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Sure, it's about 2 misanthrope roommates in their 30s living in London. It's a dark "slice of life" comedy about them trying to survive in corporate jobs and find love.

That doesn't really do it justice - my note was more for people who may be anticipating its return, as it's been off the air for a while. I know there are some fans on the Sift.

I definitely recommend giving it a try, but start back at season 1 as there is some story arc.

I recommend that she redraws her eyebrows with a little less "surprise arc" in them.

What's that you say?

I liked Universe, and they stopped just as it got really interesting, with that story arc about the two crews in alternate times, one of which then founded an entire new civilization. It was pretty good.... oh well....

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With modern medical tech, they could remove the shrapnel he has to wear his ARC reactor for, right?

I was going to reply to him but you guys covered it pretty well. The crazy storylines, the wild writing, characters that were up, then down.. that was the fun about it. Farscape remains one of my all-time fav shows simply because every time I watched a new episode I left it with a massive grin on my face. It was just one of the most fun shows I've ever watched.

>> ^00Scud00:

Farscape could be really over the top sometimes, but then I think that's at least part of what I liked about it, overall I thought the show was pretty well written and I enjoyed the hell out of a lot of the characters. As for why people tend to deify Firefly so much I think it could be compared to just falling in love with someone and then having them promptly die on you, they weren't around long enough to really disappoint you in any big way so your memory of them will be pretty much be eternally perfect.
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^Reefie:
Farscape is definitely a show that has to be watched from beginning to end in order to follow the threads and feel like you know where you are with it. It's a stark contrast to Firefly where episodes are an entire story unto themselves with only a couple of background story threads being maintained at any one point. IMO Farscape's complex story is second only to Babylon 5's epic-ness when considering the story-arc aspect of sci-fi TV shows.
Also helps to be a little bit crazy to fully appreciate Farscape. A love of the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky helps too

That doesn't explain the characters, they were sometimes very poorly written, by any standard.

Farscape could be really over the top sometimes, but then I think that's at least part of what I liked about it, overall I thought the show was pretty well written and I enjoyed the hell out of a lot of the characters. As for why people tend to deify Firefly so much I think it could be compared to just falling in love with someone and then having them promptly die on you, they weren't around long enough to really disappoint you in any big way so your memory of them will be pretty much be eternally perfect.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Reefie:
Farscape is definitely a show that has to be watched from beginning to end in order to follow the threads and feel like you know where you are with it. It's a stark contrast to Firefly where episodes are an entire story unto themselves with only a couple of background story threads being maintained at any one point. IMO Farscape's complex story is second only to Babylon 5's epic-ness when considering the story-arc aspect of sci-fi TV shows.
Also helps to be a little bit crazy to fully appreciate Farscape. A love of the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky helps too

That doesn't explain the characters, they were sometimes very poorly written, by any standard.

>> ^Reefie:


Farscape is definitely a show that has to be watched from beginning to end in order to follow the threads and feel like you know where you are with it. It's a stark contrast to Firefly where episodes are an entire story unto themselves with only a couple of background story threads being maintained at any one point. IMO Farscape's complex story is second only to Babylon 5's epic-ness when considering the story-arc aspect of sci-fi TV shows.
Also helps to be a little bit crazy to fully appreciate Farscape. A love of the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky helps too


That doesn't explain the characters, they were sometimes very poorly written, by any standard.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Xaielao:
Firefly was very good while it lasted, but I've always been more of a Farscape fan and would much rather see a reunion episode of that.
/runs for the door

I've watched a lot of Farscape. It is sometimes very good. Other times though it's just farcical. I mean I started watching it in the order that you're intended to watch it, and the Characters still had no consistency. You never knew where anyone stood at any particular time, sometimes they were mad, or happy, or friends, or enemies. It made so little fucking sense and the characters would change WAY too much over a very short period of time, and then go back like nothing was gained or learned.
I love their use of puppetry and the costumes for some of the characters, it was amazing. Some of the story lines and ideas were absolutely fun and great. The consistency and character arcs simply didn't exist though, they were chaotic at the best of times.


Farscape is definitely a show that has to be watched from beginning to end in order to follow the threads and feel like you know where you are with it. It's a stark contrast to Firefly where episodes are an entire story unto themselves with only a couple of background story threads being maintained at any one point. IMO Farscape's complex story is second only to Babylon 5's epic-ness when considering the story-arc aspect of sci-fi TV shows.

Also helps to be a little bit crazy to fully appreciate Farscape. A love of the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky helps too

>> ^Xaielao:

Firefly was very good while it lasted, but I've always been more of a Farscape fan and would much rather see a reunion episode of that.
/runs for the door


I've watched a lot of Farscape. It is sometimes very good. Other times though it's just farcical. I mean I started watching it in the order that you're intended to watch it, and the Characters still had no consistency. You never knew where anyone stood at any particular time, sometimes they were mad, or happy, or friends, or enemies. It made so little fucking sense and the characters would change WAY too much over a very short period of time, and then go back like nothing was gained or learned.

I love their use of puppetry and the costumes for some of the characters, it was amazing. Some of the story lines and ideas were absolutely fun and great. The consistency and character arcs simply didn't exist though, they were chaotic at the best of times.

That was experimental code. US embeds are blocked on my end, so I picked a random German embed instead. The comment now includes a proper US embed and I'll add an explanation in a second.
>> ^ant:
How did you get that code? However, http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:v
ideo:southparkstudios.com:a6f651e6-ed00-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30 is the wrong video clip.

>> ^radx:

Here's the code:
<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:a6f651e6-ed00-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>
Well, it doesn't work in here, so that's something new.


How did you get that code? However, http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:a6f651e6-ed00-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30 is the wrong video clip.

Here's the code:

<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:9afcec46-293f-492d-8b8f-08a29aa7ba15' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>

Fuck me sideways, this one's annoying. Embed within this comment doesn't work, but a regular submission doesn't throw any exceptions and the player is loaded properly, so I'd say give this code a shot.

For a different South Park clip, just replace "9afcec46-293f-492d-8b8f-08a29aa7ba15" with the respective ID. In case of your second clip, that ID is "4c756450-99e2-469c-b97a-e7ddceff54aa".

Code for second embed:

<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:4c756450-99e2-469c-b97a-e7ddceff54aa' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>


Tutorial: Either pick this code as a template and replace the ID or fetch a regular embed code for another MTVNServices video, for example TDS, and simply replace the video url with that of the South Park video, but only after you ran the original code through VideoSifts own submission system.

Random DailyShow embed, after I ran it through the system:

<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:419809' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>

Replace the part in bold font with the respective South Park code, then run it again.