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    7 days ago

    And for me right now that show is Farscape. I don’t know if you can call it niche, but it certainly is not very well known where I live. And this show is frelling good. I love it! I love the story, I love the actors, I love all the costumes and puppets, the sets, the effects. It is better than most of the dren studios nowadays produce

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      Came here to mention Farscape! Best space opera ever made. Just ordered the bluray set. My first watch was about 15 years ago on a crappy laptop screen. I’ve heard the sound quality is improved drastically, even if the image quality not so much, it being an upscale rather than native 1080p

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      I loved farscape when I first watched it on an antenna, later when i watched the last season in a day and a half because netflix claimed they were removing it. I’d like to watch it again soon.

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      For anyone not familiar with the Firefly show, your comment makes very little sense. So I’d just chop in to help.

      As a little bonus, did you notice that the AA guns in the very first battle scene were Wayland Yutani branded?

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        haha yep that message was a more a secret one for my fellow browncoats ;) That opening battle scene blew my mind so much when I first saw it, like the Buffy guy made this? For TV? On a TV budget?!

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        I chose it as my online username/gamertag like 20years ago. Alan was taken at that time on whatever game I was playing when I picked it.

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      I tried correcting you by spelling it correctly, but working out the syntax with the asterisks and slashes was huring my brain.

      But yes - great show.

      Also the only one where I think every cast change was an improvement.

      Trapper was just a clone of Hawk, whereas Honeycut was his own character. Henry was fun, but Potter brought real gravitas and represented a good man who was career Army - which was necessary. Burns had no redeeming characteristics at all, whereas Charles served as an antagonist while still hating the war and being a strong character and excellent surgeon.

      And the way they transformed Kilnger from a cheap side gag into a fully-fleshed out character was remarkable.

      And the decision not to cast a new regular when Radar left was inspired. We felt that hole the remainder of the series.

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    6 days ago

    At least The 4400 was nice enough to continue in book form… which apparently also ends in a cliffhanger.

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      Lol, I came here to also post The 4400. It’s been a good experience, but I’ve been taking my sweet time through season 3… would hate for the watching experience to be over. I’m excited to see how the books are, though.