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On an unassuming Friday evening on March 19, 1999, an integral piece of sci-fi history made its debut on the then-titled Sci-Fi Channel. While franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, and even Stargate, typically dominate pop culture conversations, Farscape's impact on the genre can still be felt today, twenty-five years after it first premiered.
Farscape TV-14ActionAdventureSci-Fi Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew. What's particularly impressive about Farscape's fan campaign is the fact that the internet was a very different place in 2003. This was before YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Fans would congregate on chat boards and fan pages fueled by dial-up internet, and concoct their plans for how they would prove to the studio that their favorite series deserved proper closure.
After a playful jest about getting another "Brascape" going, Browder added, "t's an amazing thing that something that you were engaged in, so wholeheartedly a quarter of a century ago, is still available and there's still new people coming to it and seeing it. It's humbling.
Related What Makes 'Farscape' Better Than Any Other Sci-Fi Series It's time to revisit why this show is such a beloved and enduring favorite. While the Hynerians may have posed a challenge for Farscape's live-action medium, the series succeeded in exploring surprisingly progressive storylines and visual feats that were well ahead of the industry at the time.
"I think there's a big advantage that we were in Australia, and Australians obviously have an incredible, unique sensibility in terms of just the look of things and their boldness in personality and all that. So most of our cast, all except for Ben , were all Australian, and then obviously all the artists behind the scenes. So all of that contributed to, “We can make it as strange as we can.” And I'm very proud to say, I mean, here we are talking about it 25 years later.
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