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Summary: Farscape: The Fan Fleece Edition
Review: An absolute kick in the pants to all fans who already bought the dvds. ADV sinks to new lows in ripping off anyone who loved the show. Even their late release of full season box sets was a rip-off to us single-disc buying Farscape groupies. Frell this!!!
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Summary: Love the show. Love the DVDs but ....
Review: don't want to have to re buy my whole collection of Farscape DVD's. How fair is it that once you have bought all four seasons that they are re-releasing them. Sounds like something Paramount would do with all the Trek series.
I wholeheartedly recommend these DVDs because this is one of the best Sci Fi shows ever but I am not crazy about Studios Double dipping especially after I spent so much the first time around on the entire series.
How about a credit for the fans that already spent their hard earned money???
The only reason I am giving this 4 stars is for my argument above. I'd give the series itself 5 stars.
If you have not bought the show yet, show your support.
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Summary: The Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me
Review: I absolutely love Farscape but have been fretting to buy the super expensive box set seasons for over 100 dollars. I went to a store one day and found this. I actually boiught iit for 12.99 and got the first seven eps of season one. If it continues the same way, i'll get the whole seasons for less than 40 dollars!!! And let me tell you, This show is wonderful. Best scifi show ever made.
The special features are great too. Commentaries by the cast all over the place and documentaries and the such. It's ep without commercials is 50-51 minutes in length, multiply that by 7 and its well worth 13 bucks, or even 25.
This set spans from John Chritons (human) experiment to use the gravity from earth to launch his module (Farscape I) into space at very swift speeds. This ends badly when he is hit by a wave of radiation and sucked through a wormhole where he comes upon a battle against the Peacekeepers (intergalactic tyrannical law) and a Leviathan escaped prisoner transport. Needless to say, he accidentally kills the son of the Peacekeeper leader and joins the prisoners and are on the run.
If you do not own any Farscape, get this and be introduced to one of the most compelling shows, scifi or not, in the history of television.
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Summary: This is great for Farscape!
Review: I can understand the frustration fans are feeling about ADV Films re-releasing Farscape. The series was rather expensive to buy on DVD, and the packaging wasn't exactly very space saving either. On top of that, the season one volumes were released very slowly -- American fans waited, while the UK got to own the first season nearly a year earlier. Not to mention the season one menu system, which was a tad cumbersome. By season 2, ADV realized what a hot item they had on their hands. The later seasons were released much quicker, were packaged a bit more conveniently, and the menu system was even cleaned up. However, it was still rather pricey.
But now that fans have paid and waited so patiently to own this wonderful series on DVD, ADV has decided to re-release Farscape with everything we WISH they had done the first time around. A real kick in the teeth to the loyal fans who bought each original volume, right? While I can understand the anger that some fans are feeling, I think we should all take a step back and realize what a good thing this is for Farscape. The new starburst edition is great for a number of reasons...
New fans: With the "Peackeeper Wars" mini series drawing in many new fans for the first time, and a new syndication deal slated to begin in fall 2005, this re-release is excellent for Farcape's growing audience. Many big stores like Best Buy, Walmart, and Target only stock new/current items -- and this gets Farscape back on the shelves for people to enjoy!
Cheaper price: Remember that Farscape was never as popular as The X-Files or Sex in the City and that ADV Films is not as big as FOX or HBO. ADV is a very small company compared to FOX, HBO, or Showtime, and they simply couldn't produce the DVDs as cheap as some of the big names could. When they first started releasing the series, ADV did not know that it would be such a big hit for them. But now they are able to offer the series for a much cheaper price and this is great for new fans and folks who couldn't afford it the first time around. The cheaper price ensures that the audience will continue to grow and that the series will have a long life on DVD, even though it is no longer on the air. That is very good for the future of Farscape... it could spawn more mini series, a feature film, or even a new spin off series (like with Star Trek).
Die hard fans: The starburst edition will have expanded extras and brand new commentaries! What more could you want!? Now we have even more Farscape to look forward to! Need I say more?
The first volume of the Starburst Edition is beautifully produced and conveniently packaged... all for a very nice price. If you already have the series on DVD, you can choose not to buy it again. But if you are going to be angry about it, I think the pros far out weigh the cons. This re-release is great for new fans, and the new extras are a bonus for those of us existing fans who want to have them.
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Summary: So glad I got it!
Review: I consider myself so lucky that I didn't buy the original DVD release. Almost every episode I caught on the Sci-Fi channel I loved, especially in the later seasons, but everything about this imaginative trip to me was captivating. Deep, conflicted characters, fantastic settings and aliens, and more. So I had to snag this small packaged collection and was blown away by the value of it. Superb! All of the special features and details are really great too. I can't wait for the follow-on sets to come! I'm hooked all over again!
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Summary: A new fan's praise
Review: I have recently fallen in love with this series and I'm thrilled that I can now get them at a reasonable price and in space saving packaging. I can't wait to see them all!!!
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Summary: think about it
Review: If you don't own this dvd, go out and buy it! It's a fairly reasonable price and the show is marvelous. However, I've looked at the extras listed and there isn't that much new on this edition. The sound and picture quality are great on the original, so if you already own it, I wouldn't throw any more money ADV's way. They seem eager to empty our pockets without giving much for it. New buyers, enjoy! Owners of the first edition - caveat emptor!
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Summary: An echo to previous comments.
Review: This is mostly an echo to previous comments but I'd like to add a review as well.
First of all, Farscape is really a very, very well done show. I was recommended to watch it by a few friends and was very sceptical about sci-fi. I always assumed sci-fi was for... geeks. And it didn't seem like something I could be a fan of. But I finally gave in and I eventually downloaded the first few seasons online. The first few episodes I was sort of iffy about, but as I went on I grew to love the show. It really is amazing and totally unlike (it seems) other sci-fi shows.
I was actually saving up for the first seasons on dvd, but then I came across the Starburst additions. I'm very happy they're making them, even if it is double dipping. I do feel bad for the fans that spent the money on the first ones, but it is good for those of us who could of never really afforded to pay that much. Plus I think re-releasing with a much more affordable price will get more fans as most new fans to a show would never pay that much for something they don't know a whole lot about. But at the price of 12.99$ to 19.00$ it's not such a problem.
So, five stars for both the show and the Starburst Editions!
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Summary: Farscape : la meilleure série depuis Babylon 5 !
Review: Voilà déjà 4 ans que cette série existe (et est malheureusement terminée à ce jour). On peut y trouver des scénarios bien faits, des références à la tonne (aux films de Science Fiction comme "Contact" par exemple, aux Westerns, aux séries TV depuis 30 ans), beaucoup d'humour aussi.
Farscape aborde des choses sérieuses sans en avoir l'air, nous montre des personnages qui évoluent, s'affrontent, dépassent leurs préjugés. Dès le début, on comprend mieux la mentalité pacificatrice grâce au personnage d'Aeryn Sun, une jeune militaire qui s'est trouvée aspirée à bord pendant la bataille et se retrouve "contaminée" par le contact avec d'autres et condamnée par ceux de sa propre race.
La première saison donne le ton : Un terrien _ John Crichton_ tente une expérience pour dépasser la vitesse de la lumière et se retrouve aspiré par un trou de ver (wormhole). Il tombe en pleine bataille et est capturé par des évadés en fuite qui tentent d'échapper à leurs geoliers pacificateurs (peacekeeper dans la VO). Cette prison est un peu particulière : c'est Moya, un vaisseau vivant, lié en symbiose avec un pilote (superbe création des studios Henson qui nous donne les plus crédibles des E.T. qu'on ait vu depuis longtemps !) qui va devenir leur "maison". Des "gens" qui n'ont pas demandé à être ensemble, tous d'espèces différentes, pourchassés par les pacificateurs, et un pauvre terrien complètement mêlé au milieu...
Et en plus, ils sont tous fous ;)Regardez, c'est excellent ! Conseillé aux amateurs de Science Fiction qui connaissent déjà les univers et le vocabulaire propre au genre, mais c'est surtout le ton particulier de la série qui peut plaire ou non. Mais la qualité est bien au rendez vous ! Ca vaut la peine d'essayer.
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Summary: So much better than first time around, however...
Review: What an improvement from season 1 when they were first released by ADV! I understand Farscape was the first time ADV released live rather than anime, however the first season DVD's of Farscape had a rather diffucult menu system and so many anime commercials...not going there, I am sticking to the subject at hand. I am replacing all my season one with these new Starburst editions after getting this first one. Easier to use menus and no commercials up front! This is the way it should have been all along, however I understand this is marketing and people need to make money. I have donated my original DVD's of season one to a Scaper friend who would never have been able to afford even these less expensive versions of Season One Farscape. Please be aware though that all the print material on the outside and inside state there is a commentary on PK Tech Girl, however I understand that due to time constraints, the commentary was NEVER done for PK Tech Girl. Other than that, the price is right, production very well done and some of the extras are well worth the additional purchase. If you have waited buying season one, WHAT THE FRELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR!
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