy. Crichton asked if she remembered various English words he'd taught her. She didn't understand him and just stared. Cricthon immediately leveled his gun into her face and blew half of her face away---but it's wasn't blood/bone, it was this whitish-plastic goop like with Ash the android in the movie "Alien". Sikozu said it was a bioloid, sent by the Scarrans. Aeryn was a prisoner. Crichton heard that she was being taken to the Scarran Throneworld, "Katratzi". But no one knew where Katratzi was. Crichton was convinced that Sikozu had said it before, but she said she'd never mentioned Katratzi. Then Cricthon remembered that when he had gone through a wormhole into an "Alternate Reality" the Alternate Sikozu had said "Katratzi", so he had to go back and find out the location of Katratzi. Turns out it's not so much a planet as a dead moon/asteroid whose volume is permeating by installations; I mean underground base structure extends down throughout the planet even to the core of the planetoid.

But before the ship carrying Aeryn even gets to Katratzi, the crew is able to save her at a border station to the Scarran Empire. However, Scorpius is captured. Crichton doesn't care, until Harvey the Neural Clone pops up again and says that he told Scorpius EVERYTHING he knows, and that the Scarrans will now interogate Scorpius and get wormhole technology for themselves. Crichton HAS to stop this.

So the gang goes to Katratzi. As it turns out, Scorpius doesn't actually know anything the Neural Clone did; that's a lie Harvey made up to make Crichton rescue Scorpius. But before that revelation, Crichton decides to go in guns blazing; he openly announces himself when landing, and goes in.

Now, as luck would have it, Grayza's PeaceKeeper Command Carrier is there, with Captain Braca commanding, and the two are representing the PeaceKeepers at a peace conference on Katratzi (more appeasement). The Scarran Empire presence on Katratzi is composed of the Scarrans themselves, and two other races: the Kalish and the Charrids. The Kalish are a conquered race that basically convinced the Scarrans that they would be of more use as a technician-caste. The Charrids are a mercinary race of sorts, not slaves, who recently allied with the Scarrans in Season 3 (the same episode the Scarran Dreadnough got destroyed, above). The Charrids are basically grunt soldiers; they've got green skin, sharp teeth, and black eyes, with long dirty hair, and really, REALLY gaunt faces; their skin lookes like it's stretched across their entire face, like a corpse. They tend to eat the babies of races they attack, not for terror tactics but because they actually LIKE doing that. They also have a really high pain threshold. The Kalish, on the other hand, are basically human-like in appearance, although they have an orange-gold-redish set of hues of color across their skin (which looks really detailed and cool). Kalish have two really cool physical characterisitcs: Firstly, they can reattach severed limbs to their body. If a Kalish gets their hand cut off, if you get the severed hand and bind it back to the stump, in a few hours or days it heals together (as easily as setting a broken bone). They also only need to east every month or two, at which point they can just gorge themselves with food and store the energy. But Secondly, Kalish can ALTER THEIR CENTER OF GRAVITY. The way Sikozu explained it, they've got really small blood vessels, so by altering they blood flow they can change their center of gravity. What this means is that Sikozu and the other Kalish can run along walls at great distance. Later, they put it up another level, and showed that Sikozu can walk on CEILINGS. She even stood at a right angle OVER a ledge to sneak up on someone.

Basically, on Katratzi a peace conference is on between the Scarrans, Charrids, Kalish, and the PeaceKeepers (Grayza and Braca). We actually see the Scarran Emperor, Staleek. Then Crichton walks in, wearing a FISSION BOMB of his own design. He then demands to be treated as a guest or they all go boom, and he offers to auction off wormhole technolgoy (as a diversion).

They get Scorpius back, but he explains something else: The Scarrans first appear on the show in mid-Season 2 (although the half-Scarran Scorpius was on since the Season 1 finale). But in Season 4 a different type of Scarran started showing up; normal ones have a "horse-face" design, but these new ones looked much more human (although generally bigger). They were also a lot smarter. They said they were of the Scarran Ruling Caste.

Scorpius explains that there's a special type of flower that Scarrans need, called Crytherium Utilia. A chemical specific to this flower reacts normall when other races eat it, but when Scarrans eat it it reacts with them specially, making their brain masses larger; this is the source of the power of the Scarran Ruling Caste. Scorpius said that without this flower, the Scarrans would become so stupid that "your dog could beat them at checkers".
When the Scarran Emperor Staleek offers Crichton some, Crichton recognizes them and absent-mindedly says "got those on Earth in mom's garden: Bird-of-Paradise flower...dime a dozen...". Bird-of-Paradise flowers are a real flower. They look really cool; they're not shaped like normal flowers at all (the petals aren't in a circle), but look really spikey.

This may seem to come out of nowhere, but they actually built up this flower subplot since early Season 3; Scorpius kept a Bird-of-paradise flower with him; not because he needed it physically, but because it reminded him of his Sebacean mother, who was raped by a Scarran. As Scorpius explains, a secondary goal of his was to destroy the ability of the Scarrans to use Bird-of-Paradise flowers. Scorpius explains that they can actually grow on very few planets; the reason Katratzi is the "seat of Scarran power" is because it's the only place "in this sector of space" that can grow them; there's a large, special cave deep inside Katratzi which is a large field of Bird of Paradise flowers. Destroying it would damage the Scarrans as much as wormhole tech. So Scorpius makes Cricthon a deal; if he helps Scorpius destroy the flowers on Katratzi, he's stop trying to get Crichton's wormhole tech.

Ultimately they escape to the surface of Katratzi in a drill/elevator, then Crichton drops his nuclear bomb down the elevator shaft, and after falling maybe 2 miles it falls into the outstretch hands of a Scarran standing in the Flower Cave, and promptly explodes, taking out Katratzi's flowers; The whole planet is devastated, but doesn't actualy explode into space; the Scarran Emperor and War Minister Ahkna are still alive, as are the crew.

Meanwhile, Grayza's on her Command Carrier, basically loosing it because the situation is out of control; half in despair, half-panicing, she orders her Command Carrier to fire on Katratzi and start the PeaceKeeper-Scarran War. Captain Braca refuses, and when she threatens to supercede him and remove her of rank, he pulls an insanity-clause of sorts on her and declares her unfit for duty, and that he is assuming full command over his Carrier. Grayza orders the bridge guards to shoot Braca, but they decide they've had enough of her and follow Braca; they point their guns at HER, and take her to the brig.

***In the last episode, as everyone is running from Katratzi, Braca's Command Carrier gives Cricthon a message intercepted from the Scarrans; remember how Crichton off-hand mentioned in front of the Scarran Emperor that Bird-of-Paradise flowers grow easily on Earth [even though they are next to impossible to grow on most planets]? Well, thanks to Crichton's loose lips, the Scarrans are headed for the wormhole that leads to Earth.

Having had enough of them, Cricthon puts Scorpius in a spacesuit and pushes him outside into space, telling Braca that he can pick him up when after he's left that region of space. He also throws out Sikozu, he's been getting physical with Scorpius and is actually more loyal to him now.

Our last shot of the PeaceKeeper villians was of Scorpius and Sikozu walking onto Captain Braca's Command Carrier. When Scorpius asked where Grayza was, Braca told him that he put her in the brig UNDER HEAVY SEDATION :) [no more "boob-sweat" pheremone tricks]. After saying hi to Braca, Scorpius and Sikozu then sit down and start getting...amorous (they like it rough, bitting fingers as foreplay, etc.), while Braca uncomfortably watches and doesn't know if he should leave.


Meanwhile, through a serious of impeccable timing and the whole cast pitching in one way or another, Crichton is able to collapse the wormhole leading to Earth from within, destroying the Scarrans ship and any chance of their attacking Earth (Earth is "at top speed, 60 years away" from the Uncharted Terriotorys where Farscape takes place).

The scene cuts away after the final commercial break. They are on the ocean of the planet Qujara. It's ocean is nutrient-rich somehow, so Moya landed in it to heal more easily. Crichton takes Aeryn out on a rowboat he picked up, and offers her marriage and an engagement ring. She says yes, and that her pregnancy is now proceeding fine and that it's Crichton's baby. The rest ofthe cast looks on happily, realizing what's happened, and for about 30 seconds everyone is just laughing.


Then an alien ship comes over the horizon, a Qujaran ship. They alien onboard is given orders to "neutralize invaders for analysis". Aeryn and Crichton can't get away fast enough, then just kiss, and an alien-beam hits them and they shatter into a pile of dust-crystals with the engagement ring on top. Then titles come on the screen: To be continued...


Then SciFi Channel ran some idiotic page about how they thanked Farscape, their flagship show, for four great years; they were trying to imply that it was over, although it wasn't. You see, SciFi told the Farscape people not to include the "To be continued" sign, but the Farscape people really got angry about that and did it anyway.

You see, the Season 4 ending was supposed to be a Season Finale CLIFFHANGER, like ones from other years. They though they were getting a FIFTH Season when they filmed it, but they only got told about the cancelation AFTER the episode was filmed; they didn't change the ending to make it a SERIES Finale. So they weren't supposed to die, they were just "Neutralized for analysis".

Consequently, the Qujarans are kinda cool; they are the "Jigsaw-puzzle Men". They're bodies are basically made of lots of tiny cubes they can rearrange into whatever new organs or bodyparts they need; the one we see is LOOKING as something, so he head physically splits wide open to generate over a dozen new eyes. The producers said the idea was that they would only do a transformation like that once or twice to establish that they potentially could, then just show a regular person with lines stenciled on them most of the time; this way they don't have to do a transformation everytime you see one to know that they potentially COULD.

[HeadHunter]

wow.....nice

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I take back what I said about posting on the other thread... everything you need to know about Farscape is here!
Thanks, Prophet, nice recap. Now I know for sure I'm not alone on this board.... :):eek:

[PostmanWithGuns]

Good info, guys. I appreciate it, and I'm sure others do as well. I only got to see seasons 1 and 2 and some scattered episodes of four so this really helps bring it together.

Thanks, Prophet. Nice recap.

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Just found out that next week's TV Guide has an article about the miniseries on page 44. Some spoilers. I don't have a copy myself, so if anyone is actually able to read it I would appreciate a recap. Scorpius will be in it for sure, I didn't know before if he would or not. Also Sikozu, the usual, Jool, and possibly Zaahn.

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Miniseries air date: October 17th
Great article in TV Guide this week:
http://www.tvguide.com/news/insider/040812b.asp

[PostmanWithGuns]

Secant, can you copy and paste what the article says? That link is asking for a registration, and I hate doing that. Thanks.

[secant]

Here it is - enjoy :)
PS there is also a trailer up at http://www.scifi.com/farscape

From TV Guide Online:

http://www.tvguide.com/news/insider/040812b.asp

INSIDER

Farscape Miniseries Scoop!
by Ethan Alter

What a difference a year makes. When the Farscape crew assembled in San Diego for the 2003 Comic-Con, it was a decidedly mournful affair. The show had aired its last episode only four months earlier and with no network reprieve in sight, angry fans were experiencing a serious case of withdrawal. Little did anyone suspect, however, that behind the scenes, plans were already in the works to resurrect Farscape and give the cult series a proper send-off!

Flash-forward to the 2004 Con, where fans' dreams became a reality. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, reunited members from the cast and crew (including series stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black) took the stage to present the trailer for Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, a four-hour miniseries that will air on the Sci Fi Channel on Oct. 17 and 18 at 9pm/ET.

To say the teaser got a positive reaction would be an understatement; the minute Farscape's familiar theme song started playing, the packed room broke out in cheers. Even Browder and Black couldn't contain their excitement. Right after the lights went down, they snuck to the front of the stage to get a better look at the screen. "Farscape looks amazing cut together with music and that big announcer voice," laughs Browder, the once and future John Crichton. "You kind of go, 'Wow, I'm in that?'"

You can't blame the actors for their enthusiasm. After all, at this point last year, they had no idea if they'd ever be donning their characters' leather ensembles again. Everyone involved with Farscape credits executive producer (and Peacekeeper Wars director) Brian Henson with making the miniseries happen. "When the show was canceled, I tried to place it at other channels, but that didn't work out," Henson recalls. "I was starting to explore alternatives — including a theatrical feature — when a consortium [of investors] approached me in the early spring. They had heard about the show from fans and were interested in financing something with us. So I called [series writer] David Kemper and [Farscape creator] Rockne O'Bannon to get them started on a script. Then I contacted Hallmark about distributing the miniseries. And that's pretty much the way it came together."

After several months of preproduction, the cast reassembled in Australia in December of last year for an intense nine-week shoot. "It was enormously challenging," Henson says. "It's a movie, so the scenes were bigger and there were always more characters. We were usually doing only one or two takes of a shot with four cameras rolling, so everyone had to be on their game. There was no space for people to be forgetting lines or things like that."

As difficult as the shoot was, Kemper was stuck with an almost more daunting task: writing a script that would bring the series back in grand style. "I had a whole fifth year planned out, so I had the bare bones of where I wanted to go," he says, "but now, 22 hours had to be truncated to four. It was hard to get back into the flow again at first, but as we started to gather steam, it became Farscape again. The muscle remembered what to do." Kemper also had to find a way of satisfying the existing fan base while also roping in new viewers. "That was the hardest thing," he admits. "To make it so that all of our fans would go, 'Yeah!' and anyone new would go, 'Wow!' But we walk the tightrope pretty well, I think."

Anyone who watched the series knows that Farscape was already pretty epic, but judging from the trailer, the miniseries kicks it up another notch. Naturally, the roughly two-minute teaser doesn't give away a lot of the story, but it does hint at some big things to come. First off, everyone's favorite star-crossed lovers Crichton and Aeryn (who's pregnant with their child) are back, along with their comrades-in-arms D'Argo, Chiana, Rygel, Pilot and the living leviathan, Moya. Also glimpsed are villains like Scorpius and Graiza. As the title implies, all of the characters get caught up in an enormous intergalactic war that pits species against species. Amid the carnage, Crichton and Aeryn try to find a place where they can start their family in peace.

In addition, Kemper kindly tells TV Guide Online this exclusive plot point: "Spaceships and water don't usually mix, but in this Farscape epic... let's just say galoshes. Think water. Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. I'm a little worried about what's going to happen if all those leather pants get wet, though...."

Although the miniseries will tie up a lot of loose ends left over from the show, don't assume it will close the door on Farscape forever. "I wanted this to be a great, epic event, not the conclusion of an 88-episode story," Henson insists. "Time will tell, but in the best of all worlds, I would hope that Farscape would become a movie franchise as well as a spin-off series." In other words, the sky's the limit.

Keep an eye on Insider for our upcoming exclusive interviews with Claudia Black and Ben Browder!

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And here is the follow-up article with Claudia Black - I will probably post the Ben Browder article to when it comes out.
Farscape Vixen Returns
by Ethan Alter




Claudia Black



Like every Farscape cast member, Claudia Black spent the first three seasons of Sci Fi Channel's cult hit convinced it could be yanked off the air at any moment. "The fourth year was the first time I actually believed we'd be back," says the actress, who played steely Peacekeeper warrior Aeryn Sun. "We were shooting the last scene of the final episode, and I said to Ben Browder [aka Crichton], 'We'll be back. We always come back. It's the boomerang show!' And he said, 'No, I don't think so.'"

Unfortunately, Browder was right... until now, anyway. Against the odds, Farscape is returning to Sci Fi this October in a four-hour miniseries called Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars. As happy as Black was to be back onboard Moya, the project came at an awkward time. "It was filmed just before Christmas," she says. "We had all scattered to the four winds and getting everybody back was really difficult. Everyone had so much going on that they had to put aside because we had to make the series in a specific window of time. If we couldn't do it then, it was clear that it would never happen. So, eventually, we all made the decision to just go for it."

The night before filming started was "like the night before the first day of school," Black remembers. She worried about being able to hit her marks, not to mention adjusting to the relentless pace of the shoot. She reveals that the first few days of filming were a little awkward, mainly because the cast spent a lot of time filming "bits and pieces" instead of more dramatic scenes, which were saved for later. But Black soon recovered her Farscape legs, particularly when playing opposite her on-screen lover, Browder. Smiling, she recalls: "Working with Ben, it was like there hadn't been a pause."




The other reason Black initially felt out of sorts was her changing relationship to her character. "Aeryn's in a really different place now. When I first read the script, I didn't know how to approach it," she admits. Fans will recall that the series ended with Aeryn revealing that she was pregnant with Crichton's child. In the miniseries, her condition is clearly showing.

"How do you deal with a woman who was bred to be a soldier, who was never supposed to have emotions for other people, and who is now pregnant?" she says. "This time, you see a more improved, upgraded Aeryn. She's a woman now, not a girl so much. But it was bizarre at first, because I was used to Aeryn the warrior. Here, I was Aeryn the woman first, and the warrior second."

In early 2005, viewers will have the chance to see Black as a different kind of alien — a villainous one — on the popular Sci Fi series, Stargate: SG-1. "She's a pretty manipulative character," Black says. "I've never played that type before." Although she's currently set to appear in only one episode, the actress hopes they'll bring her bad girl back in the future. "Doing both Farscape and Stargate has reminded me how much I love being on a set. I have to act! Every day, when the going was getting tough, I'd tell myself, 'Just do your job and you'll never have to waitress again.' Because, damn it, I'm terrible at that!"

Heads up, Farscape fans: Read Monday's Insider for our exclusive interview with Ben Browder!

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new trailer at apple:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/farscape

all I can say is : WOW.

[GGGG]

I have to download the update to view it but thanks secant

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you're welcome
you mean a quicktime update?

did you get to see it yet???:) It's awesome.

[PsychoMike]

Looks really cool Secant... only wish my cable carrier wouldn't chage extra for sci fi.

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the first review of Peacekeeper Wars is up at aint-it-cool news - there are some spoilers so proceed with caution.

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=18275

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bumpity, bump, bump - the time is at hand? Who is watching it? Not me because I have to wait for a friend to mail it from the states. Also, I heard that it is coming out on DVD by May at least, so hopefully you UK and non US people will be able to get hold of it before too long.
I also have a lot of info - the return of Farscape has really been in the press and there are some interesting articles, as well as some reviews on PK Wars out there. I will post links tomorrow maybe. I have tried to stay away from the reviews to avoid spoilers, but they seem to be positive, except some people say that people who just tune in and haven't seen the show will be lost.

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2004-10-14-farscape_x.htm

Here's one of the as-promised reviews of PK Wars. USA Today gives it 3 and a half out of 4 stars and the review practically gushes. I am getting so psyched!
Also there are a couple of articles and another gushing review by Matt Roush in this week's TV Guide.

[Knerys]

Well I really liked. I'm pissed they killed D'Argo, but at least it was warrented . The story was good, I liked how they devled back into the series and made everything fit. Sakozu hair cut was horrid, imo. But definely worthy of the Farspace name.

[HeadHunter]

I am hoping it come out on dvd soon cause i wanna see it :(

[Mat]

Good news... It'll be released 1/18.

http://207.234.209.30/savegord.com/news4/Farscape_PeacekeeperWars.jpg

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2332

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That is awesome news Mat! Thanks!
beautiful cover art

[HeadHunter]

is that UK or America

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The price is advertised in dollars - but hopefully the UK release date won't be too late. Usually it comes out in the UK before the US. So is this not an AVD release? It says Lion's Gate...
Is it just me, or does that not look like John's nose at all?

[HeadHunter]

yeah farscape traditionally has come out in the UK on DVD before the states. The Battlestar Galatica mini series didnt take too long to come out so hopefully

[Knerys]

Now if they would only continue the seires. :(

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There will be more Farscape! Don't give up hope! This mini really generated interest.
the most talked about possibilites are more miniseries, a movie (I like this idea), or an anime film.

[HeadHunter]

Now if they would only continue the seires. :(

well it worked for battlestar Gallatica

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I just watched it last night! Woo hoo! I thought is was pretty great but have a couple of picks which I won't post here yet. I actually cried in two different places. Now I have this empty feeling though - like I had at the end of the last LOTR movie. Even though they could take the story different ways, I kind of feel like it's all over now - too many loose ends wrapped up!

[HeadHunter]

yeah i just saw it too...

I do feel that they have tied up everything now and given it a worthwile finish (even tho i dont want it to end) i think they finished it nicely...

..to drag Cryton back into another set of events would be cruel to him :P

Plus I cant believe they killed Dargo...after Cryton he is my fav. charactor

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^ me too, HH and Knerys :( about what happened, don't feel like learning how to do spoiler tags right now, but... that sucked.